New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1928, Page 18

NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1928 w— NEW BRITAIN ROLLER HOCKEY TAKES SPECTACULAR GAME FROM ALBANY—LOCAL BASKETBALL FIVE SLATED TO MEET TOUGH OPPOSITION HERE TOMORROW NIGHT—IMPORTANT GAMES TO BE PLAYED IN INDUSTRIAL COURT LEAGUE—ITEMS 000000 NNe: . T NEW BRITAIN GOES INTO SECOND PLACE IN LEAGUE i v U ierce | . . . Gazzinga and -Doherty Completely Sew Up Pierce Two-Point Margm Amid Close Brothers—Albany Quintet Is On Short End of 5 to 4 Score — Thompson and Williams Outwit Visiting | Defense Men—Eddie Barnikow Plays Scintillating | Game In Goal—Lundeville Also Stars. Last Night's Results Bridgeport 11, Providence 4. New Britain 4, Albany 3. Standings Waterbury . . emis. New Britain Bridgeport Albany .... B Providence . 364 Fall River . 300 Games Tonight Providence at Fall River. Two evenly matched roller hockey teams went through three whirlwind periods at the Stanley Arena last night in a regularly scheduled Amer- Ican Roller Hockey league game and when the pumice dust had settled, New Britain was resting securely in second place in the standing, tied with Bridgeport just a game behind ‘Waterbury, leading outfit in the cir- cuit. New Britain's vietim last night was the Albany team, formerly the Meriden entry, far-famed hecause of the presence of the two Pierce brothers, Barl and Steve in its line- up. New Brtiain's margin of victor was only one point, the score he ing 4 to 3, but the count of poin fails miserably in deseribing the thrilling exhibition put up by both aggregatons for the space of playing time. Gazzinga, New Britain's rookie center, emerged from last night's game the hero of the confest. 1t was his work in boftling up Earl Pierce | that enabled New Britain to stave oft the vicious attacks of the visiting delegation and so completely did he do his work and so impotent were Farl's attempts to get away, that olly"* Morrison had to take the forward run to try and shoot for the cage. On the otlier side of the defense, Barney Doherty played Steve Plerce, probably the most clever ball handler In the game, Dierce. got away from Barney only a fow times during the game and for the most part, he found the going as tough as at any time in his experience as a polo player. Doherty demonstrated with- out question last nizht that he is by far, the best half-hack in the game, 1t was Harry Thompson who did the bulk of the scoring for New Brit- ain last night. “Kid” Williams with Lundeville, Albany eenter, riding on his back and “Dolly” Morrison buck- ing him on the charges, reversed his position last night and hocame the feeder. He feigned drives and passed to Harry Thompson and the “Cow- hoy™ rode his broncho and whirled his stick for three of New Britain's four goals. Willlams got the other one on one of the prettiest shots in the gam The fans were on their feet nearly every second of playing time last night. Thrill after thrill was sensed as one or the other of the teams started a march on the opposing cage. A pretty duel in stops was waged between Barnikow for Alban and Welch for New Britain, Barni- kow was a wonder in stopping the drives flatled at him hy New Britain’ murderous driver, Williams. On the other haud, Welch put up the hest game since his advent with New Britain. He was in championship form last night and was spectacylar in his efforts to keep the ball from rustling the nets. The first two goals were so sudden and so completely thrilling that the house was almost pulled down with the deafening applanse. Both of them were scored by “Cowboy” Thompson, The first was an from Williams to the center floor Thompson whirling towards the Al bany eage, swung his stick like a ha | bat and, like Babe Ruth, e hit a home run, The hall went sail ing into the cage without Bar ever seeing it. Forty scconds this, Barney Doherty Albany attack and hool into the bank, he shot proach shot to Thompsor cated his first score hy ball, in fhe into 11 New Britain's second 1 With this lead, the t¢ Some of the fastest plavi here followed until of the most opposing tear whifed it into Albany's first pe It seven 1 before ompy and after L was no more u Both teams second frame one of of tricky piay hind his oy drive of the the m sin throats wway for the o ‘rom Gazzi I the goul rany into i This Britain tea logged Lundeville, ¢ em and unt a