New Britain herald., 1915-02-17
BASKETBALL CLASSIC
 ON FRIDAY EVENING
New Britain and Hartford Highs In
 1h;T Annual Cash.

The Hartford High school basket l ball team will invade this city Fri 1 day evening to meet the New Britain High school basketball quintet at the 1 High school gymnasium. This game 1 promises to be a contest that will ex- ceed the highest hopes of the most particular fans. When Hartford and New Britain oppose each other, the best battle imaginab ble will surely take place. In the past it has al- ways been so and when they clash Friday the game will without much doubt be the best one in which the schools have ever played. One must be fanciful. when he associates the
 game of Hartford High and New Britain High in any athletic contest, for the strife of such game sur passes the battles of the mythological Titans The HartfOrd-New Britain ssamo is the Yale-Harvard contest of these parts, and there very few games which can even be compared
 with this annual encounter.
 It was late in last October when the
 Hartford High school football team
 gave the New Britain High an awful
 trouncing and it was one that the
 locals will never forget. From the
 day of that beating the New D.it-
 ain thoughts have been centered on
 a complete revenge. The first op-
 portunity will come Friday evening,
 and New Britain plans to make the
 most of it. In one of the best teams
 that the school has ever turned out,
 the New Britain people place their
 hopes. It will be the one big evnt of
 the week in New Britain and a crowd
 of almost 1000 is expected.
 yrl, I),-;t, ;r1,
 school teams compare very favor
 ably and on paper seem to have al
 most equal strength. Often the weak
 team in past contests has returned
 victor because of an indomitable spir-
 it, and spirit is never lacking at any
 of these contests. As the date of the
 big game approaches the respective
 coaches of the two teams are putting
 the finishing touches on their partlc-
 ular Quintets, and everything points
 to battle royal.
 Comparing the teams, man for
 man, hardly any distinctive advan- tage for either team is manifest. Cap tains Flynn and Schade are both for wards of the highest class. Both are veterans of two seasons and are real ly relia ble players and they can be depended upon on all occasions.
  more brilliant player, but the Hart ford captain may play wonderful ly strong and fast game at times.
 Smith and Schmidt, respective right
 forwards of the Hartford and New
 Britain teams, are both men of great
 speed but Smith is the most lustrOus
 of the two. The centers, both large
 men. seem almost alike in ability with perhaps shade for Tuthill AL though HOgden is a steady man and
 fully as fast as Tuthill, he does not figure as much in the scoring which counts great deal. The New Britain guards, Ginsburg and Dudack, are
 a stronger combination than the Hart ford pair, Phoenix and EchOltz. The New Britain team taken collec- tively seems to be a stronger aggre- l eation than that of the Capitol City boys but forecasts on paper go very | little toward winning championship l basketball games.
 ! The second teams of the two schools
 will furnish plenty of excitement in 1 the preliminary for they, like the 1 respective regular teams, are evenly 1 matched. This game will start at ] 7:45 and there will be q second pre- , liminarv between two school teams at 1 7:15 P. M.
 The official records of the team: