New Britain herald., 1914-11-23
cked Off the Spot.

cked Off the Spot.
 ew Britain club has begun
 Its pace and last week won
 put of five games played, giv-
 a weeks average of .600 The
 are rounding into shape and get
 g the kinks out of their arms and
 Es. In every department the club Fshows a big improvement. It's de- I fense is almost peerless, as is shown l by the few number of stops made by 1 Blount in comparison to the work of l other goaltenders. This is by no l means q reflection on New Britain's l f1ashy goal guardian, but it shows l that Jean and Coggeshall are hum- l ming along at a rapid pace in their 1 respective positions. Blount is one of the most popular boys that ever wore a mask. When he skates out onto the playing sur face he is invariably given big hand by the bleachers, with whom he is solid He is a consistent player and a hard worker The fact that he is always in the pink of condition is as- cribed to his total abstinence from even the mildest of alcoholic liquors and also his refusal to worship at the shrine of My Lady Nicotine. It's funny to see player get him. self in hot water by kicking against an opponent. Hairless Barney" Doherty, leader of the New Haven club, put up big holler Saturday night that the leather cord attached to Jeans club was longer than the regulations allow Referee Walter Ahearn stopped the game to examine the cords on all the sticks and he found Doherty's to be the longest in the crowd. And the bleachers didn't do thing to Barney.
 According to Jack Mercer this will be his last week in polo Mercer is playing first rush for the Waterbury club and is said to have told a friend that he would quit the game forever this week He has simply been fill- ing in for "Red" Williams, who doesn't seem to be in any hurry to come east from his home in Illinois.
 The dear girls sometimes do hit it right. Two were engaged in con- versation in the gallery at Hanna's armory and one expressed herself as being puzzled because the New Haven players wore bandages around their l foreheads. "On, that's simply to 1 keep the bones from rattling,'' re- piled the other.
 The Pittsf1eld club is in a bad slump and, now bids fair to fall into the hole from which New Britain l will pop presently. The Pittsfieldians have lost five straight games and have been passed in the race by Waterbury. l
 Local fans cannot see how it is that | New Britain loses on the road. At | home the team puts up a gilt-edge article of ball and usually smothers all opposition. Proba bly, the jinx does not dare put his head in Hanna's armory but waits until the boys get | outside the limits of New Britain.
 In Worcester, which will furnish the entertainment Thanksgiving eve at Hanna's armory, New Britain fans will have the chance to see a new club. The Massachusetts team has ] yet to make it's appearance on the local surface, but it has made its presence felt in the efforts of Jim my'' Smiths outfit to climb the lad der. At the present writing Worces- ter and Poughkeepsie are neck and neck for the lead.
 l Jean and Williams, the latter of New apparently don't love each other any too well. The two were in a number of choking matches Satur- day night. Referee Ahearn was forced to keep dancing around to be ready to "break" them. On one occasion it was necessary, for him to step in and pry them apart. He blamed Jean for the mixup, but it was really the fault of the little chap on the Elm city five.
 Saturday nights score was as fol- lows:
 New Britain. New Haven. Lincoln Williams
 First Rush.
 Qugley t1dTklnS
 Second Rush.
 Center.
 Coggeshall .............. Doherty
 Halfback.
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