New Britain herald., 1925-03-30
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SllNerman, IT '''s'''''% rorrant, If .c..,....''l Hafner, If, lg ,....'.1 Hurley, c .,....,..,..o Hofarth, c ....,.'''''l rg ...,.,..2 Ogden, rg ..,',,'''''.'l Holmquist, If .,.......1
 Personal fous:-Silverluan l. Tor rant 2, Hafner 2, Hoffarth 1, Water man 8, totals 9.
 Free tries:--Sllyerman ,, Torrant ., Hafner 3, total 8.
 Closing their 1924-1a25 season with as brilliant an exhibition Of fast, clever and snappy basketball as any team has shown on the armery floor this season, the National Guard five Saturday night avenged them- selves on the Dixies for their two previous defeats by showing them under to the tune of 39 to 24 after having sent the visitors 10 the dress ing room at the end of the first half trailing 27 to 8.
 The Mats opened the game with bang and 1t was instantly obvious that every member of the outfit was in the pink of condition and up 10 old time form. A revised lineup was used. with Restelli and Reynolds !! trading places at forward and cen lter. The new combination worked to perfection. The first tally was field goal by Captain Sheehan in two minutes and from then until the first half ended it was all New Brit ain. The viTtos were held to three goals from the field and their first did not come until atfer six minutes of play, Reynolds outiumped both Hurley and Heffarth at center and also outplayed them, getting two field goals and two fouls in two tries. Restelli followed the ball closely and accounted for three from the floor while Mert Taylor was his old self again, flashing in and out Of scrlm- mage and contributing a trio ot double deckers as well as foul. Tedders Kilduff continued the bril- liant game he has been playing and despite minor injuries kept the elu- sive silverman well guarded and tossed in three himself. Sheehan held the always dangerous Hafner
 
 scereless in this half.
 In the second half the Dixies made great back effort, but 1t was |, too late and the Mats piled mp toe biz a lead silyerman, Torrant, Haf' ner and Holmquist each caged fielt goals and Wardy Waterman dashed through with two. These, with foul l field goals, brought their total socr' to 4. The Mats continued to pla' Y a hard, aggressive game in the sec r, Iond half but they were more efec Itively guarded and they too pail , more attention to the defenslv
 game, AS a matter Of fact Taylo
 with two from the floor contribute
 the only floor scores credited 10 tn !, Mats in this half. Eight other point II however. were added from the fire ,S throw line,
 Il In reviewing the game every on a of the boys is entitled to credit fo '' they all played a whale of gam '- and little Paul LaHar, who got in fo n few minutes, made his presenc e felt with his clever floor working an n in addition he tossed in for 1000 DC Tt cent from the free throw line, ge J. ting two in two tries. Weir did we d in the closing minutes when he IT
 Neyed KiIduff,
 D. Unless there is some unforesee 10 change in plans, the Mats will har
 up their shoes until next season. le The running account of last sa ,n urdays game makes it appear es New Britain. and that's right--it Vi a all New Britain.
 q. The Game By Play
 er Starting with a dash that nome F. tarjlv left the Dixies dazzled, tl ,d Mats got the jump with the whist 1e and after two minutes of scrimrna ov ing Johnny Sheehan caged one fro ae the floor. Red Reynolds took a sn
 fro mscrimmage and missed b
 Rnstelli got in on the bound, flipp
 if to Kilduf and the latter count 4, for two more At this point Sitvt u1 man was lucky on a long shot T ", Kilduff duplicated and then Rf ''' holds Tipped in one from serimmai 'N making the count S-2 silVermi shooting free tries after Red h ue fouled him. made good on both oH this was offset on the lineup Vh to Restsri took Sheehan's pass 2 he made good while on the run. [
 den's only score of the game ca ST. when he eluded the Mats defel 'm and took the ball while stand
 alone under the basket. Taylor e
 trihuted one of his old time lc -- distance shots for two more poi N and Reynolds batted one in at one of his teammates had mis
 connections. kiIduff got anot
 from the floor and Taylor taking
 pass from Tedders contributed
 other double decker and then
 lowed it up with yet another.
 Dixies' final score of the half ca
 when Hoffarth, who had relic
 Hurley, caged one from the line
 defense. Torrant roughed Restel
 bit and paid for it by watching C.
 drop in both free tries Then, show that his eye was still g'
 PesteITi threw in a double dec
 and the period ended with Ia
 tossing in a one pointer after b.
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