New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1928, Page 8

' NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1928 LOSSSBLHEL LS NEW BRITAIN FIGHTING IBURRITTS DEFEAT FOR POLO LEAGUE LEAD HAR_T_[(]B[] TEAM Locals Hit Top Position by Win Over Waterbury Satur- n . i, xpaonn dny—Slidl: Into Second Through Defeat by Prov ‘D%Dl[e Rbsence of Tw_ Stars dence Here Yesterday — Team Battles Bridgeport Local Team Is Supenor at Stanley Arena Tomorrow Night — Quintets | R e Closely Bunched In Hectic Race for Pennant. e o 4 | tcam to play with Middletown, and {1ars of |that a third played through the ame in poor health, the Durritt basketball team defeated the Nut- megs, a collection of some of Hart- ford’s bost basketball material, by a |29 to 17 score. The contest was & reliminary to the New Britain- Brownsville game Saturday night. The Hardware City team got off |to a flying start on four successive kets by Fred Saunders and a sket by Joe Luty and had a 10 icad before the game was °s old. Throughout the | game the Burritt outfit held a sate lead, i Previous to this game the Bur- | ritt quintet had a squad of seven | players but with the loss of two | Manager Saunders had to look |about for reserve material and he | found one player “Pat” Rose who | fitted into the lineup very accept- | ably Saturday night. Saturday marked another meet- ing of Sounders, captain and cen- [ ter of last year's New Britain high chool team and Hayes, cctner of last year's Hartford High school team. Old schoolboy rivalry was rcenacted with the New Britain boy taking practically all the honors. v it was on a jump ball es in the Hartford-New me last ycar that Saun- received a knee injury which andicapped him for some time. Joe Luty who was taking “Hank" Arbour's place at guard, played a fine game defensively. In the ba: Socond Period New Britain Williams New Britain Williams Waterbury Mulligan New Britain Thompson Third Period New Britain Williams Waterbury Davies Waterbury Davies 20 | Ruches — Davies 6, Williams 6; stops, Blount 65, Welch 68; fowls, | Davies, Herbert. Referee, Rorty. KERELEJZA STARS " INBOYS CLUB WIN Winsted “Y” Falls Before Re- vamped But Strong Quintet into the b Last Night's Results Albany 10, Fall River 1. Waterbury 6, Bridgeport 5. Providence 6, New Britain 4. Standing W. Waterbury 3 New Britain ... Albzny Bridgeport Providence Fall River .... . Tonight's mes Waterbury at Providence. Fall River at Albany. 154 “e 10 New Britain slid back into second place in the American Roller Hock- ey league yesterday afternoon after liolding the lead for a day when the team lost a hard fought game to the Providence crew. | New Britain meets Bridgeport at the Stanley Arena tomorrow afte noon and a great battle is in pros- vect. Fred Jean, captain and center of the Park City outfit, is sore clean through because New Britain start- ed his team on the downward path. Fhe Bridgeporters are coming here #9 fight in more ways than one, but they will find New Dritain ready for them. Tony Kerelejza stepped scoring spotlight vacated “Hermy" Schmarr Saturday nig land the New Britain Boys' club ba | ketball team swept to a brilliant 47- |33 victory over the Winsted Y. M. !C. A. on the latter’s home floor. Ke | elejza hooked and spun the ball in i s a vlio | from all angles, getting nine fleld | combination of Duzgan and Wylic | (0 27 T8 €5 BERCE Mo Mot | backed up by Archie Muirhead and % g proving altogether too ;‘h"‘“": S J':‘l“[';m :fo’f";l";{' |inuch for the Winsted aggregation. | o cage, ctte, ed _al- Lose to Providence Providence, with its star rush | 2355833585555 505858 20000 050400580806650000880000 5535800 060000080 ¢ NEW BRITAIN HOCKEY TEAM ENDS UP IN SECOND PLACE OVER WEEK-END—TWO HOLIDAY SPORT ATTRACTIONS BILLED FOR TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND EVENING—BASKETBALL TEAM AGAIN MEASURES BROWNSVILLE FAVORITES—OTHER SPORTS PTTOSEETCE80ehoeTIE0IOIUDTCEOOTITUISS TISEIRTIIOITII 9SS YEAR JUST ENDING SET GEORGIA TECHBACKFIELD STARS PRACTICE IN BOWL Backficld stars of the Georgia Tech football team were photographed in Rose Bowl, Pasadena, where they will meet