New Britain herald., 1929-01-31
BRISTOL ENDEES PROVE
TOO STRONG FOR LOCALS
Sturdy Defense Coupled With Fast Offensive Serves to
Snow Hardware City Quintet Under 81 to ~ Score
Total of n Personal Fouls Are Called by Referee
Coyle-"Hank" Arburr Stars In First Appearance
Play Here Saturday.

A sturdy Bristol defense coupled
Nth q fast offensive proved too
much for the New Britain basket
ball team last evening at the Bristol
armory and the Endees rode TO 81 TO
10 victory before crowd Of more
than hoe. The game was fiercely
fought from the opening whistle but
was marred by the constant blowing
of the whistle by Referee Billy Coyle
who called a total OF 81 personals.
Sheehan and Zakzewski of the 10
calls and Waterman and Manning OF
Bristol were banished from the
game via the personal foul route.
The Bristol rooters were armed
with COW bells and other noise MAX
ing devices and raised a terrific din
every time a Bristol score was
made. New Britain. however, was
represented by over 400 rooters
who gave their moral support to the
locals.
That Bristol was out to win the
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opening whistle. The minute New
Britain gained possession Of the ball,
the entire Endee team would drop
10 the backcourt and New Britain
was practically powerless to pierce
the stonewall defense. Whenever
New Britain player broke through.
he was forced to hurry his shot and
l., % ho
or the five baskets scored by the To-
Gals, four Of them we're from long
distance points and we're Of the SEN
sational variety.
Bristol worked steadily throughout
the game and scored most OF It's
baskets from within the foul line.
New Britain took an early lead but
Bristol went into the van at the five
minute mark and was never head
ed after that although the orange
jerseyed men came within three
points Of the Endees in the second
half.
In\spite OF Bristors victory last
evening. local fans who witnessed
the game are confident that the New
Britain team will reverse the decl-
sion at the Stanley Arena Saturday
evening. Richman. who scored is
points against Zakzewski a few
weeks ago while playing with the
WASHINGTON Palace Five, found the
local man a different proposition last
evening and was able to sink but one
counter from the floor.
The shining light Of the game was
The wonderful defensive work OF
Hank" Arburr, who was playing IN
New Britain uniform for the first
lime l'itted against Picken. leading
scorer OF the Bristol aggregation,
Who has been running wild all sea-
son. Arburr tied him UP in knot
aud ran him ragged. Everytime
piclen got the ball. Hank was on
his back and gave him little If any
opportunity to shoot. Picken scored
his only field goal off of Arburr. with
two minutes left to play In the game.
Roxbury. Chicago Bruin star, ap-
peared with New Britain and dis
played q fast floor game. He was
unable to break through the Bris-
:ol defense, however. and constant
w heaved long shots that trimmed
the basket but refused to 60 in. He
sank 1--WE out OF five foul tries. In
all, New Britain Gagged nine foul
points out of II tries.
Roxbury opened the game with
foul shot. Zakzewski made it 10
0 at the l 80 mark with beautiful
one handed shot. This basket
eventually proved to be New Brit
aims only basket of the half. After
three minutes of stirring basketball.
Picken tossed in goal. This put
Bristol ahead for the first time in
the game. For the next ten minutes
it was just one foul after another
az Coyle played tunes on his whistle.
Bristol gradually drew away from
the locals and led 16 to . at the
half, Sheehan was banished from
the game on personals at the eight
minute mark while Waterman made
his exit at the Is minute mark.
The locals started off fast in the
second half and began to close In on
Bristol by virtue of baskets by Yak
zews'li and Sloman. At the seven
minute mark. Bristol led IS to 10
and Manning was bauished from the
game on fouls. Malcolm entered the
game and sensational shots by him
and Richtmeyer started the Bristo.
team off to an easy victory. Yak
zewski was banshed from the game
with two minutes left TO go.
The summary.