The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-06
RIBBONS OUT
 FOR REVENGE
Journey 10 AnsOnia Saturday For Second Game-Other
 Basketball News.

Ansontans today made their team a 10 to s favorlte in the champion ship series with the Blue Ribbons. l At those odds. however, the An souians will have no trouble to find l BridEeporters to cover them on Satur- ! day night when the second game of ! the series will be played at An sonia. Although the visitors won the i initial game on Tuesday here. the | Ribbons put ID a stubborn opposition l and with a kuowledge of the tactics of the Ausonians they should give ar even better account Of themselves i Saturday.
 Ansouta will turn out in full force to witness the game, which will be the biggest athletic event of the sea son there. Their team put up a, won derfuI contest and victory was de- served That the two qutntets are evenly matched is a fact with which basketball fans hereabouts are ac- quaInted but with all it's players in trim and firmly determined to even matters, a story entirely different to that of Tuesday is expected to be written on Saturday.
 The Nationals of New York. who play here on next date have booked a game with the Passiac team for Saturday night. The Passiacs, by the way, are anxious to book a game with the Blue Ribbons in rhis ciCv but a- Manager Leavy has flIed every date for the rest of the season such d game is an impossibiEty-
 While the crowd that attended Tuesdays game did not lake kindly to the refereeing of Ward Brennan, that official will in all probability of fciate at the next Ribbon-Ansonia game here on Tuesday, March IS. There ha4 been much talk of late about ara ginE a. series be tween the Eectors of the Boys Club and the Y. NJ. C. A. team, but 50 far nothing has come Of it. Both these teams are claiming the Amateur Championship of the city and a series between the two would no doubt prove interest ing.
 If this series should be arranged ] it would probably be the best anna teur series ever staged here as both 1 boast of strong Hneups. The teams are about evenly matched.
 EImore Ripley, the guard for the 1 Ribbons team, showed the strain of 1 being in a Championship series Tues l day and, although he tried hard, he was over anxious and Manager Leavy ] had to send Jimmy Clinton in to take | his place in the second half Yesterdays play in the Recreation ] League resulted in the Lincoln Girls 1 team defeating the Barnurn school i girls team by the score of 25 to '. 1 This is the first game played in the 1 girls league. and it proved fast and i interesting throughout. The IineuDs 1 follow: Jincoln-NEisses Corrigan, If. {: 1 Byrnes, If; Schoenbeyer, C.; Hafrer. rg.; Lynch. Ig.; Sherman, sub. [ Barnunl-Misses Scuny. If; Spen- | cer, If; Van Orwer. C.; Gurdon. 1-s.; F{erschkovitz, Jg.; Lyon, sub, and ! Minister If.
 l Johnny BecEnau, also substituted ! for the Ribbons in the last few min
 utes of play and for the short time he was in the affair he gave a. good
 account of himself.
 Dehnert. the guard of the Ansonia ! team. is 8 player who will bear watching. Dutch" as he is known, i Is only 8 kid, but he certainly has the rnakings of fine basketball player.
 Barney Sedran was wishing that 1 Leo Malone, the lanky center of the ! Ansonia team, never started playing basketball as every time he tried to 1 pass the ball Malone and his big
 arms get in the way.
 Orient Heights. Mass, and the Ho!- yoke teams will meet in an innporta nt
 game, that is being extensively ad- vertised in Boston. The contest will l! be brought about in the Hub
 Ham Kerr is playing an unusual 1y steady game on the Florida links. | The Greenwich star recently went around the No. 1 course, which is the
 championship course, at Bellair al 73. Kerr ought to maze some of the
 boys in this section step lively this ! summer.
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