The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-12-04
Fan sports.

Gal 0pOAbSs
n The Palmyra foot ball team was defeat
ed on Thanksgiving afternoon. at Wesl
Philadelphia, the score being SO to 0.
4 The Riverton Jr foot ball team played
Olivet, from Philadelphia, to a standstill
at Riverton, on Thanksgiving morning,
| the score being $50.
/ Basket ball to night at BurIington-Bur-
lington VS.. Bristol This will be game
worth seeing Both sides will have their
rooters out, and the shouting will not be
all on one side.
The Logan Field Club made out SO well
on its first visit to Mount Holly to engage
in game of foot ball it thought it would
try again. In the first game the score was
6 to 0 in Mount Holly's favor On Satur-
day it was 81 to in favor of the home
team
There were two games of foot ball on
the Mount Holly grounds on Thanksgiy-
ing day. In the morning the Mount Holly
Academy defeated ST. Joseph's College,
of Philadelphia to O. and in the after
noon the regular Mount Holly team got
away with Trenton to the score of 40 to O.
Burlington county has had the honor of
| furnishing several valuable members of
the foot ball team of the University of
Pennsylvania. G. Edgar Wallace, of
Chesterfield, a member of this years
eleven, who has made some brilliant plays
in the games this season, has been elected
captain for next year
'tJacky" Naylor, of the sporting depart
ment of the Eveniag Telegraph, roasts the
Burlington basket ball team after every
game with apparently as much relish as
he used to abuse the Mount Holly base
ball club. And "Jacky" very probably
gets into every basket ball game at Bur
lington, with good seat in the reporters
stand, without coughing up cent
Burlington ought to have good basket
ball team. In fact it has one, but the
trouble seems to be that it is in too fast
company. The game is well supported
by the people of that city and Manager
Shinn does not stop at expense to get
good material. He has good team but
the other fellows seem to have better
material.
The Burlin gton basket ball team seems
to be in the rear yet. 1t was beaten on
Tuesday evening by the Metropolitan A.
A. c., and on Thanksgiving night was
easily downed by Trenton. The defeat
on Tuesday night was no disgrace for the
Metropolitan club was the fastest that will
appear in this neighborhood this season.
Some of the clubs now standing near the
head of the list will have to hustle if
they run up against the Metropolitans.
One of the best foot ball contests of the
season took place on Thanksgiving morn
ing at the West End grounds, Palmyra,
between the Delair A. A. and the tars
from the schoolship Saratoga. Although
the visitors were heavier, yet the superior
team work of the Delair boys kept the ball
in their opponents territory the whole of
the first half and kept them from scoring
in the second half, although they could
not score themselves, the result being
90. 1t was contest well worth looking
at, and was only marred by an accident to
one of the backs of the Saratogas, STAN
mitz, who had his collar bone broken in
one of the scrimmages. 1t was set at once
by Dr. Tracy, who was there witnessing
the game.
went to Burlington on Thanksgiving day
to try conclusions with team at that
place. The Burlington contingent was
much heavier than the Mount Holly lads,
but the latter played good game and
held their opponents back nicely. Spence
Edwards made several nice runs, one of
which would have been quite beneficial to
his side had he not been interfered with
by the spectators who crowded on the
field. Loring Borton, Dick Peck, Phil
Weaver and other members of the team
played like veterans. In the first half
Burlington claimed touchdown but the
umpire refused to allow it the ball having
fallen out of bounds and bounded back to
where it was captured Neither side
scored, but the Burlington boys, by reason
of their weight, should have had no
trouble in getting through The skillful
playing of the Mount Holly team alone
prevented their defeat.