New Britain herald., 1919-04-16
NEW BRITAIN Y
 WINS STATE TITLE
Nutmegs of Hartford Go Down to
 Defeat in Fast Battle

ketDal quintet anneASu championship last evening, aoM tnns the crack Nutnegs five o1 lna,l " " score Al to 40. Most of the games ol The past season on the local floor have been written as fast and eNc1tlns' put this can truly be said of the game iaaI evening. While the work vas AH~''' and at times furious, there was no sign of any unnecessary rous1i't@2ss @ and Referee Dick Dillon handteu tl-0 game in his usual character1st1c lile'ii ner A dispute arose at the cloo7 VI the game. whom Timer Johnson oiS" his whistle, announcing the end ot NHo same, but a Hartford "boy "l.lA a dollar watch set up a hoNl a'pou. N there being 8 minute ana .iat f, 1,Iov C,onsidora bio Wrangling Was engaged in, in which Manager naoi' ieskv of the Nutmegs tried to ROTH his way onto the floor, ana sootA91 than. cause any fiasco, Manager Hia4e. acceded to the claims ct the nal tAoI u timer and played out the tiinat0 and a half. During this tune lh7 1o calls stalled and the Harttoru 'i'o CT handled the ball.
 Under the reserved seat pan soou order was preserved. The nall "Hs taxed to capacity.
  1ineun with Happy Harmon playing in form and Bill Dwyer of Colgate holding down a guard position. The work of this pair was high class. For the locals Slater, Larson and Kopf eXcelled. Cook as usual was in the way of the Hartford team work time and again.
 Slater Starts Things.
 The locals broke the scoring ice a few seconds after the whistle started hostilities, when Slater dropped in a two counter. Harmon tied matters up with two foul goals shortly afterward. Kopf broke the tie with a neat goal from the field. Hartford then forged to the front when Dwyer and Smith scored field baskets. During the re- mainder of the half the score sec sawed, until toward the close when the "Y'' five braced and led at the close of the half, score 20 to 19.
 The players started in a wilirlwind pace at the beginning of the second half, and soon the visitors got their field goal artillery working with the their pets on the short end by six points. With that never-say-die spirit, the locals kept plugging ana two pretty goals by Larson and Kopf, tied matters up. The excitonaent was intense at this juncture. With but q few seconds to play, according to the official timers claim, kopf put his mates in front with a neat shot from the side. When the whistle blew, Referee Dillon called foul on New Britain player and Harmon made It good. Showing his sportsnanship, Manager Slater agreed to continue the game, with the result that the one-point advantage gave the locals the state championship, With the pos sible exception of Middletown, which hasn't got a. team, anyhow.
 Tho score:
 NEW BRITAIN NCTMEGS Slater cCotiSAu Left forward kQp1 Eie1l lio1i Right forward tCook ...-... ................ SmNh Center.
 Stepanian ..,............. Dwyer Left guard Larson ................ Nordlund Right guard \ Score-New Britain Al, Nutmegs 4o goals from field, Slater 3, Kopf 4, Stepanian f, Larson 4, Scofield 5, liar mon 5, Smith 4. Dwyer 8, Nordlund 1, : foul goals, Slater il, Harmon 12; ref cree, Dick Dillon; tineh, Johnson; scorer, Luebeck.
 1 Independents Win. 1 In the preliminary game the Inde- 1 pend ents defeated the Y leaders, 34 l to 17.
 LEA DERS INDEPENDENTS S Howe ................ ... Iaylor Right forward Left forward 1 WaltherS ,,..'s w. allen 1 Center
 Demarest ...........,.. Burns Right guard Left guard
 Goals from field, Howe 4, Sheehan ] 1, Walthers 1, Taylor 4, Bunny I, Burns 5; foul goals, Sheohan 5, Burns s; referee. Dillon; timer,
 Johnson; scorer, Luebeck.