New Britain herald., 1927-01-26
Speaking S of Sports

this year, saw the greatest battle that
 has been staged this season between
 the Landers and P. & F. Corbin
 teams last night. At no time during
 the playing season has as fierce or
 as closely fought basketball scrap
 oeen seen as was last night when
 these two teams got together.
 With Lander hopping off to 12
 point lead in the beginning; Corbins tying the score and going into a 10
 point Tad in the second half and
 Billy Darrow tying the count again to end the game in deadlock. the
 fans had every thrill there is to have in game. But that isn't all.
 In the fve-minutc overtime period. first one team took the lead by one point, then the other. the score was tied until with only 30 seconds to go, Darrow again came through and made the winning basket for his team. This session was hair rais- CT and had the large crowd of last week been at the scene, 1t would have had more enjoyment last night than it has ev had before.
 A story is afloat that Johnny Saxe had left the employ of the Russell & Erwin Co.,, and had gone to work at P. & F. Corbins thereby causing q serious loss to the Russwin team. Inquiries at the factory this morn. ing tended to disprove this tale. It was said that Sake had been tenn porarily laid off, that he was still in the employ of the company and would play basketball with the team.
 This settles serious argument in many quarters as to the chances Of the Russwin team to win the 1ndus- trial league pei nant. With Saxe out of the lineup the team would be easy prey for few of the other teams but with him in the game, the Russwins will put up as strong front as ever.
 The P. & r. Corbin team now seems 10 be out of the running for the title though a number of up- sets may change the entire com- rleXion of the league. The Stanley Rule team is hanging right behind the leaders and a slip by either one of them will mean that the Elm street crew will step into either second or first place.
 sloman did not appear with the Rulers last night in uniform be- cause he was saving himself for the Bristol Endee-N National Guard game tonight.
 That clash that is due to take place tonight In the new high school in Bristol, is our idea of a perfect game The Bristol Endees started off the season with a weakness in the guard positions. With the ac- o,uisition of Manning to the squad. this hole has been plugged and the terrific pace at which the team has been going is evidence enough of this. -
 Tonight Is the night on which the Guards are going to dispel forever that old bugaboo about not being able to win a game on an out-of- town floor The Guards won one game from Bristol in Bristol already | and every player feels the feat can be duplicated.
 Two slight changes have been | made in the schedule of the Guards. There will be no game in Elmwood l tomorrow night, this contest having been cancelled. The Atlas will play 1 here on February 12 instead of on | February 5. The Brooklyn A. C. team will play here February in- stead of the Atlas.
 There will be a general exodus of fans from this city over to Bristol tonight to watch the Guards in &C., ton against the Bristol team. Every where someone is asking the other "Are you going to the gamer" h. yariably the answer Is in the affirma- tive.
 Added to the many versatile ac- complishments of Frank Sheehan, shining luminary and leading quar- ter collector for the New Britain Gas Co. is the ability to wear with distinctions a variegated basketball suit with grace and ease. In the game with the R. & E. team at the Boys club gym the other night, Frank, because of the excess pound- age he carries, couldn't find suit to fit him.
 It appears that Frank took the 'bull by the horns'' and fashioned himself pair of trunks. A certain portly gentleman also in the employ of the Gas Co., had an old pair of knickers which had leg circum- ference of about 30 inches gave them to Frank and he cut the legs of them short like basketball trunks.
 Jim Lynch told us that the fea- ture of the game was the spectacu- lar dribbling of Frankie Sheehan but he didn't tell US that every time the ball bounded from the floor 1t vent out of sight so wide was the firth of the legs on the trunks.
 Flappers who saw Frankie run ming down the floor during the game would hook up their galoshes and cease to flap because of the im- possibility of competing with man l who has enough cloth on each leg, II Tapping in the breeze, to make a pair of sails for four masted schooner.
 We have been requested to make I a distinction between John McCor- /