The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-10
B.H.S. SHOULD k DROP H0LYOKE
Latter Crabs Out of Title Clash.
 Feldman Cause.

A more unsportsmanHke crowd of basketball players than those who constitute the Hclyoke team has never visited Bridgeport and the hope is that none ever will in the fu- ture. For a team to make arrange ments for a championship game, stir the focal comntittee to do Its utmost to boost the clash and attract some 2,00o enthusiastic fans, and then "squeel" its way out of the contes. is far from the ideals to which in ter scholastic basketball is dedicated and the Bridgeport High School Quin- tet will be perfectly justified in breaking off all future athletic rela- uonS with the Holyokers.
 The two were schedueI to engage in the second game of the season Saturday at Colonial Hall. Some two thousand persons wandered there to attend the contest. However, some thing did not suit an individual CaptaN Feldman of the Holyoke team. Feldman had been suspended because of having played with a pro- fessional quintet. But F>eldman was not sportsman enough to accept this verdict. He apparently entertained the idea that it Is impossible for the Holyoke team to play basketball without him. As a matter of fact such men as F'eldman should be bar red forverer from playing baske tbal1 If the accusations made against him by his own coach are true-and there is no reason to believe the contrary
 The team was tardy in reaching Bridgeport, anyway. Then at the ipI
 gument developed among the players and the latter threatened to disband Their coach, however, held them to- gether. But when time was called Feldman was instructed by his coach to remain out of the game. Thishe re- fused to do, although a player named Graves was substituted. This did not suit Feldman, so he talked his play CTS into refusing to go through with the game.
 Perhaps, after all, Holyoke really is a one-man basketball team Per haps, after all, Feldman really is czar. If he Is, the Holyoke team is welcome to the service of such a cap- tain. When a team won't listen to its own coach, a chap who would give 1t the better of the argument were he even biased. it's a pretty bad state of affairs. Anyway, the coach put a close to the argument by declaring the game forfeited.
 Some more argument and it was finally decided to stage an exhibition game, so that the big crowd on hand would not be disappointed. And Feldman was allowed to play. But he was far from being the shining light of the game. There is no Ques- ton about his being a crackerjack, but he isn't so powerful that a team is Justified in willingly gotng back or it's word and disappointing 2,0O0 peo- pie.
 As 1t were, the Bridgeport team lost the exhibition game by the score of 35 to 23, but this matters little for when the interscholastic basket ball | records are compiled at the close of the season it will be shown that the B. H. s. evened matters with the Holyokers because of a game the lat ter forfeited. Even with F'eldman in the lineup, the HoIyokes failed to | show anything extraordinary. The game was thrilling and interesting. only because of the strenuous oppos;- ton put up by the local team.
 As a matter of fact the writer be- | 1ieveS that the Holyoke team never : had any serious intention of going through with the game with Bridge port, and that 1t repented ever hav- | ing consented to a return match. ] This claim of the Bridgeport High school followers is borne out by the ! fact that the Holyokers did not do a single days work in preparation for | the local contest.
 The big game in Connecticut this | week will be played at Seaside Pal k next Sunday when the Bridgeport l Swedes tackle the Thistles. The gauna [ will be supervised by the Connecticu,
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