15 January 1920

**Syracuse Herald**- Beechnut Five Beaten In Hard Fought Battle

All-Syracuse Wins, 20 To 17- Collegiate Rules Save Game

The unbroken string of victories of the All-Syracuse basketball team
remains intact, the local athletes having added another scalp to their belts
Wednesday night when they took the Beechnuts of Canajoharie into camp by a
score of 20 to 17. But it was the collegiate rules rather than superior skill
that saved the day for the Syracusans. The visiting team scored seven field
goals while Syracuse was able to count only five. But the visiting team
resorted to the discontinuous dribble, a foul in collegiate rules but a
legitimate play in the professional leagues, and they were penalized by having
fouls called. As a result twenty-three fouls were called on the visitors and
twelve on the home team, a total of thirty-five for the game, an average of
almost one a minute. Crisp shot the fouls for Syracuse and tallied on ten of
his twenty-three shots. But the visitors stuck to the league idea of having the
man on whom a foul declared committed shoot the free trial. As a result Noll,
generally considered the best foul shot in the New York State League, took only
four shots. He tallied on two of them. Alberding took five shots and made a
single point. Dowd shot twice and Schuler once without scoring. Murnane,
against whom Tormey played a remarkably clean game, did not have a shot. [[Wilbur
Crisp]] was the star of the game. Twice when the visitors were in the lead he
came through with pretty field goals that started the All-Syracusans off with
renewed life. The first half was fast and furious ending with the score 6 to 5
favoring the visitors. The visitors made their points on field goals by Murnane
and Noll and Noll’s two foul points. Crisp tallied all of the Syracuse points
with a field goal and three fouls. Starting the second half three fouls in
rapid succession were called on the visitors and Crisp sent each try into the
net for a point. The visiting players sulked and pouted about the floor for the
next five minutes and when they woke up Crisp, Rafter and Schwarzer had scored
from the floor and the score was 14 to 6. The Beechnuts rallied gamely but the
lead was too big. Noll and Schwarzer had a merry time at center, bringing
football and even a few wrestling rules into play at times. Noll was threatened
with expulsion by the referee. The score follows:

ALL-SYRACUSE: Rafter, lf (2-0-4), Tormey, rf (0-0-0), Schwarzer, c,
(1-0-2), Crisp, lg (2-10-14), Casey, rg (0-0-0) TOTALS (5-10-20). BEECHNUT
FIVE: Alberdine, lf (0-2-2), Schuler, rf (3-0-6), Nolls, c (2-1-5), Murnane, lg
(1-0-2), Dowd, rg (1-0-2) TOTALS (7-3-17).

Score at halftime- Beechnut five 6, All-Syracuse 5. Refree- Steinberg. Timer-
Dorsey. Scorer- Nolan. Time of halves- 20 minutes.

**Syracuse Post Standard**- Crisp’s Five Triumphs Over Beechnut
Basketeers

All-Syracuse Quintet Wins Stormy Battle; Beechnut Five Defeated, 20 To
17, In Thrilling Court Struggle; Visitors Lead First; Invaders Hold Supremacy
In Opening Session

In one of the most sensational basketball battles ever witnessed on a
local court the All-Syracuse quintet last night won a 20 to 17 victory over the
formidable Beechnut five of Canajoharie on the State Armory floor. A crowd of
1,600 spectators, who witnessed the hotly waged struggle, was kept at high
tension throughout, the final result remaining in doubt until the last moment
of play. During the opening period the opposing players strove grimly for
supremacy, both fives playing a close guarding game. When the whistle for half
time sounded the Beechnut aggregation had obtained a scant 8 to 6 lead. With
Syracuse cohorts wildly cheering for the locals to “come back,” Captain Tormey
led his teammates into the fray in the second period determined to wrest
victory from the leaders. Manager Wilbur Crisp, the star left guard of the
local five, proved the hero of the hour, when he “pulled the game out of the
fire” with his field basket and foul shooting early in the final stanza. The
Syracusans never relinquished the advantage thus gained and from that point to
the close of the contest led their opponents by a tight margin. The invaders,
however, constantly threatened and the battle was nip and tuck to the final
whistle. Besides Crisp, Schwarzer and Rafter were in the limelight for
All-Syracuse. The individual battle between Schwarzer and Nolls, the crack
pivot of the visiting team, was one of the features of the game. In this the
Syracusans had a shade of the better of the argument. Schuler, the flashy left
forward of the Beechnut aggregation and well-known state league star, was a
constant menace, and his three field baskets in the final period all but turned
the tide in favor of the invaders. On Saturday night the All-Syracuse team will
meet the fast Oneida Community, Ltd., quintet, and another stern test for
Manager Crisp’s charges is expected. The summary:

ALL-SYRACUSE: Rafter, lf (2-0-4), Tormey, rf (0-0-0), Schwarzer, c,
(1-0-2), Crisp, lg (2-10-14), Casey, rg (0-0-0) TOTALS (5-10-20). BEECHNUT
FIVE: Alberdine, lf (0-2-2), Schuler, rf (3-0-6), Nolls, c (2-1-5), Murnane, lg
(1-0-2), Dowd, rg (1-0-2) TOTALS (7-3-17).