Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-13

One of the cleanest basketball
quintets in the country Will appear
here next Wednesday night on the
Auditorium court. The team referred
to is the Passaic Independents who
will make their first appearance in
this part of the state since they won
laureis for themselves by remaining
undefeated for four years, against
the strong local High School indie
pendent warriors.
The Passaic team has gained a
reputation for being the cleanest
bunch of sports in the game today
for they have always acted in a
~gentlemanly manner both on and off
the pinewood court. No such scene
as disgraced the Amboy-Cel game
IN Wednesday night will occur when
the Passaic-Amboy high school
teams are the contestants. Such
happenings which took place the
other night do much to ruin profess
sional ball and It is also n of the
reasons why an amateur game is
more thrilling than one in which the
players look to the money part. The
rivalry at the schoolboy games is
also Of a different nature than that
at a professional contest. The game
next week will bear put these state
ments. The management of the
Perth Amboys is not booking the
Passaic Independents but the local
high school boys themselves.
Not much is needed to be said
about the ability of the upstate
champions for their past perform
ances speak for themselves. Never
in the history Of sports has there de-
veloped such a team which has liter
ally burned up the world with its
deeds as a sthe Passaic outfit. When
the present season closed the Passaic
team had won 11S games in a row.
The team which expects to carry
on the good work of the four-time
champions will appear here. The
men who will positively put in their
appearance will be Meyer krako-
witch, Milton Pashman, Sam Bitter
and Harry Herman, the nucleus of
the 1923-24 five.
mike Krakovitch is a member of
the all state team chosen by the
sporting editors Of the state. This
sixteen-year-old youngster is a fresh
man and one of the revelations of
the current basketball season. He is
noted as being the one who inspired
the sport writer's to name his field
goals "Hawkers" on account of their
being made from past the center of
the court and seemingly to fly. His
appearance alone should draw the
scholastic following for his advent
into the Passaic Hall of Fame
reads like a fairy tale. Krakovitch
recently returned from Bermuda
Another man who many of the
opponents of Passaic will long re-
member is Milton Pashman, who
took the place of Keasler during the
latter's illness ard accounted for
many a win. Pashman was the
fourth highest scorer on the Passaic
squad during the past year. His floor
work Is on the par with some of the
greatest professionals In the game
today. In the Passaic-Orange clash
at the Jersey City Armory in a state
semi-final the crack forward dropped
in five sensational double pointers In
eight minutes. Don Martin, Amboy's
best scholastic guard, will have quite
a task on his hands in guarding
"Milt" as he is known in Passaic.
Sam Bitter is one OF the best men
ever turned out at the Blue and
White institution on the banks Of
the Passaic river. He has had two
years service with the Wonders"
and in Passaic it is said that this
crack will captain the miracles next
season. Harry Herman. the sixth
man on this years quintet, will also
here with the visitors. Irving
Burg, captain of the Passaic high
school second team, will be the fifth
man. Robert Russell, considered by
the critics to be a second edition of
knothe, will be in utility role
for the visitors. Russell is a foul
shooter of no little ability as was at
-ested in a game in which he Gagged
.wenty-three out of twenty-six tries
md which ended 44.4s in hia teams