New Britain herald., 1927-12-05
PLAINFIELD NOSES OUT
 HARDWARE CITY QUINTET
New Britain Entry in State League Suffers First Defeat of Year-Poor Foul Shooting Paves Way to Vic- tory of Visitors-Chance to Score in Last Five Sec onds is Lost-Locals Stage Pretty Fight in Second Half-Sloman Injured in First Half.

The New Britain basketball team suffered its first defeat of the season , at the hands of a fast-travellinS Plainfield quintet in a gruellng con- test at the Stanley Arena Saturday night. The score was 32 to 50. The visitors outplayed the locals in the first half and held New Brit ain on almost even terms in the sec ond half. The New Britain quintet appeared to be disorganized until about the middle of the second frame when with a spurt, it all but tied the score. In the last five sec onds of play, Kilduff got free for a shot at the basket but he missed and i this lost New Britains opportunity , to knot the count and send the game into an overtime period.
 The game was exciting from start ! to finish. The Plainfield crew show cd plenty of speed on its floor passes 1 and every man on the team was 1 dangerous threat on shooting The forwards, Brusso and Dessingor | played nicely together while Stavin- itsky, the center, got three pretty 1 field baskets in the second half that i helped his team immensely. "Whitey' Bernot failed to score in the first frame but his five points ! in the second half gave Plainfleld punch that was lacking in the open ing session,
 New Britain lost the game mainly i through it's poor shooting from the | foul stripe. The team as a whole ] had 20 tries for the basket and caged only 10. Had the free tries all been made good, New Britain would have had the edge as Plain ; field had only 10 tries for the basket, six of which were good for points.
 It was in the last half Of the sec i ond session of play that New Brit | ain showed it's best play of the night. The team was absolutely lacking in CO., ordinate work in the first frame and it fell into a slump of which i Plainfeld took full advantage. Slo- man failed to get more than one i field basket which is unusual for the flashy forward An injury 10 his knee received in the first half hampercd i his efforts a great deal and proved q ! fortunate "break" for the opposi- ton. Sloman left the game but re- turned to the lineup in the second half.
 l Account of Game l Brusso, one of the fastest men seen on a local floor this year, start ed the scoring with a field basket five seconds after play had started. Sloman sank a foul and then a field basket at the 2:20 mark 10 put New Britain in the lead. Madden cagcl a goal from the floor 10 make it four 10 three. Sturm shot field basket and Sloman nicked another point on q foul shot.
 Brusso added four points on a foul, a field basket and another foul making Plainfelds lead to 6, | Rubensten added q point for the home club but Madden added one for the visitors. Dissinger then Caged one from the floor and Zakzcwski got one for New Britain. A foul and | q lltlI pciHN'l iS .>oI lildliiIil W ilo replaced Madden gave Plainfield a lead of 4 to at the end of the first half.
 Second Half
 Forty seconds after the whistle in the closing session. Rubenstein got q field goal but Brusso nullitied this by getting one for Plainfcld. Nor [ m q I in 1Elnl yni,,t l. ipcr if i while Zakzewski with a field and foul shot made New Britain's total 14 Stavinitsky got field basket and 1}ubenstein followed with one for New Britain The count was now 19 to 1G.
 It was Stavinitsky again who gave Plainfcld another field goal and this time he was followed by Bcrnot. Zakzewski. playing like a 1iend, caged one for New Britain but Brus- so got clear to get one for Plainfeld. The Plainfeld team was working perfectly. Bcrnot caged another and ., Plainfcld had a lead of nine points, the count being Y to IS. A foul shot by Normandin gave Plainield % and another field goal by Stavin- itsl>y made it 3l.
 At this point. New Britain went on wild spurt that almost sent the game into an overtime session. Slo- man caEed free try on a technical foul RUbcnStcln got his third field goal of th" half, making it 2l. Zak- ZeWSkl ragcd a free try. A moment later he shot one but was fouled in the attempt and he made one of the two tries good bringing the score to 3 10 25 still in favor of Plainiield kil1uf slipped through to cage q pretty field goal making it 97 and then Bcrnot got foul for the last point Of the gam" for Plainfeld. Slo- man cagcd two free tries and Zak- zeWSki anothcr.
 Time was called out by plainfield The score was 33 to 30 in favor of the visitors wifh five seconds to go Sloman got the tap and passed to kilduff who whirlcd down the floor. "Tedders" popped for the basket but the shot failed to register and before another chance could be taken, the game ended in q victory for the plainfcld team
 First League Game
 The first game of the state league schedule 10 be played in New Britain will take place next Saturday night at the Stanl'y Arena with the Wa tcrbury team opposing New Britain.
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