New Britain herald., 1929-12-07
League Standing

Battling ficrcely from the opening whistle through two l5 minute per- iods with little or no difference in the score. the Stanley Rule and Fafnir quintcts in the Industrial Basketball league furnished the fea- ture attraction last night at the Tabs hall. The stronger finish of the Rulers brought the coveted victory and a better foothold on first place. The final score was 24 to -.
 Up until last night these two teams had not been defeated and were listed among four that were in the select circle. Today, three teams arc leading: Stanley Rule, Corbin Screw, which defeated Corbin Cabinet Lock in a one-sided contest, 36 to II, and Stanley Works, which was idle last night The final game of the night resulted in d victory for Landers over the -trodden P. & r. Cor bin team.
 Last nights games were witnessed by the largest crowd of the season and the Rule-Fafnir game was the best played so far this season. The first game, between Corbin Sore" and Cabinet Lock was so terrible that it nearly sent the crowd home. The last game of the night was good, especially in the second half when a beaten P. & F. Corbin team started a spurt which might have brought it victory if the Landers regulars did not go back into the game.
 e~ Lead Changes Often
 There probably will not be an- other game in the league which will be harder played than the Fafnir- Rule Shop game. On eight occasions during the contest the lead changed hands and each team took posses sion of the drivers seat four times.
 Ten seconds after the game started Gierochowski of Fafnirs dribbled in and made a field goal. Two minutes later Kley. his rival center, made o-pointer but a foul shot by An derson kept his team ahead to , It was to .. Rule: , to 1, Fafnirs; tie score; 7-5. Rule; tied at 1-all; 9-1. Rule; 10-n. Fafnirs, and at half time the count was s to II, Eaf- nirs.
 Four minutes after the second half opened the score was tied at 1S-all. X minute and a half later it was 20 to IS, Fafnirs.
 Mercy tied 1t at 20-al with three and one half minutes to go. Garro broke the tie with a field goal. Hapatka made it A 10 20 but with one minute to go the score was 24 10. p. Then Gierochowski took 9 shot which hit the rim and bound ed the wrong way. An attempt to follow up failed and the count re- mained the same as the final whistle sounded
 The game was well played by both teams and every one Of the 10 men were on their toes at all times. The play was exceedingly fast through out and although the spectators thought the teams were going at too great q rate of speed in the early part of the game the boys seem to
 
 just as strong at the finish.
 The entire l'afnir team deserves much credit even though it was de feated. It's forward combination of Bclscr and Havlick was out of the game because of illness. the former because Of an injured hand and the latter because of an illness which requires that he be in bed Then Red" Matulis had g spraincd ankle which he had to favor throughout the contest. However Buchicrc and Anderson. substitute forwards, were very good and they scored total of T. points betwcs them. Gi"rochoWgki again played well in the zone defense plan,
 Coach Murphy's Stanley Rulc team never looked any better than it did last night. Mercy had hi; shooting eye and he certainly was big threat in the final minutes Some Of the baskets he made were spectacular and shots were missed by a narrow margin. Klcy made the feature long shot Of the night However. the leading scorers do moi deserve any moro credit than the other men who were powerful or the defense and wonderful in floor work.
 The SuD1 mary.