The Washington times., 1905-04-23
CARROLL'S TEAM
LOST ONE GAME
Won Eighteen Times at
Basketball This Season.
LOST ONCE TO Y. M. C. A. MEN
Teamwork Keynote of Continued Sue
cess-Quint Unusually Fast in
Getting Ball Away Accurately.
LOST ONCE TO Y. M. C. A. MEN

Seldom. If ever. in the history of Car
roll Institutes athletics. has a basket
ball team. wearing it's yellow and white.
achieved the record of this years 'duin-'
tet.
From the earliest days of September
of last year this team has been togeth-
er playing every kind of a competitor.
and meeting all sorts of circumstances
and the end finds Carroll with a superb
showing to its credit For out of the
nineteen or more games played Carroll
has won all except one. That defeat,
strange to say. was administered by a
team which later was walloped and
beaten so often by Carroll that the
games between them were a foregone
conclusion. Despite this fact the Y NJ
c. A. proved no easy victim at times
for Carroll, and in several of the games
Carroll just managed to nose out VIC
tory.
Lost to Y. M. c. A.
In the category of the defeated teams
are found tho Y. NJ. c. A. forced to give
way to the superior prowess of Carrell
I out Of S times; Potomac Boat Club, 8
out of 3; Turner Athletic Club, out of
3; NewarlIs, 2 out of Q; Fourth Presby-
terians, out of g. and Company X, of
the National Guard. / out of l.
Carroll's strength consisted in the uni
form team work, and In the familiarity
of the men on the team with each other
and the game they played. Each mani s
points were understood. and such inside
informa ton is.a big help.
The primary fact is that Carroll could
l4aJl ;aly n
curately than any team it met. The
rapidity in shooting the ball to each
other was at times so great that the
opposing team was at first surprised
then confused and finally overwhelmed
Every man was clever at the passing
part of the game
Handled Well by Kerr.
Under Captain Kerr. the men played
and worked well, and he at times show
ed splendid work. Harry Cullen, who
has played on Carroll for several sea-
sons. and in fact learned the game from
a to z there, was perhaps the mainstay
of the team. His work was the back
bone, and with him in it all played with
renewed confidence. To see him start
at the opponents end of the hall and
dribble the ball all the way down the
floor, and to quickly shoot 1t to Kerr
or Cramer, who were under the basket
waiting for him, was at all times one
of the features of Carrors play Not
behind in any part Of the game CuI-
lens goal throwing proclivities were at
all times especially dangerous
Cramer's basket throwing was no.
ticeable and many of Carrolls large
scores were due to him. HoIlander's
forte consisted in the way he covered
his man, and never showed TO better
advantage than In the games with Y.
NJ. c. A.
In these, "Stoltey'' Thompson, who. by
the way, learned his game at Carroll,
was always a source of much annoy-
ance to Carroll, for he would shoot the
ball into the basket from the most diff
ficult positions. To Smiling AP' HoI-
lander time and again fell the task of
restraining and curbing the work of
Thompson, and that he did Ii exceed
ingly well, all those who witnessed the
games will admit.
Robey Is Foxy.
In Robey. the big man at center, there
was another player who displayed much
ability. and one of his throws at the
basket In the series between Carroll and
Y. M. c. A. will long last In the memory
of those who had the good fortune te
witness II. The spectacular play was
pulled off at the Y N. C. A. gymnasium
The two teams had come back TO their
positions on the floor just after goal
nad been made, and were on the alert