New Britain herald., 1928-02-02
Speaking of Sports

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 tho Springheld Union with . lone wailtng complaint that all the play. era on his team were nearly dead or the night of their appearance in thi, city.
 Here is what Kramer has to say; "I don't think that l am convinced that New Britain b superior to the Renaissance, called the greatest money maker for the promoter in the basketball world today. New Britain's first victory over the Rem atasance, in my opinion. was a luke. and the second, which came last ssoSNss ~NshS VVt ACdIh " o0 UuVt full of injuries."
 ''slocum the captain. and Mayors, the brilliant guard, have been out of the lineup for the past three weeks. Sanders, our center man, is suffering with two injured ankles and Jenkins is in i'll health. Were 1t not for the fact that these games were contracted several weeks ahead of time, they would never have been booked or played bcause we cannot give our best efforts to the public when we cannot present our full lineup"
 'New Britain has very good team. probably one of the best we have played against in our 70 odd games 70 far this season. This is an open invitation to the manager Of the New Britain team that we will be pleased to entertain his team at our hall in New York any Sunday night he may desire and will play amateur rules the full 60 minutes, although we always play profession 1 al rules N our home court"
 we will also give New Britain . 1 good official. Peter sinnot, called the best referee in the business today. He Is an American league referee and two weeks ago handled the City college -Fordham game to every body's satisfaction. He also has been given the position as referee for the coming City colleee-New York U. game in New York"
 So much for Manager Kramer. Tho Renaissapce Five apparently didn't suffer greatly because of the loss of Captain Siocum. In the first game here, he failed to score. Kicks who took his place got Ave points last Saturday night. Jenkins must have been sick in the first samo here also because he only scored nine l points. Last Saturday night he SCOT ed 10 points. Sanders with his weak ankles. only got four foul points In ( the first game but he scored three ! field goals and two fouls for total of eight points last Saturday night. The alibi given because of the first defeat couldn't work after saturday nights same because Manager Lan- pher. called off the four personal H foul rule in the game and none of E he Renaissance players were eject ' ed because of this. Jenkins had eight fouls and saitch had five in the game.
 Dc haven't any way of saying that v Manager LAnpher will accept the \, open invitation to come to Harlem. A We believe. in fact we know. that k Manager Kramer has Manager Lam ,her's address and we can't see the leed for any basketball manager in- R -iting a New Britain, Conn.,. team V W o play in New York city through H he medium of . Springfield, Mass. O. 
 Mir. Kramer's ideas on the game r ast Saturday night can't be worth st great deal. He failed to put i'll an M ppearance to watch his charges in \. h ,ction. If his team was crippled night and not playing in orm, then we are all sorts of pink lephants.
 Waterbury will furnish the opposi- ., lon for New Britain at the Stanley N rena Saturday night. Waterbury V as McNamara, the lanky center, s' ack with the team again and Guen- her tho professional league star is z. oing big in the Brass city. The isitors will present an entirely diff :" erent team against the locals in the oI oming game. o. Meriden comes here next Wednes- ay night and the following satur- :. ay Lou Gehrig's combination Of ol li-stars will play its first game in ~. u ew Britain. n n The Canadian amateur fight team III scheduled to appear in New Brit In | week from Friday night. This i'll be one of the best possible at- ~ ~ actions available in the simon pure tn yht game. Announcements will be qu ade later. n
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