New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1929, Page 10

HAKOAH BASKETBALL TEAM MEETS LOCALS HERE TONI BRITAIN TOMORROW—FAFNIRS DEFEAT STANLEY RULE IN INDUSTRIAL LEA AMERICAN HORSE FAVORED IN NATIONAL FALL RIVER HOCKEY TEAM ~ APPEARS HERE TOMORROW Fast Traveling Bay State Outfit Meets New Britain At Stanley Arvena—Locals Anxious to Win and | Keéep Advantage—St. Aubin and Boucher Form Real Threat On Offense—Williams and Thompson "Ready for Tough Battle—Starts at 3:30 o’Clock. BIG CROWD WILL ATTEND BENEFIT Basketball Players to Perform Tor Saunders Wednesday . Indications point to a record g back the fast-travelling | o000 Ui Stanley Arena next gr club in the game tOMOI- |\ . qay cvening when the Bur- F it the Stanley Arend. | iy qpetball team clashes with | %2 iggregation since the | . o ong Meriden Community five $o-ol Bl Aubln, has beed i\y pencfit game for Fred- Saun- « uli the other clubs in| ... ‘Tpe Burritt and Corbin Screw J¢ and only last Wednesday | copior* was badly injured New ¢ ited Albany and EaVe|yeaiyg gay i the Burritt-Bristol Yt “the opportunity Offy,io"gume at the Arena when he # "back the New York teami,ro apj the cords in his leg and iy ng first place. _|created water on his knee. He has 7 er to hold on to its advan- |, ., “confined to his bed since the ! the present time, the New |, 4ot ang doctors in attendance team must win from Fall) i 1hat he will be out of basket- tmorrow afternoon. St Au-ly,; pormanently. Saunders was Harkina, backed by "BIb"| o1, ging scorer of the Burritts at form one of the mOStly . ino of nis accident and was #upl.cus offensive combinations Iny, o¢ (he best offensive men on re American league and £ 4 8¢ |both the Burritt and Corbin Screw filan an) Betney DOherly | teams. He was known for his abil- g 2neie BanRce 3 3 ity to get the tap. being known as Attack. the best high school center in the 4" Brown and Jimmy Purcell a2 4 ; urcell | ate last scason. He captained last 9 2 Fall River's defense in the| .o, "yjcn sohool five and led his 6‘"““"‘ Suta sirouy Settor= team to victorics over some of the p defensive team. i c fives 1 he S Britain will beve :s reguiar s:;&::.cst high school fives in the A L e vrenrme| 8o far tnis season the Burritis A Tf.":,’:.'::;'";‘: ‘;“ ‘I);‘:?':‘,myhs\'e scored 13 victories out of 14 flh’ 1ab Tront gamo with Gaszinga |82mes. their ouly defeat coming at B e e Meherty, " the | the hands of the Meriden Communi- ¥ " ties, The two aggregations met be- hatmk the 1e88Ue:|iorc Christmas and the locals were "%":“ AP Th‘e contest | defeated after a bitter battle, the e 28 to 19. Since then Be preceded by an amateur been running wild M;,'";S';::"’.‘:::&z ’":‘: through the state's best teams s iyt n o have run up a string of nine b ek :ch,zc,?m" same Will| g raight victories. Included in their . Defeated By Fall River New Britain received a temporary setback ' Iast night in Fall River when the local team went down to defeat 7 to 6 in a game that went into an overtime period. The teams ended the first period tied, cuch scored a goal in the second and eni- ed the third game in a deadlock. 8t. Aubir score the winning counter in the cvertime period. The summary: Linui:ps Last Night's Results Fall River 7, New Britain 6. a New Britain.. 2 Albaay .... Waterbury . Fall River . Providence .. 