The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-12-30
S. H. S. ALUMNI
HAD The LEAD
When Dust of Great Battle
with School Quintet
Settled.
GAME WAS REPLETE
WITH BIG THRILLS.
Crowd Of 800 Had an Eve
ming Of Excite
ment.

It'll be many a long day befor
Barre basketball fans are treated T.
such a thrilling finish as was seen il
the game last night when the alumni
defeated the Spauldng varsity five, !!
to Is. The figures show that the game
was close but figures or letters or pa
per and ink never can repeat the story
Of that finish The game was not VOL
until the last two minutes Of play ant
then only on free try after Spauld
ing foul. Up to this point the lead see
sawed back and forth continually Will
On occasional short spell Of. tie score
thrown in.
Heart breaking luck deprived Spauld
ing of a long-sided win. 1t was pain
fully apparent that the boys must
drop them right in to have them stay
!. put, for five times the 2eety Miles
male pretty shots from the floor right
onto the hoop only to see the ball tot
ter for a few seconds and then drop
outside aud in the last minute Of play
Slayton shot on free try and missed
the tally bv less than hair. This
would have lied the score. Miles shots
would have put Spaulding way into
the lead
Despite the fact that the alumni
used two full teams, shifting once in
each period and that practically every
man on the graduate outfit is now
shining in collegiate basketball, the
Spaulding five was outclaseed at no
time during the entire game. The
alumni plainly showed lack OF team
practice and surprised the fans with
extreme haphasard passing while the
varsity lads showed up better than In
any game so far this season. Spanlding
demonstrated plainly that experience
is the greatest teacher, for the passing,
which was noticeably absent in the
Holderness game, was there last night
and while ii waen't the best possible
ii was better than that shown by the
graduates by long way.
The alumni played great basketball,
individually, but in teamwork they
We're woefully lacking. Douglass
showed everyone why he has been
lauded by the down-eountry newspa-
pers for his work on the Dartmouth
freshman squad by scoring eight
points for his team. His shooting was
fine and with cooperation he would
have doubled his credit on the score
book. MclIardy also shone, dropping in
two pretty baskets from the floor. |
Murphy and Carpenter did the rest |
OF the scoring for the alumni.
In the first two minutes Of the Sec |
end period Watkins got the ball and |
made a pretty shot into the alumni |
basket, being confused in the change |
made for the second half However.
Hap" came right back a few minutes
later and redeemed himself by drop
ping in as nice a tally in his own bas-
ket.
Captain Slayton of the varsity five
was the mainstay Of his team piling
up IA points. This included three fine
shots from the floor. He also played a
defensive game and made
himself an all-around good man to
ook out for. Slayton plays basketball
wen better than he does football and
hats saying a lot. Then, of course,
Foung Miles was everywhere as usual.
Those five tries of his were so good ii
'eaily seemed as If the hoop suddenly
'hrunk every time he shot. The beauty
# his playing. however, was the fact
hat instead Of tagging and stalling
Ifter each disappointment he jumped
u and seemed to 90 faster. The timers
whistle for the end of the game found
lilies going like the wind. That old
tandby, mick" Nicora, of course.
anne through with the features of the
anne. a shot from nearly the center Of
he floor for perfect basket. Nick
lso showed the graduates fewI
hings about defensive basketball that \
rere interesting.
The first period was slow all through