New Britain herald., 1928-04-02
Stanley Rule & Level and P. & F. Corbin Basketball Quintets in Final Contest for Championship -Four Battles Carded at Stanley Arena - Landers and Stanley Works Clash in First of Mems Meetings Rulers and Newmatics Carded to Pay-Corbins vs. FafnirS,
Girls Post Season Standing

Corbin game tomorrow night at the Stanley Arena.
 This is the first contest on four game program which has been in vogue for the past three weeks and it will be called at 7:30 o'clock The second game of the night will see Landers and Stanley Works rivalry enacted. the third game will feature Stanley Rule and New Britain Machine teams, and the fourth game, the feature Of the men's contest, will he q game be- tween r. X r. Corbin's and Fafnir Bearing teams. This will decide second place.
 Girls Game
 The winner of tomorrow nights game between the F. X r. Corbin and Stanley Rule girls will be officially termed the champions Of the girls league for 1927-2s and the loser will be in second place tie as the season ends. These two are, two of three teams which finished in triple first place tie as the season ended about two weeks ago. The third team. Landers, was elimi- mated by Stanley Rule in the first of the post-season games last week.
 Twice before have these two teams met and twice have r. & r. Corbins been the winners. On the first occasion. the score was ! to 1, ?. & r. and on the second meet ing it was II to 2. Corbins. Jimmy" Murphy, as usual, offers no alibs for his teams two defeats, but he Is thoroughly convinced that his team is the better Of the two. On tha, particular point Clarence Coons disa srees. Needless to say, Coons is the Corbin coach.
 Last year these two teams were entered in the girls industrial league. Stanley Rule finished second. short distance behind the champions from the American Hos iery. With one exception the lineup is the same as that which wore the blue and white stripes last year. That place is at guard, where Flor cnce speck is playing in place of Helen Kelly.
 On the other hand Pat" Coons coached a team which finished in last place. Many claimed some of the best-loolsing girls in the league were in the lineup. but as basketball players they are not there.
 Determined to have a winning team Pat" went through the far tory in search of basketball material and from every nook and corner he picked players. When his team came on the floor this year only two of last years squad were in the line up. They were Captain Ada Gross man and Mary Pihicl. In the last few games he had a third member, Ruth Johnson. last years captain.
 Among the new members are Mary Motyka who won high SCOT ing honors in her first season of basketball: Anna plrtkerwitz, fourth leading scorer who is also playing her first season. and Stcphanie Olszowy who Coons claims is the best defensive player in the league.
 I.anders Hitting the Bumps. Landers mon have been skidding in the last month and every game seems to find the team playing worse than it did before. Frank Nester. the teams coach. is trying desperately to pull the quintet to- gether and he hopes he will see it i return to winning from against the Stanley Works.
 The Stanley Works team has not been keeping mp 10 scratch in the last few weeks. Although 1t stays mp among the leaders it loses at times when opportunities arc golden. If it wins tonight it is sure of at least a tie for third place. If r. X F. I 'orhins loses in the Fafnir game Stanley Works will go into third l place. but if Fafnirs lose. a third 1 place tic will result.
 Stanley Rulc-N. B. Machine. 1 Another advancement is possibl. | for the New Britain Machine toarr 1 tonight if it defeats Stanley Eulc It will be tied with Landers for fif,l 1 place if IanjerS lose 70 Stanlc, 1 Works. The Sewmatic five has beer | playing fine type Of basketball il
 the last few games and it has ad
 vanced steadily. IL is possible for i
 10 lead the second division in th'
 standing # 1t continues. It will D,
 impossible for the Rule Shop taau
 10 finish better than in the cellar l it loses tonight.
 P. & F. Cor.nn- Fafnirs.
 This is F'afnr's last stand. If tn
 team wins from r & r. Corbins i
 will have fine chance for secon. place. at least, but if it is defeate'
 Il will not have as great an oppor
 unity since If has only one nor game after tomorrow night.
 The y. & F. Corbin five is abou
 the most dangerous threat the Screv
 Shop has in the race for the pen
 nant. The reason. more than any
 thing elae is that the Lockmaker
 have more games to play than tn
 others After tonight the opponent
 F. X F. will play arc just as ''easy
 as those which are left for the Screy
 Shop team. Both teams will pIa
 the Rule Shop and Landers and tn
 Screw Shop will also play corbi