Evening star., 1909-04-18
BEST BASKET BALL
TEAM HEREAb0UTS
7. N. c. A. Quint Walks Away
With Three Champion
ships.

With three records tucked safely away
and one of the best records OF any team
In the east this season. the basket ball
FIVE OF the Washington Y. NJ. c. A. has
completed It's season and tomorrow night
will be given championship" reception
by the members Of the association.
When the local Ave defeated the Balti-
more Y. NJ c. A. In the ANAL game of the
season IL had won its twenty-third game
out of twenty-eight for the year. OF
these fifteen were won and only one lost
In the home gymnasium. Three of the
games lost abroad were to Baltimore
Y. NJ. c. 4. With the exception of the
Columbia University Ave, this Is as good
a record as that of any team In the east
and is a pretty clear indication that the
triple honors of South Atlantic. Tri-City
and Washington City League champions
were won on merit and hard. heady play
ing
In the twenty Eight games of the season
the Washington Association f1Te scored
o6l points to 525 by its opponents, and OF
the total number of points the locals piled
up s14 on goals from field. showing that
the men on the Washington forward line
had a mighty accurate sight on the Das-
ket. That the team was very we'll bal
anced extensively and defensively and was
thoroughly protected by its backs is evil
dent from the fact that an average or less
than nine goals from the field in each
game was made by its opponents.
Great Team Work.
The fact that the team has been prac-
tically intact during the entire season is
one OF the chief reasons for the successful
year. The men have always worked we'll
together. the spirit of helping" which
means almost as much In basket ball as
in foot ball. has been constantly to the
fore. and strong team play. especially In
most Of the later games. has done much
to pull the team In front and keep 1t
there. 1t was particularly along the line
of team play that Coach Reckett
worked the men during the latter part
of the season, and they showed the
effect Of that coaching to a marked
Atlantic and Tri-City championship.
Team play was one of the pet hobbies
of Capt. F. H. Jones. who was at left
forward In twenty-seven out Of
twenty-eisht games. Jones was a hard,
the basket and his eye always on the
basket. He and Croghsn at right
forward and Hubbard at center made
probably the strongest offensive front
line Of any team in the south. There
were few more accurate basket shots
In the east than Croghan and Hub
bard. the former shooting 152 and the
latter 1A1 goals during the season. Crog-
shots. and Hubbard could usually To-
cate the basket from almost any angle
or from a distance. Reyes at left
guard and Fowler at right gave the
Y. M. c. A. the heaviest back line In
the South Atlantic Association. Reyes
was particularly fast in getting the
ball up the floor away from his goal
and Fowler. besides shooting goal
occasionally. was strong on breaking
UP an opponents team play.
Good Substitutes.
Although Williams and Roberts. sub
stitutes, were only used in a few
games during the year. they were al
ways ready to go in and had been care
fully trained by Coach Beckett to play
any position on the team.
With assurances from all the men on
the 19O6-l9O0 team that they will be back
also acts as manager OF the team, will
begin next week to make preliminary ar
rangements for the season ahead. Besides
the regular league games efforts will be
made to arrange dates with several OF the
eastern college teams. including Prince
ton, Pennsylvania, Yale, Columbia. Vir-
ginia, Washington and Lee and George
town.
There will be a stronger and longer
schedule than this year. and with the
same men working together again. Coach
Beckett believes the local association will
have the most successful basket ball
team in its history.
Detail Tables.
The following tables will give an idea
Of the work Of the Y. NJ. C.. 4. five: