Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-15
BOWLING
Butler Battles Way
TO Victory in Big
Fray With Franklin
BdptiStS Force Pdgenlen to
Step, but Step They Do in
Rough Game.

Benjamin Franklin discovered cleo
tricity, but last night while experiment
ing in the Butler gym, the Franklin Col
lege basketball team discovered some
thing else. 1t learned that the AN
derson blaze-away," owned and operated
by Pat Page, is one of the deadliest
weapons known TO HOOsier basketball.
For last night when this instrument or
destruction was replaced by the time
keepers pistol, after forty minutes Of
slam bang basket ball, Franklin had lost
to Butler by a score of 50 to 26.
All the Butler Franklin rivalry OF the
ages came to light in the game. Every
minute Of the fray was nip and tuck,
and so stubbOrnly did one team object
team found it necessary to resort to
force to accomplish anything. In fact,
SO much force was resorted to that each
team lost two players via the personal
foul route. Hooker and Mlddlesworth
went out for Butler, While Stroll and
Records were forced out of the Frank
lin lineup. All were elected in the sec
ond half
Franklin started oft fast and counted
five points before Butler broke the ice.
The locals then started an uphill climb,
but Franklin kept making the hill
sleeper until it must have seemed to the
Butler players that they were on a
treadmiIl. 1t was late in the first half
and Franklin leading, 10 to 9, before
the "bIaze-away" began to function
properly. Then almost in an instant the
Christians had pulled up to II to IL
advantage. The half ended with Butler
leading, 10 to Is.
Franklin never got the lead In the
second half, but SO furiously did they
fight that six points covered the two
teams all the way until a last minute
squirt gave Butler the final margin of
victory. Play became even rOugher in
the last stGnZa than it had been in the
first and Stroll was the first man to
leave the game. Hooker and Middles-
worth went out in quick succession a
little later and Records was forced out
a few minutes before the game ended
The feature of the game was Wally
Middlesworth's handling Of Records, the
Franklin mainstay. Wally was assigned
SO well did he do his duty that the
flashy Baptist goal-getter left the game
without scoring single point. The
work Of Pike from the foul line was
sensational, the visiting captain making
good fourteen out of seventeen chances
from the foul line. 1t was his excellent
work in this department that made the
Baptists dangerous at all times. Pike
connected twice from the field and Richie
son sank three long ones. Leslie with
six from the field and Hooker with FIVE
Held and five foul goals scored 2T of
Buffers 50 points. Rlcheson kept But
Ter followers on edge with his long ones.
Three Of them went through and a lot
more hit the rim.
The way in which Wally Middlesworth
looked after Records was about the best
bit of guarding seen here this year. The
classy Butler floor guard had the big
fellow so well covered that he did not
obtain an open shot closer than the
center of the floor
Mother" Jones, at back guard for
Butler, kept the opposing forwards at
a safe distance from the basket The
tail boy gets the ball off the back board
and shoots 1t away with a left handed
pass that is a fooler.
The COnnersyille High School team
came up in the afternoon for a scrim-
mage with the Butler second team and
stayed over for the game.
Butler vs.. Franklin next Monday night
at Franklin.