The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-12-06


Clreth Team % to 10.
About 275 local basketball fans saw
the snappy Athletics quintet defeat the
fast Parkwood 4. G. of Springfield,
Mass, in Festival hall last night in the
first game of the season by the close
score Of "a to %. The game was fast
and exciting and both teams played clean
basketball In the preliminary game be-
tween St Nichaers Cadets and the e.
J.. Hildreth & Co. FIVE, the printers went
down to defeat by the score of 2S to 10.
The Athletics took the lead at the
opening of the first period, when Dowd
dropped III the first counter of the game.
The Parkwoods came back strong, John
son scoring two free trials and following
with a basket Dowd made the second
basket for the local five and Burn
Dunlevy followed with a long throw,
which captured another. F. Dunlevy
followed with another two points and
then the ball passed into the hands of
the Parkwoods, who Tailed three baskets
and scored two points on fouls. Dowd
shot another basket for the locals, when
the whistle blew with the visitors in the
lead by the score of-12 to 10.
In the second period Johnson exhibited
some pretty floor work and coupled with
good basket shooting enabled the visitors
to cop two baskets at the start-off.
Burn Dunlevy retaliated with Il bas-
ket for the Athletics. Mattoon and
Cakes added a basket respectively for
each side and then Burn Dunlevy and
Dowd came To TIE rescue with n double
counter each, tieing the score. u 10 Is.
Just before the whistle blew, +. Dunleyy
scored a point on q foul, giving the Ath-
letics a lead of one point at the end OF
the second period.
The third period opened fast and
furious, the Athletics striking their best
stride. Nation put the ParkwOOds in
the lead with basket from the floor.
Burn Dunlevy and Johnson each Gagged
the ball NATION pushed the ParkwoOds
further into the lead with two successive
counts. Dowd jumped TO the rescue with
a basket only to have his laurels
snatched by Johnson. Dowd, with bull
dog tenacity. nailed the next basket.
Johnson retaliating by one point gained
on a foul. The score was now % to %,
with the visitors in the lead. Dowd here
showed his ability when he planted two
baskets in succession, thus tieing the
score and bringing the crowd to its feet.
Cakes drove in the peg another notch,
and from then on the ParkwOods had no
opportunity. Dowd plugged another
basket, followed by two fouls by which
Cakes and Dowd each scored a point.
The whistle blew with the score standing
"a to %.
For the first game of the. season, the
Athletics played remarkably well, and
showed the results of the practice in
which they have been engaged for the
past few weeks. The effort of Manager
Henry f. Whitney, jr., of the local team
TO permit only clean basketball received
a good impetus, there being only few
occasions when there was a little rough
stuff. One of the difficult features of the
game was the work imposed upon Ref
cree Hugh Harwood, whose judgment
was conspicuous last night by reason of
his fairness to both sides. There were
times when the crowd of spectators
found fault with decisions that reacted
against the locals when they were hard
pressed, but HARDWOOD must be given the
credit of making clean decisions regard
less of whom they hurt.
For the players, the work of Johnson
for the visitors and Dowd for the locals
stood out prominently. johnson played
Il snappy game; he was always on the
alert. made every move count and was
there when the ball needed him most.
He played some of the finest and snap
piest basketball ever seen in BrattlebOrO
and played it like a gentleman. Dowd
for the locals played a great game and
fought hard through thick and thin. At
the critical moments Dowd was on the
job. He tied the score in the second pc
riod and tied it again in the third, and
gave his team the necessary impetus to
carry the game on to victory. The first