New Britain herald., 1929-12-13
Last Nights Results New Britain 6, Bridgeport ,. Official Sfandinm

New Britain ,...... 9 r .429 Amsterdam r.... 1 12 .250
 Games Tonight
 Providence at Hartford.
 Albany at Amsterdam.
 For the first time during the present season, the New Britain Roller Hockey team defeated the Bridgeport quintet. The contest was staged at the Stanley Arena in this city last night and ended in de- cisive victory for the Partners by a to ? margin. Bridgeport. with out question, has one of the fastest combinations in the league at the present time but the New Britain teams speed and dash last night. made the visitors appear to be slow in comparison.
 For the entire first period and for the greater part of the rest Of the game. the Bridgeport team was on the defense. The ball was in Bridgeport territory for the greater part of the time and Lovegreen. local goal tender. didn't have a stop or the semblance of one until the game had progressed more than two and a half minutes.
 Jimmy (Corky) Purcell, Bridge port goal tender, gave one of the greatest exhibitions of tending goal that has been seen here at any time. Caught innumerable times without any defense ahead of him and two New Britain men ahead of him. through his agility and ability, he was able to stop every sally of this sort. New Britain's goals were all drives that travelled with amazing speed.
 Bob Griffiths New Britain cen- ter. for the first time since he join ed New Britain. flashed the form that made him one of the best cen- ters in the game within the past five years. His speed in skating was equal to that of any of the others and he continually broke up plays that were destined to put New Brit ain on the defense.
 New Britain displayed plenty of class last night in it's team work. Fast passes, caroming drives against the banks, quick dashes into Bridgeport combinations, all tended to give the locals plenty of chances for scoring. On the defense, the New Britain team played man for man and all but smothered the Bridgeport team in its attempts to score or drive for the local cage.
 Williams and Earl Pierce com- bined to get all of New Britain's goals, but the greatest thrills of the game came with the misses on the bullet-like drives of Williams. Each forward got three goals on as pretty work as could ever be seen. Real polo Of the scientific sort was played last night.
 The first period, with Purcell starting right off the hop on his spectacular evening, resulted in only one goal. This was a shot by Earl Pierce off neat pass from the other side by Kid" Williams, Pierce opened the scoring in the second period with drive that got by Purcell. Williams took the ball at the center Of the floor and hit the top of Purcell's pads for the third New Britain goal.
 Hebert then took a wild drive from the end of the rink. The ball hit the rear banks and bounding up, hit Lovegreen's back and went in New Britain's cage. This was a freak goal
 Matters became interesting when St. Aubin drove one into New Brit aims cage from the side of the rink. The score was 3 to ? in favor of New Britain when Williams and pierce combined together and Will Hams, through sheer force, drove the ball straight through Purcell's pads.
 There wasn't any scoring in the third period, simply because both teams set such hot pace that none Of the players could really get set for a shot. Purcell was magnificent in this frame and his work could easily make him the outstanding goal tender of the league. Time after time sallies of both teams were broken up. Bridgeport had two in and out goals in the frame while New Britain drives hit the posts on the Bridgeport cage. None of them remained in the nets.
 With the count to ? in their favor, New Britain started off again in the fourth period. Pierce caught a rebound off the banks and drove at Purcell. The ball was stopped but Pierce followed in and scooped it by with the ball just grazing Purcells pads. Then Pierce, taking the ball from Barney Doherty drove to Pierce who whizzed the ball into the cage for the fina, score of the game, giving New Brit am the odds by the score of to ?
 Eddie McAloon appeared with Bridgeport for the first time last night. He had the difficult assign lnent of trying to get by Doherty Barney was in prime form last night and he had almost as many stops as Lovegrecn. The local goa tender kept up his consistent gool work and starred in the goal.
 New Britain has q team that vii be hard 10 stop in the second rounC . which opens next Sunday.
 Schedule for Week
 At a meeting of the schedule committee held in this city yester. day afternoon. the following pro. gram for the opening week of the second round, vas made up:
 Sunday
 New Britain at Bridgeport,
 Amsterdam at Hartford.
 Providence at Albany.
 Monday
 Providence at New Britain.