Eastern League Opens Monday with Trenton Playing Camden

EASTERN LEAGUE OPENS MONDAY WITH TRENTON PLAYING CAMDEN; READING TAKES ON PHILADELPHIA By Edward F. Connelly. Trenton will help to “blow open” the reorganized Eastern League Monday night when the Bengals meet the Skeeters on the Camden Armory floor. On the same evening the Reading Club will oppose the Quaker City team on the Philadelphia floor. The Camden game was originally scheduled for November 11 but the date was moved forward when it was found that the Armory would not be available Armistice night. Camden has made great preparations for the opening night and the team has been practicing for several weeks. At least those members who hail from down Camden way. The others have been playing in the Metro League and are in good shape. It is expected that the Skeeters will line up with “Soup” Campbell and Scrone, forwards; Grimsted, center, with Grieb and Neil Deighnan guards. Eddie Brandt and George Boone will be the extra men. Kerr and Richie Deighnan have gone to Ohio and will not play in the Eastern loop this Winter. Captain Teddy Kearns is having difficulty in lining up the men he wants for the team but promises a championship five by the middle of the month. In the opening game Saunders will pair with the floor leader on the forward line with Meehan jumping center and Dick Smythe, partnered with Tom Barlow, in the backcourt. “Lefty” Colendar will likely be the extra man. This combination, however, is but a temporary one but Kearns at this time is unable to announce his permanent lineup. However he feels that the Trenton boys will be able to give Camden a hard battle this Monday and Pottsville here next Friday and then look out for the Bengals. The decision to play the side-line game will be given a test in the league games next week. The court in the Camden Armory has been shifted and the baskets will be located on the east and west ends of the playing space. An “open court” will be used and but one man will shoot the fouls as was the rule back in the days when Harry Hough, Suils Sears and Fogarty used to toss them in with regularity. The collegiate regulations will be followed and it will be interesting to watch the way in which the cage veterans adopt themselves to the new order of things. The game is on the table and a week’s play will develop the question as to whether the new order will replace the old or whether the cage game will again come into its own in the Eastern League. The fans will decide.