New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1927, Page 8

HSHSHYHL LSSHHHLLSD SISO SSDSL L. NATIONAL GUARDS EASILY DISPOS GUARDS RUN QUINTET FROM BROOKLYN | REMAINS THE SAME Nationals Show Sweet Form in Imposing Win OveriSOUfl] Church and St Mat Visiting Club—Browns Nice Passwork in First Half—Sloman, Rubenstein and Restelli High Scorers — Locals Have Great Team Work—Burritts Ancther team state with an imposing and & classy array talent, met its Wa ot the in the urday night. orites, more commonly kr Brownsville Big Five of tate armory The Brownsville Guards only in the fi that, the local club and won the game Every one of the visitc it was a clever s team used a; It took the the first half to solve ti of blocking and passing b by the opposing five, but v key was discovered and Britain team began to match with them, it became only a co how great New Dritain’s margin of vietory would be over the Braokly ites. Al Sloman and Restel for the home club and found their sco Rubenstein, who s ter with every game, tor In New Britain's got 16 points, Rubenstein stelll 10 but outside of scoring feat it was th fect team work of the kept the visitors digging dec deeper into the mire of the game progressed. Burris, far famed forw Brooklyn team were forced t to long distance shooting to get any points because Johnny £h n and “Butsy”” Sturm had them smothered on short shots. Sturm, playing his first full game in some time, rose to great heights on the floor and in the pass work. Lyman, center for the visitors, played a sweet game and all alone formed the only real threat New Britain had. It was his four ficld goals in the first half that k the New York team in the n though Restelli equalled with four field goa in frame. The entire visiti fast and every man a fi Thelr pass work was fast and py but it was unfortunate for t to be stacked up against a team made a resolution to win ¢ game from now to the end season. broke out hect First Hall Restelll and Sloman field goals in the first m half of play and Lyma pretty shots, tied the score Rubenstein broke the tie stelli and Sloman followed h two more baskets making the ¢ 10 to 4 in favor of the vis Restelll popped anothar shot through the net at 7:45 and Ru- benstein followed with a Sloman again broke throu fense of the Brownsviile make the count 15 to 4 Guards. Lyman, the v again got through the : team for a pretty goal but at 13 minutes, Sloman offset this shot with a pretty goal from the side of the court. At this point, with seven minutes to go, the visitors €ent a scare the local crew with a spirited rally, Homer, after a series of fast p: came through for a two-pointer., stein soon followed him with other. Lyman made his fourth b ket of the half on a long pop Wi safled cleanly through the curtains Homer again played the fast pa and dribble to get through for ar other basket making the count 17 to 14 still in favor of the Gu Ju before the crashed through with tI goal and at half tim 19 to 14 both at and m 1s, th field Second Half During the rest pe Britain team doped out play to be follo half. Rubenstein start onds after play was rosu pretty goal from the t a free try at th Then, at 2:20, Fpst for the visitors But, from Guards showed left the visito “Ruby” and this point Sheel FAMOUS ForQUALAT s T e | with a fleld go . FOR FIRST PLAC NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1927. 0SS AWAY WITH CHURCH STANDING ville Favorites Demonstrate | Victorious in Good Games Chy h Lt S Beat Hartford Team. S Imene pauiee South Cong. . Matthew irst Lutheran .. d a free try and him with a field 4 it with a free try unt 32 to 16. tors etarted a desperate nd Burris, Epstein and Burris red field goals. This only club work the core No change in basketball from the & the ue stand A. Saturday night, th gregational church keeping its half- ting the Trinity game lead by defe Methodists and § erans using a substl from the Center church. The pr a South church ¢ Matts' only benstein scored another Matthew's Lut came through with te prew to w Sheehan for New got into the arie and took a pretty pass for a d basket He was shoved as he and he added two more two. k broke the monotony with 1d goal and ree try, making | 45 to oman scored ! urris followed him Posnack was foul- from the com- Kilduff scored goal and Lyman fol- a pretty toss from Taylor and Reynolds remaining game ted them before, and the ams for their opponent South Cong. vs. Trinity M. E. outh church h time than was expected ir the Methodists and could only a seven point margin at o losers played with no su vailable and had a consta of disqualification by the foul route hanging over t me. Taylor scored | worked hard to keep the Sloman followed him May started the scoring with a fie Epstein got the 1 me, leaving the t at end 52 to 33 In favor )t the home club. The score: National Guards the center. into the try m of the g the last score Meth foul and soon had a | South church rall dribbled through for haskets, the halt 10, 5 13| Deming Hewett opened the seco 1! hat ging in a follo: 10 | Is found the ran |and Bell bezan to score, 2! every Methodist point with one §|the South church. The losers ke | up their i tman show in t but the winners finally pulled danger and had a saf end. $| Morey found the Methodist 6 | fense to his liking and had a 10 | night, although Jack Tobin 4 5| ping over the foul line __ishots. Bell and Wessels contribut hare to the scoring, while t 1 their activities 3 : a a good Rubenstein Taylor, Kil- | il Sturm, Posnack 2, Homer 4. | at half time—New Britain 19, | Was best for the Methodists Ere /il lonjftimery | ERLLICEAOR AN I8 can. | hard il the way. The Preliminary Game | South Configregational -Fld Fl Bl i R e 3 2 Morey, If .. Vessels, ¢ (Capt.) .. 3 dists got away on Fe -4 lead. and Mor cot d a F1. T | 18| 10 Favorites Fld. FL ont e lead at t i Brownsville Ttl. gre Lyman, to st whi It looked pretty Is in the first half ford t were cond half when the | , with six field goals and total of 19, was actor In New Brit- ey and Curtin of the b for visitors. ] The final stood at 38 to 27 at the end The score: Burritt | Fengler, rf ... | D. Hewett, 1t ...... 8 | P. Braddon, ¢ (Capt.) A. Hewett, rg . | Heinzman, 1g .. the points of o the game. Personal fouls—Bell Morey, May, Parker, T o | Hewett 2, Fengler 2, | A. Hewett, Heinman 2 foul—D. Hewett rey 3, M Hewett y D. 2| Heinman St. M Braddon Tobin. The St. Matts defeated the Center " [ Congregational church, 30-19, in T, | Bame featured largely by the defe : sive work of the two teams. 1 , | winners ran up a 14-1 score w a few minutes and then used their substitutes, but the Center church | guards worked well nst thes nd held them down well. The lose ho could mot get through the defense the St. Matt reserves pre- | sented and had to to lo Co-ops Fla 1 1 1 8 Reckert and Billy A q R l 1 off 14 points for LAY Al i p hile Howe was m ! 2 2 ners’ only point from ti lino. n Bradl down twice to score ficld Brown got aw nother, but the hold at the h ind the holding ti floor and out- v for s had a he second ¢ went better ven from the them from t r final rush was t t by It urch Dartmonth and Princeton Sepa-" rated by Half a Game 28 (P— The tball | the Ea. ague | nd contint two w 1 a champion- | uf-zame bal- eks o s dropped eve ugh the hoop. and Reckert three gam one of them th ing the league ited with iny Center Congregational Pet Inter-Church resulted mes played at the Y. M. Congregational pects are now f amplonship, as the inst the First Lutherans, who de- f first | place holders have second division personal , but nding the tally 14- for battle, Heinz- i half, de- | away two points when he kept ste. on his free job. work In the last half | HARMONIES CLINCH fs League—Wildcats Champs Group A Leagus w. « 13 sadl i 38 90 The clinched the championship of the Boys’ club Group A Intermediate league Sat- Harmonies urday afternoon when they brought down the Eagles by a 19-7 score. Only week of play re- mains, Harmonies have s lead; the Comets' last hope for a tie went glimmering when the league leaders won thefr game and assured victory for emselves, Marholin was the high scorer, making more points than the entire losing team, with Tru- han and Carrubba also breaking into the scoring in good style. Car- rubba and Chadwick held the Eagle guards scoreless from field, Mirigliani doing most of t work for his team. The summar. Harmonies h- one