he “Cowboy” wok a § 0 Dohe -ty 0 Williams. rille both Ie 1in star Irive. Tn Thompson he final score e hall game. ‘' With two minutes to go, the fiere- cst kind of fighting took place. Steve | Pierce all but got the ball into New Britain's cage but both Welch and Doherty just stopped it. The final bell clanged, giving a victory to the home club. The score: Albany Williams . . Picrce Thompson . ", Pierce Doherty . . Lundeville Gazzin; Morrison Welch : 5 Barnikow Goal First Period Goal Won by Caged by Time 1 New Britain ‘Thompson 0 2 New Britain Thompson 40 3 Albany Lundeville 1:18 Second Period | Albany I°. Plerce 21:18 Third Period Albany 1. Pierce 6: New Britain Willlams New Britiin Thompson 6 Rushes: 1. Pierce 7, Williams stops, Welch 42, Barnikow 56; fou uinga, E. Pier Referee, Hart. GILMAN STARS AS DODGE TEAM WINS Champion Goal Tender Wards | OIf Thrusts of Chrysler Five From soccer to rollc#ypolo is a long step but an athlete who reaches the top in one branch of sport should be able to muke the grade in anothcr. This was ably demonstrated last ni ley Arena when Jimmy Gilman, at other times the janitor of the plac forsook his tools of trade for the padded shin guards and chest pro- tector of a goal tender and furnish- ed the spectators with the most amazing display of cage gnarding ever seen in this city. | Gilman of the shilalagh sler plan M. Kicffor | . Burkhardt | Gillette | Casparine Kaplan Hyland Kaplan ley Third Dodge Dodge hod Doder Chrysler ishes, Kapla Stops, AUFRICANS MISS CHANCE 0 INCREASE HOCKEY LPAD New Y Team Drops 2 1o 0 De- cision to Chicag Hawks in Gard The ed a in the ght sion ta Madi- of the at the Stan- | of | Parke sparine | one CELTICS OVERCOME " BY SOUTH CHURCH Guarding—Juniors Run Away | On the short end of a 10-6 count | it the end of the first half, the| South church basketball team ral- lied in the closing periods last eve- nitig and nosed out the Celtics by 18-16 in a game which was played | at the Boys' club and was featurcd {by remarkably close guarding on both sides. The first points {made by Banjamin on a long shot | and Parker started the South church | | with a free throw. The lead alter- | nated in the first quarter, which ! finally closed with the tally 6-6. 1In | the second period Zaleski and F jamin put the Celtics in front, while the church team was held score'css for thie entire cight minutes. The winners turned the tables in the third period and kept the Cel- | tics without score, while Bell got | through for two brilliant shots and a tie and Rockwell gave the church a two-point lcad. May's foul shoot- | ling featured the early part of the | last quarter and the church went | lahead to 18-12, but in the last two | minutes, after the Celtics had gone 14 miputes without score from the | field, Recano tightened things with | two unusual shots. Zaleski missed | a long try at the very end and the | ball was in the arms of both church guards when the whistle blew The game was ratl [tory to both teams, showed some internal dissension |while the church, in addition 1o missing numerous shots, suffered from another inju Rockw.li, who turned an ankle in the firs half and hobbled about for the rest of the game. It was Bell who car- ried the fight in the rally that brought vietory to the church, while what proved the winning baskot was an_over-the-head fling by Wes .. May and Parker effectively | quelched the Celtic forwards, but aleski, Recano and Benjamin made some nice goals from the outer di tances. The winners committed only [four personal fouls; ithe loscrs, 11. The summary: South Church 11d. were unsat The Celties IBen, rt Rockwe Hattings, Wessels, May, rg Parker, was formerly a member | uth Wales Bear Cats, a| soccer team that won continuously for seven years the championship of the mining districts in Wales. He was the goal tender and he has lost none of his ability to kick although the thud of leather against a polo hall is very different from a soccer ball. Gilman had a total of 240 stops in the game last night, a world's record in his class (he is the only one in it), but besides this, he combined goal tending with half- back, center and rush. At eac charge of the light brigade |Chrysler players down the floor, he sallied forth waving his ind he hit the ball a thump t *sent it back across the river. Opposed to him was another star, Harry Kieffer. Harry was all over the