New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1929, Page 20

» NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MARCH 15, FRIDAY, 55085655 NEW BRITAIN BASKETBALL TEAM HANDS MERIDEN ENDEES REAL SHELLACING—HARDWARE CITY HOCKEY TEAM CUTS DOWN ALBANY’S LEAD IN CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYOFF SERIES—CORBIN SCREW AND CABINET LOCK TEAMS PLAY LAST GAMES TONIGHT 5058008008900 0500006504688605505 NEW BRITAIN FIVE BEATS ALBANY IN FIFTH BATTLE Hardware City Roller Hockey Quintet Cuts Down Lead of New York State Team in Playoff Series—Vis- itors Fail to Score After First Period—*Kid” Wil- liams and Brother “Red” Stage Scoring Sprees— (:azzinga Stars With Spectacular Defense. New Britain Will Second Period W W COURT LEAGLE T0 CLOSE SKTURDAY Saturday Afternoon Circuit Schedules Final Games GA7 Halfba On the Herzstrom Second Game Corsairs SHORTSTOP FIND Rookir Narlesky Will Have To 3¢ Given Serious Consideration This Scason. 15 (P— derful work 2ot to New 1 there i four seem goal * Williams to pic he frame side. the runner a L On the next ot the spot clear and rive towards Albany ed high into the rebound, it just cl head. As it hit with a Babe Ruth swing, just right and hatted third goal of the period. It was a great play. Lunderville, just before the period ended, scored the last counter of the frame leaving the count four to three for New B in, Albany was completely st d in the second period although the play continued as fast as ever. “Moll Morrison. continuinz his spectac r defensive work, kept “Kid” Williams covered up all through this session, but “Red” took up the ot his second secont < caming d ser coneht it Dykes Receives Injury | In Practice Contest a., March 15 (®P— Jimmy Dykes ran second I man, was injured in yesterday's tilt with the Phillies at Winter Haven when Lefty O’Doul slid into second of his fingers was cut so hadl that it is feared he will not be abi- to play for at least two w His place probably will be taken by Max Bishop, who signed his con- reins and tract Wednesday night. ) TS GETNG | S FOR BATRE Burritts and Phantoms fo Clash | at Arena Saturday Night ntra-city basketball competition | iorway Saturday evening | Arena when the Bur- | «ntoms meet in the first | c-game series. Both | primed for a hard | place their strongest | floor. Although no - is attached to the . promised plenty of ball when the two quin- | five has crashed | S victories over teams in the state and | twice. However, | the Burritts aveng- | blots against their record by | Included in the Bur- | list of victims are the Savitt of Hariford, last year's eity| the Simsbury town \pions of the Farmington | igue last season and the| Communitie last year's or champions. | Phantoms, following their cular wins in the Boys' club| ment last year, Kept up their| scason and have | or a number of team i ng spirit and has out of the firc anding. has announced It 18 expected start with forwards; Darrow and Carlson, s will probably for ley scored strong agi known f vict the MERIDEN TEAMS T0 PLAY LOCALS Silver City Handballers Invade This City Tonight ; | dball teams will in- | night to battle lo- re will be sev- that call for n. Mag and Hawkins, will try conclusions br rs team, | pions, “Doc" Wasko . will meet il n, state sing cr “Doc” can 1 ndball tricks that state champ re- will undo 3 team that toes the inst them is in for a ion. “Bert” Loomis, the handball commit- all the arrangements. open doubles cham- arly over with four keying for safe positions nd Mangan added three more heir credit without a loss, | 11 so did the Dressel-Crowe team. Anderson-Hergstrom team is till in fourth position doing abso- to lack of com- disinclination of the team to accept a and the Mug-Hawkins due the Terrible on the Mag- | some reason or | m has dodged the ue it again, newspaper | Mag-Hawks dnesday night 30 