Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-27


| and Goullet and Grenda?
Hoping to see all the enthusiastic
| fans at the opening meet, we ramain.
| Very truly yours, S. o. q co.
Don't be so sure that Kline could
beat Lewis and Mahon. Some wise
| judges think otherwise.
G
The awarding of the championship
of the Playground Basketball League
| TO the Ninth street team seems to
have stirred up a protest, and the
the subject:
j. p. N.
/ think that the Prince Street Play
ground team has been mistreated by
the action of the head of the Play
ground Basketball League in giving
the championship TO Newton Street
| Playground. l have several reasons.
Let me tell you a few rules of the
league and by how many teams they
| were carried out.
The names of the players and the
Fairgrounds that they We're to repre-
sent were to be enrolled before the
first game. The teams were composed
or were supposed to be composed of
The Prince Street Playground team,
as the head officials know, started and
finished the season with the same
players, all of whom were eligible.
All of the other teams didn't do it.
Now why was the rule not enforced?
The Prince Streeters played teams in
the league that had players in their
lineup that were clearly over age
I No games We're to be decided by for
fatf Nptxrtnn street get
those last three games?
Now. j. p. N. N your columns, you
favored the winners. | thought that
you always save fair decisions. Do
you call awarding three games in vio-
lation Of the rules fair. How do you
know that all the official facts are
right when the official power is CEN
tired in one man?
1t is easy to be a loser. but under
such unfair circumstances 1t is no
joke. II is not the medals, but the
honor for our playground that we
want.
How about series OF games be-
tween the Newton street and Prince
street teams. If Newton has any grit
il would be glad to play our team |
hope you will favor such series, and
arrange 1t, as you would be able to
see the games and judge for yourself.
Yours for square deal,
OTTO A. GOHD,
Member of the Prince Street Basket
ball team.
Your complaint may be we'll
founded, but haven't taken sides at
all in the matter. series of games
between the Newton street and the
Prince street teams would be inter
esting. but the loser. even then, might
find some excuses to make. 1t is easy
to be a loser, as you say, but it is not
easy to be a good sport when you
lose, a circumstance ] have found to
be true in many, many cases.
G
Soldier boys have been playing
basketball up in the armory and, ac-
cording to the following communica-
tion, the play has not been very
ladylike:
J. p. N:
| witnessed a game of basketball
between Company l. and Company G
last Tuesday night at the First Regi-
ment Armory and it was fine exhi-
bition of iiu-iitsu coupled with
tendency to play the soreheads on
the part of Company c. One of Com
pany C's forwards caught hold of
Company LIS centre and started to
choke him and punch him. There
was no official referee and a sergeant
of Company L. officiated. At the end
of the game the score was a tie.
Company l. scored a free throw in
the extra period, Whereupon Com
pany c asserted that the referee was
not fair. 1t ended by Company c
protesting the game. j. p. N, do
you think that that was sportsman
ship?
Judging by Tuesdays game, Com
pany l. has the better team and
would have won easily We're it not
for Greenfield. Company C's centre,
who played crack game under the
conditions. He scored about fourteen
of his teams points, besides feeding"
his forwards throughout the game.
Little Eddie, of Company l., also
played good game. One of Com
pany C's players tried to smear him,
but he was unsuccessful, getting
spilled on the floor for his pains.
Captain Schwartz. of Company l.,
got into q scrimmage with Greenfield,
of Company c. Greenfield started
rough work and was thrown to the
floor. One of his teammates stepped
on his ankle. After that. Company
C's supporters started to yell to their
team to lay for Schwartz. but he
managed to take care of himself and
stay in the game.
Hoping basketball will be cleaner,
as result of this letter / am. a
willing, true sport. JOHN NICK.
OF course there is another side to
this story and we imagine that all
the rough work was not done by
Company c.
There is letter at this office for
Samuel Jaegers. of the Bloomfield
Athletic baseball club.
G
There is a letter at the Evening
Star office for Floyd A. Mcfarland,
the general manager of the Cycle
Racing Association.
G
j. p. N:
Are marriage licenses required in
all States? J. orc.
Marriage licenses are required in all
States and Territories except Alaska.
@
J.P.
Where would a letter reach the
various trolley car concerns in New
York city? j. A. L.
Write to the superintendent of each
of the following roads at the ad-
dress given as follows: Third Ave-
nue. Railway Company. 1896 Third
avenue, New York; Metropolitan
Street Railway Company, los Broad
way, New York; Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company, So Clinton street,
Brooklyn; New York Railways Com
pany, 1853 West Fiftieth street, New
York: Union Street Railway, 1896
Third avenue, New York