floor, literally speaking, but his | work was the outstanding part of the Chrysler team's showeig during the game, Dodge won hy fhe score of 10 to S and the spectators who missed th ol . missed the hest entertain- ment of the year. The score Dodge Keoloy ot e Gillette Newell Hyland . Celties Marholm, 1f Recano, rg Benjamin, lg fouls—1ell, AMay Marholin, Baylock Benjamin foul—RBaylock. Rockwell 5, May 6, Marholin, Baylock, | Zaleski, Referee Ande Wosilus. Scorer—Hattings. uiors Pile Up Score uth Church Juniors pitcd 2-19 score in gething out an ful beating to the Bulldogs. In the first scconds Anderson g off a peculiar underhanded to: from {he center of the floor and the Dall went in. Everyone joined the seoring and the count wus 20-0 b the Bulldogs Then the losers fof by the end of the quarter was slow the winne od at will Joseph, Personal Parker—1; aleski 2, Re 1. Technie: tries Ires son. The up a nnmery fore made a point it back to 20-7 halt. The third but in the fin ran wild and scor- Hattin and Merza ali | did scoring in wholesale quantites, Huttings getting six goals in th lnst half. Wheeler Anderson also scored in each half. Roy Hav lick, church captain, was out of the line-up, s he is in Philadelphta. Chester and Coyle led the losers in scoring. The summary South Chu *h Juniors Kl Tl Joseph, rf ... 7 Wheeler, 2 T Bulldogs Nieder Chester, Coyle, I Ginsberg, ¢, Recano, rg . 18 © 1 Wheelor son, i) Gt Personal fo 2. Hattings, Ande D Recano foul-——Wheeler. 1% 2. Wheeler 2, Tlal s—Joseph POSITIONS ARI WERSED A few year ¢ corge M was ma Wi troit. Harris i player at is his assi I nam¢ |out of the fof GOATS GET CROWNED AS WELL AS HEROES DUSTY LEAGUE : FURNISH ACTION TONIGHT Fafnir Bearing Quintet Faces Corbin Serew In Most RIXEY ¥ WRIGHT By HENRY L. FARREL o Bohy coach, rvice Hports Lditor) ke, e cracker and puller out around his own ncighborhood and he has| been known to knock eafers off their stools with suappy after-dinner | cracks at functions in widely sep- arated scctions of the country. He was down south recently in a ritor s that had produced a num- ber of young men on numerous All- America teams and (he roofers for those young men were cager to g an expert’s opinion on some of the other young men who had been | similarly honored in other sections. The of Otto Pommerening, | the Michigan tackle, came into the conversation. Pommerening was for a position on the All- America team that some of the hoys down there thought could have been filled more handsomely by one of two or thice star sonthern tackle “What do you think of Pomme: caing, Mr. Zuppke?" the wee, wrinkled mapped Bob was asked. He Didn't Think Muc | “Well, Il tell you,” he proceeded 1o tell them. “1 had heard so much hout that fellow that T watched for | him all through his game with us and the only time I saw him he was off-side.” name This pic oothall politici i cant to he about I I the n's o oy getting to the point by I ngest possible route. And t that some athletes can ecrim attention only when they {cd the art of doi i wrol We have heen reading in recent | s of all the bascball heroes of 1928, who hit the b the ball, t pitchers who ke from hitting the hide off, the field- ers who went down them and and always came fellows who without a hit or tion s denior the fellows t them for went out for the up with then, took things they show all the did and come of th spee occupied of \ddicted to the nom- | e, or the advertising | of arve there is a cortain ) King out the most cronps at unfortunate in the v the same tha! the artists are the Tist | city a two- o will not | drawn to ik ont meore the National 1 tim hen hie wasn't the ball lome miley rins nd 1 the Lidwa Pra otice by losing ! which were | Lall g her n the b He 1 runs than was nicked por game. incinnati 1 vear with 4 the most honor T Lot rston | o it could lose ilowed more the poorest Pat Malone, wouldn't let for wildne 4 tock the sea- 1 pitches. ey Rnew bt why Bar- positive in Wright el by top went nes by pames, th e hard theved hitting to himiscl how the iall s ould not be REFLOATED LN AP otant, gor Bay on floated today ast dry PRUIGHTE R clfast, Trel Aneriean ms on and Bel- at full holds was light list to issned | his 1 demonstrated | / 5 Ilinois mmlmll?BRo is u cclebrated wit, wise- | for 1 and 10 off | firly o men | pion amateur team politan district, Bristol Tuesday of fhe best season will