p. m. Standing ks n 1 but fo we tr 16 latter te ow the the ne through Won. Lost 0| M | | Conley - Sheehan . SENATORS LOOK 600D Wa-hington Nationals Seem Destined For Higher Place In Ihis Year. March 15 (®— mean anything, t Washington Nationais ar are headed for highet 1 the American League. raight victories have becn up in the Grapefruit including one yesterday st the National League champ- ion Cardinals, whereas at this period last season e Nats had lost their t two starts and had got no bet- ter than a draw in their third con- st with the Boston Braves. Man- Johnson was particularly Iked at the showing yesterday of | Madley, who toiled thr on the mound and allowed but two hits. “Sad Sam” Jones signed his contract. Whether the ciub or Jones gave ground over salary was not revealed. THREE GAME SERIES Fort Worth, Tex., March 15 (P— Boasting four straight exhibition victories over the Dallas Steers, the White Sox moved upon the Fort Worth Cats for a three-game se- rics today. Most of the White Sox are in good condition, except Outfielder Johnny Mostil, whose infected toe is caus- “m: him some trouble, | 14—Southington {Don Lew Standing lnin; here today. ® 9888 £ 2500000025600 STATE COUNTY “Y” INTERMEDIATE CHAMPS Left to right: Rev. Vernon L. Phillips, coach; Chotkowski, center; Tsaacson, guard; B. Clark, guard; D. Lewis, forward and captain; Gotowala, forward. CORBIN TEAMS T "~ FINISH SEASON Screw Shop and Cabinet Lock End Dusty League Play Tonight Standi bhasket- The day at lea miracles—in past, of ball, for = 11 in the league 1 on four suc- t—is not group of young Kensington players with but little experience on court stepped out year «nd brought a wonderful advanced suddenly son 1o a climax last season by ning the state county Y. M. C. A championship. T group, the Kensington Boys® Intermediates, won 15 games in 18 rts and was undefeated in s eight lcague and state tournament I3 termediate club) ames I'or several years Rev Phillips, pastor of the Congregational church, director of the Kensington club, has been experimenting with basketball teams, but lack of experi- ence andl absence of a playing floor have severely handicapped his play- ers. This year the Boys' club senior team finished the season with its usual string of defeuts, but the| intermediate quintet, imbued with a fine spirit which never left it until the state title was safely won, began to take hold win games from the very start of the season. Sntered in the Hartford County termedinte league, the K sington entry swept through the cir- without 1t to repr the sta ng Vernon T W Kens coach ton 1 Boys' nirs Russwin . Works eing Corbin Cabinet N. B. Machine P. & ¥. Carbin ... Landers ......., 2 Tonight's gunies he Industrial Rasketball gue W mark the close of the season for 1wo mem of the Corbin family Stanl Jimmy 14 Corlin Screw, champions, will play th v Works and Corbin Cahinet cll & Erwin, The nes to be played Al will bring t or in Machine and Stan- ams. Il four teams in a po- the second p and came n Machine game hefore ind Landers, the 1 does not the s its will find New n of it a loss ¢ wins th sched themsel Rritain Harto i te Dri E are fanlt in the first round, the sition to capture cled to Danbury and def 21 county in a fast game two points it capped campaign by ng the final ¢ from Woodstock Academy last & urday afternoon in a wild overtims contest in Middletown The team's record in league tourney play was as follows: 27—Highland Park . wmatics a last place 1s hiad enoy mley first three I & Frw Three o g tonig ge of the to the will mea s history and it doc Stanley n the Wor honor. n honor, 0 in a posi nto the cellar cams be a b in some « tion. Stanley race will ind elimina- v with aspirants Shotton Pleased With Showing of Phillies March (2 11 pleased with Works task of tie 1 iled to play t The Screw Shop outfit yearing in its last