The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
WESLEYAN FIVE
BEATEN BY
ORANGE
Y. NJ. c. A. Basketball Team
Scores Notable Victory
Over the COIIegians.

Wesleyan College basketball team, which
is competing In the Intercollegiate cham
pionship series, fell a victim to the prowess
of the Orange Y. NJ. c. A. five In the
game on the ~latter's court last night, the
score being "a to %. 1t was bitter medi-
cine for the collegians to swallow, and
when they realized that their colors were
in danger Of being lowered they mixed
more than a little %roughing into their
play. In that, too, however, the Orange
boys were a match for Wesleyan, and
their victory was fully deserved.
From the outset of the game the Or
ange boys played n passing game which
bothered the players from the Nutmeg"
State considerably. After two minutes of
the fastest kim of playing, Captain Short
er, of the home five, Gagged the ball from
the centre of the court for the first score
Of the game. By beautiful team work the
Orange players Gagged the ball three times
more before Closer, of the visiting team,
made a pretty goal from the field. Both
teams played hard In the first half and by
clever passing the Wesleyan team scored
twenty-one points, while the home players
were only able to score six baskets and
two free throws.
In the second half the Orange boys
played a whirlwind game and before i've
minutes of the half had elapsed the score
board read q all. Shortly afterward the
home players started some team work
which the Wesleyan players were unable
to check until the Orange team had n
total of "a points to its credit. The visit
ors tried hard to tie the score, but the
best they were able to do was to tally %
points.
The summary:
Orange. Wesleyan.
Hand. Shorter............. Taylor, Closer
Forwards.
Poelier cs1i- ",.'... White
Schroeder. TremDly Grant, chamberlin
Score at the end OF the first half
Orange IA, WESLEYAN q. Final score-or-
mick. Trinity. Time of halves-2Om. Goals
from the feld-Hand 3, Shorter 4, Poeller
z, Schroeder 1, Closer s, White 6, Grant
!. Chamberlin l. Free throws-Hand 2,
Shorter 2, Closer 2.
ST. MichaeIs VIII Close Game.
The st. Mlchael's basketball team de-
feated the xenils. of Hoboken in a close
game at Harmonic Hall last night by
the score OF IS to 20. In the first
period the Saints had everything theiI
own way. They shot baskets at will. pre-
vented the visitors from scoring many
points, and the good work of the guards
only allowed the Xenias to score 3 points
in this period. while they in turn got 2S
TIL second period found the Xenias the
aggressors at all stages. They outplayed
the home players and If 1t had not been
for the large lead they got in the first
half the Saints, would probably have
been defeated. They got II points to the
home players 10. The game as a whole
was good, the second period making W
materially for the poor first period. The
preliminary game between the st. Michael.
juniors and the Eagles, Of the local Y
M. c.. A.. was cancelled by the Eagles
Following is the lineup:
ST. Michaels. Xenias.
Chadwick, Conway. Thompson, Evans
Forwards.
flynn Gcnt Hasset'
poremus. Hackett centre Barrer. Knowltor
Guards.
Easy for D~ominlcans.
The Diamond Five met defeat at the
hands of the Dominican basketball five,
of this city at Dominican Hall last
night, 40 to 10. The first period was
interesting because the visitors held the
home players down, the score being Is to
8 in the locals favor. Following is the
lineup:
Dominicans. Diamonds.
Byrnes, Hahn ..........K Kennedy, w. Clark
Forwards.
Conlon Zogei
Centre.
WEIGH, Donovan ...Balmer, S. Clark
Guards.
First Defeat for st. James.
st. Aloysius's basketball five nosed out
the st. James Small Five on the ~latteris
court last night by a score of % to 81.
After a few minutes of play in the first
half, with the score s TO 4 in favor of st.
James, Scanlon, the star centre of the st.
james Five, met with an accident and
mad 10 retire from the game. AS there
was no other centre present the st. james
team was crippled and lost their first game
of the season ON thair home court. The
lineup of both teams was as follows:
st. James. st. Aloysius.
Lynch Jones
Right forward.
Vanderstreet ................ Hannon
Left forward.
Seanlon (Finnerty) Brady
Centre.
Berry Murray
Right guard.
Croker OtIrady
Left guard.
Score at the end Of the first half-St.
James, 8: st. Aloysius, 6; final, st. Alloy
sius. 20; st. James. 81. DEMONSTRATING,
Of ST. James Small Five.
~ r. KTOTEC