Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-01
BASKETBALL HAD
GREATEST SEASON
Championships Won by
Greystock and Penn
Were Worthy
ONE BIG TITLE IN DOUBT
Bv SPICK HALL

l.g- Il TFN "a %
Time has just pace" ",S "''''
tbo best in the twenty-five years hiS'uiS "i
iva enort
. rru.dalnbIare is pleasing, as
S..irpt, n,S. ia Known wherever you 20 a.
Ihilaaelpina 20 ,.I,oG,,ii" who over did
the I'ol.e " " -. Li. b,,l. Ever since
ne cnrIsle''Ins ~. ,s,,,t,b ther at the Spring-
VI 'Sa,lIts crbooI invented the game
!ie'u ,,.,t,ta 6,s ebn,vn the way to the rest
Phiauelpll'a a,I To- i no "capp,, game. as
ana teH.ns te, y"s -, =, ,hasa naris
" s @ le'v ,,,i,,orsa in tbe number OF players
VI '"' ,,r,.s tim. ,r,er Nats,uith
~ was %, -, Cn,jryNeII with a
ttleu u"l .'.V - ,,a,rh baalsets with the
nla!Neu s ,,,t mat 81 ,y.,s MIA ved on the floor
bo'lo"'s ,I wv ~ Ar =, with Or NJ C..
nj we go ,artr,l itiph school. Containing
brIe'n % -, ,rho ri,Iss then were very
one on lue -. ,ho ones which the girls
mueh s',l'""' u,o oii other snorts the rules
ny si'o,holI si have been tinkered and tam
oroJ with nearly every year and nearly
m ~ the changes have improved the game
hUt Tho greatest thing that could happen
I,t,.,tai ,,.o,tld he n universal code
r,,ios. ruias that would he played the
- ~. ~ r.atirnrnIn AS In Pennsylvania. the
"a In tbe schools and colleges as by the
rnfossionaI teams
Need Uniform Code oil Rules
when that time comes 20 pas4 basketball
,,.,lI in,nroye so fast that those interested
tdoy will wonder why the idea was not
put in force many years prT.o"S ,oan,o tndnv
pa' ~, 20 &" ", pLtiaIainhIo hut wherever 1t is
Iot ol,'E ,.,,,ta ~ 49,, Fart that there are any
pSa,. p,aa Sn ~ u,aye nf interprettng the sets Of
'a, ,,o,,. ,ibIisbed The colleges. the
,.M g. A % and the a. A. L. play one
w. ,,,ios. tbasa ,ules being Interpreted
,,c.,I,. ~, IN eyar,, sartion The profess
,,ni r,,ios ara not the same in any tHo
,,. ana mis- retards the growth of
,Gi.a,l,,I hi- snort as it may seem now,
'n,, - ',..,, dou,,r,, nlonsine to
me I'io so"ro. va Va os, 'tbnt The mi
l'uu s I,I,,r,.t,.,ni, eve won the inter-
,eiiasiotn chamnionship after eight lean
nrs and Grcystocl; won the Eastern
a,oue rhan,nionsbip after trailing for sN
aaaons Roth victories were quite uueN-
,,.cted even though every one realized the
i,rot,ctb of thc Creystocli team.
,,. ,.,., ,t,, It,h+oat taar, that
feH"sH ~ an" '''u IT,. 81 tho basl,eth,lI
ever rep, eSe.'te" q i,,.s,ast n ,yas a team
,'out'' .,.od I'So ' b,s,etbaII from scientific
,andpnirt ,rhe idea of the team was to
t,ta ~ mo boII" Bv playinr the ball they
.,n,r,itted fewer. fouls than any other team
t ,ho IrtsrcolIeajate League Added to this
penrsvIyania had on its team the best foul
- ioeser I'M tha collegiate ranks i'm Nc
SS.',ai ia toseed an an average of nine
ois In every, twelve trIals-which. is good
o,tgh tn ALWAYS keen the opposition
arrIod
VIII
Jasper Has Split Season Winner
no diaress n little from the 1915 season
IN tho whole we want to bling in some
thing about the hrst mar OF the oIn5as ooIoInSas
rt1S'cna II,ao, 1Eta cLor,nIorshin for tho FIRST
,n'S Is Vii 90 80 ,bn In sner levels This is
,,a,i , t W. -, trat ,Ie anIit season has been
.ue n'st t,'a' Eaotart, a,guo II Tho came
.,,1, ,,,i,s -, our In both the first and second
,eI.,' W. W, t. 49, nhor,pion and ~ different
laNeS II - I''o .',i, - a. oI,,hs In tho
teall's lop t"e 80, 10, ,,tm alt. II ort
tNo sss9,T.i .1,y ''N'
'or tle "''e
The split season always keeps the interest
in the sport. De Neri thus far has won but
one in seventeen starts. III TINS team Went
through a forty-game schedule under TINS
handicap It would attract no one-at nome
or away-Decause II WouIu pe 700 la ia' @ out Vi
the race TO pe factor WIN d sp'.I s.%so,s ,s
team tudt soL d pUoI SUI III t'.e I -, - ''''
has a chance 10 make Boou III the seco"u
1t was thought "a Greystocl would get
away good this Sc: son because the cham
pionshp team was intact. But the Greys
didn't get away fast and some of the other
teams were a little stronger than last sea-
son, Jasper. with the addition of Hough.
discarded in Trenton as a has been" put
new life into the Jewels and turned the
team pennantward Though crippled Il
couple OF weeks ago and more than likely
out of the game for the balance Of the sea-
bosi,etbali genes smiles broadly when he
notes the position of Jasper and Trenton in
the league race,
n. r r
hough OuI vi uaiie
For many years Hough was an idol in
Trenton, and is yet to many fans who re-
call his sensational work with Bristo. in
the National League and his efforts since
that time; but writer's on the papers soured
on him and drove him away And today for
the first time since the inception of basket
ball there isn't IrehtoHlan playing regu-
larly on the trenton team Those who fol-
lowed basketoail pack III tne strenuous days
of the Natlohal league VIII remember that
trenton supported three hrst class leans
Ihree OF the pest Teams IN the Eastern
states Illiie e"a"ses "' 'niHss'
Camden had splendid chance to go the
limit with JASPER until Roy Steele was taken
i'll. The break in the team play was more
seriously interrupted when poln was placed
on the slde lines, camden WIN come back
IN the second halt OF the series ana Iren-
ton may cut hsure' TOO headlng' always
dangerous, IS apt 10 starr streak. DE Nert