The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-02-07
MOBILE BOYS
DEFEAT LOCAL
P. h. S. TEAM
CLEAN, FAST AND INTERESTING
GAME IS WITNESSED IN WHICH
VISITORS WIN BY THE SCORE
20 TO q.

Clean, fast and skillful was the game
of the team from Mobile High School
last night at. the Y. M. c. A. Basket
ball court, a game that was Mobiles
by the score of 20 to %. The Pensa-
cola High School lads played first
class ball, but the visitors were a bit
too rapid for them at first and steady
throughout the game, their lead of
nine points to one point for the local
team. the score about the middle of
the first half, being almost impossi-
bic to overcome.
Nevertheless the lads with true PEN
sacola spirit stiffened up and finished
the half with thirteen points to their
credit, while their opponents ran
their score UP to nineteen. In this
half the visitors played a superb
game. offensive and defensive, with
accurate, beautiful throwing OF field
goals, and with a great display of
team work. Their first score came
within less than forty seconds of play.
another followed rapidly, and it looked
like an easy victory until Richards
tossed the ball accurately through af-
ter a foul, wiping out the zero In
Pensacola's column on the score
board Mobile followed with another
field goal, a foul goal, another field
goal. In the scrimmages Pensacola's
form was good, possibly little better
at this stage than that of the visitors.
but when the ball was tossed toward
the goal, 1t fell back into the field OF
players without score time after
time, while Mobiles men seldom failed
to get two points when they had a.
fair chance at goal, one or two
very beautiful shots being made from
the side of the field and at consider
able distance from the goal at which
the hall was thrown.
Shortly after the middle of the first
half, however, Toby Herskovitz, with
more accurate aim, scored the first
goal for the East Hill boys, and then
things frightened. Caro-, Brassell.
Herskovitz and Brasseil again added
to the local score, but the team from
Alabama kept up their good work, too
getting several field and foul goals,
Kelley throwing altogether In this
half five field goals, Wilson one, and
Denton one. For Pensacola, Brassell
and Herskovitz each made two field
goals and Caro- one, while Richards
made one foul goal and Brasseli two.
TOT the tNlSAlOIS AOAGy dAS4C0 SAASC
foul goals to his enviable total of
field goals.
All during the first half the crowded
galleries and side line filled the air
with loyal cheers, and Pensacola
never lost her spirit. Facing veter-
an and well-oiled machine, quick and
beautifully working. they still hoped
for victory and entered on the sec
ond half determined to take 1t, and
had the school boys from our neigh
boring city been themselves less de-
termined the story might have been
different. Though Lewis stuck like a
Ieech to his man and guarded the goal
even better than before, two foul
goals and a field goal went to the
visitors credit before Pensacola
scored again. That was Richards
with a pretty long throw. Brasseil
followed with another field goal,
foul, and then Mobile, at the very
acme of effort and achievement made
two field goals less than a minute
apart, and Pensacola's chances of a
victory went forever out Of sight.
Little hornet Caro-, darling in and out
of the fray put two more field goals
to the home teams credit, but that
failed within seven points of equal
ling the Alabama boys total score,
they gaining two more points in the
meantime. In this half, for the Wis
itors, Kelley scored two field, and two
foul goals, and Wilson and Denton
one each, for Pensacola, Herskovitz
two field goals, Richards and Bras
sell one each, and Brassell a field
goal
Mobiles stars were Captain Kelley,
Wilson and Denton, but the work OF /
Diamond and Johnson was itself OF
first-class standard and in another
game would easily have won the star
mark. The whole visiting team was
fair and chivalrous in every respect. /
and Pensacola High School was de- |
lighted to treat them just as gener- |
ously as the friendlyrivalry OF the !
game would permit The local boys j
stuck close to his man and gave them, |
too. a clean game. Captain Brassell, |
Richards, Herskovitz, Caro- and Lewis |
all did work worthy OF the Orange |
and White. straining every nerve and
sfnew to put their colors in the lead. |
Two weeks hence they meet their |
guests of last night in Mobile. and
they hope to give them just as fair |
a beating as Mobile gave Pensacola |
last night The basket ball fans Of /
the city, who were out in such num- /
bers last night, viii not be there 10 |