New Britain herald., 1924-12-24
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|3 of ; p or ts q sssgsgessss ,sssssaS We'll, guess Al schado is giving | the boys tho laugh today. Those shots of his last night, especially i the one from past mid-hoor, were Ike those that Al used to make.
 Les Woodtord, former Suifield school star, showed class on the floor last night. Ills floor work was pretty to watch and his shooting was good, though he was closely guarded by Paulson. Woodford should contribute some llashy work before the season Is far advanced.
 Art Campbell still has his eye, as his list of foul shots will show. Art used to be Q fine guard and last night he was in pretty good form.
 Harold Weir becomes eligible for the Stanley Works team at their next game on January 6.
 Swanson and Morelli contributed some remarkably fine shots last night. They made them from long distance and different angles.
 Walters, the Rule Shop center plays q pretty floor game. If he can only get his shooting eye hell be q wonderful tower of strength for that bunch.
 Murphy, the old Kacey player, made his debut last night with the Rule Shop.
 The so-called Bowery Crew got away to q successful start last night when they defeated the So. Man chester Crescent Reserves.
 This team gives promise of de- veloping into a clean playing. fast stepping outfit and 1t is too bad it is handicapped by the name that has been tentatively chosen.
 Here in New Britain it probably is no handicap for those who know the boys know thep to be good clean players Out of town how ever, the title is misnomer
 The word Bowery always conveys the impression of roughness, or "east-side" characteristics
 A team named The Bowery Five immediately suggests collection of players of the rougher element,
 This, no doubt, Is due to the fact that for years and years the word Bowery has been synonymous w,tl the lower or rougher sections of New York.
 A change of name, it is believed, would be an asset to the local five.
 The Community Five of Meriden is the latest love of the W. k. Floyd Boardman, who brought a fivver five to New Britain last Saturday night.
 Floyd las dropped his All Star team and now intends to handle the Community boys in conjunction with Jack Haggcrty.
 Let's hope that Floyd finds out the names of his players before he goes oh the road
 Really it doesn't help the prestige of a manager q bit 10 have to admit that he doesn't know who is playing for him.
 Yale athletic officials positively deny that they will sond rowing crew to Germany in 1926.
 Mcrkle, who played first base for tho Giants several years ago, when Larry DOylc and Art Fletcher were part of the infeld, came into the public wye as the man whose failure to adhere to a fUndamcntal rule of baseball lost national league pen nant. Many have criticised him but he also had defenders as a result of that so-caIled "bonehead play" when he failed to touch second base to complete a Giant victory and John ny Evors, then second haseman of the Cubs, noticed the omission. 
 Of late years Mcrklc has been playing in the International sleague and his hitting has been exceptional while such an error as was credited 10 him as a major leaguer has not been repeated with the Rochester club.
 The story of Mcrklc's misplay has been told many times. Here k what happened: With a man on sec ond base Mcrkle singled, advancing his tcammate to third. Then cam, 1,, l,tt l, -s,,,, ,g,,,~