New Britain herald., 1928-10-18

poftuhities to clean up this year and their followers are looking to them to do so. It's long time since both teams have finished on top.
 We'll, if the Red and Gold team wins over Stamford Saturday. the New Britain High school fans can look forward with confidence to the Hartford game. It all depends on Saturdays game.
 Bring on the roller hockey sea- son. Harry Keefer has returned after an extended stay in Vermont. We're all looking forward to see- ing Harry back on the floor again and when we said hoor we meant it.
 When Vermont academy comes to this city to play the New Britain High school team 1t will have the name of Westergren in It's backfield lineup. Westergren is New Brit ain boy who played football for the first time in his life last year with the Blues.
 When the New Britain High hoped that the players will not be crowded out of their seats by lot of ringers" In the trip to Pitts held the bus was filled with them and the players were Tagged out" when they arrived in the Berk- shires.
 From the present outlook all the Nutmegs have to do is defeat the Sub Base and the Hartford Giant teams to win the state professional championship.
 Considerable improvement in the manner of conducting the team was noticed in the Nutmeg Bridgeport game last Sunday when Henry Zehrer handled it from the side- lines.
 Some thought he left some of the substitutes in the game too long, but we think he had the right dope. Why take a chance and let regulars who are nursing injuries stay in the game when there are substi- tutes who should be given a chance to learn the teams style of play available.
 The battle Fitz and corpett fought in 1897 was repeated over the ra- dio the other night.
 That's one the experts ought to be able to pick. anyway.
 Babe Ruth, keeping up his tradi- ton visited a crippled boy in St. Louis hospital. They probably had a good time talking over their trou- bles.
 We heard of a bloke who clean- ed up at the race track yesterday. He took hunch from the recent world series and bet on the horses that limped.
 Next fall, we understand. it will be suggested to Commissioner Lam dis that the Tanks choose up sides and provide the customers with few baseball games.
 With the Falcons receiving the title of city champs and the ken- sjnRton nine of Greater New Brit ain champions. peace has been re- stored in baseball circles and the hata and balls will be stored away l until next year.
 Ray Begley is asked to communi- cate with Manager Cabay Of the Falcons at once. It seems Ray has moved and he failed to leave his telephone number behind.
 The Harvard-Army practice rivalry has taken a new turn. First the Cadets failed to stop the Crimson style of attack when the scrubs used it. while Harvard's new plays pro- duced free scoring. Yesterday the Harvard scrubs tried Army forma- tions and the varsity fell down on the defensive job. The Army play- CTS stopped the contest by not scrim- maging yesterday.
 Joe McKenny, Boston college coach, has his own way of deciding who will hold varsity places. With an open date Saturday. McKenny in- tends to send his whole squad through stiff scrimmage and let the regulars and subs settle the mat ter among themselves.
 Georgetown plays New York uni- versity two weeks from Saturday. Fordham completed more than half of the passes it tried against N. Y. U. Therefore Georgetown already has started developing a passing attack to use against the Violet.
 Lehigh has not shown much strength yet this season but it is not because Coach Austin Tate has failed to recognize the weakneaseA After numerous experiments to find his strongest combination, Tate is working with each man to produce the best individual results.
 It was too hot for the regulars to work at Princeton yesterday. but the second string men got taste of real action. Rutgers came over for . 20 minute scrimmage session with the Princeton reserves and went back seven points to the bad.
 Chick Neehan has four new as- sistants at New York university. The next opponent of N. Y. U.. Rutgers, has . squad made up principally of former New York high school play CTS 70 Meehan has called in all the