The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-01-13
ST. MICHAEL'SH.
SHOWED UP WELL
But Was Defeated BY
Spaulding in Barre,
is to IL
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LOCALS DEFENSE
WAS VERY GOOD
But 1t Needed to Be After
Murphy Got Into
Game

Spaulding took another step toward
carving on the state basketball
league honors last night by defeat'ng
tic speedy st. Mchaels team from WI
nooslsi, l6 to u. However, 1t wasn't 4
waikiki way by any means ana me
Barre lads found themselves faced by
\ much different team than the Water
bury Ave, the last league team 20 come
here. ST. Miohnri's played as good .
ralnc as Spauidipg il every way but
passing. The visitors showed good
knowledge of TINT trick. Just the same
but the spaalding defense was prac-
ticaiIy impregnablc. <Spanlding passed
like i professional five and ~ passing
has been spauhinas only weakness
This season, defeat would have Deer
almost ii disgrace.
Right OF with the FIRST whistle the
came became whirlwind. The lceal
bows al first appeared q bit bewiidereu
by the speed Of the visitors but aftet =
few minutes every man had found nm
self and then there was little chance
far ST. Michaels to score from the
floor. In fact. during the entire game
the Burlington Ave dropped in but one
double tally. All the rect OF the scor'
ing was done on fouls. Spaulding met
the attack OF the visitors with the
same kind Of play ard at first couldn't
avoid fouling. This gave st. Michaels
six Of the eight points they made -
~ first period. However, the second
period found Spaulding playing more
heady game and the fouls then came
less frequently. st. Michaels also stood
by while some II or - free tries we're
made by Spanlding, 20 that u was
about even up.
The first period was as even bat
tie. from scoring standpoint, as has
been seen at the gym for d long time,
Big Nick Nicora made two pretty shots
from the floor for Spaulding speedy
Tierney dropped in one and Captain
Steve Slayton managed TO corral two
points on free tries. Norelli, st. Mi
chaels right forward, shot six success
full free tries and Ryan dropped IN ms
teams lone tally from the floor, This
made the score eight around at the end
of the half. Spaulding had most OF
the advantage and also guarded splen-
didly.
The second half was almost a dupli-
cate OF the first although St. Miehaeis
appeared to be slowing up. Burke
Tierney and Slayton found the hoop
nicely. one apiece, and Steve shot twn
on free tries. When the period was
about half over the st. Michaels coach
took Barry out Of the game, sent Ryan
to center and substituted Murphy
What happened after that was rev
elation and amazed the fans.
Murphy proved himself about ten
times faster than any man on the floor
in either five and played rings around
the whole Spaulding team. He hadn't
been in the game a minute when Coach
Carl Lundholm of the Spaulding team
stopped the game and questioned Muir
phys eligibility under the schoolmas-
tiers rules, alleging Murphy was over
20 years old. The St. Miehaels coach
vouched for Murphy and Coach Lund-
holm didn't insist upon seeing a certi-
fed list, allowing the game to proceed.
Captain SteYe didn't do much but
guard after Murphy appeared and the
fans are still wondering why Muir
ply wasn't in the game earlier. He
kept score for his team during the first
half and half Of the second but after
he appeared in action IT could be seen
plainly that the score might have been
different if he had been cent in either
az the start Of the game or early in
the first half Murphy certainly must