El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-05
FIGHTING SPIRIT AIDS TEAM:
HELPED BRYAN FIVE To VICTORY
Winners Of Commercial League Basketball Championship
Were Not Best Players Individually, but Worked
Together to Make Team Win; Thompson Wins
in Billiard Championship Tournament.
BY J. G. BRANN.

LII credit to the Bryan basket
"A ball team for winning the pen
L n nant in the Commercial league.
The Bryan team is probably not the
best team in the league at the present
time. The stellar players, together with
the fairly good team work which the
Feldman team has finally been able to
develop. makes it look much stronger
than the Bryan team. This is borne out
by the fact that the Feldman team de
feated the Bryan team without any
great difficulty the last time they
hooked up. But despite the strength of
the Feldman five the Bryan team is
really better over a seasons stretch
and the bunch that any level headed
captain or manager would pick were he
picking again. To Sag" Shea, who
picked the Bryan team at the begin
ming of the season too much credit
cannot be given. After Sag" had made
his pick, the team was not conceded
even an outside chance to finish above
third at best. Still the team has lost
but one game during the entire season.
1t viii probably win in the other game
to be played and finish the season with
the wonderful average Of 1883. And
even though II should lose the other
game it would still have an average
of .77S, certainly fine record for the
season. After the teams were picked at
the beginning of the season the lineup
of the WalZ team made it look quite
ST. OALE dAAu LlAE 5NAAGAd al bIAAEL " DIS thai
Walz had a fine chance to win, and it
appeared a certainty that Walz would
easily finish ahead of the Bryan team.
Yet, while the Bryan bunch has lost
but one game during the season the
Walz five has won only one Of all the
games played
The players whom Shea picked, and
won the championship, We're Cliff An
dersOn, Bob Bryant and o. Rheinheimer.
forwards; Shea and Criss Fox, center;
Scott Walker, Roy Gaylord and Frank
Scotch, guards, and Cooper Mckemy
who played about as much at guard as
he did at forward Look this bunch
over. Shea is a star but that does not
figure. since the men against whom
he was picking were all considered at
least his equal As for the others, Cliff
Anderson is a good player and Bob
Bryant is a real star. But Cliff has
been i'll for the past two weeks and
unable to play. while Bob has been out
Of the game practically the entire sea-
son with sprained ankle None Of the
other players are out of the ordinary.
X
But they won the pennant and the
secret of their success lies in one thing
which is that they had a splendid man
ager and that they had that which
wins far more games than individual
ism possibly cOuld-team spirit. The
Bryan team turned out to practice and
did as the captain decreed- When there
was a game to be played there were al
ways at least six players present, and
with one or two exceptions there were
seven or eight. At least four times the
entire squad was there.
The star" teams, on the other hand,
did not require any team work. As a
result when they got out on the floor
they were unfamiliar with one anOth-
er's style of play and had not even a
semblance Of team work. Then when
these teams met the organs who were
working together like a well oiled ma