The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-08
FIVE TEAMS HAVE CHANCE TO WIN THE CONN HOOP GROWN
Meriden or Windhanl May DethrOne Title Holders Tomorrow

 Class A and B high school basket ball teams, chosen on their records as the best in Connecticut, will start three day campaign to-day for the state championship ip the annual Yale interscholastic tour nament.
 Four of the teams will be ready to go home tonight and the four survivors will meet in Friday nights sim-finals. The two Friday night winners will play for the championship Saturday afternoon.
 This is the way the teams line up on the New Haven Arena this afternoon and tonight:
 3:45-New Britain vs Stratford.
 5:50-Bridgeport Central vs New Haven Commercial.
 7:30-Bristol vs Danbury.
 S:45-Meriden vs Windham.
 Bristol High, winners of the Con- necticut and New England cham pionship year ago, will be defend ing it's Yale honors and seeking it's fifth tournament triumph. Bristol is once more favorite with non- partisan observers. The champions deserve a shade on the others be- cause Tommy Monohan, their coach, has the finest record of any high schol basketball instructor in this part of the country.
 Good Opposition
 Bristol's path is blocked by Mer- iden or Windham and Danbury. The Hat Towners are expected to prove first round victims of the Bell Towners, but either Meriden or Windham would rate an even chance to dethrone the Monohan team. Windham carries an unbeat- en record into the tournament and Meriden is the only team to de- feat Bristol in the regular cam- paign. These two teams split their home and home series and went otherwise undefeated to share the Central Connecticut League cham pionship. '
 The -windham game to- night figures to be the wow of the first round. Observers see New Bri- tain, Bridgeport Central and Bris- tol as decisive first round victors over Stratford. New Haven Com mercial and Danbury respectively. Stratford and Commercial just about squeezed into the tourna- ment and Danbury did not play teams as strong as some of the qualifyers. Few have been bold enough to name in advance the winner of the Meriden- -Windham game.
 Sheamcn Strong
 New Britain is 0 warm favorite to triumph in the upper bracket, Chick" Shea has given the Hard- ware City one of it's best school boy teams. Last year, his first in New Britain basketball, Shea got his team into the tournament but they lost in the first round to Mer- iden. New Britain's sliding zone defense is expected to play havoc with Stratford and with the fast breaking, free-shooting Central team, providing the latter get by Commercial this afternoon.
 Central must not be left out of serious consideration, however. Not even Bristol and Hillhouse have qualified for the Yale tournament more often than the Central team coached by the willy veteran Eddie Reilly. His teams are always spec tacular and they've been knocking at the door long enough to gain admittance.
 There has been so much talk about the certainty of victory for New Britain, Bridgeport Central and Bristol that wary observers have not been uhmindfu1 of 0 pos- sible upset. They haven't had 8 big upset at New Haven for several Years. A bombshell is overdue.
 The record of champions at the Yale tournament since it's inception in 1924 follows:
 1924-Hillhouse,
 1925-Torrington.
 1928--Hillhouse.
 1927-Bristol.
 1928-Bristol.
 1929-BristOl.
 1930-Naugatuck.
 1931-Naugatuck.
 1932-Hillhouse
 1933-Bristol.