the University of California Bears tomorrow. and Lumpkin, J Left to right: Thomason, Durant, Miscll BROWNSVILLE FAVORITES AGAIN LOSE TO LOCALS Closest Battle of the Season Is Fought at Stanley Arena Saturday Night—Visitors Lead Until Second Per- iod Is Half Over — Last Three Minutes Is Wildest Session Ever Seen Here—“Pop” Williams Works In Nicely In His Initial Game, ed 2171t was the first game played by | togather too much for the MW ! o clup since the release of Schmare B e e A four goal |to the high school, and much de-| el tve firat period, despite a |Pended upon its showing. Parparian | ve : andicap for | y D Do O T e ea ana | Rametta, who scored three busl e Brfain lost its Sunday atter- (and made an excellent showing in B e his first appearance in fast company. | Boon Ry the aaorel : | Goffa, at center, put in four ficld The Hardware City crew appeared | o 1¢" while Grusha continued to be 28 paullshiveat SOl This would |4 scoring threat in the back court b8 a natural renclion !and made ten points for his team. team's great efforts in the past tWO |y, poluch, another newcomer 1o wecks. Up to yesterday the creW | p, ot team, got into the game in had won six of seven games and e !the closing minutes and had slaghed its way from the Very|presence felt by sinking a neat ficld bottom of the league to the | goal. But, over and above all, it was | position. Yester anfeal the steady and accurate bombard- the second suffered in eight games. | o0 00 120 oleiza that kept the club “Kid” Duggan was the star of oyt of danger in a fast game against the Providence offense. |a fast team. the speed of the wind, the | sailed all over the floor seemingly at the same time being in on every play and he waded through New ! Britain's defense to score four of his “team’s six goals. His partner, Whylie, making his first appearance | here, formed a brilliant running mate for the speed king of the rinks. Bill Jette, rated as among the best goal tenders in the league, proved a veritable stone wall on the defense. court he took the ball off the bac hoard and is proving that he will be a better guard than a center. Al Havlick was the player who took part in the entire game when he should have been on the sick list, but his team was short of men and | he insisted on playing. Darrow who ne of the best foul shooters in lustrial Teague made three | cut of three, but top honors for foul | shooting must go to Bill Collina of the Nutmegs who made five fouls missed his only chance in the see- ! ond. The summary: Burritts 1id. Yakuhowicz, rt . e Havlick, 1f Saunder: o) New Britain piled up a 27-14 lcad in the first half, taking the home team off its feet by the power of its attack. Winsted regained its breath | and did better in the final half, but the club held its carly lead and even increased it by one point in a well contested 20 minutes of play Canty starred for Winsted with 12 | points. The losing five was without the scrvices of one of its star play- | ers, and it hopes to give the local |team a better run when it comes His stops were at all times spectacu- | gown here for a return game late lar and it was through his work |in the scason. The victory of New that the sharp shooting drives of | pritain was unexpected and has Williams and “Cowboy” Thompson. | strengthened the morale of the team | As Providence had its big session in | considerably, besides indicating to the first period getting four goals. |the public that a very strong outfit New Britain had its inning in the i) represents the Boys' club, The second by scoring three. The ball | summary: was, for the most part, rolling against the local erew and this, | combined with the off-color of the purparian, rf ... day, kept Williams and Thompson | pneita, rf working at fever heat all through gorels the game. IGoka, o A fist flurry In the third period 'Boykus, ¢ d quite a sensation and almost | compagnone, g vsed nll of the fans at the west | Grusha, Ig +.