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Drop Second Game Wt.th p1·shburne JUNIOR QUINTET WINS
Lead in Firat. It Until
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showing their a 39-31 thriller Fishburne Five faom Fishburne the V. E. S. the first and even upon the
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compara- five''
an ap- Fish-
makes these men heroes in the public
eye. In some it's their good sports-
manship, in others, their courage;
but for the most part the public pays
to see them do something that they
against them. mighty effort in the last quarter the The Bishops at no time seemed Cadets rolled up the higher score,
winning the game, 21-20. to be able to get together, and C
trailed throughout the contest. High rush of Fork Union rang up the
points while up ten of their of the game, the but were unable the half ending
team. quarter, the
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first count of the day with a beau- onors went to Headerly, tiful one-armed shot. But after con-
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Endeared to the hearts of all base-
ball fans will always be the memory of "Columbia Lou" Gehrig, the Iron Horse. No matter where he played, in a slump or not, he was always well received when he came to the
. ~ gamed the lead and from that mo- scorer, puttmg two field goals 111 t tl G t ld 1
th b kt men on 1e arneswou nota- e as e · low the Cadets to pass them until
Winning by an easy margin, ~he the final seconds of the game. The Jay Vees overwhelmed Fork Umon game was nip and tuck-basket for 37 _to 26 on F_ebruary 1?, at Fork basket-up and down the floor. Umon. The B1shol?s dec1~edly out- Early in the second period Stal- classed the opp~smg qumtet the naker's long floor shot again started
stayed hot and Pictured above is the starting Bishop advance towards five cooling off between quarters a 30-19 loss ear- after a red hot third period rally
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Last Minute "~onkey"Shot Puts Home Team m Front by One
Point-And Whistle Blows SCORE: 21-20
Steady Long Shots Prove Too Much For Ball-Stealing and Close Defense of Bishops
FoRK UNION, Va., Feb. 17.-A the public eye. It occurs every day today. The winners were led by well-groomed Fork Union five just on the field of sport, where men are Webb, who tallied eight points of barely held their own against the worshipped by the thousands who which six were charity throws. The expert ball-handling of Coach
pass through the turnstiles to watch game was very rough and both Bond's basketball team. Both teams them play, fight, and run. What teams had numerous fouls called were well-matched, but due to a
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Fork Union and Orphanage and Loss to Rivermont
LYNCHBURG, VA., Feb. 16.-The Bishop Jayvees dropped a game to
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only times that heroes come into the Rivermont quintet 24-15 here
selves in the shoes of the big timers wthho acficoludnted flor sedven pfoints whith tinually stealing the ball from under ree e goasan a reesot. h h '
and try to guess what they will do Cullen Walker was second hi h t ~ ome squad s basket, V. E. S.
The Bishops against Augusta. In the photo:
with a spurt Peeler (1), Andrews (5), Stalnaker plate. They booed the "Babe" and whole game. Their long shots were the visitors to another splurge.
if things would by their elon- Simmons An- pulled up to bf the lead, but
was Andrews, who while Hutchison out for Fishburne, for nine and
(6), Gooch (9), and Schoew (7). still boo DiMaggio, but Gehrig just very good as a whole and also they Schoew and Gooch hit the basket
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wasn't the type you could greet with MIDGET CAGERS TAKE anything but heartfelt applause. When the big Dutchman came to TWO MAJOR VICTORIES the plate, carrying dynamite of a
game-changing variety in those Nelson and Tucker Play Large Part powerful arms and shoulders, and
took advantage of most of their free for most of the scores. A beautiful shots. . set-up with Charlie Schoew in shoot-
W~lker, C., was ~1gh score man, ing position was executed and two chalkmg up 19 pomts. Owen and more points rolled in. Cadet Knep- Mahone, R., also played good games. ley dropped a one-armed shot from
In the first quarter V. E. S. had the middle of the court and the a six-point lead, the score being score was a tie: 16-16 at the half.
