Connecticut western news., 1909-12-09
CANAAN DEFEATS
 MILL RIVER FIVE
BY UNUSUALLY FAST FLOOR WORK
Thursday Evening the Locals Trimmed
 Rivals in the Town Hall in Rough
 but Interesting Game-Score 23 to

Thursday evening the old rival teams, Canaan and Mill River, came together in the local town hall and the game re- suited in defeat for the latter by score 23 to II. AS usual the game was fiercely fought from the beginning to the end and it was by no means the cleanest game that has been played here. The Mill River five displayed no team work whatever, and it was real laugh able to see them often playing against their own men, thus blocking them from passing the ball. It was particularly noticeable in the case of Hines, of Great Burlington, whom Mill River had to strengthen their team, but, as he was used to playing in hall where the cell ing is considerable higher, he failed to be able to drop the sphere through the hoop even once. Hines was first, placed against Scott of the local five, but as he could not make his feet stick to the floor and follow Scott, Veasey attempted to guard the Canaanite but with no better  Canaan boys were very fast on their feet and it was not a few times during the game that they did not have the visitors lost, as all of the members of the Mill River team were yelling, "cover up," but could find no man to cover. Scott as usual played the star game for the local quintet as he secured twice as many baskets as any other member and he also did some very good blocking. Good guarding was also exhibited by McCabe and Stanton and in fact all of the members of the locals played well. Both teams guarded finely for it was the lowest score that has been made in any of the games this season. Although the home team had hard luck in throwing baskets the good blocking of Vaesey and Frank Kane accounted for, in large measure, the Canaan team not running up a larger score.
 The playing was easily the toughest that has been witnessed, i'll town hall this year and it was not an unusual thing to be able to glance around the hall and see two or three wrestling matches.
 In view of such playing, the peculiar ity which appeared to the spectators was, that during the game there were but two fouls called. one on Mill River player and the other on local man. Possibly the referee thought that he had better not start calling them for fear that the game would not be able to go on more than ten to fifteen seconds at time, but, however, it has been stated by those who saw the game that If fouls had been called at various times during the play it would have done away with so much rough playing. As a result of the unclean playing Frank Kane was forced to leave the game once in each half because of injuries he received
 The lineup was as follows:
 Canaan Mill River Scott, r. f. l. g. Veasey, Hines McCabe, 1. f. r.g. G. Kane Mcclure, G. c. P. Kane Wigglesworth, r. g. l. f. E. Kane Stanton, l. g. r. f. Hines, Veasey
 Summary. Baskets from floor, Scott 4, Stanton 9, McGuire 3, McCabe 9, Wigglesworth, P. Kane ?, F. Kane 3, Veasey. On fouls. G. Kane and Scott; fouls called, Mcclure and Hines. Re- fierce, Dempsey. Time, 20 minute halves and score 23 to H.