New Britain herald., 1930-01-20
SCRANTON TEAM CRIPPLED
 AS CURRAN FRACTURES ARM
Star Forward on Visiting Team Suffers Painful Injury
 in Play in First Period-Scorc Is 12 to 10, Favor Locals When He Is Forced to Leave Game-Hard- ware City Crew Makes It Runaway After That Win by Score of 4S to 32-Fast Exhibition Seen.

Suffering the loss of it's star for ward through an unfortunate acci- dent after l 1 minutes had been play cd in the first half of the game at the Stanley Arena Saturday night the Scranton basketball team, lcad- CTS in the eastern court loop Ill Pennsylvania, was no match for the reorganizcd and smooth-Worklns combination representing New Brit ain.
 Jimmy tJigGers) Curran, captain of the Niagara university five in 1926 and 1927 and high scorer on the Scranton quintet, fell to the floor in an offensive play against New Britain's basket and suffered frac- tured arm. He was helped to his feet and was taken to the dressing room There, Dr. David r. Wasko- 1itz examined him, determined that his arm was broken and ordered him to the New Britain General hospital. It was discovered there that the arm was broken clear across a few inches above the elbow and beside, there was a fracture running lcngthWisc towards the shoulder. The injured member was set Sunday morning and the patient was reported to be resting comfortably today.
 The score at the time the un- fortunate "brcak' for Scranton came was 12 to in favor of New Brit ain and the game had all the ear marks Of being q close and furious battle. New Britains reorganized team, with Collins and Sloman in the forward positions, Conway at center and Richtmyer and Arburr in the back court. showed even ability with Scranton in the first part of the game and absolute superiority as the game progressed. Scranton was by far the second best team on the floor after Curran had gone from the game.
 With Collins occupying the star role in the first half with three field baskets and five fouls for 1 points, New Britain had d lead Of @4 10 l2 at the end of the half.
 Al Sloman then went on a scoring spree in the second frame. caGcd l himself five baskets while Collins got three more and New Britain made it a walkavay. The final count was 46 to g.
 Harllins was the star of the Scran- 1 ton team with seven baskets for his nights work. Jerry Conway. play | ing against Page, q six foot four | center, held the Scranton man to four baskets and q foul point Page 1 failed to do d great deal in floor work with the team. The other members Of the quintet played nice 1 ly but their combination was far below the standard set by the New Britain crew.
 New Britain, with it's lineup re- 1 orga ganzcd will be ready for the best teams in the country after the next couple of games. The team Saturday night displayed dazzling speed al though some of the members were slightly off on shooting. Had Con- way, Arburr and Richtmyer their shooting eyes with them, New Brit ain would have scored at least 90 points. This trio had the hardest ! kind of luck in dropping in baskets. ! The entire team got through the | Scranton defense with case. The accident to Curran. however, put damper on the Scranton team and also on the crowd of fans. II wasn't until the game had gone into the second half that New Britain re- viVCd it's enthusiasm.
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