more and the in or- two-game is FL eld r's ey of Gotowala, Arandt, 1 Garro, c. Merglian | Gourson, 1 nd pt The Comets calmed the Cyclones, 20-13, in an inter RE game. Wichn, Michaloski and Anderson starred for the winners ¢ Wolfer nd Ik for the lo: side. The summary: Cyclones Fld. of he ow at ok p- FL Ttl lock, f. Wol 1 Tkowitz, Mangan Greenbl. e ed he to il P Tt Recano, | Michalow | Anderson, W 20 Another good Pirates by ring a v game we 20-14, with the Celt ant battle before go ng 14 games. were be a played a wha Chester and of a game for Apple Koswick, ¢ Krusha, rg . Annunziata, lg 4 Junior League | The Wildeats lost their game in : Junior league Saturday cvening had such a lead over the rest| of the teams that they are still cer-| tain of victory when the loop closes! th Sature als “‘k)n‘ m the All-Stars by 14-4, the Aces| took a hard 6-2 game from the| and the E: Juniors | urprising stre: in tak-| decision from the l'\l.‘-.l, standing: 1 L. P.C.| ] 786 643 429 lcats s a 10 256 ' ROSTER IS COMPLETED Tufielders and Outfielders of Cardi- nals Arrlve at Camp at Avon Feb., 28 (/) ex- ion of infielders and out- a end of the Cardi- at their Avon up to Bob O'F ers to prove to the bat- ave made the past new arrivals w condition t ex n g orida university tean until t Browns Fla roll cman 10w oper at more h camp mong ue last s turned to England from Constanti- having been absent for 18 e duty in eight TITLE OF GROUP A Sure of Victory in Bogs’ Club nt to the down to their 13th defeat in| Baldesart t for the Pirates, and Kru- 5SSO TRADE SCHOOL 1§ Home Series of Gontests won the first game -of serfes with school | home-and-home |urday morning, cmerging on long end of a 30-24 score after | tight battle at the Senfor school. well, at the Frost | lead quarter. 15-10. chester was helpl In the third perlod final whistle sounded. Captain Henry and may be out for a week | Arena went well, and Frost fense. guarding and game will be p Friday afternoon. The summary: New Britain S. T. S. Fld. T ooting. 1. 0 1 1 0 0 14 Manchester S. Renn, rf Maloney, 1 T. S. 3| Kinne, ¢ Adams, rg | Beers, 1g Personal fouls, Richtmyer, 3, Rockwe ski 3—11; Adams 2 | foul, Ric! | 4, Rockw 3—9; Rena 4, Adams 3, Bec aloney Kinne 3, timers, Schober and corers, Earl and Angelo. ew Britain Reserves Win second team of the | The { won the preliminary, school st the team New rush just as the big game. half. Neith oor in the third s ed with the tally chester came throug and fell j Abel, Benoit, d Beauchemin w hary: N. Abel, rf Swanson, rf Pond, If ... | Benoit, ¢ . | Bachman, . Johnson, rg Schaefer, rg 2 | Beauchemin, 1 Anderson, 15 ... M. S. T. S. Seconds Fld Connelly, 1t Angeli, If .. Manchsek, I . Be Shoen, rg .. Ramzsey WINNER IN GANE Locals Take First of Home and The New Britain State Trade its the Manchester State Trade school Sat- the High The home team started out Rockwell getting two baskets carly and giving New Britain a 6- and | Micezkowski came up for scores in the second period, and the intermis- | sion found New! Britain ahead by Man- ess, while the lo- , but the vis-| tors closed with a dangerous rush, |ineton's birthday at Springfield and | | piling up 12 points in the last quar-ine game was terminated with ter and coming very close before the minute left to play when Jim Man- Rockwell featured Ey for the winners but sprained his toe 'playing forward for Springfield, be-1 0. | came embroiled in a fistic encounter { and |that threw the crowd In an uproar. | Nieczkowski were great on the de-|Partisan rooters of both clubs tossed Kinne and Beers were best | fists with reckless abandon and for Manchester, the latter doing fine | required the use of forcs by six burly | The return Springfield policemen before order yed in Manchester T(l.’ 11 [terly fought and saw fiv 11 |banished for personal fouls. _*loutplaye 25| dep 7 Imanded that the game would not go Arena Frost 2, Micezkow- o | Technleal | gy Arena | referee and “Red” Ball of Ambherst, zkowski |, Kinne 2, | Referee, Der-|in the coming tlt but in view of local 24-22, holding off the closing Manchester did in Dritain led by |6-5 at the quarter and 19-11 at the ‘ r team scored from the jon, which end- | n nt st for the winners