New Britain herald., 1926-11-15

Ii was a hectic week of cancella- tions experienced by the manage nent of the All-New Britain football team last week and circumstances so happened that large number of football fans in this city were un- acquainted with the fact that the game with Springfield, scheduled to be played at Willow Brook park yesterday had been called off and many went to Memorial Field yes- terday only to come home without having their sporting desires satis- fled.
 To say that it was tough luck isn't expressing at all the series of upsets the New Britain team ex- perienced during the past week. Starting with the breaking up of the Hartford Blues series with its first game scheduled last Thursday, Manager Ed Daley then contracted to have his team show in Brook lyn yesterday. As the week pro- gressed he was notified that the Brooklyn Horsemen had died @ natural death and would not be able to oppose the locals.
 Then Manager Daley on Friday succeeded in getting the assent of the Springfield Silvertowns' man. agement to game at Memorial Field here. All went we'll until Sat- urday. In that days mail, there was no confirmation of the game and PromotAr Perakos urged Manager Daley to call Springfield. He got MT. Cassidy on the wire shortly be- fore 12 o'clock and was immediate ly informed that the worthy gentle man from the City of Homes would be unable to get team together to play here yesterday.
 Then Daley called the other manager of the Springfield team MT. Moran and he told him that he and Cassidy had had a falling out and as each owned half of the players and neither would allow the other to use his men, it was very likely that MT. Cassidy was right when he stated there would be no game with Springfield in this city. The definite answer came at 12:30 o'clock Saturday.
 Following this, the manager of the local grid combination then proceeded to call New Brunswick, N. J.. New York, Brooklyn. Boston, and even North Adams but he was unable to get a team that would have given New Britain a battle. He was informed that there was an un- limited number of teams idle for the day. but none of them was in the class of All-New Britain and rather than put poor team on the field, Manager Daley decided to call off negotiations for a game Man ager Brennan of the All-NorWalli team couldn't bring his team to this city because he also couldn't break faith with his public.
 Last night, Manager Daley made sure of a game for next Sunday in this city by signing up the Newport Torpedo Training station team. This outfit will not take any "run-out powders and will be here to oppose the local team that day. It will be a formidable outfit that will tackle the powerful grid combination that represents this city. Yesterday the Newport sailors beat the Sub-base team of New London. 26 to Is and earlier in the season lost to Holy Cross college by the small score of I to 0.
 From indirect information receiv- ed in this city, 1t seems likely that negotiations with the Hartford Blues for series of games will be open ed again this week. It appears that the teams will meet on Thanllsgiv- Ing morning as they were originally scheduled to do. No definite infor- nation has been received with re- gard to this as yet.