The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-13
OVER 100 PENALTY SHOOTERS QUALIFY
 IN LEGION CONTEST

The list of finalists in the Amer ican Legion free throw champion ships which will be staged at the Central Y. M. c. A. one week from tomorrow went over the century mark to-day with the filing of the aualiflers from Leavenworth high and Chase school in Mill Plain Crosby high will be represented by 47 boys in the finals March 21st. ac- cording to the scores sent into the park depai tment last night, which incidentally showed some remark able performances by Coach Bill Schofield's charges.
 Eugene Sweeney is at present leading the high school division with a score of 20 out of p tries High school boys must shoot 70 out of 70 to qualify and Sweeneys ex- hibition was one of the best that bas been turned in since the tourney originated in 1929. Ike Kern, who won the high school shoot last year required 29 before he had the finals while young Dick Ferriter, paro- cilial champion last year, now a Crosby freshman, qualified in 30 tries.
 Leavenworth's Fourteen
 Coach Louis Laun's Leavenworth squad, champions of the Western Connecticut league, took things easy in their qualifying round and ap- peared to be satisfied to qualify rather than set any marks. The Launmen however. displayed fine " ork from the penalty line and should give good account of them selves in the finals although they will be outnumbered more than two to one by Wilby and Crosby.
 No returns have been filed yet from Wilby, Coach Jimmy Lee hav- ing notified William J. Derwin, di- rector of the tournament, that ow- ing to his club competing In the Yale tourney that he would not have his list ready until early next week. yvilby did not place in the finals last year, but Coach Lee predicts that his boys will be right up at the top this season.
 Chase School Boys Perform
 Five f boys will represent the Henry s. Chase school of Mill Plain in the finals. that number having qualified to-day when the young sters from Principal Sadie F. Rig ney's classes took the tests at the Mill Plain gym. Ten boys partici- pated, four failing to qualify. One peculiar incident fthe Chase tests was the failure of young Gordon Dimock to qualify after he had out cone his mates to successfully shoot seven of the first 10 tries. Roland Boucher turned in the best score, 'Rolly" requiring only B shots to get i1 to the finals.
 William J. Derwin will conduct the qualifying tests at the Spraguc school in Waterville tomorrow morning at 10 o'clockl Every mem- Ser of the Sprague court squad will try out together with several non members of the team. Henry Ga- gain of Sprague was among the pest performers in the tourney last year. failing to place only when beaten in the play-off of a triple tie for second place.
 Crosby Scores
 The scores:
 sweeney 20 of 22, Chick 20 of 23 Bill Sweeney 20 of %. Dunn 20 of ,4. Jarvis 20 of 25, Ouimet 20 of %. Block 20 of 25 Levine 20 of 26. Cyr 90 of 26, Rosen 20 of 26, Weyman Co of 27, Nash 20 of 27, Romeo 20 e 2s. N. Kobotznlk 20 of 29, Kern te of 29. Ferriter 20 of 30. Joyce 20 ,f 31. Farley 20 of 31, Al Kobotzniit 70 of 31, Rose 20 of 31. Mitchell 20 of 31, O'Donneli 20 of 32, Janowitz 20 of 32, Marks 20 of 32, steinman