Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
Winning Players Show Wonder
fui Form in Passing and
All-Ar0und Play.
FIRST GAME SAINTS EVER
LOST ON HOME COURE
Losers Rally in Last Few Min
utes, but Just Fall Few
Points Short.

achievement yesterday afternoon
when It's representatives defeated St.
Benedict's Prep" BY score Of "A &c
q in a game played on the Casino
court. The Central victory is said 70
be the first ever registered BY WIS.,
ting school team on the Banedicts
home court. and was the result Of the
first Of home ana home series upon
which hinges tho city Championship.
A close game had been anticipated.
as the Central team had been travel
ing at remarkable pace since the
opening of its season. However, the
record of never having lost q sehoi-
astic game on Casino court and tire
fact that the present quintet had WOE
all Of its games TO date, thereby dem
onstrating that il was no exception to
the usual output Of frst-class teams.
gave st. Benedicts a big ADVANTAGE
As soon as the game started Il was
evident that the outcome depended
upon the Centralites' success in foil
ing the efforts Of Frank McDermit.
! the St. Benedict centre. McDermif
was the keystone TO all of the Prep
schools team work. He show
cred the basket with shots, but Let1r-
hof, the Central guard. who was
moved up to centre especially for the
occasion, covered SO closely that Nc
Dermit's usually large field basket
total was held down to four field
goals. Two of these were made pos
sible by the Benedict pivot's sheer
strength and ability to escape from
the tumble Of struggling players "a
cage the leather.
Central Bided It's Time.
Central wasted little energy in at
tempting to assume the offensive.
d1Tl -
, the Central mans guarding tactics
We're so effective that the advantages
was of little avail. Shartoff, who ex-
changed places with Lehrhoff, and
\ Safer held Baader and Donohue, the
Catholic school forwards, to a brace
I OF field baskets apiece.
While St Benedict was bombard-
ing its basket with futile attempts
| Central developed a passing game at
1 intervals that invariably gained .
! basket The slightest laxity on the
part of the Benedicts guards proved
disastrous.
Abramson, substituting for Captain
} Louis Leftkowitz, the star Central
forward, who was i'll, proved the SEN
sation OF the game. OF dimnutiva
stature, he Gagged four goals from the
! field, one OF which was of the excep-
1 tional variety.
How evenly the teams were matched
] is denoted in the summary. st. Benss
dict fell one basket short of the total
registered by Central in both the field
| goal and foul goal columns.
st. Benedict was the first TO score.
McDermit tailed on a free throw
when Referee Fields detected Lehr.
hon holdina Mac followed soon after
with another point on a penalty
/ throw. An uneyentful moment
passed. and McDermit got the ball
under the basket after a clever bit
of team play on the jump-off. and
scored the first field goal. Desperate
guarding figured prominently after
the next jump-off, until Safer re-
covered the bail under st. Benedictss
goal. From him the leather relayed
! through the hands of Lehrhof and
Abramson to the waiting Kruger.
who whisked the net for the first
Central field basket. Three field goals
We're Melted by Central in quick
succession at this juncture, the public
schoolboys beginning TO find them
selves.
Abramson received a pass from
Kruger and scored field goal Then
Lehrhoff followed with two baskets
on "throw-in" plays. Abramson
added two more points a few minutes
later when he gagged Kruger's high
pass 10 a nicely and dropped the
leather in from a jump up on the
| wall
Abramson InfaiiibIe.
The play grew more spirited during
the Central squirt, and holding viola-
lions were frequent. Abramson
I proved infallfbie on three of his at
tempts, in contrast to Bladder, who
missed four. The score stood "A TO
when McDermit slung the ball over
, haad ~ Fha mt for h ~ has
started the Benedicts' rally. mo-
ment later he secured another. and
Baader followed with his first basket
of the game. Abramson garnered
another point on a penalty throw,
and the half concluded with the score
/ Is to 10 In favor of Central
Donahue scored his initial field bas-
! ket of the game shortly after the
! opening of the second half on an
overhead throw The ball was IN the
| neighborhood of the Benedict goal for
some minutes, but the Central guard
| ing kept the net inviolate.
| Lehrhoff had two attempts at fres
! throws, but he was inaccurate.
| Abramson attempted the next penalty
( throw, and added another point to
| the Central score. McDerrnit followe0
suit and Gagged two free throws. Then
| Cavanaugh hurt his foot and was
| forced TO take time out When play
resumed Abfamson broke even on >
pair Of free throws. and Kruger
/ added two more on a clever shot
! from the side of the court. Both
/ Abramson and McDernit missed or
attempts from the foul line. Piay
was curtailed temporarily when
| Abramson suffered an injured eye on
jump-up with Flarity. Upon the
resumption of play a free throw ~sf
| granted NIcDermit when KrrSer
1 held, but the point was lost when tbs
big centre stepped over the line n
/ an attempt to follow up.
Rally Too Late
4 With a few minutes TO play, ma
Benedicts commenced a fusiilade on
the basket. and, after fully a score
of attempts. Bladder located the rim.
Kruger landed another shortly, wlaiie
1 Donahue scored Two points for the
Benedicts Abramson and McDerrnit
both failed on penalty throws that
| were Imposed during the turmoil
under the Benedict basket Cava~
naugh retired in favor of Foley ~
1 this time
The feature basket Of the game was
shot when, with but a minute to play.
| Abramson slammed the ball home
from the centre Of the court. A psznc
on McDermit's free throw was tie
| last one OF the contest The final
whistle found the players grappIinS
under the Benedict goal.
The summary:
CENTRAL. .sr
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