Milford chronicle., 1950-03-10
Milford Court Teams
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trail second place Rehoboth by less
than One-half a game.
The Vets, while out of the run
ming as far as a first division berth
is concerned, have, nevertheless,
become one of the most feared
teams in the All-Delaware Mems
League; as a result Of consecutive
wins over Lewes A. A., the Har-
ringtOn Legionnaires, the Dover
Bulldogs and the Smyrna Hornets,
the Vets have earned the title of
Spoilers" and have tightened up
the league standings considerably.
Mondays win was the Vets eighth
of the season and gave the local
team a tighter hold on fifth place
in the standings. One of the ALL
Delaware circuits high-scoring ar
rays, the Vets have made 276 points
in their last four games, to bring
their total to 1,O95 points in 21
games or an average of better than
So points per game.
Mondays win over Milton was
/ particularly pleasing to Blue Hen
followers, as the Milton girls, PEN
nant-winners in the Delaware Girls
League, had previously defeated the
Milford girls three times, infiict-
ing exactly One-half of the losses
sustained by the Hens this season.
With Mary Steen and Frances Nc
Matt pacing the attack, the Hens
COf off fO ~, oorIvv Iood =, NEOuIovySc
game and were ahead, 8 to 4, at end
of the first period; Milton, however,
bounced back strongly in the Sec
Ond quarter and fashioned a twen-
ty-One point secOnd-Quarter rally
into a 25 to Is halftime lead. The
Hens rallied strongly in the third
quarter, OutscOring Milton by a 1E
to margin, to assume a 33 to rs
lead at the three-quarter mark
Play was relatively close during
the early part of the final period
but another Hens rally in the clos.
minutes put the game definitely il
the Milford win column.
} Frances McNatt, sharp-shootina
Blue Hens forward, who has pac
, ed the Milford attack through tht
current win streak to move up neal
the top among Delaware Girls
} League scorers, was high scorer
again Monday evening, tossing il
) eleven field goals and one foul con
version for a 23-pOint total. Mar,
Steen, another outstanding Hens
} player, was runner-up, with seven
teen points, while MelVa Jane Brad
ford contributed the other tWelv
points to MilfOrd's 52-pOint total
I The defensive play of the MilfOr
guards, Josephine Mumford, Luc
Z Davis, Jean Wilkins, Connie Huge
and BObble Mitchell, also was out
3 standing in every quarter but tn
4 second one.
For the Milton girls, scoring hon
4 ors were fairly evenly divided, wit
3 Preal Keller turning in sixtee
& points, Vera Reed racking up four
Z teen, and Aretha Walls cOntribU
3 ting twelve.
Z After a high scoring first quarter
3 which saw each team scOrin
9 twenty-One points, the Vets assum
Z ed a lead over their Smyrna rival
: and were never headed: at hall
Z time, Milford led, AZ to 80, and, a
3 the three-quarter mark, Coac
9 Gene Murphy's boys were out /
= front, SO to so. Murphy used BIT
. six men. with each breaking int
8 the scoring. Captain Charlie Sa
! mon paced the Vets attack wit
= eighteen points, and was close
9 followed by Lorry wilkins, with fl
: teen, and Mike Henke, with thi
9 teen. Norm Warren and Dick Ba
3 to had eleven points each for Mi
. ford, while Harvey Williams h5
six. Allen O'Neal, Smyrna forwar
took game scoring hOnOrs wi
z twenty-three points.