and Lewis and hoen for the visitors. The .s'ml—‘ Ttl. | Nadler, BLLHSSH55 52955858 S SPRINGFIELD TEAM, PLAYS N BRISTOL Return Game in Bell Town Sure to Draw Record Crowd Bristol, Feb. 28—One of the larg- est crowds to ever attend a basket- ball game in this city is anticipated on the Tuesday night, when the Springfleld Y. M. H. A. quintet will tangle in a return engagement with |the Bristol New Departures at the |local High school gym. Interest in the contest through- out the entire state has reached its zenith due to the result and hectic ending of the previous game be- tween these two bitter rivals, and | }mns from gvery surrounding city | |are expected-to witness this premier | court attraction of the year. The two clubs clashed on Wash- a i | 2 one ning, Bristol's powerful guard, and Mcndel, former Syracuse boxer | it near-riot, the Springfield Hebrews were away out in front 36 to 25 and were declared winners. The game, 2| which was a decided upset, was bit- players The 4| Bristol team which entered the fray 3| heavy favorite, was completely d by the Jewish five in every ment of the game. |- The regetianie ending of thy| game for a time almost resulted in | | the cancellation of the return match. |Manager Monte Becker, of the o |Springfield team, not only insisted ¢ |that Mendel or Manning could not |be used in the lineup but also de- I\\as stored. At the time of the on unless he was allowed to bring down a Massachusetts officlal to act at umplre. After much wrangling both clubs have finally agreed on Coyle ot Wallingford, as ing Makers are confident of their ablility to even the score th lng exhibition on last Tues- Springfield will send down many supporters who are going to back the Bay State team heavily. | In conquering the Bell Towners last week the Home City Hebrews frac- tured the winning streak of the Nut- meg club that had extended to 20 straight victories. Neither club has announced just who it wiil use in place of Mendel or Manning, hut the fans n rest ssurcd that both teams will be | weakened to any great extent by the The Springfleld team will present in its lineup, Abe Silverman, Ty ‘(;n]‘}h-‘rg. Jimmy Moscowitz, Charlie Red Welnstein, Shoenfeld and Rube Goldberg. 0 The New Departures will counter 1 with Captain Jimmy Malcolm, Kiski dman, Jiggs Donoghue, Ray Dutch Leonard and | game is scheduled to com- mence at 9 o'clock. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS Q& Throat tickle, sorethroat, huskiness and similar OF BROOKLYN TEAM—HIGH SCHOOL TEAM LOSES ON FLUKE SHOT—CHURCH TEAMS RETAIN THEIR STANDING IN LEAGUE—BOYS’ CLUB MEETS MIDDLETOWN TONIGHT—SOUTH CHURCH FIVE IN HARD TEST NEW BRITAIN FPCTPIPVEPL HIGH TEAM BEATEN BY FLUKE SHOT Hardware City Basketball Quintet Hands Scare to Hill- house of New Haven—Ball Hits Top of Backboard But Protest is Disallowed—Game Goes to New Haven By One Point—EIm City Five Was Easily the Favorite in Exciting Contest. With a hopeless defeat staring| them in the face, the New Britain High school basketball tecam mo- tored to New Haven Saturday and forced the crack Hillhouse High team to fight to the before gaining a two point win. After a slow start, the local team | came to life and forced the issue | for the rest of the game. New Ha ven started fast, running up a ten point lead in the first few minutes | of play. The locals then recovered | their stride and outplayed Hill-| house for the remainder of the battle. Short passes and keen| shooting kept the Red and Gold up | through the battle, but long shots | with exceptional success gave New Haven the verdict. The winning | basket was mate by Heyer in the| last minute on a play that brou vigorous protests from the loc According to the rules agreed upon before the game, if the ball hit tho| top of the backboard it was a dead | ball. A New Haven player took a| long heave at the basket, the bail | hitting the top of the backboard and bounding high into the air. | The local team stopped dead on| the play, expecting a whistle. No attempt was made to stop the| Hillhouse player as he came to| take the ball and score the win- ning basket. The referee disallowe the protest, and cost the locals a | win. The work of “Red” Matulis was | the