New Britain herald., 1928-03-28

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 Basketball fans in this city will be behind Manager Clarence Lan- pher to man in his controversy With Mana ger sam Bailey of the Atlas quintet of New Haven con- cefhlng the final game to be played between the two teams. Offers of all sorts by Lanpher met refusal by bailey giving the impression that me New Haven pilot has been af- 1lict"d With serious case of cold feet
 So anxious are the New Britain players to get at the New Haven ere" again. that each man on the team has offered to stake his pay Tor the game and a little more as a purse against a like amount to be put up by New Haven, winner to take all The players are willing to play the game anywhere including New Haven and they are sure that they can win. It looks as if the New Haven team is about convinced Of the fact too.
 Manager Clarence Lanpher has al- so offered to put up a stake that New Britain will win the game but this has just brought a laugh from Manager Bailey. This is a strange thing too, when one considers the fact that in the game played in New Haven, bets of two to one with the Atlas team the favtorite were being offered.
 Manager Lanpher plans to insist that the game be played although 1t looks very much like a case of New Haven not being tickled to death to play.
 At first. it appeared that Bailey would agree to have the game staged in Meriden but after things were ln- >estigated there, this was abandon ed. To our way of thinking, there Is no earthly reason why New Bri tain fans should go to Meriden to see the New Britain team play bas- ketball. It the game is to be staged at all. it should be played ill this city.
 Then again, of course, New Haven has d right to demand that it be played on d neutral floor. Manager l.anpher is through arguing the question. He states that one game will be played or none at all, the winner to be recognized as the state championship quintet.
 Joe Carol and Luke Owens. man. ager and scorekeeper of the Bristol Endees, respectively. who witnessed the game last Saturday night, stated that there was no comparison be- tween New Britain and New Haven. They consider the Hardware City team far ahead of the Atlas.
 The city basketball tournament games last evening were productive Of some fast and heated play, and all those who watched them were of the opinion that the semi-final and final contests would be real Wows." All of the teams are keyed up to that pitch where they were playing over their heads" and there was no picking of winners un- til the final whistle, so shifting were the fortunes of play as first one | team and then the other rallied.
 Jack Tobin and Leonard Nixon, who are handling the games. placed | themselves on the unfamiliar end 1 of the coin-toss before the opening game when a penny was spun 10 | see which of them would have the l honor of tossing up the first ball. | Tobin called the toss correctly and | threw the sphere up between Peck and Grace.
 The appearance of Fred and Sam | Mirigliani on opposing teams Inst { night aroused considerable comment from the spectators. On several oc- casions the brothers were called up- on to jump against each other, while once Fred fouled sam by hacking him from the rear. Both were close Iy guarded and unable to do much in the way of scoring.
 A supcr-shot was made last night by Harold Peck of the South Church Juniors. Standing on the far foul line, fully 55 feet from the basket. Peck flung a distance try which went far up, barely skinned the high beams Of the roof, and finally came down cleanly in the hoop. It Is believed to be the longest shot ever made on the club floor in the course of game.
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