New Britain herald., 1929-04-17

More than 15O officials, managers and players of the Y. M. c. A. Indus trial basketball league gathered at the annual banquet at the Y. M. C.. A. last night. heard an interesting program of speeches. were enter tained for more than an hour by talented entertainers and then com- pleted an evening of joy by dancing until midnight.
 During the night statuettes were presented to Stephanie Olszowy, P. & F. Corbin guard who was pro- claimed the most valuable player in the girls league and to Frank (Hank) Arburr. Corbin Screw guard and coach, who was named the most valuable player in the mems league. These prizes were donated by kolodney Brothers store.
 Because of the fact that the rings which will be presented to individ- uals on the championship teams have not been made. this presenta- tion will be made at another ban quet which will be held later.
 During the courses Ray" Hoist and his band of outlaws including representatives of practically every factory, entertained. When the turkey dinner had been served and the dessert had been disposed of, Toastmaster Harry Ginsberg who was acting instead of Judge William F. Mangan who had to attend a lawyers meeting. opened the speak, ing portion of the program.
 He called upon Secretary Barnes and Bryce Long assistant secretary. Both received great ovation from the gathering among which they seem to enjoy great popularity. Mir. Long spoke of the great success en- joyed by the league. The aim, honesty. fair play, and sportsman ship was reached. he said.
 A surprise was offered in the per son of Ralph Recano who was called upon for speech relative to girls basketball. He expressed satisfac- tion with the type offered declaring that the reason scores are so low in the New Britain league compared with the out-of-town girls games was due to the fact that the New Britain defense was better.
 Monahan Receives Ovation When Coach Thomas Monahan of Bristol was called upon for a talk he received a great ovation. He chose as his topic the experiences of the Bristol high school basketball team in the west where it recently took part in the national tourna. ment for the championship of the country.
 In the first game the coach of the visiting team asked if it would be agreeable to Monahan 10 use q negro in the lineup and he said '' was perfectly satisfactory to him Later coach from southern school told him he was disgusted with the Bristol mentor for allow ing the colored boy to be used. He said the feeling against the negro 1 is as great as 1t ever was. The | thought Of the negro putting ms arms around him was distasteful the southern coach declared.
 1 On another occasion a team oi six-footers from the west had the benefit of police protection whili they were in Chicago. They had heard of the gun play there and the people back home, through thei, congressman in Washington, D. C. arranged for the protection.
 The west takes its basketball seri, ously, Mir. Monal.~n said. prac. tically two-thirds of the teams use . zone defense. It differs from Bris' tolls style of zone defense in that il places two men in front and three in back instead of three in front and two in back. Most of the players were over Six feet tall and were a