New Britain herald., 1928-02-20
Games Tonight Hartford at Meriden. Waterbury at New Britain.
 Saturdays Results Waterbury 6. Bristol 3.
 Sundays Results New Britain s. Bristol 5. Waterbury 5, Hartford {.

Saln0AyS NeSulD New Britain 8, Bristol 5. Waterbury 5, Hartford {.
 Completely outplaying their op- ponents yesterday afternoon tn the three periods the five men who com- pose the New Britain Roller Hockey team, defeated the Bristol quintet by the score of 8 to 5. The local crew appeared to have 8 walkaway of the game in the first two periods but rally by the visitors in the final stanza of play brought them up to within three points of the total of the local team.
 A faster or harder played first per- iod has not been seen here this sea- son than the one staged in the game yesterday afternoon. At it's con- clusion. Bristol led by the score of |2 to l. Both teams started off at . terrific pace and this was kept up until the bell brought the hectic ses- sion to a close. Bristol in this frame showed its best team work of the en- tire contest.
 In the second period, however. the New Britain team hit its stride and five consecutive goals resulted. On the defense, the Bristol forwards found the combination of Brown. Muirhead and Blount altogether too much for them and they went score less. Alexander and Boucher di- x-idod bopors {,, tb{o rovcior pounhar getting three and Alexander two.
 Browns play in the game was of exceptional order. He broke up pass after pass and messed up Bristol's attempts to get into scoring posi- ton. He drove accurately and his bank passing was one of the features of the game. Muirhead before the cage was on the alert all the time and his numerous stops caused Blount to have 8 total of only 4l for the game.
 The third period saw Bristol get an edge on New Britain in the num- Der of goals scored. Duggan. Hardy and Pierce all three poked in scores in this frame but Bristols best ef- forts failed to make New Britain ex- tend itself.
 Duggan easily starred for Bristol with Thompson close second in the race for playing honors. Earl Pierce played a nice floor game but he was hampered by the excellent defense work of "Gid" Brown. Conley in the goal had a total of 64 stops, but despite this the New Britain team scored eight counters through him. He was bombarded by every kind of 9 drive and shot.
 Boucher and Alexander. aided by the timely work of Brown, worked nicely together and they caged all of New Britains goals. Both gave pretty exhibition of pass work on the floor.
 Dusgan started scoring in the game with a nice shot giving Bristol one goal. Five minutes afterwards, Boucher scored with g screaming drive for New Britain. Near the end of the period. however. Dugsan scooped one into the side of the cage to give Bristol the advantage going into the second period.
 The second frame found the New Britain team ready for a real assault on Bristols cage. The local players sped around the Bristol defense men and five goals were poked in.
 Duggan opened the third frame with a pretty goal and Hardy fol- lowed him 15 seconds later with an- other. Alexander then caged two in succession off pretty passes from Boucher. Pierce caught Bill Blount off guard when the local eoalie fell and scored the lc~t goal Of the game.
 Waterbury Here Tonight
 Local fans are due to see real battle staged at the Stanley Arena tonight when the Waterbury Sham rocks take on the New Britain team in a league game. The return of Fredie Harkins to the game despite warnings by his physician has given Waterbury back all of it's original strength. Jette and Lovegreen, goal tenders for Waterbury and Hartford respectively. have been exchanged and Lovegreen will be seen here to- night for the first time in a Water bury uniform.
 The victory yesterday of the New Britain team puts it in a position where. if it beats the Waterbury crew tonight, it will be directly be- hind the Meriden Maroons in the race for the second half champion ship.
 Preliminary Game
 The Dodge team took the measure Of the Cnryslers in the Automobile league in the preliminary ga @ played yesterday. The score was g to 3. Tonight the Pontiac and Nash teams will clash in the preliminary.
 The summary:
 New Britain Bristol Alexander .... .1r.. Duggan Boucher ...... .2r....... Pierce BroNn .........c. thompson Muirhead ..... hb. ...... Hardy Blount .....-..g. ........ Conley
 First Period
 Goals Scored by Gagged by Time
 Bristol Duggan 1:14
 Nau Britain nnychar 0T