16 Games Tonight New Britain at Waterbury. I'all River at Providence, 15 16 1t 19 18 Lo New Britain will have a hard task o of the Farmington Valley league last scason, and the leaders of the Hartford amateur lcague. The Communitics have yet to taste | defeat and are in the midst of a game winning streak. The Merid aggregation captured the state se pro title last year by winning 35 ouf of 38 games. The Burritls were 0 of the teams to score a victory ove the Communitics, The peak of the ed last Tues cason was reach- by the Communit when they stepped out of their class and banded the strong Middlctown | Red Wings a neat trouncing. In- cluded in the Middletown lineup was | the names of such stars as Taylor, Reynolds, Carlson, Miurm and Car- roll, The Burritts have tho junior championship of the state practic ly clinched and hope to get a strong grasp on the semi-pro title by even- ing up the serics with the Com- munities. The Meriden management has promiscd to bring its strongest team and this means plenty of trou- ble for the locals. Teammates of Vred nders on the Burritts and Corbin Screw team will make up the starting lincup of the locals. Yakubowicz, Corbir Screw and Burritt star, will start in one forward position. Havlick, reg- ular Burritt forward, will team up with Yakubowicz. Luty, Corbin Screw and Burritt pivot man, will take care of center. Darrow, Cor- bin Screw and Burritt guard, will ‘Waterbury Tonight {team up with Carlson, Burritt guard, Tied with Waterbury foliowing its in the back court. Gill and Ros defeat_in Fall River last night, Ncw | will be ready to take the floor wh Britaia will have a chance to agsin |needed. With the above players, the take sole possession of first place by | Burritts arc confident that they will defeating Waterbury tonight. The cxtend the Communities to the ut- local team will play ‘n the Bruslmmlt City, The Landers girls’ team will clash Y SATURDAY LEAGUE iy s e five in the preliminary. This game Bear Cats to Battie Corsairs While Tigérs Clash With Panthers To- ‘. w Britain Williams ... Thompson . Gnesinga Doherty .. Weleh .. Fall Ruver St. Aubin Harkins . Boucher . Brown .. Purcell B | e Goals Scored by New Britain Fall River New Britain ,Fall River Caged by Time Willams ”:56 8t. Aubin 7:19 Accidental 42 Boucher Fall River New Britain Third Boucher ‘Withams Fall River Fall River New Britain New Britain Fall River Harkinx New Writain ‘Williams Overtime Period Fall River st. Aubin Rushgs 8t. Aubin 8, \\lllllm! 8. Stops: Welch b6, Purcell 47. Foul Deherty, Brown. Referee, Cusick. Harki-s §t. Aubin Thompson ‘Thompron 5 L] 7 [ 1 10 1 12 13 tle. Abe Aronson will be the sixtn | man on the fioor, Arrangements for the card h.uu‘ been completed through the cooper- | ders, list of victims is Simsbury, winners| ) s | New Britain Machin: | minute later, but Landers again went |and promises to be an interesting bat- | '\ " | points when his team was under fire NEW RRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1929, FAFNIR QUINTET DEFEATS RULERS Gorbin Screw Team Nearly As- sured o Championship standing Corbin Screw 1 Stanley Rule 3 Fafnirs .. 3 anley Works. Corbin Cabinet . N. B. Machine tusswin P. & F. Landers S Despite a strong uphill fight by the Stanley Rule basketball team in the first of three Industrial League games played at the Tabs hall last night, Fafnir Bearing, playing in great form, retained an early lead and won 27 to 20. Fafnirs are now in third place, exclusively, within a few percentage points of Stanley Rule which retained its second-place standing despite its defeat. In the second game of the night, New Britain Machine defeated Lan- 4 to 14, and the last resulted in a 21 to 15 victory for Russell & Erwia over Stanley Works, Rulers Off Form Fafir had its strongest lincup in the fisld with “Gerry” Gierochow- ki, rangy center, back on the squad | after being out of town on a business | trip. His strong game in the back court was one the team's best assets and on several occasions he used his height to advantoge in getting the ball. Al Havlick also played a fine zame and between them they scored 20 of their team’s 27 points. “Jim- my” Murphy of the Rulers did a good joh of guarding Belser. The Fafnir team, displaying a good passing attack, brought the score to 18 to § at half time. The summary: Fafnir 4 5 A 6 Corbin . 