The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28
City Guards Experience No Diff
Guilty in Defeating Battery B
Team, at the Armory
THE VANQUISHED TEAM
FAILED TO GET A GOAL
The Playing of the Winners Was
Not Up to the Standard, But
Shone in Contrast

Battery b basket ball team was so
far oucclassed in the game with City
Guards at the armory last evening that
the game proved the least interesting
OF any since the opening of the series
on Thanksgiving night. For the first
half the artillery lads put up a good
contest, although it was evident to al
most everybody present that the infan-
try men were playing a superior game.
In the second half there was no doubt
about it. The Citys played horse with
their opponents. And at that the team
work of the Citys wasn't remarkably
good. II seemed good, but it was in ap-
pearance only. The poor playing of the
Batterys carried out the deception.
Hardly one of their number covered his
opponent, which enabled the Citys to
pass effectively. Had there been any
kind of interference or blocking by Bat
terry men, the Citys would have been
obliged to show better team work than
they did.
The playing of the artillery men in
the second half, particularly toward the
close, vas exceptionally weak City
Guard players raced around without
restraint and placed themselves at will
where they could do effective work.
Battery men chased after the ball Ill
punches, three and four of their play
ers tackling every City Guards man
who handled the ball. Such practices
uncovered City Guards players without
the necessity of effort on their part and
a pass was the
EASIEST THING IMAGINABLE.
They threw several goals in quick
order, and it was not difficult mat
ter to do so. In nearly every instance
the threw was no more difficult than a
free toss, for no Battery player was
near enough to interfere.
During the contest Capt. Taylor pro-
tested a decision of a foul ON one of
his men. The protest will be acted on
by the board Of directors. The protest
is unWarranted and the board of di-
rectors are defeating their own efforts
to make the game clean by allowing
such protests. In the matter of play
ing. the officials should be supreme. AS
it is now, every decision is subject to
revision.
The game wasn't rough or fast
There was very little excitement. AL
though the Battery team did the uneX-
pected in the former match, and de-
feated the Citys, nobody expected they
would repeat the performance. They
didn't. They didn't come anywhere
near it. The playing of w. Traver and
throwing of Poland, were the features
of the match.
The first goal came hard. Thomp-
son started the work which resulted in
its making. On pass from Poland
near the centre of the floor, he brought
the ball up by clever lodging. He
returned the ball to Poland, who made
a long throw from the side 1t went
over the cage and fell into Travers
hands. He Gagged it. Time, lin. 26s
TIL next goal was the result of a
direct charge from the City Guard goal.
Battery was forcing the play near
it. The ball was thrown up and sent
to H. Magee on long pass. He stood
at the left of the basket, but his throw
went wild. Traver was again in good
position, and catching the ball on the
rebound, tried to cage it. He was
blocked and could not throw, so he
passed to Thompson. The latters try
hit the edge Ct the cage, and the
BALL ROUNDED TO ALLISON
His trial was poor one. Traver got
the bali, but was again blocked. He
passed to Thompson, who was also
blocked. He sent the ball back to
Iraver, and the latter put it in the
basket. Time, 3m. 40s. There was
no further scoring during the half.
In the second half, after a succession
Of tries for the Battery goal, the ball
bounded to Poland, who Gagged it. Time,
In. 26s
He got the next one on foul by Pow
ers. Time SIN. 53s
Poland Gagged another in I'm. 3Ss on a
foul by Cardinal. The decision was pro-
tested.
Goals were coming fast for the Citys
and interest in the contest began to lag.
Thompson scored the sixth goal. In a
center-up near the TERED seats in Bat
terry territory, Goodwin raped the ball
to the end of the drill shed H. Magee
chased after it and P. Traver followed
close on his heels. Moore ran for the
ball. The three men came together as
the ball bounded from the brick wall
and went down in a bunch. The ball
rolled out from Moore's hands toward
the Battery goal. Moore tried to reach
it, but H. Magee held him and Thomp-
son picked it up. He tossed it over his
head into the basket. Time, Pm. 13s.
ne IlGAl 6Odi was d Silb. NnOOIS udQ
the ball all to himself near his goal but
ran with it. Poland was given free
pass. He hoped the ball once on the
floor and as it came up caught it and
tossed basket. Time 3m 53s
The eighth and last goal of the Citys
was made after Ism. 40s. Of playing in
the second half. Poland made a long try
for the basket, which didn't connect.
H. Magee was in position to catch the
ball when it came down and sent it back
with better aim than his captain had
exercised. The lineup:
CITY GUARD. BATTERY B.
Thompson, / f................r b, Appellants
ii. Maggie, f.................l b, T. Traver
w. Traver, ! c..............r c, McQueeney
GOODWIN, ...................... c, W1llamS
A. Magee, c.....................I c. BENDER
AllSOn. D.. I, IaylOr
Poland, n ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Moore
Dand r b........ IL f, Cardinal, Brusette
Fairbanks g ...........h, Powers Leveille
Score, City Guard s. Battery 0; goals
from field. Traver 2, Poland 2, H. Magee
Thompson; goals from free tries, Poland
q missed on free tries, Poland 8, Taylor
g. fouls, City Guard O. Battery B s. Ref