Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-04
BY SURE SHOT.

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The Celluloid basketball team will
open it's season on its home court to-
morrow night with the crack Roosevelt
Five, of New York city.
The New York combination is con-
sidered one of the fastest teams in the
East. They will line up as follows:
Guards, J. Fuller and Fireman; centre.
w. Fuller, and forwards, Moss and
Schern.
The game should be holly contested
from the start, as the Gotham aggrega-
ton has been playing for some time
and are in the best condition., while the
Cells have been practising very hard
for the past two weeks. John F.. Mon
ahan. Democratic nominee for sheriff
of Essex county, will toss the first ball.
The Celluloid. Juniors, which made a
very excellent showing last season, will
line up against a strong team from
Montclair in the preliminary game.
The Natural Turn Verein basketball
quintet will tackle the fast All-New
York five at Turn Hall tonight. 1t will
mark the opening of the basketball
season on the Bruce street court.
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Basketball League was organized at
the local Y. NJ. C. A. yesterday. Seven
associations Joined the circuit, namely:
Montclair, Passaic, Elizabeth, Orange,
Hudson City and Plainfield. The sea-
son will open Saturday, December 2.
Final games will take place on Sat
uiday, March 30.
Tho Capior Rove, Dana ~ Inn amt PoSkat-
ball League will get under way on
October II. The league will be com
posed of our teams.
When the Jronside Field Club in
augurates the 1911 basketball season
Sunday afternoon at New Saenger
Hall, Springfield and Paramount ave
nues, several new faces will be seen in
the lineup. The players will have their
final practise Friday night. On Sum
day ths Caseyites will open with the
Clinton Five, composed of former Ma
tional Turner, Bay View and Bayley
Lyceum players.
Curley, Litz. Knochei, Wagner and
Korb look like a speedy quintet. The
latter pair are the new artists signed
w ~ iiOhoiucSs
The Tri-County League will meet at
R~entschler's Hall prior to the game
Thursday night. 1t will then be def
nitely settled how many teams will be
taken into the league.
With Billy Zimmerman, the popular
Down Necker" in the lineup, the
transforming Tigers will meet HI
Niagara Five at Wiedenmayer's Casino
Friday night. -
The Holy Cross basketball quintet
will open the season at parish hall
Monday night. The Palace Arrow five,
of Jersey City, will be the Hudson
county teams opponents.
Manager AL Mann, of Bayley Ly-
ceum. has picked the two teams that
will represent the big Branch Brook
organization this season. Practise was
held last night. 1t was the first hard
work the candidates had INDUCED in
this season. The boys were put through
a stiff scrimmage by Manager Mann.
who is also acting as coach. A scrub
game was played between the seniors
and juniors, and the result was a vic
tory for the big fellows by a small
margin. 1t a II o'clock before Mann
allowed his men to beat 1t for the
dressing-rooms, and the boys were
about "all in at the end. Passing the
ball, as well as caging the leather and
shooting fouls. was the chief work of
the evening. The big team this season
will be as follows: Eugene Heery and
Phil Heery. guards; Joe Bush or Jim
Heery, centre, and Joe Tyrrell and Joe
Whalen. forwards. All showed ex-
cellent form last night, and prospects
for a most successful season are looked
for. The season will be ~inaugurated
next Wednesday evening. The Bayleys'
opponents will likely be the crack Holy
ICross Five, of Harrison. which ouintat