New Britain herald., 1926-09-14
IALL-NEW BRITAIN | IN FIRST PRACTICE
Newark or Holyoke StoneWalls
 May Appear Here Sunday
Al1-NeUhritain

The All-Newbritain Football team will hold its first practice to- morrow night at 8 o'clock in the State Armory on Arch street and at that time, the tentative lineup of the team that will represent this city on the professional gridiron this season, will be tried out. The management yesterday closed for a game with the Stapleton. L. l. team on Sunday October 17 in that city. On this same day. Mulligan's Hart ford Blues will be battling the Pro- vidence Steam Rollers at the cycle drome in East Hartford.
 Mir. Blaine, representing the Stapleton team, accompanied by Ken Houser, former star of the Cleveland Partners, was in this city yesterday 10 discuss the game. He stated that he was very anxious to close the date with New Britain be- cause the Hardware City team is re- garded very highly on Long Island and in New Jersey and he told Man ager Edward J. Daley of the All New Britain team that he could ex- pect numerous inquiries for games from that section within the next few weeks.
 The New Britain team will pro- bably play it's first game next Sun day afternoon at Memorial Field in Willow Brook park. The opposing team had not been definitely set tied today but a choice lies between three teams with either the Newark Pros or the Stonewalls of Holyoke as the likely eleven to face New Britain The Newark team was very anxious to have New Britain go there to play last year but a com bination of curcumst ances prevented the management from closing for the game. This year, the New Jer- sey club officials have been hot af- ter Manager Daley to sign up for a game and home and home af- fair might be arranged with the team coming here Sunday.
 On the other hand, the Stonewalls of HoIyolle, backed by the entire town which is one of the best sport ing centers in the Bay state, boasts of three All-American backs in the lineup. The team is rated by sports editors in Massachusetts as a wor- thy opponent for any of the pro teams in this section.
 Originally. the Philadelphia Yel- low Jackets were scheduled to play here this coming Sunday. This team appeared here last season and the management was very much pleased with the reception accorded him and his players and the result was that when the season started 10 roll around, Manager Daley received a request for Sunday for a game. Then, the plans to form team were abandoned, as it will be re mem bered, and the Yellow Jackets management was notified. Then when Dr. Waskowitz and Peter Per okas decided to form the team, Manager Daley promptly wrote to the manager in Philadelphia offer ing to close for the game. AS luck would have it, the letter was ad- dressed to the manager personally and he had left on his vacation. His assistant did not open the New Bri- tain letter and in the meantime closed with another outfit for the date.
 Manager Haines notified Mana ger Daley of the mixup and offered him December as an alternate date but this is considered too late in the season here so it is very likely that the Yellow Jackets and All-New Britain will not meet this year.
 Manager Daley is busily engaged in rounding out his lineup and from present indications, New Britain will have a better team this year than the squad last year. With a few more good men signed up and ad- ded to the present squad, the team will be all set to get going next Sunday.