3 6 1 9 Pelser, rf ... Havlick, 1f .. Gierochowski, ¢ McGrath, rg Mieczkowsk Warnicki, rg . Feloin, rg . Matulis, Ig Total Gill, rf Corazzo, 1% .. Murphy, Ig ... Total Score at referec, Butler, half time, 18-8, Coyle; timer, Sikora; scorer, Lead Chauges Often The lead in the New Britain Ma- | wers game changed of was ticd at 3-all when the | s nearly four minutes oul. took the lead on foul shot a half a Augustine’s into the two-pointer, The Newmatics regain vantage on Ernic a minute later and seconds later went further in the icad 8§ to b ‘harlow then scored two foul goa a ficld goal and within thre minutes and a half of the end it was again in 1 dersi favor 9 to 8. Ernic Anderson made it 10 to 9, but Charlow was fouled and he made both tries good. "I'he score was tied lead 5 to 4 on Charlow’s d the ad- Anderson's basket | put his team in a two point lea after the second half opened, Captair | of {he Newnatics who | had shifted to forward made three £00d shots from the firld and added a foul tally to put his team in an 18 | to 13 lead. This was the advantage | his team needed and it rode on tu | 34 points while the Universal teau was collecting a foul goal. | The Machine Shop team held | landers to three points in the scc- | ond half. Once again it was the offnsive work of “Chick” Charlow | which featured for landers and | once again it was Niek Arena “hu“ starred for New Britain Machine Augustino played a hard floor gam ni Anderson made timely remarkabic | in the first half. The summary: New Britain Mac) ation of Clarence Lanpher, manager of the New Britain basketball team, Al Havlick, captain of the Purritts and Br Long, a member of the | Industrial council at the Y. M. C All the members of the Burritts and | | Corbin Screw team, together V\Ill‘ private individuals, are aiding in | making the . day. In the first game of the Y Satur-| day Afternoon Basketball league to be played at the Y. M. C. A. gym this afternoon, the Bear Cats mest the Cersairs while in the sccond and | final contest, the Tigers will clash | with the Panthers. The lincups fol- | affair a succe: WANTS MORE MONEY Corsairs ... Licnhard, Ferony | left forward A. Scavillo ... right forward Knowles, center Scheidel, Hergstrom right guard Chester left guard Franks Hack Wilson Refuses to Classify Rakowski Kochan| Himself As Mcmber of dic Hold- | } out League, 5 b GIBDOTE| sy, Wb, B WPE—Hinck Wilson, | ' iome run getter of the Chicago Cubs | vants more money this vear, but he At docsn’t classify himself as a “hold- Tigers Panthers | “U00 K. Baunders ,............ Feren o v)"m"' right forward el Kaplan % }“ 1 Alvord, e ft forward P s over salary, he said he Balcunius, Karlonis a int owner- ue home t two not signed lis 1929 con- re certain differences he advised friends, but was confident the diffi- | A |culty would be scitled in time Salwockly " 1o catch the Cub sp California, February Dennis J. Murphy, Cub catcher, has heen releas the Reading, Pa., club of the Inter- national League. This leaves the Cubs with on . Leo | who has lield T. Scavillo, s Firnhaber g Aronson - . Colwick center P. Parretta edans right guard loft guard OPTION ON PITCHER Feb. 9 P — Art Griggs, owner of the Wichita club of the Western league. has given|j ¢ and 1wo rookhic the Pittsburgh Nationals an option | Atlanga and Lobert Grace on Herb Sanders, pitcher. Sanders Ark turned in a brilliant record last vear with Wichita. of itoc SHORTEST —_— “stretel BOTH FROM SA TOWN nore Dick Lawrence, lorida's track | Lyle. captain this vear. followed a fel- helieved lest low townsman, Dick Trogdon. as|and shori-st Ten captain. Both are from Mecl- | hasketbell. T Pui- bourne, Fia. AND TALLEST Murphy, inches six Clyde only a few 2 five than feet, are | Mars-ti | the | put Stanley Works in Hartnett and Mike regu- | Little | | due. ; ] Ernie Anderson, rf 3 Augustino, If Lockwell, ¢ Arena, rg-rf Swanson B, Preisse 14 Totals Mil Char Chotkowski, [ 1928, | the field, almost three minutes | g Billy in the coming