The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-13
Father Mathew Basketball Team
Gains the Honor of Being the
First Massachusetts Central
Team to Whip Horan'S Men
EIGHT STRAIGHT WINS
GAVE MILLBURY PRESTIGE
After Getting a Big Lead in the
First Half Father Mathew Men
Obliged to Assume the Defen-
sive-Capt. Noonan's Men Get
Victory by a SinqIe Point

AiNAOi W ~ SIli9iS S'''h
Millbury basketball team got switch
ed off the victory strewn path it has
been following since the opening of
the Massachusetts Central League sea-
son and was defeated last night by
Father Mathew in the Green Street
hall by a score of IA to 10. In every
way it was the most exciting contest
of the year. not excepting the battles
between the local representatives in
Pres. O'ROurke's league
Millburys record of eight straight
wins and the fact that Father Mathew
has been steadily improving in team
play We're points considered by basket
ball enthusiasts in picking a winner Of
last nights contest. Seven hundred of
the best pleased spectators that ever
saw the game played in Worcester
were kept busy trying to figure on what
was coming next
Tim Horans men got a big reception
from a delegation Of Millbury enthusi-
asts and local admirers of the former
Lyceum centre Joined in the demon
stration. J. Fred Powers and Wise
man also came in for a welcome by the
crowd. and everything looked rosy for
Millbury at the beginning. Several
best of . to on MillbuTy were placed,
but the crowded condition of the hall
made it difficult to move around in
comfort and most of the sympathy and
expression of opinion was through the
voice alone
In the first half. the aspirations of
the Millbury men seemed the frailest
things in. the hall At the end of a
twenty minute half, Father Mathew
had a lead of u to 8. Capt. NoOnan's
men so far outDlayed the Millbury
quintet that the county team seemed
to have suddenly been stripped Of all
its power. Not a basket was scored
from the field by a member of the Wis
iting team during the first half. Moo
nan scored twice from the field for
Father Mathew, Cairns and Sullivan,
once each, and Cullen tossed in four of
seven tries from the foul line
The passing of the Father Mathews
was the best that could be shown on a
floor that was all too small for the
finer points of play. Cairns, the
husky titchburg lad who plays Gaelic
football, basketball in two leagues, and
engages in other athletic performances
in addition to working regularly as a
plumber, was one of the Father
Mathews reliable men. Cairns rugged
ness was used to splendid advantage in
clashes with Burt, who is patterned
after the braWniest of athletes.
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puIy' q, horne aIdH Iahd the pail
IN the basket on a shot from the foul
ilI!e anu III aHoIHeI Try was equdiy
pLnd.
| m moran IdlSeu NliIpuIy hopes py
| shooJlng goal from the held. Horne
! missed from the foul line. Millbury
had two good chances to get the
sphere into the hands OF an uncovered
man, but Koran preferred to get al
the nonors himself and his long shots
| aVailed nothing.
Cullen made point from the fou
line when Powers was spotted holding
| o Rourke. Horne missed from the fou
line. Koran got the ball from a
| scrimmage beneath the Father Mathew
! basket and after two tries, he landed
f4or5 MilI 6r1s i H. cullen Hen missed try
the foul line and the crowd yelled en-
Eu buI bllt itl4 goal 10 tie the score.