game in the hest of kpirits the Philadelphia cinched the pennant th lo: of their Works will play on each of the three fit bition st yesterday remaining nights on the schedul d if it wins tonight it will be hard to stop in the other games, Russell & Erwin is tied with the | Stanley Works for fourth place in the standing and it has a chance to move into the place exclusively if it ving over Corbin Cabinet Lock w € the Stanley Works n Corbin re Nyhorg's R. has dest cd- can. ap ght becau, e Cort 24— West will = —Wapping ... outhington shotton ion of despite & ng irfield Academ 18—F 18—Woodstock s the work . former Cardi- 198 o dent games and rar 3 164 for its oppone nakir tal scason 406 as | by out of 10 indep points to won seve g its to- the its fo pointage f 5 for Chotkowski the 1lea ing scorer of the teum, making points 1in the eight County v he losin tain “Nibl team is playi to zo to Fort A return oy 2 held him MERIDEN OUTCLASSED BY HARDWARE CITY QUINTET |Almost Perfect Teamwork of New Britain Team Com- pletely Dazzles Silver City Opponents — Arbure Holds Herm Cohen Scoreless Throughout Game— Final Count is 36 to 20—Locals Held Scoreless for First 11 Minutes—Sloman is High Scorer. After being held scoreless from |early part of the second half start. [the floor for 11 minutes in the first | ed the locals off on a scoring spurt half last night, the almost perfect|that lasted throughout the rest of basketball muchine -wearing Hard- | the game. The Fordham captain ware City colors began functioning |caged three one-handed shots, in the and from then on the Meriden En-|meanwhile holding Cook and Rothe dees were completely outplayed in|enfeld to one basket apiece. “Jiggs™ every department of the gamec.|Donoghue battled on even terms at | Dazzling passes, wonderful floorwork | center with “Jerry” Conway and fed |and deadly shooting by New Britain | his team mates with the ball for & |proved more than enough for the|number of their baskets. Endecs to contend with and, as a S d A Slo Zakze sult, the orange-jerseyed five rolled | e mang parzowekl continued up a 36 to 20 score in the first game | o0 TECLRE C e PEY o e jward pesitions and caged 20 of the lof a home and home series played |1gca1 i 8 als 36 points between them. Sloe in Mcriden, It was the worst defeat | o= C 0 e O t that Meriden has received on its own || ppad his dcammates in soote el ing, dropping in 11 points. With {580 2 . {three minutes to go, Manager Lane The Meriden aggregation left the pher sent in his entire reserve {court a badly beaten and subdued | force, | team. Stars he calibe; “ohe £ - o am. Stars of the caliber of Cohen, | oo priatin talifed 13 baskets from the floor while holding Merie den to five. Both teams scored ten free tries apiece. The game was handled very well by Ball and Coyle, although there were numerous pro- tests made against the laxity of Coyle in calling travelling. Details of Game The teams battled for four mine |utes before Zakzewski dropped in & |foul point. Arburr made it 2.0 with |another foul at the 4:30 mark. Hen. ny Cohen got Meriden's first point at the 6.20 mark on a foul. Gilkenson put the Endees ahead shortly after on a basket. At the 11 minute mark, Sloman tied the score at 6 all with a basket, New Britain's first of the game. Zakzewski caged a twin counter to put New Britain ahead lat the 14 minute mark. I'rom then lon the locals began to draw away |from the Endees and held a 14 to 9 advantage at the half. Second Half w Britain started off like a cy- clone in the second half and with baskets by § FRANK (WANK) ARBURR. | 7.