Grand Nutional steeplechase, the Aintree course, near Liverpool, the last Iriday in Barton, the 11-year-old jumper, will try again March—which happens to be the 29th. Due to his heroic showing in the same event in the veteran has been installed a co-favorite to ! cop the famous English classic this year. is 16 to 1. Going into the last hurdle last year and and after being re- mounted came on to finish second to Tipperary Tim, a the gseat horse fell 100 to 1 shot. tred by A. L. 1920, nary company. Mose Goldhldlt Ferguson in Kentucky, son of Huon and Mary le Bus came to the races in and ran without distinguishing himself in ordi- with a keen cye for the a horse, claimed him in th for racing at Havana that wi Goldblatt handled few months later he sold h A. Stoneham, owner of the Havana track. held at His price be barred by every flat rac leading | after passing through severa of Maryland. Bruce put the horse to j developed into one of the b the Grand National he put to horscflesh. The dista vards. brown | him with such owner of the New York Yanks, A gradually growing ltmp\‘r finally caused him to inte the hands of Howard Bruc: is one of the most seve GHT—FALL RIVER ROLLER HOCKEY QUINTET CLASHES WITH NEW;_ GUE—AMATEUR BOXING MONDAY—NEWS T ‘ HAKOAH QUINTET OF NEW YORK TO BATTLE LOCALS American Basketball League Sensations to Make First Appearance Here of the Season—Davey Banks and Nat Holman Playing With Visitors—Combination Rated As One of the Fastest in the Country—Hard- ware City Has Revamped Lineup. BURRITTS EXPECT A TOUGH BATTLE Slated to Meet Fast Terryville ‘Maple Ends Tonight Fans are .promiscd & fast battle this evening at the Stanley Arena when the Burritt. basketball team clashes with the Terryville Maple Ends in an attempt to score its tenth straight victory and its 14th win of the season. The Terryville aggregation is undefeated up to date and has beaten some of the beat quintets in-the district of Waterbury. The Maple Ends’ lineup is dotted with well known players and the manager of the visitors is confident that his team will bring the win- ning streak of the Burritts to an abrupt end, The Burritts are just as confident that they will continue their victorious march toward the state title and will start their strongest lineup. The locals are anxious to eliminate the Terryville five from the title fight so that they may be ready to dispute the claims of the Meriden Communities. Yakubowicz and Havlick will ap- pear in the forward positio Luty will jump center, while Darrow and Carlson will guard the backcourt. Gill and Rose will be the reserve men, The game will mart at 8 o'clock and will be followed by the New Britain-Hanonak battle, CHURCH LEAGUE GAMES Pirst Lutherans Meet St. Mark's Team While St. Matts Clash With starter in the land, and | Stanley Memorial. 1 owners' stables he came | 0 en Ghurch . son of Scnator Bruce | g one County Y, New Britain Sloman Zakzewski Donoghue Sheehan Leary Hakoahs Moskow .tz Bauks Chazmadig Holnl-ll’l RF Ly c RG LG New Britain’s revamped Uaskete ball team featuring Jimmy Lakfi.vl- ski at forward and *“Jiggs” Done oghue at center, will face one of th greatest court combinations in’ the country tonight at the Stanley Arena when the Hakoah quintet of New York makes its first appearance here. The visiting team is one of the biggest attractions in the Ameri- can circuit and should proye te ‘be one of the best attractions of the en- tire season here, Davey Banks and Nat Roluun. two former members of the world's championship Celtic team of New York city, contribute more than any- thing else to the extraordinary draw- ing power of the New York team but any of the other players on the squad are equal in ability to these two. Banks plays a forward and he has for his running mate, Mosko- witz who has appeared here & num- ber of times as a member of the Hebrew Giants of New York, Hole man