Basketball Comes Up
Some time ago an enthusiastic alumnus out in the Middle West wrote in to this section and said that while the material was all well and good and he enjoyed it, I tended to become a little too enthusiastic myself at the start of a season.
Now out of deference to this man's wishes, and he is right in a way, I'll soft pedal a bit regarding the basketball team. The records show that to date the team opened the Eastern Intercollegiate League season by beating Cornell 45-31, followed this by dropping a 35-30 contest to Penn in the mammoth Palestra, and just recently jumped back into the swin by a sensational 29-23 win from Yale.
Previously the team won from Fordham 30-23 and also scored a victory over the 7th Regiment Armory, while a defeat from the powerful C. C. N. Y. team was sandwiched in between.
But basketball holds its interest with the crowd, and it is one of the most popular of indoor sports at Dartmouth. A young team of veterans, led by one of the finest captains to head a Dartmouth basketball group, seems on the upgrade at present with the first difficult hurdle well covered.
The Cornell game was played to a packed house and saw Dartmouth, after a brief preliminary skirmish which carried the score to 11-11 early in the opening period, jump into a lead which the Big Green held until the end of the contest.
The appearance of Cornell in the alumni gymnasium had added interest, for it is not known when the next Cornell sport will come to Hanover. With the exception of football, all sports have been dropped in Ithaca during a drastic retrenchment process which necessitated this move.
We regret to see Cornell teams removed from intercollegiate competition, and only wish that there might be a way for the Cornellians to work out their salvation this Spring so that the Big Red might continue to be a factor. For Cornell means clean sport, and the name of the institution stands for all that is fine in sport. Bob Miller led the scoring against Cornell, and his seven baskets from the floor were all gained toward the latter part of the game when he was inserted for Stangle.
Following this impressive opening, Dartmouth went on the road for a two-game trip against Penn and Yale. The defeat administered by Penn was not disheartening, for every sports follower knows that the Quakers have always been one of the hardest teams to beat on their own floor, and the five-point margin was as close as Dartmouth has come in a long while. It doubles the interest of the Penn-Dartmouth fray for Hanover.
Penn led at half-time by a 20-11 score, and Dartmouth, which so far has picked up the reputation of being a great second half team, nearly scared the Quakers out of the Palestra in that second period. Al Bonniwell, the young sophomore who plays forward, gave a treat to his home folks in Philadelphia by leading the Dartmouth attack with three goals and a foul.
Elsewhere in this section is appended the three box scores of the League games. During the baseball season last Spring, many alumni sent in comments on the addition of the box scores, so I'll keep up the system in basketball.
If Dartmouth was a second-half team at Penn, I don't know what the appellation would be regarding the Yale game. We didn't go down to New Haven, but the stories which came from Yale indicated that the crowd of 800 which watched the game were treated to the hair-raising spectacle of a Dartmouth team scoring twenty points in the last ten minutes to pull a seemingly lost game out of the fire by a 29-23 margin.
Harold Mackey, the old war horse, returned to the game and it was Mackey, together with Henry Kraszewski, who put on the last half rally which saved the game. Yale was leading at-9 when the rally started. The Elis apparently had the game all tucked away, but when the going was hot Bob O'Connell, Yale's great captain and center, was ruled out on four personals and straightway the Yale attack began to sag. It changed into a careful defense and then a desperate last-minute stand which could not stave off the Dartmouth rush. Mackey's goal tied the count at 21-21, and later Capt. George Stangle sank a goal to tie the score again after Yale had tallied.
The final episode saw scores by Bonniwell, Maxwell and Miller to stow the game away.
At the present moment Dartmouth is resting in third place in the league with two victories and one defeat. Penn is out in front by virtue of the Quaker's victories over Princeton and Dartmouth, and Columbia follows with a lone entry in the victory column. But the standings are young at this stage and the teams enter the mid-section of the schedule which is the interesting part.
At this writing Dartmouth seems to be a well co-ordinated team. There has not been the wholesale shifting of players which characterized last year's team. Henry Kraszewski and Capt. Stangle have reported at the guard positions for every game, and Jake Edwards and Bonniwell have divided the forward assignments. "Goose" Goss and Hal Mackey have been at center. Goss, a temporary choice for the center position while Mackey was recuperating from a football leg injury, has shown marked ability and has played in every game.
DARTMOUTH CORNELL G FT G F T Bonniwell If... 4 0 8 McGraw If.... 2 0 4 Krivitsky 0 0 0 Ferraro 1 1 3 Edwards rf 1 0 2 Hatkoff rf 4 2 10 Croninger 0 0 0 Reed 0 0 0 Goss c 14 6 Voelker c 10 2 Mackey 0 0 0 McGraw 0 0 0 Stangle Ig 2 15 Houck Ig 14 6 Miller 7 115 Lipinski rg... . 2 2 6 Kraszewski rg. 4 1 9 Foote 0 0 0 Maxwell 0 0 0 Totals 11 9 31 Totals 19 7 45 PENNSYLVANIA DARTMOUTH GFT G F T Klempner If... 1 2 4 Miller If 0 0 0 O'Donnell rf... 2 2 6 Edwards 2 2 6 Freeman c.... 4 210 Bonniwell rf... 3 1 7 Kellett Ig 1 3 5 Krivitsky 0 0 0 Hashagen 4 2 10 Maxwell 10 2 Walters rg. ... 0 0 0 Mackey c 1 3 5 Goss 10 2 Totals 12 11 35 Kraszewski Ig.. 14 6 Stangle rg 1 0 2 Totals 10 10 30 DARTMOUTH YALE G F T G F T Edwards If.... 0 0 0 Nikkei If 3 1 7 Miller 0 0 0 Elliott 0 0 0 Maxwell 2 0 4 Saner rf 0 2 2 Bonniwell rf... 1 2 4 Kellogg 0 0 0 Krivitsky 0 11 Bender 0 0 0 Mackey c 2 0 4 Glick 0 0 0 Goss 0 0 0 O'Connell c. .. 2 2 6 Miller 1 0 2 Elliott 0 11 Kraszewski Ig.. 3 2 8 Miles Ig 2 1 5 Stangle rg 2 2 6 Reese rg 1 0 2 Totals 11 7 29 Totals 8 7 23