feature of the Red and Gold's | offenslve. He comstantly broke through the Hillhouse “defense to! score or pass to his teammates for casy scores, while his floor-work was a treat to watch. It was easily | the best game of “Red's” career as a high school player. The rest of | the team played the game of their lives, perfect teamplay having Hill- house at bay. In the first quarter Hillhouse | started oft with a bang, ap| out to score an easy victory. end of three minutes of play Haven had a ten to two lead. locals took time out and at the r sumption of play hit a fast that gradually cut down their oy ponents' lead. Baskets by Zale and Landino brought the scorc up to 11-11 at the end of the first pe- riod. The was a torrid to second period affair, both teams fighting hard attain a good lead. DMatulis k the locals in the running by sensational long shots from the| center of the floor. New Haven had | an 18-12 lead as the period ended. | The third quarter saw New | Britain outplaying Hillhouse and outscoring them. Good work by | Matulis and Sowka brought th:| score up to within one point of New Haven. The score was 22-21 at | the end of the period. | Sowka put New Dritatn in th lead for the first time by scor a pretty fleld goal on the first play of the final period. Pitch sank 1| long shot to give the lead to New Haven. Zaleski brought the crowl| to its feet by sinking a wonderfu goal from the side of the court putting the locals in the lead wi | three minutes to go. Matulis w | fouled and made his shot good. ! With two minutes to go, Do An- | gelis tied the score on a field goal. | On the next play Heyer scored (h‘} disputed basket that gave the game | T in | last whistle |1 | tv of County | erat sure basket, and held the crowd in suspense. The summary: New Britain High Fld. FL Tt. 9 6 3 2 A. Zaleski, r. f. .and 11 Sowka, c. Cherpack, r. ehrer, r. g Matulis, 1. g | woomee = 2 Z 8 Hurwitv, r f. Humiston, Pitc Heyer, c. Gildea, c. Haynes, r. De Angeli Score at half time 18-12, Have: referee, Coyle; Saunders. FACES HARD TEST South Church Basketball Team to scorer, Play Second of Three-Game Serieg With Wapping. The South church b; with a run of 11 and a record of 17 out of 19 games won this scason, faces tonight the beginning of what will probably be its hardest fortnight of the winter. The second of the three-games ser- ies with the Wapping Community club for the champion of the Aduit County “Y” League is scheduled to be played tonight at the Hartford t. M. C. A.. The locals won the t. Wapping is trying to postpone the game until Thursday, as a card tournament over in Manchester will e | occupy the attention of three of the play vs this evening, but as the win- must meet the New Haven coun- mps this week the prospects postponement are slim. 1y the church tackles school in the Senlor league. A school vic- tory will end the league, while a church win will mean a third game The winner will then on in & three-game e right to enter the stat nation contest at Storrs. AT SENATORS' CAMP Batting and Flelding Practice to be the First Time a Indulged in for Today. Washington, the arrival at regulars rk., toda practice w the first time Senators | A flo spent Feb ampa, from Mot Springs, batting and fielding to be indulged in for by the Washington training there. k of rookie hurlers have two weeks of limbering up but from now on they will hear the E ef the old clubs instead of tha thud of the catcher's mit. Those expected in camp today were “Goose” Goslin and Sam Rlce, regular outflelders, Pitchers Co “Buddy” m, | regiment recently { troubles quickly re- lievedwith Luden’s §b N - § Personal fouls—Abel 4, Pond § Benoit, Bachman 4, Johnson, Be # A PR ? (Continued on Following Page) to New Haven. With 30 seconds to | af go. Sowka sank a foul. Sherp .~ |his br who was playing a great game, | Blueg took a last-second heave at the |veteran first sacker, basket that hit the rim and fell off |inficlders and o third sack: and five new ders, arrived at When a Feller Needs a Friend WELL — the wrong side. It looked like a|Tampa, yesterday. By BRIGGS MAa ! (M Too HoT! | WANT A DRINK OF WA-A-ATER - KIN | HAVE A DRINK? KiN 1| HAVE RAGS IN BED WIiTH ME? ent countries, = e Crucs o