New Britain herald., 1925-02-10
CELT|CS BOW TO BOYS CLUB FIVE
Locals Give Passing Exhibit.
 Reserves Bury Trade School

The highly-heralded Celtic A. c. of Springfield, Mass, went down with hardly a perceptible struggle before the Boys club quintet on the local floor, the final tally of 49-24 not giving even an indiaction of the measure of superiority held over the visitors by the club five. After the first few minutes the outcome was never in doubt, while the third quarter was a bnrlesaue as far as anything but passing went, as the locals passed the ball down under the basket and then passed it right out again instead of shooting. The Reserves had just as easy time In the preliminary encounter, dispos- ing of the state trade school to the tune of 4s-lS.
 The Big Game
 The celtics put up valiant de- fense in the first few minutes of play and held the locals scoreless for that length of time, but only for that length of time. Then Luke, An derson and Kerelejza began popping the ball in with accustomed regular ity and to such good effect that at the end of the first half the Boys club was in front by 309. The visi- i tors points were due almost wholly to their center. Fitzpatrick, who put up a great game but was not backed up we'll enough. The third quarter found the locals so far ahead that they disdained the basket and contented themselves with flashing an array of snappy passes which left the Celtics almost completely buffaloed. The Spring field five put up a five-man defense and the Boys club passed through and then, just for fun, passed out and in again. Men left clear under the basket passed instead of making the easy sucker shots open to them The Celtics kept their heads in spite of these tactics and frequently ob' tains the ball, which Fitzpatrick
 would dribblc down the floor ant pass to Springer for score. Then
 to show they could do it If they
 wanted tho locals would uncover series of short, snappy passes, Luxe
 would be under the basket, and th'
 Bows club would have two points
 to equalize those made by the Gel
 tics.
 In the last period the homo team
 cut loose again, but they had .dlf
 ficulty in getting back on req basketball basis and missed man. tries before they finally got unde
 way Nyborg showed some par ) ticularly adept dribbling in thl quarter, tearing through the oppos ing defense and then snapping tn , ball to a forward for basket was only matter of what the ac,ua totals would be, and the whist s blew when they were 49 to 2l.
 Captain Mickey Luke had his big
 sest night of the season. He was a
 over the floor, dribbod around an
 through the visitors with precision ! and dropped in IS field goals, addln { a pair from the foul line for goo x luck. Peter kerelejza got six irol s the floor, while Ray Anderson afoe - getting four in tho first half, contcn' l ed himself with feeding his charge
 and boIstering the dcfenso.' Arbur , Nvborg. and Gotowala compIetel i disconcerted every attempt ot tf , Celtics to run up score.
 , Fitzpatrick shone for the visitor 5 but the pace was too swift and ]
 was forced to retire in the la ? period. Springer showed nice e' Ss and dropped in five field goals O the last half Berry was held SCOT $ less during the entire encounter.
 The SCore.-~