12/29/29

Syracuse- All-America Boss Looking For Forward

Angling To Secure Conaty From Brooklyn At Session Tomorrow

Officials of the American Basket Ball League open a business session in Rochester tomorrow, and Harry Markowitz, part owner and business manager of the All-Americas, will be one of the busiest executives at the gathering. Markowitz’s chief interest lies in securing a new court performer for his Syracuse club. He has strings out for “Red” Conaty of the Brooklyn Visitation and last night was confident that he could persuade James O’Brien, the president of the loop, to allow the player to come here. For the youthful magnate is carrying around the opinion that one more veteran player will just about ‘make’ the All-America combination one of the most formidable in the league. He feels that Holman, Barry, Meehan and Sullivan can hold their own against any sort of competition but he well realized the team needs another forward to carry the load in there with Barry. Rumors have floated in the last few days that Brooklyn was preparing to sever relations with Conaty, but the cause is a mystery since the redhead rates high up in the list of scorers and is in splendid playing shape at the present time. The All-America band swings into Cleveland for a scuffle with the Rosenblums tonight and Monday and Tuesday are slated for appearances in Fort Wayne. Friday night they come home to renew hostilities with the Fort Wayne outfit and Markowitz is hopeful that Conaty will be in readiness to be dropped into that encounter.

12/30/29

Syracuse- Syracuse Pro Club Invades Fort Wayne

Plays Tonight And Tomorrow In Indiana City- Lose In Cleveland

Fort Wayne, IN, Dec 30- Syracuse’s pro basket ball team- the All-Americas- arrived here early this afternoon from Cleveland, OH, where they were defeated by the Rosenblums last night, 26 to 20, in a hard fought battle, and ‘Red’ Kearns, captain and spokesman for the visiting party, declared the club was in splendid condition and carried the confidence to beat the Fort Wayne band not only in tonight’s game by a decisive score but to repeat in tomorrow night’s performance and make a clean sweep of the series. Friday the same teams come together again in a battle in Syracuse. With Meehan out of the lineup in the Rosey contest, Tommy Allen took over the pivot post and turned in a splendid job, but loss of shooting skill at the 15-foot mark cost the Syracusans a victory. The All-Americas outscored the Clevelanders from the floor, 10 baskets to 8, but the Rosenblums caged 10 free throws while Syracuse did not tally a point via the full route. Holman was the leading basket shooter of the night dropping four from the floor through the netting. The score:

CLEVELAND: P. Barry, lf (3-0-6), Skurnick, rf (2-2-6), Lapchick, c (0-3-3), Husta, lg (2-1-5), Dehnert, rg (1-4-6) TOTALS (8-10-26). SYRACUSE: Holman, rg (4-0-8), M. Barry, lg (2-0-4), Allen, c (3-0-6), Sullivan, rf (0-0-0), Kearns, lf (1-0-2) TOTALS (10-0-20).

Referee- Salador. Time of halves- 20 minutes.

12/31/29

Syracuse- Wickhorst Or Shimek Due To Join All-America Outfit

Fight To Land Brooklyn Ace Proves Futile; Owners Markson And Markowitz Draw Promise Of Help; Solons Dodge Issue; Murphy Fails In War Against Visitations At Rochester Meeting

The fireworks expected to develop at the meeting of the American professional basket ball league magnates in Rochester yesterday failed to materialize and Owners Asher Markson and Harry Markowitz of the All-America franchise returned to Syracuse this morning without “Red” Conaty whom they expected to land off the Brooklyn Visitation roster. However, the Syracusans have been promised a man or two to be delivered in the next few days. Deciding that matters were running along smoothly in the circuit the solons took action on the New York Celtic proposition alone, agreeing to close up other business at a later date. By a heavy vote it was agreed to toss out the 10 games played by the New York team before they disbanded from the records, but the ruling failed to disturb the league leaders. Rochester draws a lucky break by the ruling, jumping into contending third place position with 10 victories and eight defeats. Cleveland has a two-game advantage over the Centrals with 12 wins against six defeats and Brooklyn slides into second with 11 triumphs ad seven setbacks. Each aggregation has six games more to play before the curtain rolls down on the first half of the race on Jan 15. The All-America owners waged a merry fight for Conaty’s services, but James J. O’Brien, president found the Visitation heads unwilling to let the crack forward go at this time, with a pennant in sight and Markson and Markowitz had to be satisfied with a promise that help would be forthcoming. When the pair realized that Conaty was slipping from their grasp they filed claim for the services for either Whitey Wickhorst at present a member of the Chicago Bruins and listed one the fastest men in professional basket ball or Frank Shimek, owned by the Fort Wayne outfit. Managers of the Chicago and Fort Wayne clubs appeared willing to let the players come into the Syracuse fold, but they explained the directors of their respective clubs must pass on the sale before the transactions could go through. In all probability one of the men will be on hand Friday night for the All-Americas’ game against Fort Wayne at the Armory. Johnny Murphy, boss of the Centrals took a licking in his fight to have the Brooklyn Visitations ousted from the league if they did not move to another court for their home games. Murphy put forth the argument that Prospect Hall where the Visitations entertain is unsuitable and that visiting players and officials were dissatisfied with the handling of the crowds. The moguls tabled the matter after a brief conference and Murphy was obliged to let matters rest for the time being. The All-Americas absorbed a bad beating in Fort Wayne last night, Davey Banks and Company garnering 32 points against 17 for the Syracusans. Nat Holman continued on his shooting rampage, caging four baskets but Glasco who was assigned the task of guarding Marty Barry made a good job of it and the flashy speedboy went scoreless for the night. The All-Americas are without the services of ‘Stretch’ Meehan and Phil Schiffer on the jaunt, Tommy Allen and Red Kearns holding down their berths. Another game with Fort Wayne is on tap for tonight. The score:

FORT WAYNE: Banks, lf (3-2-8), Saunders, rf (3-1-7) Chadwick, c (3-1-7) Kowniczyk, c (0-0-0), Shimek, (3-3-9), Glasco, rg (0-1-1) TOTALS (11-10-32). SYRACUSE: Holman, rg (4-0-8), Kearns lg (1-0-2), Allen, c (0-1-1), Sullivan, rf (2-2-6), Barry, lf (0-0-0) TOTALS (7-3-17).

Score at half time- Fort Wayne 12, Syracuse 8.

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From Skidding The Sport Field With Skid

Harry Markowitz and Asher Markson are resolved to improve the caliber of the Syracuse representative in the American Basket Ball League and they insist they will have a real team in the field in time for the second half of the league race in which all teams will again start on even terms. They have brought in many new faces in their efforts to rebuild and slowly but surely strength is being found.