The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-22
|OLD JOINTS CREAk
As D. A. c. Vets
GET BUSY
But Grandfathers Of Local Basket
ball Timber Up and Trim
Franklins By An IN
righteous Score.
Antedeluvians Still Have a Field
Goal or Two Concealed About Their
WORKOUT Constitutions.
sv PAUL HALE aRUsKE,

InGN WOULD MAKE AuH Va NhN
scouts, would they? Well o. To ~
Take that for a slap on the wrist anu
pay a little respect TO age hereafter.
Such is the only construction TO De
n:aced ON the result OF last night 5
basketball game between me Ola
guard OF the Detroit Athletic club anu
the youthful Franklin team which re-
Gently dehed the stars OF former days
to come out Of their retirement ana
admit themselves has-beens. And. II
anyone else maintains the idea thai
the perennial state champs haven
little so-fast lurking IN their sys,
TENS. let EN- come to the front ana
make rash statement or two 30
. there.
They're Business Men NOW.
The personal habits OF the ID. A. c.
old guard have changed lot since the
DAYS when they played for and usually
won the state championship and were
rated nationally as one OF the fastest
aggregations in the A. A. U. In those
days they held regular practice. were
always I'm the pink OF condition and
had a style OF play that was distinc-
lively their own Since then the mem
beers OF the team have naturally DRIFT
ed into business pursuits. Jake
Mayer. the coach and star, now bosses
a big cigar factory OF his own. Alex
and Roy McDiarmid are candy mani
facturers Lldington is a department
head for the Edison Co. Shinnick Is
an Office manager for motor cat ac-
cegs0ry house. Basketball has been
Tar from their thoughts. Their joints
. have become rusty and they have
waved fat and wheezy. But they got
stirred when q gang OF kids defied
them and they turned out to one prac-
1ice before the game
The crowd that attended came to
chide the vets. But they remained
to marvel The old boys took one half
TO timber up their running gear ana
then they cut loose. With a squeak
OF antiquated cartilage Mazer would
grab the sphere ander the enemy
basket and dribble down the floor,
shaking on Franklin like snow fakes.
Down under his own basket he would
pass one of the McDiarmids who
Woul shoot TO the bald-headed Shin
Z nick The last mentioned antedeluT-
Ian would creak around into position
and slip the ball through the basket.
Lldington would tear into a Frank
lin formation, take away the ball.
hand II TO Mazer and step on at least
three sets Of hostile toes before his
wind gave out and he stood back to
watch his teammates combination
play under the basket
IN the second half the shots fairly
rAined into the ID A. c. hoop. The
Franklins were game but out-general-
ed by the old gentlemen. IL was
triumphant victory OF mind over mat
ter.
Mazer In Poor Form.
Mazer was OF course. comparatively
punk at the foul line He missed
four OF his nineteen shots in shock
ing style. Fifteen of them managed
TO wedge their way through the hoop.
however. most of them failing 10
touch any part OF the rim.
The grandfathers of basketball in
Detroit still refuse TO take them
selves seriously and insist that no
body is going TO jolly them into a diff
forent view of the case. They are
lust playing for funs. They have an
other game with the ,Franklins and
will doubtless schedule a few com
bats with other teams. including the
Standings, Ypsilanti Normal. Adrian
college and others. II they happen
90 and their joints well-oiled and their
envelopes somewhat reduced along
about Feb. 2S--but what's the use?
They're only kidding at the game they
4 used 70 play so well--to hear them
tell about Ii.
IN the preliminaries the Deltas
managed to hand a defeat to the
Windsor Fusillers who have been lick
Ing scrub teams in Detroit with great
regularity OF late. The first half was
close. After that. Jack Miller went
crazy and copied about nine. The
final score was 33 to l6 or something
like that.