New Britain herald., 1926-03-22
NATIONALS AND RESERVES
 WINNERS M FIRST TILT
Junior Teams Furnish Real Battle of the Evening No Deciding Superiority Is Shown by Either Team -- Winners Pull Victory Out of the Fire by One Point.

A one point margin separated tho National Guards and the Burritt A. (. team in tho preliminary game which was the first Of series for the junior championship Of the city. The former held the edge through out the game but in the closing minutes the boys from the Great Northwest rallied and were going strong as the final whistle blew. The score was lI.lG National Guard Re- serves,
 So excited were the players and spectators that when Timer "re,cy" Saunders footed his final blast neither tho referee, nor the players heard 1t and the battle continued furiously amid the thundcrous cheers Of the spectators, It was only after the crowd ran out on the floor that the Guards knew they had won the game.
 The game was the better of the two played. Both teams started at a hot pace, and kept it up continu- ously throughout the four eight min ute periods The first quarter was pretty even, the score being 10 2. Billy" Darrow collected three Of his teams points on field goal and a foul toss. Two goals represented the Burritt teams best efforts
 Iuty knocked off two field goals while the Guards were getting one from the floor, and at half time the score was : 10 6 in the Guards favor. During the two opening peri. ods Of the game, the Burritts were continually getting in q position to score, but the opposing guards would hurry their shots. So anxious were the Reserves 10 hold their rivals from J score that three fouls were made in the first quarter. The Bur rjtt team get two foul goals out ot 19 tries in the first half. Had they gotten fair percentage Of these tries they would have had comfort. able lead in this part Of the game | Five chances were given them in the second part of the game, and they blow three, making a total of 4 sue cessful tries out of t5 chances.
 First Quarter.
 Tn the first minute of the opcninl quarter, Frank McGrath. Reservcs 1 center. broke away and scored two ! pointer from under the basket. Gen. nctto fouled Zalcski as he was about 10 shoot and the little forward sanl one of his two chances. Gennettc 1 in his anxiety to hold Luty hacked him, and the latter made good or one try, barrow at this time wa' playing a wonderful floor game, ant was continually making cuts for thl basket On one of these occasions Bruno Kania followed him up anr in guarding from the @car, he ha, bodily contact with the fleet "Midgc' according to Dick Dillon. The re suit vas one moro point for thc Re serves. \ goal from the floor in in ipEIll- iltlIlIl''S OI lIIE itfl luu IT, Darrow made the score j to In hi teams favor.
 second Quarter
 Iu'y put his team within poin O. tho Reserves on q shot from tn right side of the court. Darrol again came into 'hc limclight an, %&l"l two nor" points 10 the grow ing scorc. luty could not seem { be stopped anl hn again scored Darrow foul,1 Zplcski. and the lnt fer missed Later "Moniou" va fou)~I hy his old running mate . tiru school Mathis, IS he was i tho act of shooring, He duplicate lla previous performance. Afte much close guarding by both teamt thc half ended. Score 10 6.
 Third Quarter
 Captain "Bannic" Saunders hrok into thc scoring column on trl rral and iater foulcl Burritt ma vEo talIol to get thc conscQu"r free try. Darrow got his third ticl goal, Tho Deserves were pullin away and in an effort to keep thcl in check the Burritts called time ol and went into q conference. Ger nnttc and Saunders scored in tl1 parade. Win the score Is 10 !, hrcan 10 look like curtains for th nfth ward team. Jacobowicz knocl ,d oft a field goal. but Abe Aronso lifted one through th" netting fc what was his teams final point S,yro at third quarter: l7 10 2, R. s'rN's.
 Fourth Quarter
 hrun,on fouIod Zalcski. "Mor
 cu" ma1c it lu points. After hein hold srorrl"ss throughou' the gam "Moniou" Zal,ski finally found tr hoop. Score 17 10 i2. A foul w. called on Arnnson, but the Eurri' aII uo' t1xc advantage of il. IC Eanias long toss made il II, Finr ing inc score r 10 fl. and fndir themselves unable 10 score, tho T' serves called timo out with five Nir ufcs to go. The Reserves rco'e' were given many heart attacks du' ing the next three minutes. Jt Kania made another, making C 'al of Is. One point between il
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