10. to 4. Cullen Walker s~ored six No scores at the early part of the pomts for V. E. S., while Owen second half pointed out the excel- scored the other two. lent defenses of both teams. Co-
In th_e last quarter .the Bisho~;s Captain Stalnaker continually stole took thmgs easy, scormg only six the ball and dribbled and passed it points to the 10 of their opponents. to the other end of the court but
Du:ing thi-s qu~rter R~ed of F?rk still no change on the scoreb~ard.
Umon s:-vung 111to actiOn, sconng Finally, towards the end of the third
their lead in of the game as with another up-
in Wins Over Rivermont and Fairview Quintets
that big number 4 on his back, he
was something that commanded and . got respect and admiration from all.
CITY ARMORY, Feb. 13.-Making a comeback in the last half, the V.
E. S. Midgets defeated Rivermont
17 to 13. The Baby Bishops swept
Somehow, he seemed to stand for Baseball itself.
Pound for pound, the greatest
fighting man who ever pulled on
gloves and climbed into a prize ring was Jack Dempsey. Granted that
the Rivermont five off its feet in the -......=-........---.,jlast quarter, making a four point
SCHEDULE S., 41 ; Bedford, 31.
S., 35; South Bos- U.
S., 26; Hampden- FrOih, 45.
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28; Woodber- B. S., 19; Virginia
30.
23; E. H. S., 26.
S., 30; Fish- 19.
S., 24; Woodber- S., 31; Fish-
seven pomts. period a few anonymous shots were Getting hot in the last quarter, the made. '
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made him a hero? We think that it was his courage. Who else would have climbed back up off of those
t y p e w r i t e r s , b a c k thr~ugh ~hose ropes, into the same r111g w1th a
Jay Vees wo~ a thriller-diller with In the last quarter, Bill Stalnaker half. Hedderly_ w~s h1&"h score man count. Our shining co-captain again
for V. E. S., smkmg SIX field goals hit the basket after a beautiful set- and a free shot. Mitchener and up for two points-and then the Hedderly share the honors for a Cadets made their rallying stride.
Louis would outbox him, we say, in
spite of that, that if the fight took
on a rough and tumble aspect Demp-
sey would nearly kill tJ:e Brown t~~ Presbytenan _Orphan~ge today, nabbed a supposedly Fork Union Bomber in a very short time. What p!lmg up a 12-pomt l~ad m the last pass and made for his basket, but no
lead.
Hodgson, A., Alexander, A., and Tucker, B., tied for high score man for V. E. S. with four points to
the credit of each.
Tucker, B., who played a very
good game, made a beautiful field goal from midcourt in the first quar-
ter.
The score at the half was 6 to 10
in favor of Rivermont. However,
the V. E. S. team began clicking
in the third quarter and complete~y was the greatest jo_ckey o~,all time~; and there were several bad passes
The V. E. S. Midgets swarn~ed tation. The thing that made hm1 a over Fairview Heights today, endmg hero to the racing public at t~1e tu~n
killer like Firpo?
Ask any old timer on the rail. who seemed to handle the ball very well
silenced the guns of the enemy 111 Nine out of ten w1ll say Snapper made by both teams. The Bishops the fourth. . Garrison without a moment's ~esi- got a bad scare at the end of the
Feb. 2-Rivermont, there.
S., ZO; Fork with a score of 21-10. The. baby of the century was not h1s skill six-point lead, the score being 10-4. Feb. 9-Guggenheimer, there.
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Undoubtedly, however, the V. E. S. quint had lessened the security
of the Orphanage by four points by the end of the half, Owen and
great asset i~ sendmg V. E. S. on Handicap for a~ ho~r and thi;ty- goals. . .
the road to victory: . . seven minutes fixmg h1s ~,addle g1rt!~ During the last half, m spite of SKILLFUL CLEANING
cagers weren't quite up t? par 111 the alone, but for his keen common long run; however, their only real sense and creative brain that could opposition was fr?m Suttenfield. win races that his mounts were not Captain Stewart, h~gh sc?re man, capable of taking. He was th~ boy with 14 points to J:us credit, was a who delayed the start of the Ch1~ago
Feb. 16-High School, there. Feb. 23-Miller Park, there.
Mar. !-Scouts, there. Mar. 8-Holy Cross, there.
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seemed to bounce out of the basket, the Bishops completely overwhelmed
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