New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-02-21

Inc next or 1Ourtn game OF the
series is scheduled to be played in
this city and the date for this game
will be named very soon. With
these important games still ahead of
1t, the Bristol Endees claim to have
the state championship sewed up.
1T sounds kind Of foolish for any
team to claim the state champion
ship with a good part of the season
vet to come. At best, 1t can hardly
be seen what a mythical title is
anyway. Still. in claiming the state
honors, the Bristol team is deliber-
ately ignoring the New Britain team
which already holds two victoris
over it.
With the next game scheduled to
be played in this city. the Guards are
being favored to win.
In counting up ire number of
games won and lost by each team,
the seasons record shows the Guards
to have lost two more games than
the Bristol Endees. To date. the
Bristol team has played "a games,
according to the claim in that city.
Twenty of these were victories and
four resulted in defeats.
The National Guards OF this city
city have played 25 games. Nineteen
of them have been won and six lost
With at least six more weeks of
basketball ahead of them before the
season will be called closed, a claim
to a state title will hardly be con-
sidered.
Comparison Of teams played will
also make a difference to fandom at
large. With the Endees.
Even counting up the average for
the two teams the race is very, very
close. At the present time, Bristol,
with 20 wins and four losses, has an
average of 1913. New Britain with
10 wins and six losses has an aver
age of .744. Two losses for Bristol
will give the team an average of 1863
while two wins for New Britain will
give it an average of TT, putting it
in front for the state pennant.
Figures cannot lie. Despite the
claims of the Bristol Endees which
are about as flimsy as anything could
be, the team is far away from win
ming anything that resembles state
basketball title. Claims can be made,
however, and can be accepted for
what they are worth. Try and cash
them at any bank.
New Britain stands even with
every state team and ahead of some.
The Guards have beaten the st. Jo-
seph's T. A B. society team of Wa
terbury two games. They have beaten
the Brooklyn A. G. of Waterbury two
out of three. They stand one and
one with the Meriden Endees. They
stand one and one with the Atlas.
They stand one and one with Middle
town. And, if Plainfield is to be
counted, the score there is one and
one.
As far as Bristol is concerned,
New Britain stands two to one
against that team and as game re-
suits are what count, on the surface
of things, New Britain is the better
team at the present standing.
New Britain has played nearly
every team that the Bristol Endees
have met and some others whom the
Bristol team hasn't brought to Bris-
toll. Among the latter are the City
College club team of New York and
the Greenpoint Hebrews. There may
be others, but we haven't the exact
record at hand.
But that's enough about the state
championship. New Britain fans
know that Bristol has to beat New
Britain before it can be called the
state champion team and that's go
ing to be a hard job when the two
outfits meet in this city. Especially
now since the parties who are con-
Quoting the destinies of the Bristol
team persist in ignoring the locals.
The Meriden Endees split even
with the st. Joseph's Tabs of Water
bury over the weekend winning in
Neriden Saturday night but losing in
Waterbury yesterday afternoon.
Middletown downed the Elmwood
Endees in Middletown Saturday
night by the score of So to 33.
It has been discovered that the
Mccarthy who played here against
the Boys club last week with the
Connecticut Telephone & Electric Co.
team of Meriden, was the player by
that name who is on the roster of
the Meriden Insilcos. The use of
professionals by the Silver City team
had been anticipated and strict stip-
ulation made that none should take
part in the game. but McCarthy's
name was run in as that of substi-
tute and then he played the whole
game. When cornered by Henry
Kraszewski after the game he was
forced to admit this. and the Incl
dent may block the proposed return
game in Meriden.