he afternoon quintet fakes on the Bris- | | | Facing a quintet that is the | the New Britain basketball team is due to find the sledding rough to- | morrow night rch street when it stacks up second time thi 1gainst the Brownsville Favorites of in its first { here came out on the short end of the decision ow Dritain will present an alter- ed linenp to the visitor will Ve Williams, necticut Aggies, ! yet heen [ players will lineup. able starting five will Zakzewski in [ herth with Williams at ecenter and and Sheehan at. the guards. Phis is not definite and may he ew- nzed before the game to- visitors will have strong lineup as in the first game. Posnack be the forwards with Conr Newblatt and Gerson will pl: at college at the present fime and The second starboard. ated as the country, new armory fastest in the Stanley Arena | contests. ason, N. Y.. The visiling ar- appearance score but it promises to in the sccond McElwain, who played a in the first en- supplanted by late of the Con- but no decision has reached as to how tne The most prob find Sloman | ¢ the forwara forward game ding up of the this ci number i over the the same pstein will in cen- and 1 These men are all stars final, Last year ted as being the cham- in the first place. featur of the &0 both and evening Robby in a double header. The will he playved in 'l\h“ o'clock in the afternoon. will he staged at tne|$2.500 Santa Horton country in Long Beach, Cal., aders of American golfdom, great and colorful array, p: here today for the first skirmish of the $5,000 Long Beach open, one of |jiave that the a series of big money tournaments the Angeles event in Januar, A field of more than drawn from virtually every section by the call of golf and flame, had 18 doles of qualify- it. ing play on tap for today and over s municipal course. programmed for yout, and on Sun- day the 64 low scores and ties will | tory of the league. It will be a long | ¢ club | journey for them this year. hole to ame |z move to the Virginia count course to battle through the 3 “wild Bil” Metro- | of Piftshurgh, and Leo Diegel, na- [chances will depend to a great ex. tional professional champion, ti was no playoff of defending Intry list includes | There face the task furnished next Tuew. | the open honors. when | Temmy Armour. George Von Eim, Cruickshank. acDonald Smith, Smith, Bristol WNSVILLE QUINTET IS ANXIOUS TO BEAT LOCALS "ot e v |Brooklyn Basketeers to Appear Here Tomorrow Night ! —Both Teams Are Set for a Hard Tussle — New Britain Won First Game, 29 to 26—Visitors Form One of Best Court Combinations Ever Seen Here —VWilliams May Be Used In Forward Position. LEADING GOLFERS PAIR OFF FOR TOURNAMENT Field of More Than 2: Entered in Long Beach $5,000 Event Dec. $10,000 at night. This will be the first meeting by tween these two rivals this season and record crowds will be at botn Players is o in | ed off | Corbin outfit appears to be in a Los | players, A like urday Mehlhorn for Al Watrous, Al Espinosa and | 21-year-old Joplin, (last year. Mo.. sensation who recently wén the Catalina Island open. | Important Game of Sea: Teams In Circuif Depend On Outcome of Battle— P. & F. Corbin Meets Standing w. P 1.000 800 800 Corbin Screw .. Corbin Cabinet Stanley Rule .. Fafnir Stanley Works . N. B. Machine . Russwin P. & F. Corbin 000 Landers . 000 Chances of every team in first di- vision of the Industrial Basketball league will depend to a great extent upon the ability of Fafnir Bearing team to defeat the league leading Corbin Screw team in the feature game at Tabs hall tonight. This will be the second game of a three-game program. The las game of the night will settle last place between Landers and P. & F. Corbins. The first clash will be be- tween North & Judd and Corbin Screw girls. As the standing indicates, Corbin Screw men have not heen defeated so far this season and have gonc through the hardest possible sched- ule to in four games. Tt defeated New Britain Machine 40 to 2 Stanley Rule, 36 to 25: P. & bin’s 30 to 20 and Stanley 600 400 .200 SO nwmm - . Cor- ‘Works, had a hard schedule 8o far, having faced Rus- sell & Erwin, Landers, P. & . bins and Stanley Rule. It won all s games except that against the Stanley Rule. Since Corbin Screw defeated the Rulers 36 to 25 and | Pafnirs lost to that team 30 to there appears to he an advantage favor of the Screw Shop on paper. lenst. The game