- - - end of the arcna to tear the nets| paluch, Ig . o Arrinda had been shoving | “K'3” Willioms around all through the game when Williams suddenly anewo~ed one of his shoves with Znoit mood. Arriuda fm- ' pjjiercila, rf ... medin‘oiv turned about and Went | geafine, rf .. R S Hnami andihoth Swent Into tip eI e the 1 Tre crowd tore at Ar- ind for a time pandemonium 1 o Tose, rz . Darrow, 1g, Nutmegs 1. Battistini, 1g 17 *, 18 to 9, Bur- timer, Saun- Score at half tim ts; referce, ders; sceror Dutler, Play Two Games Tomorrow the t meet the Bristol Dix in a twin liday bill. In the afternoon the ms will clash at 2 o'clock at tanley Arena in the prelimin- ary game to the New Britain-Bris*ol Endce bat'le, In the evening the iwo fiv will meet again at 7:30 o'clock at the new Dristol armory. ! be a preliminary to me., return to the o neritt five will Boys' Clul rid. ca " win- M. C. A ggregation is out to i games at the expense of the Bristol quintct. The new lincup showed up 11 in the game acainst the Hart- ford Nutm and M: ger Saun- ders is confident that his men will hrough. Yakubowicz and start at forward, Fred Saunders will take care of center and Darrow and Luty will appear in the backcourt. Saunders trotted ont |a new player in the person of “Pat” urday evening and he fitted |very well in the lineup. “Hug: |Carl former hizh school star. ned up with the Burritts and pear in action tomorrow. The e seven men will make up the roster of the Burritts for the re- ainder of the Lson. The Bristol team is made up of former high school s nd holds ictories over the Lions and Sons of Italy of this city. Harry Hinkel Is Still America’s Champ Walker w York, 31 Ak sl 18 Ar Winsted Y. n two e |Finn, ¢ .. Canty, 18 ‘flnrk. 18 ... 'he summary: Lincups v Dritain Providence | . Duggan Referee, LOSE CLOSE GANE . Wylic | Gazzinga ..... Muirhead | Local Basketball Team Drops Hard i .. Arriuda 5 2 Halfback Fouzht Battle to Sterlings of New We Sreadl o S Haven, First T Scored by Providence Providence ) Providence Providence Second New Britain d w Dritain riod Coged by Duggan Accidental The Lion A. C. basketball team “lof this city lost a close decision to o Sterlings of New Haven in the y Saturday night, the scorc being 14 to 10, The defr I ¢ hoth tcams featured the cont . winners held the locals to G Ithe Elm C o Teriod T Thompson Accidental is ond period. en team led by a half v New York Providence Providence 10 New Britain hes, Williams Welch 34, Jette W third Mack We the warter. In Lions, through per William American ‘aterbury, the g ched firat placs victory over the WV terbury Shamrocks, The loenls won by the score of 6 to 4 and therehy ousted Waterh out of the dri- ver's seat. Wi staged. o, rally late in the &t £ conldn’t overcome New Britain's carly lead. New Dritain. Williams . a2 First Ttush Thompson, Ptreg m re Ten thous lemies in 10 invited to Waterbury Davies . Mulligan i April 2 to 6. meet will 1. e i Doherty, Thompson . Donnelly Cer June Gazanga . . Herbert London Pepys m in is doi 1y knows l.ondon or a Huntingdonshire town, Weleh Tlount Tirst Period Dritain Williams 2 Britain Willlams 8 Walerbury Donnelly Luke, 1z it. No ther he was born New |teur championship {in succession in the first half and S*Me two teams met. |by local fans this scason. Playing jthree minutes left to play. In that For th§ sccond time this season, ors led by three. Williams on a fast the New Britain basketball team |Pass from Leary dropped one in proved to be better than the quin- |from the center of the floor, send- tet which boasts of being the ama- combination of the New York city district when on Saturday night at the Stanlcy arena I L the local crew defeated the Browns- ,‘:?r]‘r‘\’e"" it Eitt ity dfre moghocul ville Favorites by the score of qum”k T e to 26. Coincidentally, the result of | . i e/ > O !period with a nifty basket making 3 the visitors. Second Half Burns starled the works in the sccond frame with a field basket. Williams took a pass in the center of the floor and with dazzling speed dribbled to the basket, cut to the corner and dropped & neat shot through the nets. At the 4:50 mark. Zakzewski tied t".e count at 16-a with a pretty hook from the side. Pierce broke the knot with a foul shot and Neiman agoin put the | Brownsville team out of danger with a pretty