Schley County GaArchives Photo Group.....New York Celtics At Ellaville 1938 1938
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Source:             The Ellaville Sun  Friday, January 14, 1938  No. 29
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INTEREST MOUNTS IN CELTIC GAME
World Champs Play Ellaville At 3 PM; Outstanding Card, Popular Prices To 
Attract Overflow Crowd
New York's Celtics, world's champions of basletball and the most accomplished 
artists in the history of the game, come here next Thursday afternoon to play 
an exhibition match with the Ellaville Athletic Club before an indicated 
capacity crowd.

Interest in the game--the most pretentious program ever planned here--mounted 
Thursday as merchants and business men had assured a Roman holiday flavor by 
agreeing to close shop for the contest.

The exhibition begins at 3 o'clock, but a scrappy preliminary featuring boys' 
clubs of Schley County High School of Ellaville and Buena Vista High School 
has been arranged.  The curtain-lifter starts at 2:30 o'clock.

Customers throughout this section hailed the Ellaville Athletic Association's 
decision to establish popular prices for the game.  Adult tickets, placed on 
sale yesterday afternoon, sell for 49 cents, while high school students and 
below will be admitted for 25 cents.

Rising enthusiasm of local fans and reports from nearby towns led promoters of 
the match to advise customers to come early as an overflowing crowd appears 
certain.

And that crowd will get a fine lesson in basketball.  The Celtics, often 
called the Magicians of the Hardwood, know how to demonstrate their mastery in 
an interesting fashion, however.  Passwork is their chief reliance and 
dazzling displays of their cleverness along this line hold major interest in 
their bag of tricks.  All members of the club are dead shots--the crowd cheers 
when they miss one!

With Davey Banks, the midget of the champs, showing the way, the New Yorkers 
enliven their performance with side-splitting.  Banks  likes to sit on the 
sidelines in a chair, receive a pass from a mate and flip in a field goal--
that sort of thing!  Or sometimes he sinks a basket for the opposing club.

Banks, Dutch Denhert and Pat Herlihy are real veterans of the outfit.  Big 
Denhert, originator of the pivot play, is rounding out his twenty first year 
with the champions.  Herlihy doesn't go in for the comedy acts but is a past 
master at the art of shooting and passing.  

Paul Birch, one time Duquesne University star, is playing his third season 
with the barnstormers and is upholding the Celtic standard.  Bob McDermott, 
Long Island University great, is appearing his second season and is a long-
range hoopman they say can't be guarded.

Rusty Sanders is another newcomer with the Celts.

Opposing the champions will be the spirited Ellavilles, recognized as one of 
the better independent clubs in this section.  They have held their own 
against the state's finest opposition this season--losing several decisions, 
but winning many stunning victories.  Theirs is a smooth combination 
possessing a fine degree of accomplishment in all departments.  They are not 
expected to stay in there with the champs.


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