New Britain herald., 1929-03-20
Speaking of Sports

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 The Bristol and Meriden Endees will clash tomorrow night at the state armory in Meriden in the first game of . home and home series between the two The second game of the clash will be staged at Bris- tol Saturday night. This is the last drive of Meriden and Manager Jack Curry for the state championship. At the present time, the teams are tied at two-all in games won against each other and the winner of the two games will have the edge.
 Curry plans to use Wineapple and Cook at forwards. Entrup at center and Conway and Red" Lingner at guards.
 Herby kochansky. sports editor of the Meriden Morning Record, has undertaken to explain the slump of the Meriden Endees and the down. fall as a scoring ace of Herb Cohen. We will quote him and his writings will explain themselves.
 Basketball gossip throughout the state is centerins on the slump of the Endees in general and the SCOT. ing nose dive Of Herb Cohen in par ticular.
 Working on the Cohen angle and desiring to know tho why's and the wherefores this department con- ducted little investigation of its own. which resulted in the digging up of the following facts:
 "I)-Cohen had never been held scoreless from the floor until last Thursday night when he registered lonely foul against New Britain.
 "(2)-He had never been shut out without a po'nt until he went completely scoreless against New Britain at New Britain Saturday night.
 "(3)-Herb himself can't explain fia sudden and surprising and dis astrous slump and the resultant tail-spin of the Cur.ynen.
 At the bottom of it all. in this writer's private opinion. is Hank" Arburr of New Britain. who Tas Tcthing moro Or less than good junior playe- last year.
 "Arburr started it by holding Co., 1sn to basket and foul at New Britain abou. month ago. It wasn't rntl the last 10 seconds of play that Herb clicnd with his field goal. Arburr held Cohen without field goal here last Thursday but Herb managed to escape & shutout by dropping in a free throw. At New Britain last Saturday Cohen played only about 10 minutes and was un- able to tally a eingie point--for the first time since he went into seni- pro basketball in big way
 "Arburr has the Indian Sign on Cohen and can make hilh roll over and play dead whenever he waggleS his finger. The New Britain young- ster clings to Cohen like leech, never lets him get set and harasses and bothers him continually by dog ging his steps from whistle to whistle.
 "Arburr doesn't rank with Jimmy Picken and Jim Manning of the Bristol Endees, yet he has caused Cohen more woe than both of the Bristol stars Herb manages to break away from Picken and Man. ming for two or three hoops a game with a couple of fouls thrown i'll 10 help the batting ayerage-but against Arburr he is almost total loss.
 NCohen hasn't given up the ship yet. and doesn't intend to. I'll get EOlNS dSdlI OIt Ol l1lcsC III 6 it, iiO says, and then I'll show them that I can still find the hoop. l can't explain my slump-guess Arburr's got my goat-but we're through with New Britain and perhaps I'll have more luck against Bristol"
 The Fort Wayne team last night defeated Rochester 22 to I3 and thereby won the second half cham- pionship of the American league. The team will now play the Cleve- land Rosenblooms, winners of the first half. for the championship Of tine league for the entire season.
 The Brockton, Mass, school board voted last night to allow Brockton High school team to go to Chicago to compete in the national basketball tournament conducted by the Uni- versity of Chicago April to 6. The team will be the representative High school team of Massachusetts.