El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-17
BASKETBALL Teams
CHANCE POSITIONS
Populars Shove Musicians
Out Of First Place IN
Tuesdays Game.

There was something doing at the
f'T" Tuesday night in the seventh Sc
ries OF the basketball games In tne
Commercial league. The sensation OF
the night was the upsetting OF the
Piano company team from the IlrsL DO
sitfon al the head OF the league. This
team. undefeated hitherto, was nuHDleo
at the hands OF the Popular team, Wn4on
started out at the tail END OF the run
ming.
The Populars triumphed with the de-
cisfve score OF sc 10 %. Nern Lyman
was the scoring machine Of the popular
bunch. accommodating nine or the oas-
kets made. Fats Ross trimmed the iron
with six balls. and Hall and Baker
made a quartet Of baskets apiece
The game started with q rush, Wnlch
was continued all through. Ia miller,
the Pianists' center, Gagged the IlrsL Dall
OF the game after two minutes OF LlsICe
play. ChenoWeth followed with pref
filv thrown basket before the Populars
got chance at the ball, but when they
did. things began TO happen and both
sides worked the score up 10 tie OF 10.
Then Cheny shot a ball on free throw
but that settled the scoring Tor the
Pianists, for the POpulars rolled the
score I'D to Is by the gong strike OF
the first half. and held the Pianists
down. preventing further scoring
For the beginning OF the second hal1
the Pianists regained little OF thelr
I'D to D. but with Lyman and Ross cut
ting high jinks in the basket shooting
line, an effective crlmp was placed On
the Pianist supremacy ChenoWern ana
Perkins did the stellar work Tor the
defeated team, caging hair dozen
balls apiece. Cheny made three addi-
tionsl throws on free tries.
The Populars had the following play
ers: Fats" Ross, captain, center YER
non Lyman and Hall. forwards; Blake
Baker and Homer Thomas GUARDS
The Pianists line up: I'd M1lieri cen
ter Perkins and Wayne Chenoweth.
forwards: Clarence GarWoOds VIII Halle
and c. II. Brown, guards
Officials. II. /. Mitchell, referee; sag
Shea, timekeeper, and Ross ELL scorer
sheIton-Payne Team Wins.
The second game was won by the
Shelton Payne team from the FL Paso
Household company with the score -
to 13 Both sides lost many Opportu-
mites for scoring.
The teams lined I'D in this way: Shell
-Payne-Jose Peralta and VIII Mar
shall, centers; Hunt and Berg. for
wards; Lamar Thomas and Henry Rob
ertson, guards. Household company
Roy Pickens, center; George Freeman
and Esrl league. forwardsi Sam Pick
ems, Fred Beers and Placke, guards
Homer Thomas was time keeper, the
other officials we're the same.
The Final Game.
The final game was q. walk away Tor
the Bryan Bros. quintet, who handed
cut 80 TO ii wallOp to the Walk team
Johnny Loretz and sag Shea did good
basket work for the Bryanites, Johnny
getting five baskets and Sag six.
The lineups were; Bryan Bros
Sag Shea, center; Lee Evans, captain
and John LOretz, forwards; King,
George Nee and ". Archibald. guards.
Wall team-Ben Romero, center; Ian
der Marshall and Robert Hoover, cap
tain, forwards; kula and VIII Steven
son. guards.
has caused considerable alteration in
the teams standing. By losing the
game with the POpulars. the Pianists
tie with Shelton Payne for first posi-
ton; Bryan Bros worked up to second
place, and the Popular occupies third,
with very strong prospects OF forging
further up the ladder, II the team con-
tinues its present pace.