New Britain herald., 1929-02-07
Benefit CONTEST
PLANS Com PLETED
Fred Saunders, Injured Court
Stu, to Receive Proceeds

Plans have been completed for
the benefit game for Fred Saunders
10 be held Wednesday evening Feb.
Is. at the Stanley Arena between
the Burritts aVd the Meriden Com
munities. Those in charge OF ar
engagements report that the advance
sale of tickets has been very large
SO far and they expect the affair to
be a large success.
In the pr urinary game. the
Landers girls i've Of the Industrial
league will (. sh with the Middle
town Y. w. e. \. girls quintet. Both
teams have met once before with
the local team coming through to
win by secood half rally. This
game has been arranged through
the cooperation Of Bryce Long Of
the Industrial council.
The main battle will be staged be-
tween the Burritts and the Meriden
Communities. This battle promises
to be the blue banner attraction OF
the season. The Burritts have won
IS out of II games while the Meri-
den team has scored /. victories IN
4 row, having yet to taste defeat.
incidentally the Meriden crew is the
only team that has defeated the
local aggregation this season. In .
game played before Christmas at the
Arena, the Silver City five nosed out
the locals by % to 10 score.
The Communities have been run
ming wild through the best teams Of
the state since the beginning Of the
season and the Burritts will have 20
defeat them \ they hope to have a
claim to the State title. The Com
munities scored their greatest &c
tory last Tuesday evening when they
defeated the Middletown Red Wings.
a team composed Of such we'll known
players as RED" Reynolds. "Butsy"
Sturm, Jake Carroll, Mickey" Luke
and Merit Taylor. This game alone
shows the ability OF the visiting
team.
The Burritts have been trouncing
teams right and left every week by
one-sided scores and have scored
wins in their last nine games. They
reached their greatest height when
they trounced the Simsbury town
team in two straight games. SIMS
bury won the title in the Farming
ton Valley league last season. The
Burritt list Of victories contains
names of teams from all over the
state, including Hartford. Bristol,
Southington. Simsbury, Willimantic.
Torrington and Manchester. All Of
the leaders in the Hartford amateur
leagues have been wallopcd with
ease by the Hurritts
Last week the locals defeated the
Alpines OF Torrington. a team COM
posed OF the Torrington high play
ers who went to the Chicago ma
tional tournament and made such
wonderful showing before being
eliminated.
ANDY" PakuboNicz. one Of the
leading scorers In the Industrial
league, appears In one forward posi-
ton for the Burritts. He possesses
an eagle eye for the basket al"
Ha,iick. former New Britain high
school star. covers the other forward
position. He pairs up we'll with
Sakubowicz and is strong on the le-
fensiye as well as the offensive.
Joe" Luty is the pivot man. He
is steady worker and a good de-
fcnsivc man. "Hammy" barrow.
star Corbin Screw guard and former
high school player. Is in the back
court He teams off with "HugEy"
Carlson, one Of the best defensive
players in the city. ''Nicky" GIL;
and pat" Rose. the reserve men.
arc both good players and can fit in
the lineup at any position.
With the above players. the Bur-
ritts have high hopes OF breaking
the winning streak Of the Communi-
tics. All Of the above players have
played on teams with Fred Saun-
ders
ABE" Aronson will be the sixth
man on the floor. Dancing will fol-
low the main game.