New Britain herald., 1923-02-19
FURIOUS CONTEST
 GOES ID NERIDEN
Players StTeWn About Floor Whan
 High School Teams Fleet

Tn a rough and tumble game tAs N, R, H. E, basketball team was swamRed hy the team af MeFlden ii E. Saturday night in the MeFideF High school gym, The score was a7 e sa. This was the first set back the red and gold received from any high school this season, Earlier in the sea' son the Red and Gold team defeated the Silver City after whiflWind finish, II was plain to see that the Merlden team did not relish this defeat, and from the start 10 the finish they play cd hard game Saturday, New iirit- ain was a mile off form, They did not look like the same team that howned the Hartford team the night before, In fact the only time they showed the real form that they are capable of coming up 10 was about h the middle Of the second half when they started a rally that brought them within two points Of the home five
 vhtors Open i'p Fast
 The Mcriden team started the game Of in decisive fashion by running mp n points before New Britain could score. Finally Reynolds made . basket The Meriden team got going and scored two more field goals be:ore Reynolds made another basket, With the score IA to { against the Red and Gold. Duke" Mccabe made a perfect field goal from the middle Of the floor. Meriden rang mp another field goal to end the disastrous fire half. The score was 16 to (. New Britain never looked any worse this season than they did during that twenty minutes of play
 New Britain Shows Fight
 The second half was considerable faster. The old New Britain fight came into prominence again. They ran the score up to within two points of the Silver City team before the latter could make anything in the line of score. The two teams had a fierce battle at this stage Of the game. It may be said that half the players were on their backs while the other half were getting up after a fall Fours were being called with monot- onus regularity. Cook, Meriden left forward, was making every one of these chances good while New Britain was losing almost every chance. The Red and Gold team was off on foul shooting, Jimmy Reynolds was doing his bit
 Five of the six field goals scored in this half were made by the former Suffield wiz. This is what kept his team in the running.
 Weir's Absence Hurt.
 The red and gold team might have won had Weir been able to play throughout the whole game. With the score 21 to 19 the hardworking guard was put out of the game because of four personal fouls. With the New Britain defense weakened Meriden | was able to run up a large score. Bel ser, who took his place played good | offensive game, getting basket in i the short time he was on the floor Jimmy Reynolds played a wonder full game for New Britain. He scored | 19 out of the 23 points. His floor any member of the team.
 The summary: N. B. H. $. NJ. H. S. LaHar ................ Cook
 Right Forward. Reynolds Rader
 Left Forward. Slerackl
 Center.
 Weir, Belser ... Barcovich, Kaufman
 Left Guard.
 Nelpp ................ NoFakoWSkl
 Right Guard.
 Score: New Britain High school 23. Meriden High school 37; field goals. Reynolds 7 Rader 4, Cook 3, Sieracki 5, McCabe 1, Beser 1; foul goals, Cook II, Reynolds 5; referee, Dillon; timer, Zehrer.
 Notes of the Game.
 Meriden fans were well satisfied with the work of Dick" Dillon. We font blame them.
 LaHar went scoreless for the first ime this year. The only two men ,n the team that haven't met ths same ate are Reynolds and McCabe.
 Cook of Meriden is about the best oul shooter seen around these parts n a long time.