New Britain herald., 1924-12-15

The manager Of the Brooklyn A.
 defeated 6s 10 IT by the National uards Saturday night, was loud in
 s praise of the local team. He
 es a great future for this outfit, if
 is kept intact. Incidentally, he
 marked that this was the worst de-
 at that his team ever suffered. and
 has been on tho courts for mum |sr of seasons.
 Anyway, the one-sidsd score does |ot actually represent the quality of Ee game, nor should 1t be taken to love that the Mats are 63 to IT bet r than the Brooklyn A. c, for they fe not.
 The Waterburians had a scrappy |itilt, played rattling fast game |ld were going every minute. The secret was that New Britain. |artcd at top speed and kept it up. Iaterbury never got started. Also, must be admitted. Waterbury did pt get any of the playing breaks for |me and time again the ball circled
 e cage only to flop out again. James, the flashy right forward of
 e visitors, captained the Crosby gh five last year and a clever boy E is too.
 The visitors scored but four goals
 om the floor. Everybody on the lew Britain team scored at least he. Taylor, after he got going, ored nine. Reynolds was close be- nd with six and RestelIi at center lent him one better. getting seven. Just at present "Red" Reynolds ems to pair up with Taylor in per- ct shape.
 The preliminary game was a farce begin with, and made more so by l e management not bothering to cure regular referee. The boys |ho did the job made no claim to ping referees or knowing the rules. hey simply helped out. If the golf officials ever do adopt standardized ball what will they |ave to talk about during the off Jason?
 Jack Bentley Of the Giants is said k have very bewildering delivery. = Perhaps he was once a mail frrier.
 Umpire Connolly hasn't given the r to ball player in three years.
 - Well. there never was much r about Connolly. Babe Ruth has given away more hseballs than any player in the fme. He has also driven |Ray more.
 Floyd Johnson is now a motion |cture actor. The gent always d remind us Of a motion picture Ehter. Among those who think the com |ittee vas right in naming Dazzy lance the most valuable player in be National league is pitcher hose initials are said to be D. V. It seems strange that Paavo |urmi has not been asked to com- ete against Abe Attell Goldstein.
 - Abc's great runner. too.
 One argument against indoor foot hll is that it does not give the de- Friptive genius a chance to write, The game was played in a sea of |ud."
 If there are to be preliminary |mes there must be good referees. the participants. these prelims |e as important as the big game hd a visiting team comes here in bod faith, expecting fair shake. There was little delay in starting
 6 big game since the Waterbury |ys thought they were to play here
 is coming Saturday, hence did not It started early.
 The High school basketball team oks like a rip roaring outfit this
 m. Their victory over Crosby was ean cut and Coach Cassidy predicts
 banner year.
 The Factory league plays it's sec ad round tomorrow night with two sw teams showing their wares so their uniforms. Landers and ls Stanley Works make their ini- al bow.
 4 big crowd is expected to be on md.
 The Danersk Athletics and the 1istles. the latter explained by a ew Britain player, played a tie
 ccer game in Stamford yesterday. he count was 1 and l.
 1 tumble by Waterbury permit d tha Steam Rollers to make a