New Britain herald., 1928-01-31
Spe eakin9 of Sports

$s>sessss>sssssssssss,ssss
 Archie Muirhead was officially stamped. signed and delivered last htght under the name of Top" at the roller hockey game. Eadie SNeW Yorker) Horowitz aod his gang Of glee club members, greeted the new daddy aS lne came on the fleeF last night and >Pop' he:is go- tng to be from now on.
 Show Us a man in any WALK of life with a harder jaw than s'Pop" owns and we'll show you theq man who ought to be the champion chin buster in the country. Certainly Pop" expressed 1t rightly when he said that he was in the wrong game. Muirhead should have been . psiss-fighter.
 Lou Gehrig's team of basketball stars will play New BHtain at the Stanley Arena a week from Satur- day night. according to an an- nouncement by Manager Clarence Lanpher today. Negotiations for the game have been pending for some time but an agreement was arrived at within tho :ast two. days.
 New Britain plays in Bristol to- morrow night Waterbury appears here Saturday night. The Meriden Endees arc hese week from We'd nesday night and Gehrig's team will do the honcrs a week from Satur- day. February II.
 This means that New Britain will have a list of attractions worth see- ing in its next three homes games.
 The Renaissance FHe, colored champions of the world. came back to form Sunday afternoon on their home floor and defeated the Passaic All-Stars with Blood and the rest of the former unbeatable high schooi team players. by the score of 6S to 23. Probably the feeling the colored players were unable to let olt here in New Britain was shpwered on the New Jersey team in the game.
 Jimmy Malcolm, and VIC are Sor- " to hear it, has been forced to quit basketball. probably for tho remain der of the season. His health has been poor since his recent illness and until he regains some of his physical conlposure he is doing the wise thing in keeping away from the game. It is our hope that he will recover quickly and we know that all the fans i'll this city echo our sentiments.
 Al eloman, besides heinz a bas- ketball star. is evidently trying to initiate the fish in every sense of the word. We read where Al enter ed swimming meet at ur. Arnold's school in New Haven and after strenuous splashins. got across the 20-foot tank.
 Frankie Portell scored an easy win over Clicky Clark of Holyokc .n an eight round battle at the Val ley Arena in tho Paper City last night. Portell clearly outboxed Clark all the way and there was no question about the decision 1t the end of the bout. Clark went down from . right to the jaw in the first round for . count of eight.
 New Britain is we'll represented on out -of.town athletic teams this year judging from the names seen in lineups about the stata
 The All l-Plainvills team consists of Hoist center: Jasper. forward; Ar bour and Darrow. guards.
 All are doing very we'll. The last player to be agned up was Ham my" Darrow. who with Arbour is considered . leader among the younger group of guards who are coming up.
 Probably the player who !s show ing the greatest form of the out siders is Jimmy Reynolds forward on the Hartford Yankee team. He has been . consistent scorer in the games he has played all season. In the seven games he played he scored 19 points. . good mark when consid- eration is given tho fact that he has played . portion of the gameA
 Nerrott Taylor Is doing . great deal of playing on New Haven courts and is still tho same hashy player of old.
 "Monlue" Zaleski h playing dne brand of basketball with the Ford ham freshmen, but 'Toots'' Politis and Howard Belser of the varsity team have not come up to expecta- tons as yet.
 The New Britain High school team will have its hands full in try ing to defeat the Collegiate Pre- paratory school team in . game on tho New Britain High gymnasium Saturday afternoon. Collegiate has scored 10 straight victories this year and among the victories was the Red and Gold team in . game played in New Haven.
 PLAYERS NOT H0LD0UrS