The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23
Interstate Players Must Always Appear Basketball League Takes Action Against Unreliable Stars Brooklyn Replaces Jersey City--Ansonia Five
 Here Tonight to Play Ribbons

1 The Blue Ribbons will have a, chance l to gain In the Interstate league race when they tackle the Ansonia bask ct I5alI five tonight at Colonial hall. The ArsCnia lineup will include Norman land WassueT. forwards; Stretch Har-
 vey, ceuterf Fuller and Chief Muller,
 guards. This team is in second place land the Ribbons must extend them selves to win. Manager Ileavy will | have Ashnead, the former Cornell
 star. to alternate with Stewart at guard.
 Secretary John J. o'Brien of the
 league sends the following report; l ''Passaic, continuing on it's losing Istreak dropped three games during the past week tJ Jersey City, Pater-
 son and Ansouia. aud as result is , now relH@ated to a. tie for fourth posi- l ton. After winning five straight games earlier in the race and amass- i ing a1 apparently safe lead, Passaic 1 has practically gOnG to pieces and ! thrown what chance ir had for landing first half houors, by dropping five games i1 a. TOW. There is still a slim chance that the wonderful Conbina- l tin that so easily vanQuished all Op- ] position a few weeks ago may pull it. 1 self together ana once more gain the i top rUr@ but at this late stage 1t ] hardly looks possible,
 Jersey City has taken the lead as q. ] result of winning two of its games l Wallum's crew broke even with i Bridgeport and took one from Pas
 saiC Ans0nia is close on the leaders 1 heels, winning it's only same last week ! against Passaic, while Paterson also took enc from the same team. This i week will decide whether Ansonia is | to be counted on as a contender or : not. The WTightlets have two hard games with Bridgeport, its historic i enemy, and one with Brooklyn. j At the meeting of the league held ! Sunday at the Hotel NcAIpin, Man 1 a,ger Harry WaUum announced that 1t was impossible to finish the half in ] Jersey City because of trouble over i dates and that he had succeeded in ! disposing of the franchise to Garry | SchmeeIE. manager of the Van & ! Schenck team in Brooklyn, one of the ! most popular independent clubs in the i count try, who wlu continue with prac- ] tically the same players and standing 1 and start activity in Brooklyn on Sun i day afternoon December 23. The l league ratified this chanae after which Manager ScbmeeIk announced i that his lineup would be Leonard, i BecEman, Dreyfus, Schmeelk, Fyfe, 1 AIeehau and DGebacIz.
 1 "T'he most important legislation de- ! cided st the league meeting was that | on and after the start of the second l half which begins the week of Jan. ! ,, all league players participating in 1 Interstate League games will guaran- 1 tee their appearance at all times, or ] else provision will be made for their 1 being dropped from the roster of the ! various clubs. The demand for high 1 class basketball stars has been so keen | this year that the three major leagues
 are ustne several players in each as sociatiOu who are under contract to | both the other leagues This has re
 suited disastr0usly to the detriment of 1 the sport and the discomfort of the
 ] patrons, and in order to properly. pro-
 mote the welfare of the game, the
 Interstate League has taken radical steps to prevent Q recurrence of the
 evils which have been evident so far
 this season.