The Penn's Grove record., 1920-01-23
DUPONT Dyestuffs
Indoor Sports
Jackson Laboratory Wins Cham.
pionship for First Half. Bowl
ing League Starts End Lap

Before the largest crowd on record
the jackson Laboratory defeated the
Operating Department 26 u % for the
Basketball Championship for the first
half of the season on Tuesday evening
the goth. The large hall was packed
to the doors long before game time
and many were disappointed some be-
cause they couldn't get in to see the
game and others for other reasons.
The score was tied at the end of the
second half and an extra five minute
period was necessary to decide the
game. AS predicted by many, Hamlin
was the main factor for the Lab boys,
the big centre dropping fouls through
the net like a boy throwing stones in
the river, he just couldn't miss. On
the other hand, Operating was handi-
capped through lack of a man to
shoot fouls. In the first half alone
Operating had thirteen chances at foul
goals and scored but two points. In
spite OF the great work Jack Arthur
has done with the Operating Team in
this line of work he sat on the side
lines through it all and watched
chance after chance go by. In the
middle of the first half PLAN was
taken from the game on account of
injuries and it seemed certain that
Arthur would go in, but Robinson
who has been suffering from ore feet
as a result of his efforts a few weeks
back, and who is sadly off his regular
form in shooting at the basket, was
placed in centre. "Robie" played a
wonderful game on the floor, but
lacked enough confidence to take a
shot at the basket when he had the
chance. Fogg also played well but
missed two easy shots and showed
signs of weakening toward the end of
the game. Patteron, who attended to
the foul shooting for the Operators
could not keep up the fast pace set
by Hamlin and while he showed signs
of improvement in the second half, it
was too late. Joe played his usual
fashy game on the floor and scored
the Operators first field goal after
a fast run down the floor during which
he lost the ball and recovered it again
while lying fiat on the floor. Eddie
Hoffman and Manager Breidenbach
played we'll for the Operators, the for
mer shooting one field goal from the
middle of the floor. Breidenbach's
best shot was scored in the last few
minutes of the second half and made
the extra period necessary.
After all that has been said it is
probably hard to figure out how the
Lab boys really did win the game,
but it might be said right here that
they were just a little better. Diehl
and Falls met the Operators like a
stone wall and spoiled n chance af-
ter another, and the work of this pair
on Tuesday evening would place them
on a high standing in any league.
Diehl in particular showed up well
and played the same kind of a game
he usually does. He does lots and
says nothing. The fans naturally ap-
preciate a man of this type but often
fail to give him the credit he deserves.
Jock Mackenzie had the time of his
life and when it is figured that Jock
scored but one field goal, n must
consider that he vas up against
Eddie" Hoffman, n of the hardest
men in the league for anyone to score
on. Yeats played a fast floor game,
but, as we started out to say, Hamlin
was the whole works and personally
walked off with the old gonfalon and
hung it up in the Jackson Lab.