100 years ago in The Record
Saturday, March 8, 1919.
Two soldiers from Schenectady are in a Troy jail tonight after a fight breaks out during a card game, The Record reports. The suspects, identified as David Grimsley and Edward Butler, come to town with seven other soldiers early this evening to visit a house on Church Street. When a quarrel breaks out, William Price runs out of the building to summon the police. “The soldiers beat him to it,” our reporter writes, “and when they finished with him, it was found that he had several razor cuts about the face and body and was severely bruised.” Price is taken to Troy Hospital, and while he “was at first believed to have been badly injured,” he’s patched up and sent home within an hour. Stopping Price doesn’t stop the police from noticing the situation. When a detail arrives at the scene, seven of the soldiers are able to get away in a taxi, while Grimsely and Butler are left behind. They’re arrested in a diner near the Union Depot and will remain in jail pending their arraignment on Monday. Poly a Cropper The RPI basketball team ends its basketball season with a 32-19 loss to Stevens Tech under dubious circumstances in Hoboken tonight, our sportswriter reports. The most valuable player for Stevens, depend- ing on your perspective, is either center “Big” Carlson, who leads all scorers with 20 points, or the referee, whom our writer suspects of having a grudge against RPI.
Referee Warts is the coach of the Pratt Institute basketball team, which was “taken into camp” by RPI last night. He blasts the Engineers with 21 personal fouls, forcing right forward Birdie Sparrow out of the game after less than five minutes of play. Guard Red Eller fouls out later in the first half. Carlson gets 14 of his 20 points for Stevens on free throws.
With eleven minutes left in the second half, RPI guard Jack Richards fouls out. Seeing that coach Jack Reed is out of substitutes, Warts “notic[es] the disadvantage under which the institute had to continue” and allows Richards to remain on the court. Reed, however, is “a stickler for rules,” and takes Richards off the court.
RPI finishes the game with only four men, but to their credit, they allow Stevens only one basket the rest of the way. Another For Hi
In high school action, Troy High (or “Hi” as our sports editor puts it) is “in rare form” in a dominant win over Poughkeepsie. Forwards Bingham and Bayer combine for 22 points as the home five cruises to a 34-21 victory.