goal. Zakzewski made one or two trics at the basket good for count stood 11 to 10. Once more {Green came hurtling through on fast work and scored and Burns follow- For thrills, the game had any- thing beat that has been witnessed before the biggest house of the year, the New DBritain team arose to its greatest heights in the second half and starting at the 11:55 mark when the score was ticd at 21 all, tho Hardware City five spurted in a wild flurry of passing and tossed | in the points that gave it its three- point margin. The visitors also put on steam and crawled to 26 with time, more three there was more fight and excitement than is scen in ordinary games, The DBrownsvilie crew, sensing defcat, popped the ball fipm all| angles and distances and cvéry shot | was close but none went through The New Britain players 1d in their defense and fought like tigers to prevent their narrow lead from being cut down. The game started off with both teams putting up a great defense. and the count was 19 to 18. Sloman jtied it up with a foul shot and the count was 19-all. Once agzin Williams got clear on a pretty play and he whipped the hall through the nets to put New Britain in the lead for the firsy, time in the entire game. Stern, supplant- ing Burns in the lincup, shot a long {one to tie the count again at the 11:55 mark. | Then at the 12. minute marl: The visitors caged a foul point at Captain Tom Leary came throush the 2:30 minute mark but it was for his only basket of the not until the game had progressed making the count 23 to 21. Zak seven minutes and 10 scconds that zewski got loose for nnother shot the first field baskct of the game'and made it 25 to 21. Sloman added was made, this also by the Iavo- |a foul glving New Britain a five S |point lead. Shechan, on a pretty New Pritain presented a lineup CriSs-cross pass play, sank a basket Saturday night that was materially| M2king the local margin seemingly different from that which faced the | $afe With seven points. He added a Brownsville five in the previous f0ul #hot to make it eight. Then the game. “Pop” Williams, former Con- Visitors put on steam. necticut Aggics court star, was sent| At 15:30, Storn shot a long one into the game playing a guard po- |\ A minute later he dropped in sition. He paired up with Tom (nother. At the 17 min:te mark Leary while Johnny Shechan was EPsteln swished the nets for the sent into forward to mate with Al ling the crowd into an uproar as the | Shechan at the 18 minute | another two points from the floor’ night | final count, leaving New Britain vic- torious by the score of 29 to 26. ‘The summary: New Britain | Fla. FL Ttl. Sloman, rf . | Sheehan, 1t | Zakzewski, ¢ ... | Williams, rg . 5 6 10 6 2 29 3 . 2 2 0 0 1 7 Brownsville Fld. Ttl. 4 2 5 i Epstein, rf | Pierce, 1f, ¢ stern, If . |Burns, ¢ Nieman, rg Green, Ig .. 3 if s 6 1 4 | Score at half time: New Britain {12, Brownsville 14. Referee, Ball; timer, Saunders; scorer, Crean. Double Header Tomorrow New Britain and the Bristol En- dces, two of the most bitter rivals of the court in the state, will clash tomorrow in a holiday double head- |er. The first game will be played 'at the Stanley arena in this city at |3 o'clock in the afternoon while the | second will be played at the state armory in Pristol at night. Bristol this scason has one of the 'strongest .seven out of cight games and it confldently expects to take New Dritain into camp twice tomorrow “The team will line up with Picken and Richtmyer in the forwards, Cullum at center and Manning and [ Marchinek in the guards. New Britain may have a new for- ward in action tomorrow in th» games. Manager Clarence Lanpher |is in touch with a former college “star and he may be signed in time for tomorrow’s game. The team will probably line up with S'oman and Shechan in forwards, Zakzewski at center and Leary and Williams at guard. [Roborti EsteMishes C~mn at Buenos Aires New York, Dec. 31 (M—Robertn Robert!, big Ttalian battler, has es ablished headquarters at Buenos Aires and soon will pet down to active training for his scheduled ,match with Luis Angel Firpo, the ione-wild bull of the