The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-14

Washington Adherents VIII Go
to New York to Give Five
Good Start

Headed by Bucky Harris, q
group of sports writers and
boosters Of the Washington Palace
Club, Of the American Professional
Basketball League, viii leave
Union Station tomorrow afternoon
at / o'clock tor New York to see
Capital court stars open their
season against Brooklyn.
Arriving in New York at 6:1O
o'clock, the members Of the bas-
ketbaIl party win be hustled into
taxicabs for q trip to The Tavern
for dinner. The New York guests
viii include Arthur Bugs" Baer,
Harry HeiImanI, Detroit outfield-
er. who led the American League
ia hitting during the past season
and now heac Of the Brooklyn
team Of the American Basketball
League; Joseph e. Carr, Column
bus, Ohio, organizer and president
bf the circuit: Babe Ruth and
Paul BerIenbach, light heavy
weight champion.
In the washington party VIII be
tanley Harris, Donald Woodward,
William, Baum, Frank Morse. Leon.
I'd Hall. Cy Macdonald. Britton
Illo. H. Z. Rust. Avery Marks.
lenri De Sebour. Louis 4. Daugh.
Kirk Miller, and Roddy Thomas.
Washington Times; Denman Thomp-
q and John 3. Keller, Evening
Ehr; Norman w. Baxter and Shirley
Hvich, washington Post; Gene
Rssler and Jack p. Espeys Daily
Nws: william T. CoyIe and Frank
6tlivan. washington Herald, and
Pal Mention, Baltimore Sun, and
wsely known here as q basketball
oneial.
liter the game in Brooklyn,
WI1ra the members win Be the
gu&ts OF the two clubs, they win
rettn 60 The Tavern for supper.
IND return trip 70 Washington
win Be made ID 5 COMPARTMENT
car, arriving here at Sis Men
day morning.
Manager Lou suearzaan and MS
colIecti9 OF basket crashers win
be In he big town twenty-fonr
hours shead OF their Washington
cheerers4 They broke camp today
At the Manor Golf and Country
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training uader the direction OF Mike
with Martin acting as secretary.
Manager Lou Sugarman and the
squad Of basket crashers left for
New York. They win register at
the AIamac Hotel. the New York
headquarters. OF the Washington
baseball team
The players include George Hag-
gerty. Rody eponey, Reds Conaty.
Bob Grody, Ray Kennedy and Cur
ley Christian. Though no announce.
ment has been made Is TO the
starting nneups It Is almost safe
bet that Cooney and Conaty viii
pair of at forward, ,Haggerty, GEN.
ter, with the husky Grody and
Kennedy in the backfieId.
The team Is tit for "a long and
gruelIing season in sport where
Il takes atregular herman to shake
eff the hard knocks and bumps.
These boys are tough and they
are in condition. to run any team
ragged for forty minutes, said Mar
tin, who is proud OF his work.
Mike made a big hit with the court
athletics. He didn't ask them to
do anything that he didn't do In
the way Of road work. They COW
cred miles and miles Of territory in
the vicinity Of the Manor Club
during their ten.day stay.
To add to their outdoor work,
they scIimmaged every night
this week against the best Of the
District teams. The pros did not
Garry" their opponents. They
set the pace and tried to force
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with them without attempting
many shots. It was q case Of
working the ball up and down
tho floor with either one or the
other player getting I'm q position
Tor . shot at the basket and then
passing 1t TO = mate.
The best workout the pros had
was with the champion Central
High five in the Mount Pleasant
gym last night. The Centralites
and Palace players are 'buddies,"
a. they met several times last
year.
The CentraIites, with a months
training under their Blue and
White Jerseys matched step for
step with the big leaguers In forty
minutes Of real basketball.
When halt was called, Reds"
Conaty, weaving floor worker Of
the Palace five said, This Central
team Is SO per cent stronger than
II was last season. These kids"
have plenty Of fight and know
their oats when It comes to block
ing and cutting. And that's what
counts IN this game" said the
Brooklyn Terror, as he was known
to the guards in the Metropolitan
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