Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-26
BASKETBALL.
Bridgeport High Given a Good
 Drubbing Yesterday

The Park City Team Not in Same Class With Locals--Rough Work at Wtllimantic-Norwich Team and It's Rooters Mada It Very Lively and Rough Sterlings Won from the
 Crescants Last Night.
 The much heralded Bridgeport high I school basketball team came to Water bury yesterday afternoon and made an attempt to defeat the local high school team. It was miserable attempt.
 The Park city team was ignominiously
 defeated by the score of 46 to 10. The Y. M. 0. A gymnasium was none too
 large to accommodate the crowd which desired to see the game. Much ell. thusiasnn was manifested by the spec
 tators during the first few minutes of l play, but as the local boys started to make runaway race of 1t the enthusd-
 asm began to wane. When the team l appeared upon the floor 1t was appar.
 ent to everyone that the home players
 were much heavier, than their op- ponents. The little chaps from Bridge
 port, however, were game and full of
 grit. They meant all right and tried i ,E the Brass city team. The locals played
 q brilliant game. Their team work was lightning and well and system
 atically played. The visitors appeared to be lost in it-at times The individ- nal work was pretty. Each player put
 dash and vim and snap that was I wholesome into his work. They shot
 for the cage well. Each player put up l star game. but the work of Sander
 son and Guilfoiie was particularly bril-
 liant This years team Is fhe best
 which has represented the Waterbury
 High school in several years The
 lineup and summary follows:
 Bridgeport Fl. $. Waterbury H. s.
 Canfeld ..... Forwards. .Hannegan
 Frauer ...... Forwards. <. .Littlejohn
 WTenn ........ Center ..... Guilfoile Cone ......... Guards ..... Heebner Holsizer ..... Guards .... Sanderson
 Score, Waterbury 46, Bridgeport 10;
 goals from floor, Hannegan 5, Little
 john 5, Guilfoile 5, Heebner 2, Sander son z, Canfield 2, Wrenn and Holsizer;
 fouls, Guilfoile, Heebnar and Sander. son; goals from fouls, Holsizer 2. A preliminary game between the Hustlers of the " M. c. A and the
 second High school team resulted in a tle. 1t was a very interesting game and the boys played well.
 The famous Sterling basketball team continues to uphold its excellent reputation. earned by clever work ir i defeat ting the crack teams of the state during the past few years. Last night
 in one Of tue fastest and roughesi
 games Of the season the Sterlings wor
 from the Crescents, which occupies
 second place in the standing of the Y 3 M. c. A. league. The game was play
 cd at the Y. M. c. A. gymnasium and was witnessed by large crowd which became very much excited dur !. ing the progress of the game.
 From the moment the game started 9 until 1t ended, 1t was marked by fast 2 and rough work upon the part of botl : teams. Each team wanted the game 3 and exerted all its strength to secure
 1t. The Crescents started like win ! ners and was leading at the end of tht ' first half, the score being 16 to '. Blu the Sterlings are strong Gnishers ana z in the second half ran away from theil ,. opponents. The final score was 4 7 to 24
 7. < The lineup and summary follows: 7 crescents Sterlings < Gearing . {. forwards. ..-.... .SelDJ 2 Candee, Brown, center. Johnson F Brown, Candee center ....W. Curtis ? Warner ..... guards ..... Danahel < Reynolds ......,......... Sandersol r Score Crescents, 24; Sterlings, 4e a goals from floor, Gening 6, Candee 1
 Brown 2, Warner 2, Selby 1, Johnson 4: goals from fouls, Warmer 1, John
 son. Danaher 1, Sanderson; referee < Elmer Thompson; umpire Arthur a Cook; fouls, Candee 3, Brown 4, War e ner 2. Johnson 3.
 '- The basketball game between the . Willinaantic and Norwich Eastern Con Q necticut league teams at the Valies Y street armory, Willimantic, yesterday
 afternoon, was the only event whicf
 broke the monotony of Christmas day
 The Norwich team came up with abou S 100 rooters, and succeeded in beating a the locals, but not until they had pu e Oaks out with an injured shoulder Il
 the second period and Mccormick II
 the third with & broken wrist It wa n one Of the roughest games played there 1. this season, and the local team playet X in the worst kind of luck, dozens q throws barely escaping the basket. Th' \ crowd was one of the largest or th'
 season. The score was. Norwich 21 f | VUsJTfy,, . y,4fo 1R z