Pampas, Feb. 1. Roherti made known his plans in a cablepram to Humbert Fugazy, ri- i\'nl of Tex Rickard in promoting iboxing bouts here. Provided Firpo can get by Roberti’'s big fists, the Argentine plans a comeback in American rings with the heavy- /weight crown as his objective, I teams ever to represent | the New Departure Co. It has won ! MARK FOR LOCAL SPORTS New Britain Hailed as Best Supporting City In Entire State—All Branches Had Unprecedented Success— Basketball, Baseball, Roller Hockey and Fights All Flourished During 1928—Indoor Season Progress- ing Satisfactorily at Present, New Britain rightfully earned the reputation of being the best sports center in the state of Connecticut during the year of 1928, a survey of the sports situation shows. With the varlety of sports promotions conducted here and the success with which all of them met, the fans of this city ean well afford to sit back and view with satisfaction the work of the various teams in all branchea. State Champions . New Britain had another state championship team in basketball last year. The New Britain team, managed by Clarence Lanpher, waded through all the opposition fforded it in the state league and |came out the winner of the pen- nant. In competition with teams tother than those in the state ileague, the local quintet mowed {down all sorts of oppositisn and hung up a record that ecompares irnvorab)y with the quintet of 26 years ago. Roller Hockey In roller hockey during the sea- . son which closed last spring, the {New Britain team, though not a championship one, finished well up {in the lists and gave the fans the (feeling that the present season { would be productive of a team that would win the pennant this season. 180 far this year, the’ New Dritain jcrew has come through with a rally |that haa pulled the team from last place to the top of the list. Rotary Boys' League Once again the Rotary Boys' |league was conducted during the past season and proved highly suc- | cessful. It is hinted that the mu- jnicipal recreation board might take over the league next season. Record of Falcons For the sixth successive year the main baseball attraction on Sundays !in this city was furnished by the | Falcons. The Polish aggregation .banded together one of the strongest | semi-pro lineups in the state and were coached by Raymond Begley. The local club entered the Connect icut State-league but the circuit fail- led to interest the fans here and the | I"alcons dropped out. Some of the best attroctions in this state and Massachusetts were { brought here by the Falcons man- {agement and some real baseball classics were staged at St, Mary's ifield. The local club copped its | share of wins and, as a result, large | crowds were present every Sunday. At the end of the scason the Fal- cons entered in a city series with the Stanley Works, Burritts and the Rangers and succecded in capturing its first city champlonship. In the |Greater New Britain series with Kensington, the Paper town team proved too strong with “Coke"” Woodman in the box and the Fal- | cons wer~ forced to take three beat- ings in a row. In all, the Falcons had a very successful year, winning 16 games and losing 8. “Johnny” Klatka, who led the team in batting, was voted the most valuable player on the team and was | presented with a gold watch. Hizh School Activities With the exception of its feat in winning the Triangular football | championship, New Britain high school teams have had mediocre success since January 1, 1928, Th» basketball team divided with Hart- ford and New Haven, winning the | home games and losing the contests in the Capitel and Elm Cities. In baseball New Britain lost both games ;but in the second game Pitcher Joe | | | | | hits. New Britain and New Haven ticd in football, but the Hardware City eleven scored an unexpected victory over Hartford in football. One of the features of the year were two unexpected victories over New Haven Hillhouse high with which the rivalry is second only to that between New Britain and Hart- ford. In basketball the team over- came a big first half advantage and won by a lone basket. In