New Britain herald., 1928-02-13

Buster Lou" Gehrt1. New YorR Yankee baseball star. and hia basketball team of Au-Stars iron, New York failed to shine brightly al all at the Stanley Arena Saturday night against the New Britain basketball team. Playing the first half of the game here under pro- fessional rules and the second hal1 under regular amateur rules. the Hardware City quintet outplayed the visitors in both sections.
 In the first half under profession al rules. the locals ended at rest time with a one-point advantage, 20 to 1s and in the second half when the game swung back to amateur rules. New Britain had fairly easy time in piling up & sizeable lead In- fact. although the first session was fairly even. the New Britain tean, outclassed the visitors in every de. partment of the game.
 The demonstration of professional rule playing was anything but satis- factory to the fans in attendance. The absolute difference in tho game as it was being played, tended to slow up the contest to such degree that there was very little basketball. Sloman and Rubenstein. broken into the game under this style of play, were right to home while the familiarity of the other three mem- bers of the regular squad with the professional style of play. gave the visitors no advantage whatever in play.
 The ability of Walsh. the visiting center, to toss in baskets from long range, kept the visiting team ill the running in the first half. He shot four field goals from near the center of the floor and his work was really wonderful exhibition of shooting. Eggerts and Gilkinson also starred for the visitors. Gehrig received q wonderful reception from the fans but as a basketball player. he is most certainly a great hitter. He played II minutes of the first period.
 Jimmy Zakzewski was in his glory Saturday night. He played a whale of a game at center and scored six field goals and seven fouls for total of 19 points. Sloman was a flash on the floor and showed superiority over his opposing guards in both the professional :nd amateur game. Rubenstcin starred on the floor and his work brought the ball to the New York goal time after time. Leary and Johnny sheehan kept up their wonderful guarding work hold ing the three opposing forwards to one field goal each.
 Although the play was exceeding ly slow in the first half, the score was tied for almost all of the ses- sion. New Britain scored first with a foul shot and the All-Stars tied it almost immediately afterwards. Neither team had an advantage Of more than two points in tho first frame.
 Second Half
 In the second half, New Britain ran wild and started immediately to plle up punt dlttI punt. IONT baskets by Zakzewski and three by Sloman gave New Britain a bid edge in this frame. With the score g to 20 in favor of the home club, New Britain started a spurt that made the count g to 22. Another drive made the count 42 to S2 while still another brought the final count to 49 to 35.
 The visiting players constantly ob- jected to Referee Clyde Waters style of refereeing. With every con- cession given to the visitors even to the waiving of the four personal, they weren't satisfied. Walsh the visiting center was the worst offend CT in this respect but all the 'squawking" failed to perturb the referee and he followed the rules of the game as they were agreed on be- fore the contest started. A capacity house witnessed the game.
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