New Britain herald., 1928-04-09

Foul shooting again accounted fol a loss for the New Britain basket. ball team Saturday night when ths Celties of New York, champions ol the world of basketball. battled theil way in furious encounter to 4o te B victory over the Hardware City quintet. The uncanny ability of the visitors to drop the ball through the hoop from the free throw line gave them more than enough points tC offset the work of the home team in outscoring the opposition l2 to II field baskets from the floor.
 The contest. the last of the season for the New Britain team, was also enc of the blue banner attractions of the entire year. With rush, the Celtics started a Nhirlwind passing same at the very start but New Brit ain threw up a solid defense that overcame the Celtic speed and the homo club stood tied with the cham pions with less than six minutes to 30 to finish the game.
 Tough luck dogged the home club all through the first half when in- numerable shots were we'll placed for the rim but the ball failed to go through the hoop. Had at east half of these been score for points, New Britain would have had a comfort able lead in the summary at the end of the first half.
 Both teams played roughly at times. but this only made the spec tacle more interesting and exciting. Tho New York team displayed all it's cleverness and speed in the attack while the New Britain crew rallied strongly at every turn and even went into the lead about half way through the second half.
 Rubenstein continued his sensa- tional play Saturday night. Having proved cOnclusively against the Chi cago Bruins that he could play with the best in the country, he duplicat- ed the performance Saturday night and went on scoring rampage that the Celtics found difficult 10 stop. Jimmy Zakzewski scored as many points As Rubenstein in the final analysis but he had a tougher job in playing the elongated Lopchick in center.
 It was Lopchick's sensational work from the foul line in scoring l free shots out of 14 tries, that en- abled the Celtics to come through with g. win. Banks and Barry. cov- cred by sheehan and Leary, respec- ,t1vely, failed to register single point in the first half and Barry got only one long pop in the second while Banks scored three field goals.
 In its floor work. the New Britain team equalled and. in the minds of many. outplayed the famous combin- ation from the metropolis. Ruben stein and Sloman worked nicely to- gether at forward, Zakzewski played 4s whale Of game at center while SAeehan and Leary were like leeches after their men.
 Account Of Game
 Like whirling dervishes, the Celtics opened up the first half and soon ran up . score of five points. Zakzewski broke in to score for New Britain after three minutes of play but the Celtics kept up their speedy exhi- bition. With the count II to 2, slo- man broke the ice again for New Britain and the locals quickly crept ! up to 10 points while the Celtics were adding one. Then a slight spurt by the visitors gave them 14 but New Britain came right back and tied the count at the l7:10 mark. A basket and two fouls bY Lopchick gave the Celtics a lead of IS to IA at half time.
 Second Half Rubenstein got a basket 10 seconds after play was resumed in the second half. Lopchick again came through from the free throw line. Sloman made it 19 to IS but Dehnert added a point for New York. Again Slo- man popped . long shot through the hoop tying tho count at the 4:20 mark.
 Here the Celtics spurted again and scored seven points Tn rapid order giving them that much of a lead. came through with two prettysfie goals and Leary and Slo- man added points on free tries leav- lng New Britain again one point be- hind. Banks got q long shot for New ' ork but quick baskets by Ruben- stein and Zakzewski put New Britain into the lead by one point at the 1915 minute mark
 Nip and tuck went the score with neither team having more than a lead and New Britain stay ng ahead. At the 14:15 minute mark, the Celtics tied the count on a pretty shot by Holman. Here the ;isitors again put on the steam and although New Britain fought back with desperate attack, The Coltics mana ged 10 pull through to a win by he score Of 42 to %5. The summary:
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