New Britain herald., 1925-02-04
Youthful Team Defeats Cabinet Lock-Stanley Workers Climb at Ex- pense of Fafnir.

Today the Landers Frary and Clark youthful basketball combina- ton is tied with the P. and F. Cor lin five for leadership in the h. dustrial league. This comes about by virtue of Landers' victory over the Corbin Cabinet Lock team last night >4Also, the Stanley Works boosted their average to an even 500 per cent by defeating the Fafnir team.
 Both games were siz2lers 10 watch, the Stanley Works-Fatnir game be- ing exceptionally speedy and exciting throughout. In the other game the aadcrs boys had Il pretty good edge ca the Lockmakcrs and the result WAS not quite so much of toss-up, Vt the (. C. L. boys played hard and the Landers men earned every roint they got and their victory was obtained only after the hardest kind of playing. The Stanley Works score vas 26 10 Fafnir's 2S, while the flanders lads tossed in 33 points to tAtlt OlpVhEIl0 SP'
 stanley Works Game
 > The Stanley Works took the floor with new acquisition to their team, Merwin Johnston playing right for ward. Johnston made a material difference in the working of the team. He guarded his man well, was dangerous with the ball and teamed I'D well with La liar. For the Faf- mir team the unusually good gaurd- ing game played by Gehrkowski was a feature, the rangy blonde breakinf LID numerous plays in backCourt. Belion also played his usually good game at forward. Pelletier, always dangerous in a crisis, again came through with his needed speed and scoring. but 1t was old Al Schade who was the candy kid for the win ners.Al got back into old time form in the second half and it was his four field goals, every one of them difficult shot, that enabled the Stan ley Works to win.
 Pelletier was the first to score when he dropped the ball in after two minutes and five seconds Of play. La liar had taken the ball in scrimmage, but tossed it 10 Jack to make the shot. The Fafnirs' first tally was by Beloin who got one of two free tries. Anderson put the Faf- nirs in the lead when he got bas- ipt c n he threw a foul after being hacked by Pelletier. From then on the game see-sawed back and forth, the floor work of Johnston being feature, while the Guarding of GehrkoWski also was excellent The Fafnirs made substitution, putting Stohl in place of Beloin and sending the forwad to guard to relieve Paulson. At half tune Fafnir was leading F 10 9.
 In the second half both teams eX- e-ted their utmost strength and Schade and La liar quickly scored, tying the count to 13 all. Pelletier threw a foul and the Stanley Works led, but was offset when Anderson also scored.
 After 13 minutes of play the Stan- lev Works uncovered a tremendous sr,urt and literally ran the Fafnirs off their feet for a few minutes. In this old schade came into his own. The score was IS to II in favor of lafnir when he slipped away from the rest of the bunch and was well under the basket when he took a long pass and it was good for two roirts. Here Stohl shot two fouls, siving Fafnlr % points but Schade again rang the bell with a double decker,~~ making it 20-1S, Fafnir. Belions one foul added another point for Fafrir but Schade once more threw circus shot and it was gl-26, Fafnir. Then Johnston got away with q trick shot and some neat pass work, Schroeder to Pelle- tier to Schadc through the net added two more. Another by Pelletier and the score was 26-21. Stanley Works. Belion mado 1t 26-23, but this ended the Fafnir rally. The team appeared temporarily disorg5niZed, it's passing was wild it's shots wide and the game ended with Nelson missing two free tries. The summary: