The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-14
BY DOC"

OHS Ol the CldSSlcSl LTdNeIu6 sketball teams playing eastern courfts this season Is the St. Roses courts this season is the St. Rose's and played the local Columbian Squires in what was one of the best played games of the year. A rather large crowd watched the game and the spectators in leaving the gym, said it was one of the best teams that they had seen in years.
 Just how. much that old drive down the home stretch means to a basketball team was amply illus- trated a few weeks ago when a tir- ing St. Joseph's (New Britain) squad lost six point advantage in seven minutes against the speed fer Columbian Squires contingent, whose reserve strength has won many a game during the past sea- son. It was heart-breaker for the New Britain team to lose, for they commanded the situation for 2S of the 32 minutes of regulation play, the final score being Squires IS, New Britain 12.
 The Columbian Squircs
 intcr.house leagues i'm vOlley-
 ball and basketball has proved
 very successful in it's first year
 of existence and much Of the
 credit goes to Manager Fran
 cis Eitzmaurice, whose untlr.
 ing efforts have helped make
 the league one of the lead-
 iwnr, isrt~ HS v<,saa tap nNn
 city.
 The big five for this week
 arc: Gilmartin 2, Kyle 6. B.
 Carr 6, -COndon 4, Slavin 4.
 Our undcrCOver man, Joe Shea
 to you offers the information
 that he and Ed Lane are pre-
 pairing skit to be presented
 at the banquet at the complc.
 ton of the current series. The
 title Is (Which one of us will
 be i'm last place. as might
 have been already suspected.
 Lane has little to kick about.
 He had some good games
 while Shea won the $OOO.OO
 prize five weeks i'm succession,
 John Slavin, the saga of the Beecher street sector and claimant for the handsomest fellow in the league prize will be among those present at the annual banquet. Lit tic Lefty Conlon is always good for a headache to the opposition and there have been a few threats made against him should he con- tinue to heckle this week. Dizz quiet of late, but making plenty of n-o-i-s-e with a fast ball. Fitz is always good for the last game, sort of fast finish man. Whats in a name? Squire John Clark Is the best chef that we have and he better not show much more im- proEement in his ping-pong game or it will be hard to keep him out of those match games when he is needed more in the kitchen get ting lunch in readiness, etc, we al. so have a few pretty good walters (any, way you want to take it) in Edward B. Conlon, Lew Howard, Frank Hudner, Fred Zibell, Bobby Carr, John Lynch and Ira Sween- ey. 2
 John Slavin has been shooting rather well of late. (John says that he recovered the lost rabbits fooD, Slavin is one fellow who is the boss in the family circle and 50 unlike Fitzmaurice. who has been the cause of the rest going home early 50 many times. John says that he has to work in the morn ing, etc. but he have been told differently.
 The word has been passed around that Capt. Lynch has been checking on some of the recruits
 It being the end of the basket ball season some of the boys seem to have let up to a certain extent
 The more jealous teams of
 the city are now hurling cIlal-
 lenges at the local squires but
 all can't be accepted. The e SQuires seems to be too far in
 advance to their class. Say
 whatever you will publicity
 agents.
 We wonder what happened
 to the following squires on the
 night of February 25th. where
 they were and why they did
 not show up for the scheduled
 game with St. Roses of East
 Hartford Squires Ray CrOnan,
 Francis Carr and Captain Jim
 McGraw.
 The COlubmIan SQuifes have
 just returned from a trip to I
 Springfield, Mnss, where they