The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-12

The two finalists in the Yale tournament that closed Saturday afternoon with Bristol winning it's fifth championship in seven years automatically qualified for the New England and both will accept. Man. chester, New Hampshire tourna- ment winners, will represent that state and Westfield, an unbeaten quintet, will carry the banner for western Massachusetts. Pawtucket or Rogers high will probably rep resent Rhode Island. Chelsea high. winner of the eastern Massacllu- setts tournament at MT, will also compete for the New England crown.
 The finals of the University of Vermont tournament will be held tonight, the winner to get the ir- vitation to Tufts. The winners of the Bates and Maine tournament will enter for the state of Maine.
 officials Praise Play
 Bridgeport Central swallowed It's disappointment in losing the heart- tugging final to Bristol with the thought that matters may very well be squared in the New England tournament. Winters and Jackson, Massachusetts officials who worked the Yale tournament and who do many games in the Bay State and in Vermont, said:
 "The play here is faster, the players are better generally, the teams are better groundd in sys- tems and cutting for the basket IS better than we have seen either in Vermont or western Massachusetts. There were four great teams in the semi-finals here. Both New Bri- tain and Meriden would go good in any tournament"
 Ray Costing, Trinity coach who accompanied Hartford sports wrlt- CTS to the Friday night semi-finals at New Haven, was impressed by what he saw. "These high school teams would give the New England college clubs all they could han. dle," was Oosting's comment.
 The semi-pro clubs could cer- tainly have learned a few things at this years tournament. The way these youngsters shoot fouls is amazing. Under the heaviest sort of pressure, Ken Ritche1, Bridge ports grand forward, threw in 12 out of IA free tries and Coop" Ze- browski of Bristol made good f2 out of IS. His cold-blooded pen- alty stripe shooting against Gen. tra1, seven out of nine, was 8 treat. / Central Might Turn Tables
 Bridgeport Central could take" Bristol at Tufts without causing an upset, that's how close the teams are on what they showed at New Haven. It is q pity that one team had to lose that final game. The only sour note of the entire pro- gram came at the end of the torrid contest when they pushed table laden with cups and medals out in the middle of the Arena floor.
 Hardly person of the 4,500 fans present left their seats. The play CTS of both teams grouped about the table. An announcer pulled Tommy Monohan. the Bristol coach out of the group and pushed his arm skyward after the ancient manner of indicating prize ring winners. The crowd gave Tom my an ovation and then each Brts- toi player had his hand lifted and a medal given to him while the crowd cheered.
 Meanwhile the Central players were standing in the middle of the floor, their heads bowed, tears m their eyes. And when all the Bristol medals had been handed out the poor kids from Bridgeport were allowed to walk off with their medals but without any ceremony. The Bridgeport side never had chance to give their gallant team the rousing sendoff 1t deserved.