New Britain herald., 1926-02-23

when overconfidence needs 10 be 'hattered by cruel blow and such 'eems to be the case with the New El' Britain High school basketball team. Po, i5o, There Ia no doubt but what the team Het vent Unto the game against South pe' Saturday. confident that [ had an easy opponent and the re- sult was that 1t lost. pcl
 lea, However. this was without doubt llo lust what was needed. because the FIT result of yesterdays game between the New Britain High school quintet and the Hillhouse of Now Haven. co shows that the Hardware City boys po nc had come back strong. lu
 To By beating New Haven yesterday, the Franklin Square team clnches the Triangular league championship Hr M' and the combination of lads who He make up the squad have every req Mt son to puff out their chests today i'o with just pride over their accom- plishments.
 Two great factors stand out in the 1te FS victory scored yesterday. One was Sc that the New Britain team overcome the odds of being the team which was expected to lose and the other R, was the fact that the quintet shat VI tered the traditional jinx which has ", TI pursued Hardware City quintets B, when playing in New Haven.
 New Britain now has three vic" R tories and no defeats to its credit Tn L. the Triangular standing. It has beat q en Hartford once and New Haven NI twice. New Haven has beaten Hart ford once and lost to New Britain twice. leaving them with one win and two losses. Hartford has lost 10 both New Britain and New Haven and this leaves them with no wins and two losses. No matter how the i' remaining games turn out. New q Britain wins the Triangular cham s pionship. This marks tho first time that the ( New Britain High school team has ! won the Triangular championship ' since the season which closed ill I 1922, In that year, the team was composed of Captain Red" Key holds and Lahar, forwards; Duke McCabe, center and Weir and Ncipp guards. Try and figure out the standing ! of the teams for the state title at the present time, now that the Dixies have beaten the Atlas ot New Haven two out of three. The National Guards have beaten the Dixie twice but have lost to the Atlas three times. The Bristol Endees have q win over the nixies and so have the Meriden Endees. IL looks as if the Atlas are at the top of the heap yet and all through their three victories over New Britain.
 Then again. the Middletown team has d win over the Atlas and the question of supremacy still re- mains in the air.
 We have been trying to dope out | why 1t is that the Atlas appears to ! be such world beating team when | IL plays the National Guards while l on other occasions, it appears to he ! only a mediocre continuation. ! There's something in the Indian Sign" after all and we have vcntured the guess that holds the spell over the local outfit
 The Guards have beaten teams just as good as the Atlas in the past few years and even this year, the New York City College club appear cd 10 be a better outfit than the Elm City combine. This crew trimmed the Atlas in New Haven and y"' they were not good enough to last out the Guards in tho battle here.
 If someone can explain why it is hat the Guards are always tied hy the Atlas in a game they will surely have stopped Niagara from flowing. It might be all well and good to state that the Atlas is q better team than the locals but some doubt that this is so. IL is true thut the Atlas WdS the better team last Saturday night, but then again, were the New IIa- veners the better combination in the first game played in this city.
 This question will he debated pro and con for some time before any answer suitable to all can bc found.
 The Orioles baseball team Is planning to get organized at a meet ing tomorrow night at Cosgrovc's $ home on East street. The team members and it's manager, Abe Aronson. believe in getting all thc details of preparation over with quickly so that the ninc will lo able to start off the season with q bang.
 The Orioles are one Of the com ing junior hines of the city and the fact that they intend 10 keep hand ed together is an item of good news 10 those who followed the team las year in tho city league.
 The Rangers A. C., members hav' already started to talk baseball am If the players on last years tcan have anything to dc with the mat ter, they will be up with the leader this coming season. The Ranger came through strong to win the Cit rcague title last season, but did no
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