The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-12-06
COMPANY D
REPELS WHITE
RIVER 27-18
St. JOhnsbury Basketeers
Come From Behind
and Win

Battling uphill for two desperate
periods, Company D's basketball
heroes, with Albert Goslant, the
speedy, plunging right guard cast
in the leading role, unleashed such
an amazing attack upon White
Rlver Junction in the final stanza
that the latter's hoopsters could
not stand the pace. Coach Burns
mon blazed away at the enemy
basket necessarily as the third
frame drew to a hectic close and
won by the score of 27 to 18.
1t was game of games. Before
Company d could score at all in
the opening period, Captain Han
lcy's quintet had sunk a total of
10 points in the iron hoop. Osten-
sibly outgamed as the fray got
under a head of steam, the Scale
toWr warriors generated more
speed, more dash, and cohesion as
tie time wore on. They swept
through to a gallant victory.
The name of Albert Goslant is
one that fans who saw the battle
on the court last night will long
remember. 1t was this dauntless,
phenomenal guard who sprang in
to the thickest of the struggle and
kept the heads of his teammates
above the White River flood which
thl eatened to inundate them
throughout the melee. Albert scor-
cd ST, Johnsbury's first field goal
and then came right back in the
second period and scored again. He
produced II of Company D's 27
points.
Toward the end of the contest
Lucky Fisk wrenched himself free
from his opponent, the clever
Malcolm, and tossed into the hoop
some truly great shots. Fisk tai
lied nine points Whitley Dumas
played Il cool, calculating and eff
fcctive gane in his backfeld,
breaking short many thrust into
his territory
Coach Burns managed to snare
a pretty field goal though guarded
by Charley Maher, "a former Nor
Wich University star basketeer
Fitz Marshall and Curley Burns,
too. would have had probably scor-
ed more goals if luck had been de-
cent with them. Time after time,
an apparently perfectly aimed field
goal would strike the inside of the
rim and bound out to the discom-
/ future Of the St. Johnsbury fans
who bank heavily on these two
( brilliant stars.
For White River, Jordan and
Malcolm played dazzling games.
1 Jordan We'd with Albert Goslant
in tallying five goals but Albert
went him one better by his regis
tration of an additional point from
foul. Jordan flashed a shifty, row
ing game that necessitated the
most strenuous kind of guarding
on the part of his opponent, Fitz
Marshall. Jimmy Malcolm, a play
e.. familiar to both st. Johnsbury
and Newport crowds, displayed his
usual ability to evade the defenders
and score single-handed.
The guarding of the visitors,
seemingly impenetrable in the first
and second periods, gradually wore
down and crumbled as the game
drew to a close. Before the on
slaught and driving power of AL
bert GoSlant, Lucky Fisk and
Curley Burns, the White River
guards found themselves ineffective
in the last few minutes of the CON
test Rut except in this last spas
modic st. Johnsbury assault, it was
anyone's battle.
Coach Hollister of The Academy
handled the game in a creditable
manner in view of the fact that
tn affair was the fastest one this
yeal.
After the game there was 4
dance to music furnished by Hen
ault's orchestra. A considerable
crowd Of dancers remained for the
recreation.
First Period
Jordan, the flashy White River
Junction pivotal man, took a brief
p.~t from one of his guards and
shCt the first basket for his quin-
tet. A moment or two later, Cur
ley Burns passed to Jordan by mis-
take and the hostile player again
tailed two points. Hanley steam
rollered his way down the court
and, accepting a clever pass from
Malcolm, hurled the third enemy
shot clean into the hoop.
White River effected a stone wall
defense. Every time a Company
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