New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-12-20
ALL-NEW BRITAIN'S WINNING
STREAK TEMPORARILY HALTED
Dixies of Hartford Turn
Back Local Hoop Tossers
81 to 20 When BabcOck Is
Held Scoreiess and Taylor
Is Limited to Two From
the Field.

The best OF them lose occasionally
The Au-New Britain basketball team
certainly can he ranked with the best
OF them, and last night they suffered
their occasional defeat at he hands
OF the Hartford DiNies-scnre. S2-20.
Incidentally this was tho nrst de
feat that the locals have experienced
this season and no doubt ii will do
them good as 4 team, showing up
some faults which otherwise might
be overlooked in the olt-.. dsiasm of
consistent victories,
BE it said for the DiNies, they
surely did loom mp as the speed boys
last night Taylor the snappy little
local forward, has a tough time of il
last night and was able to ring in
but two double deckers, each from
The center OF the floor, while Hafner,
his man, had unerring aim and hook
cd In no less than six, Murphy got
four from the tld and a free one.
AIantclM, a new conner in tho Dixie
lineup, showed up VIII and was rspe-
cialy good from the foul line, sinking
three out Of four.
Not only Taylor had a bad night
but Rabcock had q worse one. This
usually dependable forward was held
absolutely scoreless all evening while
Waterman, whose duty it was to keep
him that way slashed the net for two
Thus the brunt Of the scoring fell
TO Larson and Nojak. "Chuckie"
performed like a big Lacquer and
looped In a trio of double deekors and
Toner from the four line, while
Larson dropped In two from the
field. kildum was not in the game
last night and pelletier who played.
Melted ono from the field.
The floor work OF the DiNics was
very fast and the Hartford boys did
not let up for a minute. while the
work OF their guards was worthy of
especial mention. New Britain play
cd a good game and the passing was
OF high order, but against the OPP
position last night they could not hit
their stride. Dick Dillon refereed.
ON Saturday night The local speed
artists play the Waterbury collcgiates
at the armory.
Last nights summary:
Dixies Al-sew britain
Murphy ............,.... Babcoek
Right Forward
Aluntelli .....st.s.,...,.r. Taylor
Lcn Forward
IoUafth ...ss.taa...sstas. MoJak
Center
liainer s.... t.tr4.....st. Isllluef
Right Guard
Waterman ,............,. Larson
LEFT Guard
Goals from deld--M antcili Murphy
a. Honarih. Waterman ?, Hafner 6,
Taylor ,. woiak s. Larson 2, Pclitier.
Goals after fouls. Mantoli 3, Muir
phy. Taylor 2, wojak.
u Retrospect
Looking back over last nights game
no credit can be taken from tho Dix
les. They are clean, fast bunch
and they deserved to win. However,
IL must be said that New Britain was
away off. For instance. IA minutes Of
Tho second half had passed before the
Hardware city boys had registered in
that period.
Little Taylor, although held 10 two
baskets, cannot be passed up unrotic-
I'd. lie gave as pretty an exhibition
of floor work and dribbling as one
could wish for. but time and again
he would work down under the
basket only TO ind that the other
players all were covered and there
was no one 10 help him.
One more thing. Referee Dillon on
five different occasions declared that
TAYLOR had been travelling" and five
perfectly good field goals he had
made were thus stricken out. While
in two instances there was no doubt
that he was travelling" fans at tho
game were surprised that the other
three ITALICS were not allowed. Some
expressed the opinion that Dillon. I'M
used 10 Taylor's physical peculiarly
in shooting. mistook bis attitude for
travelling. 81 any event FIVE goals he
Gagged we're disailowed. thus bringing
down his mark to two.