Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-20

DANNY McNICHOL'S University
- Of Pennsylvania freshman basket
ball team is running q close second to
the varsity quintet in successive VIC
tories this season. The yearings, in
Guiding their victory Of last Tuesday
nieht over West Catholic High School,
have nine triumphs to their credit, one
less than their older brethren, the var
sity quintet.
OF the nine games played only one
can be said TO have been Of the difficul.
variety and that was with the afore Z.
mentioned West Catholic High School,
team. The Burrs, as they are known,
had the first year men tied at %
shortly after the start of the second
half, but the weight Of the Red and
Blue youngsters stood them to good
advantage in the closing minutes. and
they won out. 32 to "a.
Philadelphia Textile, Peirce School,
Catholic High, Brown Prep. Reading
High School, Mahanoy City High, La
Sale Prep and Camden High are the
other Victims of the McNicholites. Cath =
olic High captured n one. point victor
over Southern. the FIRST half and
| champions Of the Public High School
League and then bowed to the ycarlings.
Reading High, with a veteran team that
last year won the high school cham :
! pionship at the Penn interscholastics.
was subdued, 80 to 20. on the I'retzeIs'
floor. Camden High School is CON
sidered one Of the best fivcs in this
section. and they fell, 20 70 o.
Tomor orro,o night the freshmen
ploy IN P0ttstoHn, meeting the
HHl School fire, ono OF the old
rivals Of Penn fresh quintet NeIf
met and the tolIoping Saturday
me hioh. scoring SrdrthmorC Prep
quintet ,rW come to Wctghtmd"
Hall.
Out Of n squad Of forty five players
Coach McNichol. captain Of the inter
collcsinte champions Of last season
selected eleven players including the
following to compose the squad Jimmy
Carmock. "Iiaps" FARLEY, Marshall
Payn, Bill KneassnI SIN, , onyX \,
"si" Berman, Bill Morris JacE
Parker. "Currie" Kohn, Johnny
Doyle and "liugs' McGraw. CurmocL
and Farley are the regular forwards,
Onvx. the guards.
Carmack, the captain Of the quintet
was raptain of the Atlantic City High
five last year. lie Is leading the year.
linRs in scoring this year BY virtue oi
his excellent work from the fifteen foo,
mark.
Where They Hail From
Farley was star center on the We
AyD
year. but McNlchol having Payn, the
former DE Witt Clinton star and cen
ter on the football team during the paSI
fall as tap-off man, switched Farley q
forward Kneass learned his basketball
nj Gushing Academy and West Phiin
delphia High, while Onyx, the lankI
guard, prcpped ut Swarthmore High
or the subs. Berman hnils from ID
witt Clinton. New York; Morris from
Reading, Parker from Trenton, kohE
from Bordentown. Doyle from Wes
Catholic and McGraw from Lafayette
Hioh. Buffalo.
Entries, FOR the second annual IN
tcrscholastic basketball tourney Il
Penn continue to pour in on Manage
Zimmerman. Forty four schools hav
entered thus far with the probabllit!
of the number reaching ifty by the tim
the tourney opens on February Is, II
Weightman Hall.
Passaic High Expected
Passaic High School. which recentl
issued a statement that other school
feared to meet their quintet, have beei
| invited to attend the tourney. Nego
? tiations are pending between III
Penn authorities and the Jersey school
but it Is expected that they will ente
the lists for the tourney that has NJ
ready attained significance all over tn
, East.
ST. Johns Prep. o. DdnrCrS,
Mass. yesterday afternoon tcired
that II could haze a team entered
to contest in the champion ships.
Altoona High School, an absentee