Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-18
WORLDS RECORD
FLOR SOUTHERN H. S.
Basketball Team Plays Entire
Game Against Northeast
j. Without a Foul Penalty
SWIMMING SEASON STARTS
BY PAUL PREP

-COUTH PHILADELPHIA HIGH
y @SSCHOOL made basketball history in
PITS gymnasium at Broad and Jackson
nstreets yesterday afternoon. when it de-
feated Northeast High in ma Inter-
scholastic League game. 20 to 80. The
team made a worlds record when it
went;through the entire contest without
n having either a personal or technical
y forl called on any of its players.
lhe downtowners, who won the In
terSCholastic League title last week, also
I, established a record for the season. The
.sRed and Black played perfect basket
ball, and tailed the largest number
OF points complied by school quintet IN
ms vicinity during the 10lc-1022 sea-
ls0n.
.a, There may have been n team which
!. has gone through game without hav-
Ing committed a foul, but the record
DOCKS fail to prove it. A search
v through these archives shows that a
' professional school or college team never
mas been able to go through forty min
!, ntes OF play without having at least six
|. FOULS called by the referee.
Reds ShCrr deserves the highest
'rcredIt in Southern's victory. The lanky
'S|enter. who heretofore had been con-
tent to play cautious game, but on
: The gas and ran wild through the Red
land Black Of Eighth street and Lehigh
avenue. He dropped ten field goals into
me net for his team. Captain Eddie
1oldblatt, beside making seven out Of
q rYht foul tosses count. scored nine goals
Il ron the field. as did Koch.
4 Ihe downtowners' reserve five also
. nad ena easy time. The team walloped
, me Northeast second team, 10 to s.
me score at the end of the first half
rS q was y to q. Only four fouls were
/, called on Southern in this battle. which
!. would nave been record had not the
y Ing. ', "0"''' wv ''''"
Il IT. Luke's Close Win
NJ, Iuke's School. through the
brilliant playing of Martinez in the
cScohd half. managed to beat Friends
n ,Lthtral In their basketball game on the
b nntter hoor. Yesterday afternoon, 26 to
~, Marty seemed right at home and
"rnered twenty points for his team.
The little, dark haired forward
pulled one over on the Quakers in
me first half. Every time he got pos
session of the ball he tossed it in the
srncral direction of the basket. None
=, thGse shots made goal or anything
IKE that, but just the same they fooled
sne @ Blue and Gray. The first half ended
hnth hm'th the score Ii to II in favor OF the
when the second period opened, no
Snee paid any attention to Martinez
Jus was just as had been planned by
,,np ~; Luke quintet, and the swift
Inward shot up the floor. A pass from
,iLlm9erlake scored the first goal. Before
t he Bue and Gray awoke to the fact
ast Martinez was out to score he had
''Ipped another into the net.
from then on the game was close.
tbst ~, Luke's would 60 into the lead,
@ @,aeh Friends Central would set the
S~t te' 1t was nip and tuck through
martinez went down the floor three
thaes, thes, and on each occasion dropped
ds oSl into the net. He showed won
sSanai hoor work and daxzled with his
'usg%Sting ability.
Inc little forward of st. Luke's also
t'treu at the foul line. He stepped
me line on fourteen different occa
t0n. tom and dropped the bali into the net
,lnl!ears, substitute center, played a
'' NJ game from the Aeor for