New Britain herald., 1926-02-01

conqucring a team that Was rated tlmost 100 per cent better than 1t md snatching victory from what 1oked like certain defeat, the Aa- ional Guards basketball team Satur. d4y night at the state armory on
 rch street. downed the City College club five of New York by a &S 10 EG geore. The New Workers had provi- nusly scored victories over the Atlas five of New Haven and the Meridcn ..ndees and We're by far the elassioat aggregation of basketball players seen in this city in a number of 5surs.
 To the spectators, tho game was he best exhibition Of basketball that the New Britain team has put up this year. The visitors had the criss- rross of the Syracuse university five down to q T and during the first half and part of the second, played rings around the New Britain team on the floor, though tho locals managed to keep up in the scoring column enough to be in a position to win the opportunity presented itself,
 "Mert' Taylor was the scoring kid for the evening piling up total of 1G points to his credit including six field goals and four fouls, Johnny Sheehan with seven points, three field and one foul goals making the total of the efforts was the second high man on the New Britain team, Moskowitz and Palitz on the New York five were the big threats op- posing New Britain. the former liv- ing up to his reputation getting H. points with four field goals and three fouls and the latter two fields and foul.
 All the New Britain players with the exception of Gierochowski got into the fray and every man on the team showed himself to be a great team worker. The visitors started at q terrific pace and kept it up until near the middle of the second half. Here is was that the New Britain team started things hummng and came through with several field baskets to edge away from the New York quintet and eventually puR out with win.
 First Half
 Four foul goals, one by palitz, two by Match and one hy Moskowitz gave the visiting team four points before New Britain scored at all. II took the locals four minutes 10 break up the pass work of the City College club long enough for restel- Ii 10 take a pass from Reynolds and score New Britain's first field goal Then New York went off on another spree. Palitz added another point on q free try and after a series Of swift passes wherein the New York CTS tore around in circles. he cagtd a field goal He followed this with another free toss and then Mosl;o- witz snapped in q wonder shot from the side court using one hand for the toss. This gave New York 10.
 New Britain began 10 fight. pu- dack and kilduN worked like Troians in the back court and Rcy- holds, Rcstclli and Taylor kept up a barragc at tho basket from their end Of the hall. Finally, after q series of hard luck shots, Taylor dropped a neat goal through the hoop giving New Britain four Restrlli made it five with free toss and Reynolds made it seven when he took bullet like pass from uudaci, and koppod one in.
 Moskowitz was foulrd and hn chalke1 up another for a count of II and again on another free try, he cagod the goal again making it 12. Reynolds and Taylor both drop ped in free tossors making New hr.t- aims score nUc, The Enw Workers weren't missing many free tries and their score was @S ou a toss by Palit2.
 On the jump from center, Etlduff got the ball, shot il 10 DuIoch, 1u- dack dribhlcd arross and passed 10 Ecstelli. "Uopc' got away for q shot but missed. Taylor took th~ r, loup! and cagcd a nittg Eo@ from under the basket and Nv nritgn La1 II. On tn u't ri"H, New Hr5'ain passed fast and a,w" tul Ta,lor ro- ccivcd auotter from I>n-t,lI aol lG it went tyjrl th" a ora a' }@ a)t Roth hroh, tlo .. oH f",e 'os- and Match oa@td 'ur ,l" nah- ing it l.. >fo.lo~.th ~,u' to tha side court arhu.l uast EHaort a@l scored q praEr} HaH5'. cm@H. II, followed vr'O aao'1rr from rH~ r,u- ter of th" l!oor -uI here tuo Mt. ended with the @rora 20 to t& in fla or Of tu.. .'lty ,'a'In@o club.
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