Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
Formation of a Local Basket Ball
League.
T Is WELL ADAPTED FOR. INDOORS
News Notes From the Athletic
Clubs.
AN OTHER CLUB USE

| work In the local gymnasiums has COM
| menced, and things fairly humming.
| Foot ball. a.: usual is the center Of inter-
est, but the game of basket ball appears 20
| be running it a close second, though 1t Is
not very well known. The game, well
| known end successful elsewhere. WIS intro
| duced in this city last winter by Maurice
A. Joyce of the Carroll Institute. and rap
idly won its way into first place there.
| Last Wednesday representatives fl ON the
athletic clubs met Mr.. Joyce and talked
| over an idea that he has long had-a bas-
ket ball league. 1t was then decided to
form a regular organization with a consti-
| tuition and officers. and to play scheduled
| match games all through the winter. In a
| short time another meeting will be held,
| and then the emoryo plans will be per-
| fected In the meantime, teams have been
organized at the Carroll Institute. Column
lila Athletic Club. Young Mems Catholic
| Club, and Washington Athletic Club and
are practicing nightly. Such genes as are
played, however, between them this year
| will lack a good deal Of skill, only q
| few are we'll acquainted with basket ball
| here.
| A word as to how It is played and a brief
outline of the rules may be timely here,
| especially for those anxious to try Ii.
| Two baskets are attached to the opposite
| sides of the gymnasium, and the object or
| the game is to toss the ball in the oppo-
| nents' basket. Teams usually consist OF
| nine men each. made up of a goalkeeper,
| two backs to assist him. a center. right
| and left center, two forward and home
| man. They are arranged in this order from
the goal which they are defending. 1t Is
| not necessary that the players should re-
| main in their places. but they should move
in such a way as to give the forward
| player an opportunity to get a good toss
| at the goal. or the backs to keep their OPP
| ponents from obtaining the same by taking
| 1t from them when they are about to
| throw. 1t is the duty of the goalkeeper to
| keep the ball away from the vicinity Of
| his basket, and it is more often necessary
for him to bat the ball with his hands than
for other members of the team to do SO.
The Y. NJ. c. A.
Four years ago the Y. NJ. c. A. GYM
nasium broke its best previous attendance
record, and now that record is again
broken. Instructor Sims has made more
individual examinations this fall than ever
before and has had to appoint some as
| sistants in order that everybody may re-
| ceive some individual attention. Joe Koran
takes charge of all acrobatic work on
| Thursday nights and is making a success
of that feature. Fred Doyle attends to a
| class of twenty with the Indian clubs Tues
| day evenings and Harry Ward makes q
specially of vaulting and the parallel bars.
| baskerville, a former well-known Lynch
| burg Y. NJ. c. A. man, has supervision on
| Saturday nights, and Ernest Morsell and
| Harvey IrOtt take special nights.
| The recent changes in the gymnasium in
| clude striking bag, ffty-hye-yard running
| track, pulley weights and a home trainer
| The latter is an indoor bicycle, and the pro-
| lessor thinks that that form of exercise, IL
taken rightly, cannot be exce.led. AS an
| example, he points to his son Fred the
| crack cyclist, who four years ago was
! rather delicate, but now, under his fathers
care, weighs 175 pounds, is five feet nine
and is only nineteen years of age He
| thinks, however, that the prevailing style
| of handle bars should be changed, so as to
| allow of the shoulders being thrown back
| The putting in of the lights has ne
| cesstated the disbanding of the basket ball
| team, and hand ball will now be substi-
tuted. This and other arrangements serve
| to show the crowded condition of the hall
and members are earnestly hoping for the
| erection of a new building. The exhibition
for men will probably take place December
3 and that for boys on the afternoon Of
November q.
| Columbia Athletic Club.
Basket ball was for the first time played
at the C. A. c. on Monday night. The par.
Elephants were Royce, Hough, Seton, Boil
way, Clark, Harder. johnson, Teet, Carter
and MCGEE. and from these a team of five
is to be selected Monday and Wednesday
evenings are basket ball nights Tuesday
evening Instructor Crossley, Sewall and
| Ross, the acrobatic team started some new
| tricks, Ross taking the place of Mooney,
who will not be able to assist at this fol
some time. Next month there will be one
of the c. a. C.s ever-popular ladies' days
and also gymnasium exhibition.
Carroll Institute.
| Having some very skillful players around
| him, Instructor Joyce is busily engaged in
getting his men ready for the winters cam
| paign in the rev game Tonight the first
| team will meet the Baltimore \. NJ. {. A.
and stand good show to come out top.
| The teams Will line UP as follows:
Carroll Institute. Balto Y. NJ. &. A.
| Frank Saul. .enemy's goal. Ferguson
]. Saul. forward........H Hahn
| Downey. left forward. ..Freburger
Daily .....-...... center .............. ralph
| Buckley. right back............B Brown
Eckhart.. LEFT back. ..........: krager
| Shea. home gCal...........Sheehan
| Substitutes for the insutute-Bob Howard,
| Pearson and OConner.
| The reserve team will be nearly as strong
as the first and will be selected from
| among Messrs. Howard, OConner, Pearson,
| Locraft, Bastibule, Meagan, Oliver, Mitch
| ell, Becker and Hickey.
The ladies continue to evince interest in
their classes and under the careful in
| struction of Mr.. Joyce are becoming quite
proficient in all the physical drills.
| Two basket ball teams of ladies have
been organized, and several exciting bat
| ties have already taken place. Their play
| Ing time is however, made much shorter
| than that for men.
| Orient A. c.
| The Orient Athletic Club, on Capitol Hill.
| was in a bad way lately, but prospects are
| Frightening at present. plan is under
| way which If successful will put the club
in a way to compete with the others on an
| equal, The idea is to change the order OF
| things and make 1t a halfway social af-
| fair, on the order of the uptown clubs:
! Athletics will of course, heretofore, hold
a prominent place. A club house on a large
| scale will be purchased, probably near the
| Capitol, as against the proposed property
,olr of Cinema
| on a good financial basis, a number of we'll
known business men have been interested
In it. and if the present plans mature, some-
thing definite will be done at the annual
meeting in January.
The foot ball team, after a very short
career, has been disbanded, principally by
| reason Of Capt. Atoms departure for
Princeton.