New Britain herald., 1929-01-15
Speaking
Of Sports

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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
What q race 10 ON In the American
Roller Hockey league! Teams. only
separated by . few games. all bat
Ting for first place with the pennant
~ the next step.
What 10 more natural than to have
handsome at the top Of the heap?
That is just how the situation now
stands, though, it 10 true. the local
crew has been forced to share first
honors so far with the Albany club.
What dire forebodings were utter
ed about this city all day yesterday
following the local teams defeat at
the hands of Albany on Sunday. The
pessimists said They're on the
skids" the optimists said They'll
come back again" In this argument.
the optimists won out. New Britain
came back last night with bang
and after being off the drivers seat
for one day. hoped right back on
again.
The team Is going to stay there If
hard work has anything to do with
1t. Fall River comes here tomorrow
night and the team that has been
the doormat of the league, has all
Of Bridgerort's strength to draw
from. 1t should present an imposing
lineup in the game. but the motto
adopted by kid" Williams. Cow
boy Thompson and the other play
ers on the home club Is that The
bigger they come the harder they
fall"
New Britain fans. deprived Of see
ing their team in action last Sunday
because of the game In Albany. will
see 1t twice this week, tomorrow
night against Fall River and Friday
night against the Albany crew.
Fridays game IL drawing the
greater interest because OF the hec-
tic race being staged between New
Britain and Albany but We can't for
get that Sundays game with Provi-
dence in the offing, looms a. .
black cloud on an otherwise bright
horizon.
Just at present. the Providence
crew has the greatest array OF them
all. kid" Duggan. "Jigger" HiE-
gins, Archie Muirhead, DuFresne and
Bill Jette, not to mention. Wylie.
kehoe and some Others
We wonder what became Of the
agreement to carry one amateur on
each club. Conc like all the other
scraps of paper in the league. New
Britain still retains Peregrin and
Gazzinga, two amateurs graduating
from the lower grades into the high
er climes this season. Albany has
Barnikow. What have the others
got?
Despite this. New Britain II
bound to hold its position At the TOP
OF the league. We look for three
victories In a row and the victims
in order should be Fall River, Al
bany and Providence.
Plenty Of interest II being shown
IN the appearance here Saturday
night OF the far-famed Washington
Palace Basketball five. New Britain.
after several losses, should be in
trim for this American league
beauty.
Last Saturday nights game show
ed that the team will develop into
a cohesive offensive machine with
Rubenstein working back into the
cog wheel and the players should
all have their shooting irons oiled up
and be able to find the basket.
For two successive nights, now. the
team has been laboring under jinx
that has kept the lid on both baskets.
The lid will be off Saturday night
and the home club should return to
winning form.
Jimmy Scully. center on the Con-
necticut Aggies Freshman basket
ball team, once again was high
scorer for his quintet in defeat The
team last night lost to the Yale
Freshman five by Is to - score.
scu1ly scored II Of his teams
pOints ~
The Girls Industrial Bowling
league opens play tonight at Rogers
Bowling alleys. The New Britain
Machine and Stanley Rule teams will
battle 1t out in the first match of
the season. Skinner Chuck meets p.
& +. Corbin and Landers meets
Stanley Works
Thursday night, the mems league
gets into action. Four matches will
be rolled between the eight teams
entered in the league. There is some
uncertainty about the Corbin Cabinet
Lock team entering the league but it
is confidently expected that a team
will be formed and will be found In
the lists.
CELTICS BEAT GLENWOOD
QUINTET OF HARTFORD
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