New Britain herald., 1925-12-29
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heports coming from Hartford
state that the Crescent basketball
team which is scheduled to meet tho
american Legion team In this CITY
2 week from Thursday. is coming
mere with an extraordinarily strong
lineup and one that will make the
local quintet hump to score a vic.
tory.
Heading the list OF basket shoot.
ers who will invade the Y. w. C. A.
moor against the Legion five, Is Tim !
Cronin. Cronin first came into |
prominence In Hartford when he |
played with the former Morse Bust |
ness College team away back in
1915. He then gave promise Of be- |
coming star If he kept to his game
and that Is just what he did. He |
played throughout the state and in |
massachusetts, and only few short |
years ago. paired with Jack Curry |
OF Hartford, he was the star OF the |
Hartford Kaceys who copped the
kacoy league when it was in opera
ton.
He Is still going as strong as ever
and this year In the games he has
hiS
the highest order.
With him will be Abe silverman
who will probably take Captain
Tommy Murphys place on the
Dixies. silverman played with the
Crescent team here when the Ma
tional Guards defeated them and he
was the ace OF the Hartford scorers.
Ba!four Is another man who Is
hitched with the Hartford team and
his work on the local -four was as
good as has been seen here In some
time.
In center. the Hartford manage
n>ent has secured Dutch" Leonard
one of the best athletes in the Carl
tai City as another member Of the
team. Dutch" will also probably
join the Dixies as he is much sought
after IN athletic circles.
Despite what many have said, as
a sort OF by-play, Leonard plays the
various games for sports sake. 1t
was a refreshing incident that &C.
Cured a. year ago last summer In
Simsbury when Leonard had been
hired by visiting team TO pitch
baseball game there. Rain inter-
fered with the play and no game
was possible. The visiting team COL
lecteG only a rain guarantee and as
the season was anything but sue
ccssful, the cement was hard
put to It to pay the stipulated price
to Leonard. The money was collect
cd, however, and when II was Of
fered 20 Leonard, he refused to &C.
cept 1t. taking only his expenses
from Hartford 70 simshury and
rack.
With This combination against It,
the American Legion team will have
to travel at top sped TO even stay
IN the running. hackers Of the
team ars confident that their
charges will come through, but
there are others who feel that the
team is going little too strong III
its selection Of opponents. Whether
the team will stand the acid test of
strong opposition will be shown a
week from Thursday night,
In the meantime, a regular bas
ltthall dish OF savorv flavor has
hnen prepared for Saturday night
when The Nationals will stack Up
against the pixies, state champions
of 1924-25,
Jimmy rlinnh Is scheduled to ap-
peer il Middletown against Noah
Kaplan of Meriden in the star bout
Of an amateur card, but there's one
thing t2at puzzles us with regard to
this match. Why is it that the pro-
motors consider a Clicch- Kaplan af-
fair good number after the last
SHOW which was conducted in this
city by The Crescent A, c.?
In that bout, the fans who at
tended will remember the sizzling
battle the local hoy put up against
the brother of the famous kid
Xapian OF the Silver City. Clinch
bat the Merilen boy decisiyely in
that encounter and there was no
question in anyono's mind as to who
won tbs bout. Clinch's victory was
decisive IN that encounter and VIC
look to see him win in MiddletoWn
again
There are many more young bat
tiers in this state who would appear
against tbs LEGAL boy to better adj
vantage than Kaplan. but We sup.
pose the TACT that the Meriden boy
is Il brother to the worlds feather
weight champion contains a world OF
ad> ertising in It.
ETc So that Lou GGhrig's Stars are
duo to snow in Hartford FRIDAY
night against the DiNies. Manager
Clarence Lauph1r started out tt
dicker for that team 10 show here
but the price asked was prohihitive
Gehrig only asked for $3.50 as {
Cuarantco. Nc. Cash aud Garry
Pyle is not managing tho team.
l. is q strange thing. hut when ont
locks about the state. there doesn'
Sc, m TO De any city or town mort
famous for its basketball teams than
South Manchester. Every season
there ere large number of team