Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-23
Defeat lrOnSides 81 to 28-Will
Play at Electric Park
Sunday Night.
BY SURE SHOT.

ASKETBALL fans had their eyes
ID opened yesterday when the Pr
rates made their debut with a
victory over the crack Ironside A. c.
team at Kemper's Park by the score
Of 16 to- Is. The new team will meet
the Dominican Wanderers, at Pier
sons Hall tomorrow night. With a
pair of guardsso of the calibre of Heery
and Welsh, the Wanderers expect to
hold In check such men as Knochels
and Henninger. Joe Bush will jump
against Jay Doyle in centre and Ciaff-
ney, Keenan, and Haggerty will play
the. forward positions for the Domins
and oppose Dick Green and Bill Dono-
van, the latter being the speedy
guard of the County League cham
pions, who will take Welsh's place in
this. game.
There will be no preliminary game.
The Junior A, Junior B, State Street
Annex N Sophomore A teams carne,
out victorious in the initial clash in
the Interclass League at the Newark
High School yesterday.
The Lennox Five, of New York, con-
quered the National Turner basketball
team in a game played Yesterday after
noon on the Turner's court. The final
score was "a to 10. The game was
fast and exciting all the way, but the
visiting forwards managed to get in
the winning points, while the clever
team work of the Lennox quintet held
the homesters in check.
The last scheduled game of the sea-
son will take place tonight at Casino
Hall, when the st. Benedict College
prep. team meets the Stevens Institute
sophomores. Arrangements are now
under way for a game to be played in
the near future between an alumni
team and the present quintet, but the
date for the game has not yet been
announced.
Having secured Electric Park for
Sunday nights for the balance of the
season Captain Knochels, Of the Pr
rate basketball team, will schedule
the leading fives .of this vicinity. The
spacious auditorium at the popular
pleasure grounds will make an ideal
basketball court, and compares with
any in the State. The Pirates expect
to be successful, as the team is COM
posed of the best players available.
Manager Dunlap will arrange to ac-
commodate a large crowd, and those
financing the scheme with Knochels
will leave nj ton unturned to please
all.
If the proposition receives the proper
support a team may play weekly at the
park throughout the summer.
The newly-organiZed Pirate basket
ball team showed its class by
accomplishing the feat which has
been performed this season
that of downing the Ironside County
League leaders at Kenlper's Hall yes
terday afternoon. The play during the
initial period was even most of the
time, but the visitors were leading by
a score of 16 to 10 when the half-time
arrived. In the second
half the Pirates stole a march on the
Ironsides and by bombarding the bas-
kets with accuracy pulled away from
their opponents and won out by a
score of 81 to 2S.
The Bay View Wheelmen basketball
was beaten out in the last few
minutes of their game last night with
the Roosevelt Five, of New York. on
the Wheelmen's court and went down
to defeat by a score of % to 10. One
Of the largest crowds of the season
turned out to witness the game. and
the visitors brought with them a host
Of rooters. Artie ConlaT, the speedy
little forward of the Ironside County
was substituted for Brophy,
who was i'll. and. as usual, put up his
sensational game. During the first
the teams fought 1t out neck-and-
At half-time the Bay Views
held the upperhand by a score of 7 to
J.. When hostilities were resumed the
two Conlons-Artie and Johnny. who
the forward positions for the