New Britain herald., 1929-02-07
HIGH SCHOOL QUINTET IS
DEFEATED BY HILLHOUSE
Local Team Exceeds Expectations Against Trained Elm
City Veterans = Four New Players In Hardware
City Lineup - Visitors Appear Overconfdent-
Final Score Is % to l5-Wnners Lead IL to at
Half Time-Account of Came

Although presenting q lineup that
VAS almost entirely new, the New
britain high school basketball gum
tet exceeded expeditions last night
at the Stanley Arena by playing the
well-trained and veteran Hillhouse
high team of New Haven on even
terms. In the final stages Of the
game. the Elm City crew managed
to get the jump and finished in the
lead. % to is.
Four OF the members Of the local
team were playing their first game
for the local team. Mid-year grad
uation had taken nearly all of the
regulars. including the captain.
Hillhouse high was confident
This was apparent from the begin
mir of the game and II the nervous
Red & Gold team could have taken
advantage of its opportunities in the
first half. 1t would have had a lead
which might have been a means OF
combating the last half scoring
spree OF the New Haven team.
This victory was the tenth scored
by Coach Bowen's New Haven
team and with it goes the Triangular
league championship, New Haven
wins this honor for the second con-
secutive year. TIE team which
started for New Haven had only one
veteran regular from last years
championship crew, "Iunie" Gildea.
center. The other vet. Captain De-
Angeles, was ort OF the lineup with
an injured hand suffered when he
cut it with an TX while chopping
wood.
New Britain started with ike"
lkowitz, center: "Hermy" Schmarr
and Sam Mirigliani. forwards and
"Herby" Carlson and Nate Lipman.
guards. In the last few minutes OF
the game Billy Ross went into the
lineup in place Of Carlson.
A peculiar sidelight of the game
was the fact that every one of the
five men who started the game had
three fouls chalked up against
them when the contest ended. This
We: probably due to the fact that
the team was over anxious and was
trying TO guard too closely.
New Britain had 5 to lead al
the end Of the first quarter and in
the first three minutes OF the sec
ond period it retained slight mar
gin. At the beginning =. the sec-
ond period the score was 5 to > on
tarlson's field goal Then Lockery
made circus ;hot and it was
TO I.
Hifii,ousc Leads
HillhouSe went into the lead four
minutes after the second quarter
started on Martolli's field goal but /;
reverted TO New Britain when Mir
icliani tossed in a tWo-pointcr.
About 20 seconds later Friedler
made a field goal and New Haven
again had the lead. s TO :. Cart
son slippe through so seconds later
and New Britain was in the lead
again. . to s.
GiIdea thvew an over-h head shot
from the middle Of the floor as he
was running in the opposite direc-
ton and the count was 10 TO 2. This
shot was the feature Of the night.
He followed up later with field
goal and the score was . to ?. New
Haven. when the half ended.
SctOnd Half
Schmarr made a trick shot 10 put
his team within a point Of tie bu'
Lockery made a two pointer and
New Britain was once moro In the
rear by three points. Mirigliani
made a foul goal and two points
separated the teams. The score was
II to ~.
At this stage. about two minutes
before the close Of the third quar-
ter. New Britain fell into a slump
and the Hillhouse outfit began to
toss In baskets. The score at the
end of the third quarter was Il 10
-.
Last Quarter
The slump continued while the
Hillhouse team popped 'em in and
it was rs to ~. Just before the
close OF the game Lipman and
Schmarr increased New Britain's to-
tai to Is within 10 points Of the
Elm City outfit which had collected
IS points.
"Herby" Carlson was the best per-
former for the Red 4 Gold team.
In the early part of the game when
the New Britain team was putting
up its best battle it was principally
the work Of Carlson which account
ed for 1t. His floor work and inter-
ception Of passes gained possession
Of the ball on several occasions.
Mirigliani and Schmarr. the for
wards should work in we'll as
combination before the season ends.
The task Of guarding New Ravens
best men was left with Jkowitz and
Lipman. 1kowitz had Gildea and
lipman had Lockeiy. Both Of these
boys did very good job Of holding
down the New Haven shooting aces.
Gildca and Lockery. however. had
The experience and between them
they scored IL of their teams IS
points.