The Washington herald., 1921-02-20
STRONG FINlSHBY
BROOKLAND FIVE |
HUMBLE TIGERS
Lynch's Foul Shooting
Helps Shatter Dope in
Fast Battle
BY n. N. BELGEsEN,


Little by little the snowflake fan
and in the same manner. little by
little, Catholic University's basket
ball, ouint last night defeated
Princeton University by a % 10 ~
score in the Brookl&nders. gym.
nAsium. The Catholics came froD,
behind in the final period and aided
by the clever foul shooting Of Lynch
stopped the Tigers after Il appeared.
judging by first period form, that
they were outclsssed and had little
chance TO do more than, hold their
Northern opponents 20 q Close score.
Princeton entered the game with
a. slight edge over the Catholics.
The Tigers had defeated Dartmouth.
which team had defeated Cornell.
who had won from Pennsylvania.
And the Quaker had won from
the Brooklxn6erS by a two-point
margin. In this roundabout way
cage fsnS concluded that the Tigers
should win" And during the first
half or last nights battle it sp-
peared that-for once the dope would
stand up.
.. c. U. First 90 Seorr.
The Brooklsnders started Of in
the lead, Lynch caEinE a foul goal
in the hrst minute Of play and re-
peatinE his enoLt three minutes
later. At this point LeGendrs. a
brother Of Bob LsGendre, George
towns famous runner. counted
Princetons FIRST score csginE the
ball from side court 70 even the
game.
Five minutes passed and neither
side was able TO score from the floor
but during this time Lynch put the
Catholics ahead by caging two shotsl
from the foul circle.
with twelve minutes OF the first
half gone Princeton tied the score
when JefTeries Gagged q long arch
shot and a few seconds later went
into the lead for the first time in
the game LeGendre connected wit
a marker from the l5-ysro line. .
Leading by a single point the J
gers opened up and before the hs
ended LeGendre had Gagged two he
goals and as many shots from a
I foul line while the Brooklsnder,
/ we're able TO ring Up only two so-
Z ditional points, both Of thcm free.
I losses by Lynch. The period ended
/ IL to with the Tigers in the lead
and it appeared at this time a.
[ though the Sortherners were just
I getting started.
During this FIRST half Princeton
had Gagged four held goals, while
I the local colleEiGns were sucbessfUl
/ in only one attempt at the basket
/ from the floor. However. Lynch .
clever foul she Hing. the shoounG
by the way which eventually won
4 the game for the Catholics, kept
/ them in the running
DIckenson, the mammoth TlEer
center, opened the second hall 10y
| dribblinE half the length Of the
/ floor and csging the leather in the
| first 80 seconds OF play.
Lynch here dropped 8 long arch
shot through the net and in q few
seconds brought his teams total
! closer to that Of the EorthCrncrs 10y
caEIng two shots from the 'oul
circle
With twelve minutes u play
Fasce got the field goal that put the
/ Catholics in the lead for the sec
ond time, this time not 10 be
headed.
Fasce's basket wa the forerun-
ner OF a series OF successful shots
! that put the Brooklanders s point
in the van.
From this point on tho Brooklsnd-
. ers played the game safe merely
/ sparring for time, the entire team
playing in the back court all the
time.
Princeton and the Catholics each
got another field goal and each
Gagged two tosses from the fifteen
. yard line. but Il was evident that
the Brooklsnders' sbUrt had taken
the heart out Of their opponents and
when the game ended AZ . 10 d
the local colleEianS stiu had their
hsrd-earned siX-point lead
The game was undoubtedly one OF
the fastest that has been staged on
any local floor this season. Lynch
clever shooting Of foul shots Cou-
lied with his teams fivc-msn de-
tense was too mich Tor the North
erners.
Tiger Captain StHrs.
Individually the Princeton Quinl
was probably superior TO the Catho-
lies, but collectively they could not
4 cope with Coach Rioe's waiting style
Of attack and hve-msn back de-
fense.
, In Capt. Opie and LcGendre the
visitors flashed two Of the ETea.ees
floor men seen around here for many
moons. Opie, who plays with
wire guard resembling a catcher
mask protecting his glasses, was
undoubtedly the cleverest man with
the ball on the =fiooT, and probably
is the fastest tosser who has show n
here this year. He handles The ball
so easily and is so fast that he
makes the rest Of his own team
and his opponents look slow by
comparison.
Lineup and summary.