1925 Glens Falls area— Tough times for pro basketball

High school basketball was increasing its fan base a century ago, but there was a finite amount of admission dollars to go around.

Manager Alfred Delsignore announced that the Fort Edward professional basketball team had suspended operations, due to an increase in rent at Harris Hall, The Post-Star reported on Jan. 14, 1925.

The rent increased at a time when high school basketball was siphoning off fans from the professional team.

The Post-Star suggested that increased admission fees at high school games would make the scholastic sport sustainable for years to come.

Meanwhile, a Glens Falls High School standout athlete was gaining notice at the college level.

“Harold Stewart, captain last year of the local High School varsity, last week played his first full game as a regular forward on the Clarkson Tech varsity. He is reported to have played extraordinarily good basketball,” The Post-Star reported on Jan. 16.

In other 1925 Glens Falls area news collected from historic newspapers of the region:

• Herbert J. Marriott of 13 ½ Lower Main Street in Hudson Falls won the first prize of $3 — the equivalent of $53.44 in 2024 dollars — in the Glens Falls Times “Make-Your-Own” crossword puzzle design contest, the Times reported.
• Mary Stewart and Andrew Whitmore won season total high scores in their respective categories in the Finch, Pruyn Recreation Committee card-playing league.

Stewart had a score of 802 and Whitmore 767.

After the awards ceremony, Art Hubert’s Black and White Orchestra performed music for dancing, The Post-Star reported on Jan. 3.

• “’Jack Caughey, son of the Rev. Dr. John Lynn Caughey of this city, who has been managing editor of The Harvard Crimson, a daily newspaper published by the students of Harvard College, was last night elected president of the Harvard Crimson Corporation,” the Glens Falls Times reported on Jan. 14.
• “Peter the Great,” a highly intelligent German shepherd police dog famous as “the wonder dog of the screen,” had the lead role in the movie “The Silent Accuser,” opening Jan. 18 at The Rialto Theater on Warren Street, the Glens Falls Times reported on Jan. 15.

“Intrigue, mystery, action and romance run riot in this picture.”

• “Professor Hall has recently installed a new pencil sharpener at the (Fort Ann) High School,” the Glens Falls Times reported on Jan. 16.
• Glens Falls High School defeated Glens Falls Academy 19–15 in basketball, The Post-Star reported on Jan. 14.