Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-14
MORSE TEAM WILL
VISIT AUGUSTA
FRIDAY EVENING

Although the fact is not generally
admitted by basketball fans in this
city the Cony hoop team faces one
of the hardest, if not the hardest,
game on its slate Friday night when
Morse invades the Capital City for
a game. The visitors, always con-
fident and doubly so this year with
four straight wins to their credit
along with hard game with the
highly touted Bath A. c., look upon
the Cony game merely as a stepping
stone to the Auburn game a week
lateer.
The Morse offensive Is the simplest
thing in the world. The visitors
simpl. put five fast ball handlers on
the floor and trust to luck. The way
to stop them is to have five men
just as fast as they are ready to step
into the breach and stop them. Whe-
Their or not Cony is fast enough to
hold the seaporters to the short end
of the score is a question that can
not be answered until the final whis-
tie Friday.
Speaking frankly the Cony team
has everything that Morse has eX-
cept size. Last year when Morse
played in this city and had been sent
home on the short end of a decisive
score Coach Conne'1nn of the Cony
team remarked that the same Morse
teaail would be dangerous one
next year and the scores this year
have only served to prove the truth
of his statements. The Morse team
of last year has developed into one
of the fastest aggregations that has
stepped out of the seaport since the
days of the much feared Bill Per-
llinS and they are a typical Morse
team. The Morse team is a colorful
team, taking particular pains to de-
velop a good board man who man.
ages to be the high scorer of the
evening and the fast tricky Mr.. Bon
ney of the Morse team this year
seems to be the man delegated for
that duty. A team of individual per-
formers, banked by one of the swift
est passing games in high school cir
cles in the state seems to make them
an attraction wherever they go. Cony
will have to work to stop the agrees
Sive rushes of fast Morse team.
The Cony team this year is fast,
handles the ball well. shows remark
able finish as far as handling the ball
is concerned and displays occasional
ifs $ of the best long range shoot
ing ever seen on city hall floor. Time
and again the crowds have been
thrilled by the uncanny ability OF
Babe Lapidus and his teammates
when it came to dropping the ball
through from the center of the floor
and the true lover of basketball has
found pleasure in seeing IT, Cony
team step on the floor and bewilder
an opponent by fake passing, accur-
ate dribbling and working the Cor
nerS. all sure marks of a team that
really understands the game. But
there is one handicap that s shown
itself in the Cony ranks and that is
the lack of size. TIL big ones aren't
fast and the fast ones aren't big SO
| the coach has the choice of putting
small fast team or big slow
team on the floor and takes the for
mer course.
Whether CT not the floor work of
the Cony team is enough superior to
overcome the lack of size is q matter
in which everyone is entitled to his
! own opinion. The game to row
, night should be the hardest of the
year for the Bed and White and If
! the Cony team wins it will mean
! that the local school had enough cold
| science to offset an aggressive
! speedy five man attack by team
that was confident even to the point
! of cockiness. The fans this year
/ have confidence in the Cony team
! and everyone who misses the game
| Friday night will miss one of the
| best games of the season.
A girls game will also be played.
| There will be dance after the game.
! Tickets may be obtained at Partridge
/ drug store and at the hall before the
| contest.