The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-04-14

Eight Baskets by BrRttlebOrO Before Up
pOnents Get Under Way SecOnC
Period Passing ExhibitiOn-Cadet
First Win from Second
The Brsttleboro Athletics furnished
the thunder for the big storm last night
in which the Greenfield, Y. NJ. @. basket
ball team was showed under to the tune
If go to 20. .. If the visitors ever played
Easthampton to as close a score as they
claim to have done it must have been III
II dream, for they surely did not impress
= the fans asa team of that calibre. No
doubt they have an alibi, and if so il
must be a corker, but it would take more
than an abb to convince3 the fans that
the visitors were ever in R;class with the
Brattleboro speed mercha ants, who were
at top form and cut rings around them
and at times made them look like novices
at the game.
The sports down through the valley
seem to have the idea that when they
come up this way they are going to run
up against bunch of hicks who have
an idea that they know something about
the game but that it IS to be the visit
Ors' duty to show them how to play, and
the sooner they get this idea out of them
the better off they will be as most of
them learn to their sorrow that up here
in the woods the brush is thick and they
lose their bearings as well as the game
which they thought to be so easy.
The boys from Greenfield got lost early
i'm the shuttle and did not come back into
view until the sharpshoOters of the 10
Gals had dropped the sphere into the net
eight times for a t6,al of 16 points, then
, Heinie Niles, a former Brattleboro boy,
connected on a free try, which he fol
Nurffh hn no
athletics got two more, which were Offset
. by one each by Niles and Corey, ending
a., the first period with the locals on the
. big end of a 20-tO-9 score.
. The second period was given mostly TO
passing, the locals having the ball most
= of the time, making show of the Wis
iitOrs, much to the amusement of the
fans. Burn Dunlevy on several occasions
during the period eluded every member of
the visiting team, showing some clever
ldodging and fast work. In the third Pc
,riod the Greenfield outfit tried to stage
a come back and it looked for a brief
spell as II they were going to be success
full. as the locals cOuld not seem to get
under way. BrattlebOrO connected three
times. which the visitors duplicated,
followed by a short lul in the counting.
Then the Athletics found themselves AM
opened up the food gates, rolling in
counter after counter and passing the
ibaH around the hall at will, now and
again double crossing them by not pass
ing but carrying the bali instead, ring
ing up the counter while the visitors
stood by guarding the players near the
basket. BrattlebOrO registered a total of
80 points in this period while the down
river outfit collected nine.
z In the preliminary contest the Cadets
second team showed considerable class
IN the opening period and played their
larger opponents TO a standstill, showing
n much better brand of teamwork aud
Had the edge at the end of the period by
a score of . to f. Size and strength,
however, had the call later in the game
and the lads of the second team had to
back water TO the boys of the first, going
down to defeat by the score of 81 20
III, As as been said before, however. if
the lads who make up the second team
Gan hang together for year or two more
4hcy can form a combination that will
be hard to beat, for they surely have
some good material.
' The summary