Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-30
REVIVAL OF COURT
GAME FOR ORANGE
Commonwealth Basketball Five
Will Play First Home Con-
test Saturday Night.

One Of the basketball teams OF this
vicinity that deserves well for It's
share in putting the game on lofty
level in the realm Of sport Is the
Commonwealth quintet. Of Orange.
With some Of the ablest amateur
players in this section in its ranks,
the Commonwealths are just now en-
gagged in accomplishing healthy re-
vival Of the sport in Orange. where q
few years ago q team fiourished that
had a community pride behind It..
This was the team that represented
the Orange Y. NJ. c. A. and in its
colors won State championships con-
sistently. Players on the Commons
wealths saw service on some OF the
last teams that represented the Y. NJ.
c. A.. the sport having been discon-
tinued there on competitive basis,
having been abolished there two years
ago.
with their former ties severed, the
Commonwealths have now worked
themselves in the position where they
are considered very much In the light
of q community team. On Saturday
evening the team opens its home
schedule, playing the strong Col
grades, a team composed OF former
Columbia University and BronA
Church House players, at the new
gymnasium Of the Orange High
School. 1t Is expected that the old
crowds that turned out 10 sec tho
games years ago at the Orange Y. NJ.
O. A. will again be In evidence.
Since the sport was discontinued at
the Orange association the boys-have
been playing basketball every year
together, but always on the road.
Now, however, q place has been
created for them in the new gym
naslum and the demand for a local
team has been responded to. All the
preliminary announcements have been
, greeted with interest by the Orange
folk. who are ready to welcome back
their basketball heroes on Saturday
night.
The Comnnonweaiths have retained
much of their playing policy since the
. days they were Y M. c. A. players,
In that efforts have been made TO
arrange games with the feading col
lege teams In the old days OF the
sport at the Y. N. c. A.. Yale. Wes-
ieyan and other colleges made annual
trips to Orange. The Commonwealths
had the Princeton varsity team booked
for their opening game on Saturday.
DuL ~oIo AOfVCd u OdHCSi III ONAA8
to the fact that the coach was unable
to get In touch with a faculty ad-
visor during the holiday recess. A
game for Washington's Birthday In
Orange has been practically assured
for the Commemorative. and as 1t will
be the first time in an age that q
Princeton team has appeared In this
vicinity Il Is expected that the Mas
sau alumni will turn out In force to
witness the game Another promising
game Of the schedule at home is that
| to be arranged with the Columbia
University alumni. The Columbia men
would have been the team to open
the season in Orange. but Coach
Fischer wired the Orange manage
ment that his men were not in shape
and requested a later date.
The players who make mp the Cori~
monwealths include DR.. Matt Pearce.
former all-collegiate centre at the
University Of Pennsylvania; Ed Aus
tin, Henry williams and Jimmy Cora
don, all FORMER Y NJ, c. A. players;
| Bel Evans, Mock Fischer and Ken
meth Babcock, we'll known interscho-
lastic stars IN the Oranges. Joe
| Leimer. who was elected captain of
the team at the start Of the season,
has been forced out OF competition by
an old injury to his knee. He has
assumed the position Of coach. while
the duties Of the captaincy have fallen
| to DR. Pearce.