New Britain herald., 1927-01-05
Spea a king of Sports

Last nights basketball game be- tween the Corbin Screw and Landers quintets in the New Britain Indus trial Leagus was the best battle of the entire season in the opinion of those who witnessed the struggle. The Corbin Screw team came through in good shape to win, but it was a team that knew it had been in bitter battle.
 Two Point" Adams, alias Abram- ovicz, is two point" 10 longer after last night. He got into the game between the Stanley Works and the Stanley Rule and upset the dope bucket by caging three goals.
 The Stanley Rule team provided q sensation in foul shooting last night when it was awarded just two free tries. One Of them was made and the other, was missed.
 Foul shooting is more and more important In the Corbin Screw Landers game last night we find that the Corbin team had 12 shots and made two of them while Land CTS had 16 shots and made eight. The final score of the game was 30 to 2S. Had both teams made all of their fod, shots, I.anders would have won by the score ot 54 to 52. Many a ga,ac has been won or lost by foul shooting.
 The greatest upset of the year took place last night at the '. M. c. A. when the doubles handball team composed If Charley Hawkins and Sammy Mag took on the Y championship tcaln of Unterspan and Dressel and beat them two straight games. The first game went to the winners by a 21 to 6 score and the second by q to IT score.
 Hawkins and Mag have thrown down the gauntlet to all corners in doubles now and stand ready at any time to meet any and all teams. A special challenge has been issued by the pair to the Warner Brothers of Mariden with the warning that the Silver City will be on the short end of the score in the meeting. We would like to see the match sched- uled for this city.
 Manager Clarence Lanpher of the National Guards who, it is rumored, may join the ranks of the benedicts with a "black eyed Susan" pretty soon, breezed through with some in- formation on the coming games for the next few weeks.
 The Guards are in for busy ses- sion without any doubts. Saturday night, Plainfield opposes the Guards. The Plainfield team holds victory over the Guards in a game played in that town and the locals are out to even up the score Saturday night. The Plainfeld team has the same ag- gregation of court stars including Normandin. Dessinger, Norris, Ben- son, Madden and Mullin.
 Next Sunday, the Guards will bat tie the Brooklyn A. c. at Water bury. Next Wednesday night, the Meriden Endees will meet the Guards in this city. The Friday night following that game. the locals play the Atlas of New Haven in New Haven.
 Saturday night, January 15, next week, the Guards meet the fast St. Josephs' T. A. B. society team of Waterbury with Sheehy, Carroll and other well known court stars in the lineup. Wednesday. January 19, the Guards meet the Fitton A. c. of Bos- ton, one of the best teams In the country.
 Friday night, January 21. the Guards play Middletown and on Sat urday, January 22. the Greenpoint, L. l., team will appear here. This aggregation is faster even than the City College club of New York. On Thursday, January 27, the Guards will meet the Elmwood Endees in Elmwood and the following Satur- day January 29, Middletown will op- pose the locals in this city.
 The Atlas of New Haven will play the Guards a retul n game in thls city on Saturday evening. February 5.
 This makes a total of il games left for this month and the first Saturday in February and if there is any team in the state that will be more busy than the local quintet. we haven't heard of it. With the Guards going now at top speed. the local far- will be watching for the team to come through with a greater proportion of victories. The Meriden Endee game for next Wednesday night is the big dish and a record crowd will be on hand to see 1t.