will he a reunion for many players of hoth teams. Saun- ders, center on the Screw Shop team will meet his old teammate from the high schosl, Trank McGrath who was one of the old vets when T'red came to high school. Frank taught Fred a good many tricks which will he used against him tonight. Saun- ders will also unite with Al Havlick and John Matulis whb were all on the same team at high school. Then Mieczkowski, Fafnir guard, will face his teammates of a year ago. Then Al Havlick who fills In a right for- ward with an entire Screw shop I team about him when they are play- ing as a Burritt team will be play- ing his teammates. P. & F. in Slump Despite the fact that the P. & F. | terrible slump, the fans refuse to be- Lockmakers are a I poor outfit, There is plenty of power on the team and If it can be brought out there will be more than one team with championship aspirations drop- ped for a loss. 1t will battle Landers tonight and if it succeeds its fol- lowers predict that it will begin an uninterrupted journey to the top. P..& F. Corbins have not finished worse than second place in the his- Landers has suffered five succes- sive defeats this season and are out to win their first game. The team’s tent on how well Captain Bucher “Chick® Charlow and Fritz Marsali ire working. 1f Billy Preisser finds his eye from a guard position one P. & 1. forward will have to quit his offensive work to watch Preisser who led the Chiurch league in scoring N. & 4. Tmproved Corbin Screw girls who held last Girls Slated to Clash Wi L1750 | the | Cor- | 7400000000 TEAMS TO n — Chances of Other Landers Five—S¢rew Shop h North & Judd. year's P. & F. Corbin team to an overtime tie game last week are | playing North & Judd in the opening game, The Bucklemakers are greatly improved due to the coaching of “Jimmy"” Murphy who has shown them the fundamentals of the game. Their floor work is very good but they are still a bit weak in the scor- ‘mg,de tment. The first game will start at 7:30 o'clock sharp. BURRITTS FACE HARTFORD TEAM {Local Quintet Faces Tough Op- position at Arena Tomorrow Faced with the prospeet of bat- tling the strong Nutmeg team of {Hartford tomorrow evening at the Stanley Arena with an untried [lineup, the Burritt basketball five [ will be forced to travel at a high {pace throughout the game if it |hopes to score its fifth victory at {the expense of the Hartford aggre- |gation. The local team w » | weakened during the past week {when Arbour and Jasper, regulars {on the squad, announced that they |would appear with the Middletown {team for the rest of the season. | The visitors tomorrow evening will have a lineup dotted with well |known stars. Following is the .ist |of pi and their former experi- ence: Don Hayes, a member of the |H. P. H. S team for two years; | Bing Palmer, former Middlebury stor; “Red” Cotter, who has played | with the leading teams in Hartford | for the past five years: Charles Hell- | yar, a member of bdth the Weaver |and West Hartford high teams in |the past: “Zing" Goldfarb, former | Weaver High player and Bill Col- |lins, for the last three years the mainstay of the, Weaver High team, Against these players, Manager Ken Saunders will use Yakubowicz and Havlick, ‘orwards; Saunders, {center; Darrow and Luty, guards. cky” Gill will be ready to start |it called upon and Marion Zaleskl will probably be in uniform. Yans will be interested to sec how the new Burritt lineup works out |in its first time- together. The game will start promptly at 8 o'clock. iOfl'ers Sharkey Bout i With Tommy Loughran Chicago, Dec. 28 (A—Paddy Har- nion, matchmaker for the Chicage Stadium Corporation, has offered Jack Sharkey, Boston heavyweight, a bout with Tommy Loughran, | Philadelphia, light heavyweight {champion who sccks the heavye weight title. Loughran has signed a contract with Harmon, calling for him {o | meet the best heavyweight obtaine |able for a match in Chicago hefore April 1. 1f Sharkey accepts, the match probakily will dedicate the w Chicago Stadium. BOMB EXPLODES Tunis, Alger Dee. 28 (A—A bomb exploded in the offices of the Ialian language newspaper, Unique, today, causing damage estimated at 100,000 francs. Al of the staff es- caped fnjury. The motive for the cutrage is not known, ON ACCOUNT OF WIFE BEING AWAY GETS OWN BREAKFAST AND DECIDES To BolL €G6. 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