}z \\.:\v),' rnl::mt?;-"n”oufi}r;"g l.o:: lat the seven minute mark. Here the Endecs cailed time out but on the resumption of play, the orange- |jerseyed men literally filled the | Meriden basket with points, This victory put New Britain out in front in the race for the state championship. In the elimination series, the local have scored victor- ies over hoth Bristel and Meriden, | Bristol has split in two games while | Meriden has lost two games. Meri- e N,.y‘m n and New Britain will meet in & inics return game at the Stanley Arena 4 defensive game, neither Saturday evening. The FEndees® 4 to pierce the |lineup will be bolstered by the ade Stone wall i fonee of its opponents, |dition of Wineapple, All-America At the 11 minute mark, Sloman |college guard. i Britain's first basket of [ The summary: [ the ga nd that was the signal| * New Britain rious attack on the Endee Fld I"rom that point on Meri- | Zakzewskl, rf ,.... den was never in the running, being | Restelli, y powerless to do anything |Sloman, ay of scoring and showing | Donoghue, lity on the defense. The|Holst, o players hurried the shots of | Dougherty, rg Meriden five at every turn and | hefore the middle of the sccond half, {1he Endees were missing even the Lackbonrd. | The work of the entire team fea- red the work of locals, 1t was i treat to watch the short, snappy passes of the New Britain team that cventnally led to easy scores. How- [Cook, If .. cver, the fans mmet once again take Rothenfeld, off their lats to “Hank” Arburr, |Conway, ¢ New Britain's sterling guard. Pitted Henny Cohen, inst the clever Cohen, considers| McCarthy, Ff ... o one of the best court performers Gilkenson, 1g .. his scction of the country, Arburr completely tied him up in a knot and | scoreless from the floor.| Score at half time, 14-9, nies, Cohen has been able | Britain. Referee, Ball. Umpire, only one basket on Arburr. Coyle. Timer, Burns. Scorer, Saune ‘Dougherty’s work in the ders. Conway and Gilkenson were made to 100 like schoolboys as the New Britain team passed the ball around Ithe floor with perfect timing and beantiful acenracy. So completely New Britain the master of the Lndees that practically all of its haskets were made inside the foul the players cutting for the has- to make easy goals time after lin ket time, Sloman Scores The game started off the first ten irst ha eton wa friet arcgation heing able ol H Fi 3 Cew in e litile ¢ Jocal Sheehan, Ig loawasd 2 EY Meriden 2 Herm Cohen, rf . 13 g . 10 In two to score “Doc’ an John Gotowala and Car s followed him, while But the guare lividual scori at telling the ss, for no son would be c ing full credit to ling deten- | ive play of the team. especially of Isaacson and Clark. These two con- | tented themselves with staying in| |the backcourt and breaking up the plays of the opposing teams, and | they did their job well. So consist- ently did Clark stick to this seldom | apprec 1 but vitall |role that he did |goal all season. Vet relenting of a kindl Clark who was fouls i put in 1 point which won state cham- pionship for his 1c | Oddly, out % foul shots by | the team, 14 ¢ 1 the final two | games, n th de needed. 1n these made seven out Lewis put in t dividual scoring re crs in the County iows: - Oh, Man! = ] WELL GEORGE-~ I'VE A BiG SURPRISE FOR You - WHAT Do You SUPPOSE the tear of the s without giv- Hory GUESS - - GOING LP AN 14 rough som: ate, it w | g of re | Chotkowski JUST THINK- | | Gotowala HIGH- - YoV’ GOING D‘% To- ND VLL BE \__MORROW wein S N THE 0- 0 85 28-53 198 Gotowala made personal fouls, | | Chotkowski 16, Lewis 12, Tssacson, {12, Clark, 3; Myers, 1, and Hall, 1. ROOT GETS TEST TODAY I Los Angeles, Cal., March 15 (#— Charlie Root, ace of all Cub pitch- | ers in 1927 and one of the big dis- | appointments in 1925, was to re- ceive his first real test of the season | toda: | Manager Joe McCarthy announced | he would use Rcot against the J.os Angeles club in the opening game | of their 28 game schedule, bcgin-‘ You'tL NEVER AEROPLANE L BE 10,000 FEET Be JOWN HERE BY BRIG GET ME ? P IN AN AEROPLQNE ' lN' . wWeLL | GUESS L I'LL Go AND FEED TH' FACE Ulh Y,