baseball the Hillhouse team came to this city with a record of nine victories, but it lost its first game to New | Britain which had not won & game, In football last fall New Haven was favored to win but it was lucky to tie New Britain. The final whistle kept New DBritain from acoring when it was within a foot of a touchdown. Hartford and New Haven each i gcored more points than New Brite ain in the Triangular track meet, A new plan was decided upon last year in awarding the Willlam F, Burns Memorjal. From now on the award wil be made semi-annually, Fred A. Zehrer was the first mid- vear graduate to win the trophy, He took the honor without opposi- tion. Arnold Reckert was awarded the honor in June over Fred W, Saunders in a very close race. Dusty Basketball Corbin Screw men’'s basketball team proved to he the best tecam in the Industrial League and it won the championship of 1927-28 by a wide margin. On only a few occa- sions did other teams in the leaguse threaten but the Screw Shop men, because of their superior pass work, | beat all opposition and copped the flag. In the Girls’ Industrial league, Coach Clarence Coon brought a team which had finished in last place the year hefore to the chame pionship. 1t was the P. & F. Cor- bin girls’ team. Paul LaHar, captain and forward on the Fafnir Bearing team won the individual scoring championship and as a prize he was given a silver statuette. Mary Motyka, forward on the P. & I Corbin team, won the champlonship in that leaguc. This year a new plan was tried by the industrial council of the Y. M. C. A. which has been sponsoring the industrial leagues for the past five years, A season ticket innovation came into vogue and the result waw that the ticket holders make up & rccord crowd which watches the games. _ The league's record in at- tendan® has been broken several times so far this season. Tast year's champions, Corbin Screw men and P. & K. Corbin girls are again in front in the league standing and both are playing as | good if not better basketball than last year. Boys' Club Sports The Boys' c!"' had a successiul (Continued on Following Page) 1x‘om allowed Hartford only two Sloman. Zakzewski played his usual position at center. Williams, like a wandcrer in a strange country, ap peared slightly nervous at the start but as the game progressed, he worked into his position perfectly and in the second half he wouid have given the Impression that he had been with the team for weeks, He scored three goals that were e on spectacular plays and they helped considerably in the result. Jimmy Zakzewski was high scorer of the night. He made the most of his points in the sccond half. Shee- han scored six and Sloman five while Tom Leary’s lone basket broke the 21-all tie in New Dritain's favor. The visiting delegation received a bad “bre ' early in the second half when Burns, center on the tcam and best performer on ihe auintet, went out on personal fouls, New Dritain an avenue and the locals took advan- of it. Mere words are inade- cribe fully the intense ight. It was by | ed here go | ¥ even the mo 1 of the fans were well h the new eombination. nmt of Game Pioree of the visiting team tossed (in & foul try at the 2:30 mark. Both teams battied until the 7:10 mark before Tiurns broke ¢ r of Zak- wski to toss in the fi ficld goal of the game. after, Zakzew- ki irned th compliment by foul rhet and sending New into the d with a field | NATURED GANG- am car and | e < e 0N S - ML ret visiting guard, and thorn in the side of ti home club all zzed one in for the Favo- Sloman tied the count with try. Ep-tein, at 11:50, popped a long to break the deadlock and give ors a lead of 7 to 5. Burns n got loose and made it 9 to 5. schan was foulrd and he made try good. 1n then made it | ht for New 1 n with a pr oal from in under the . G n got away from Sloman another in and the v N on 1929~ Whean a Feller Needs a Friend DON'T BE SCARED BABY--THEY MAKE A LOTTA NOISE BUT THEY DoN'T HURT NOBODY— THEY ARE MAKING HoacHY BUT THEY'RE A GooD - JUST STEP RIGHT 1IN AND MAKE A RECORD FOR YOURSELF - { | ATTA Baby- P L S/ 757~ 57 S ome_on You Poo —LiTTLE = Wep o Cc