New Britain herald., 1928-02-20

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 Playing what at its best was a poor and boresoms brand of basket bah. the New Britain and Atlas eutntets met Saturday night at the Stanley Arena with the result that the Hardware City quintet sprang the surprise of the season by pin- ming . 32 to 1S defeat on it's Elm City rival, putting New Britain in first place in the league. The Atlas team arrived in this city minus Cor don. star guard. and 1t was forced to end up the contest with only four mon on the floor. Early in the first half, Lyman. regular center on the team. iAjured his ankle reverely and he was forced to hobble painfully to the dressing room. Then in the sec- ond period. Wexler, substitute center and Botwinick were banished on four personal fouls. Manager Sam Bailey was forced to don g uniform and enter the contest. Besides these. Chadys and Pite both had four per sonal fouls before the contest end ed but they were allowed to remain in the game.
 Two officials were used during the contest. Efforts of Manager Clar- ence Lanpher of the local team to secure the services of Dick Dillon or Red" Ball for the contest proved useless as both men had previous engagements. Late into Friday night and up to Saturday afternoon. he telephoned everywhere for officials without success. Frank Barnikow Of Neriden and Holm of Hartford acted aS referee and umpire respec- lively. Both officials came in for generous rounds of raging from the large gathering of fans during the sAme.
 The Atlas team was only 2 shell of the quintet that ran away with New Britain in the last game be- tween the two in this city. The New Britain team itself was not at its best but it was able to score suffi- cisnt points to win Not only half of the aecond period had been play ed, however, did the Hardware City crew draw away from the opposition and pile up the sizeable lead it had at the finish.
 Cohen was the only member of the visiting aggregation that was in form. In the first half, he scored fouY field goals and kept the New Haveners in the running. New Brit ain led at half time by IS to Il score. New Britain's guards were the stars of the home clubs play. Leaiy kept Sammy Pite scorless for the entire game while Johnny shee- han hold Botwinick to one basket. . lens shot from the center of the fo>r.
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 Sheehan opened the scoring with . basket for the home team 40 sec onds after play had started. The locals then scored four more points befere the Atlas started to work. At the %:30 mark. Botwinick score a free try making the count to 1 for New Britain. Cohen followed him with long toss but Leary eaualled this when he broke loose to cage . nice field goal. Botwinick and Sloman scored foul points mak- ing the count g to for New Brit ain.
 chadys sank a free try and Cohen followed with two long baskets tying the score at g all with nine minutes already played. Zakzewski and Ru- , benstein tossed in complimentary shots and Sloman added another point from the foul line. Johnny Sheehan tossed in field goal and ZAkzewski added a point from the free throw line. Cohen's basket for the Atlas left the score at half time Is to II in favor of New Britain.
 Second Half
 The Atlas with substitute cen- ter in the game. resorted to long shots in the second frame but most of them were misses. Wexler open ed the scoring with a foul shot. Zak- ZeWSkl Was sent out on TOUT per sonal fouls. Hoist celebrated his en- trance into the game with a beauti- full long shot
 Wexler scored another free throw but Rubenstein scored one for New Britain. Botwinick tossed a pretty long shot through the net but Slo- man equalled this with one for New Britain. Sheehan added another field goal for the home club and Hoist added point on a foul try. Cohen tossed in another long pop but Hoist scored one over the rim for New Britain leaving the count 25 to IT in favor of New Britain
 Sloman added point from the complimentary stripe and Hols' dropped in two. Sam Bailey scored point through the same means for New Haven. Sloman and Hoist added points for New Britain and Sheehan ended the game by popping in a basket for New Britain.
 Hartford Tuesday Night
 New Britain meets the Hartford Yankees in Hartford Tuesday night in the first of home and home series of games during the next week. Hartford will play in this city next Saturday night.