in guard, has for his running mate, Goldberg, one of the best pldyers in the metropolitan section, Chazmadie, the center, a lanky boy who will give “Jiggs" Donoghue plenty of work. Sloman and Zakzewski will .play forward for New Britain. Donoghue will be at center while the guards have not yet been chosen, The two will be picked from Leary, Sheechan and Arburr, This combination -uccneded n winning the first game in seven starts for New Britain, After a slump extending over six weeks, New Britdin last Tuesday night handed the Manchester Recreations their first defeat on their home floor and their second defeat of the scason. From all the advance reports, the local quintet will be back in shape to give the Hakoahs a run for the victory and plenty of interest is bes ing shown In the game. The cone test will start promptly at 9 o'clock, e fall as a good prospect inter success that a 000 to Charles then im for $3 league games M. C. A. league contest will be offered basketball fans at the local “Y” tonight. In the first game the First ‘Lutheran &rinds | chyreh quintet, which came through ince is four miles and 865 (e fipst round of play with a record unblemished by defeat, will meet where he quickly In umping, est horses in America. ENTERS WEST POINT Linton, Ind., Feb. 9 (M—Charleg “Chuck” Bennett, one of the gre est halfbacks in Indiana univer. O’BRIEN IS FAVORED TO BEAT SUNNY BOY HAYDEN | Battler From Brightwood A.C. Greatly Improved Since | o Last Year—Johnny Clinch May Fight Ray Dolan ¢ On Monday Night Card—Basile and Carter Both to Appear in Tournament—Franco-American Club | Enters Six Boys—Ten Bouts Planned. 1 “Sunny B little amateur battler from - Bristol, faces his toughest ; Arena when he meets Billy O'Brien of Westfickd, Mass;, onc of the aces of the Rrightwood A. C. lin the feature bout of the amateur fight tournament. Hayden has been winning consistently bouts staged by the club but the Westficld hoy has been made the favorite by the fans who know both boys. The two met in this city last September at Rialto hall on Broad street and four-round draw. Since that time, both Dboys have been anxious to meet each other again and Monday night will be their first opportunity. it is said, has improved onsiderably since that time while | Hayden has most certainly not been standing still. This bout should be i full of action. Johnny Clinch may be seen on {he card against Ray Dolan of the Franco-American club of Water- |bury. If Clinch is not available, Carl Murphy of Westfield will re- ceive the call to tackle the Brass city boy. Clinch recently won a close decision over Dolan at the anley Arena but Dolan feels con- fident he will beat whichever oppo- nent is picked for him. “Kid" Carter of Middictown and | Jackie Basile of Bristol, the two scrappers who furnished three rE 4 1 1 W, Prei 5 L. Anderson Totals Score at half time, Timer, Russwi Circus sho Nyborg of the cam in the fi gouls by Geo half, and the play of “Bifty” game were thé decided the Russwin me in favor of K. score was 21 1o 15, Russell & Erwin took an early lead and retained it until 15 seconds before the half fime whistle when Reckert made a long shot which 410 1o 9 lead. minutes and thirty seconds the sccond halt wpened Morelli the score at 1u-all. “Mike" another cffort. a field goal, and was in the lead again Haigis and © on two foul » week be- find- [0 11-11 aptain & halt: timely Luke in the wonderful Levine fieid second defensive throughout factors which Stanley Works & E. The final Three after tied fouled ht, this po and th scored a o vas 14 to 12 in favor (Continurd on Foliowing L'age) "lom field goal | rounds of spectacular action last | Monday night, will be secn on “the ¢ will not battle each Basile will meet Joe Ricclo erbury while Carter will I'aul Lord. brother of Eddic Carter and Dasile will prob- “lably e matched in the feature | pout the following week. In the tournament which will con- of 10 rounds, the Westfield and FFranco-American teams will hold the center of intcrest. Matchmaker Wagner, in his efforts to provide the very best in amateur fighting for the fans who patronize shows, has secured a banner attraction in the | Bay State combination. The Bright- | wood A. C. fighters have fought in many cities in this state and they |have always acquitted themselves with credit. The first g0 on at FIGHTS LAST NIGHT card but th other. T | tackle hout Monday night will o'clock sharp. By 1 Noew| won r. New from Bud Taylor, Tod. (1), Trish Bobby City, ontpointed New York, (10), Niw York. stopped Jersey City, (5). Albany, N. Y., out- Yorl Sing York, o Tommy Decrler Calino in the weekly | Hayden, pleasurabie | pointed York, oronto—Corporal Jzzy Schwartz, New Yor tanger, Charlerol, | Bradley, Chicago (6). Toledo—Murray York, ledo (10). i pointed the fight resulted in w | N'Y. Ttaly, .Oh, 4. assignment i outpointed Joe Scalfaro, several weeks Monday night at the | 10y 10). and Phil Curry, Detroit. Hollywood. [ Cnve ffalo, R | Cedar y Ray g0, ¢ Omahi Los Ang | knocked | dinnapotis Trankle Archie Carvaba Bell. Inrmkl ew York, | TURN oh M | ehampion . outpointed nchy Be- { sulesman Toronto, (10); Williv Davis Pa. outpointed Ituby Gitlit outpointed Joe Packo, Babe Keller, Tolcdo, out- Mike Marcell Rochester, Danny Levine, Detroir, drew um MON outpointed Clay ‘ Man! MV FRIEND- | YouR TROUBLE 15 - IN The FIRST PLACE You CoOME BACK Too FAST On YouR BACK swWinG LET ME SHOW YouU WHAT \ MEAQ - I'M SURE ITLL GREATLY IMPROVE YouR GAME - KEEP THE LEFT FORE ARM STIFF — ELBOW, CLOSE To THE BoDY City, Maire, San Diego, out e PR | ¢ 1 HNOW WHAT the St. Mark's Episcopalian tcam. The Swedes arc long favorites, hut the Episcopalians have been show- ing improvement steadily and scorcd victory over the Stanmors game, advancing to fourth place, so that if the Luther- ans go into tonight's game in an over-confident manner they are like- {1y o be tripped up. The game will Jimmic Beeker, | it ar 7:30 o'clock. The $t. Matthew's German Luth- crans, striving desperately 1o get back into the race after two defeats, will tackle the Stanley Memori church in the second contest. The St. Matts have lost two of the hard- batties of the scason during the st two weeks and are a very dan- gerous team, while the Stanmors have shown their teeth upon occa- sion and gave the Germans a hard met before, South Congregational outfit idle in the church league, will he host to the Bristol Congregational church aggregation in a County gue game. The locals are tied with Plainville for first place and need fonight's game fo stay there, 50 they will throw their full array of strength against the tail- 'enders in order to remain in front and meet Plainville in the play-off. Bristol, however, has other ideas and has rebuilt its team in an effort to {knock off the New Britain qquintet, sity's football history, may carry on for the Army's gridiron forc Bennett has been notificd that successfully passed all_rcquitem: s and examinations to enter Wit Point. If he goes out for the Army team, he seems certain' to win a berth. He was All-Big Ten halfbicl last season. Cal., (10). b, Y Meyer he li.—Bobby 0O'Dowd. lowi, outpointed Kunsas City (10). Wis.—Johnnie Cic uth, and Jrew (10). Cul.—Be: Knocked otit apids, dom, MIX FOOTBALL AND LACROUSSE Navy athletic authorit be- lieving facrosse good training for foothall, encourage all gridiron players to play lacrosse during the season. ROLLER HOCKEY SUNDAY AFTERNOON 3:30 o'Clock Stanley Arena FALL RIVER vs. NEW BRITAIN Amateur Game at 2:30 Phone 2644 For Rescrvations Wright Ma IHouse, N. M.—Eddie . lobhy Bridges, Mack In- (6). Mass.—-Chick ated Tony Suggs, |1 Mandell, NS HAND TO S artin, former of the A, for an h is now n Akron, Ohio firm. 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