The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04

games.
 New Britain, Bridgeport Central Merfden and Stratford are popular choices in the Glass "A" first round atsthe New Haven. .ArET1a, Tuesday with Chapman Tech of New Lon- don, Windsor, Norwallx and Nauga- tuck taking the fancy of the "dope. sters'. in the Glass ''B" first round which is to be played at Wesleyan in Mfddletown the same day.
 Tn the Glass CD tournament, opening at the Weaver gym Thurs day, the long ends of the odds will probably settle upon the four top- fiighters with Pennington, New Milford, old Saybrook and Tourtel- lotte of North Grosvernordale get ting the finger of favor.
 New Britain, which mopped up the class of the state in piling up IS victories this year, will be the heaviest favorite in the "A" classic mot only to blast West Haven, the eighth ranking team in the first rpund-but to blaze through to the championship.
 Meriden, which played more than p games this season and was beat efF only by New Britain and New Haven Commercial, is expected to have the edge over Bulkeley in manlpower and it is thought that the Silver City team has an advan- tages also in the fact that it has had much more tempering, because Of it's long, hard schedule in the fire of tough opposition.
 s Central Looks Strong
 Coach Eddie Reilly's Bridgeport Central team, which whipped Bris- tol in the Tufts New England final to win the New England champion ship last year will come to New Haven again with another strong team figured just shade too strong even for Coach Chick Bowen's scrappy, hard-working New Haven Hillhouse outfit which is out to emulate, if possible, the tourna- ment feats of iHustrious predeces- sors. Centrars team, built upon the fiashy Johnny Schick, lost only one game out of a dozen tough ones, lowing to Ansonia when the An- s6nians trapped Johnny Schick in an effective defense.
 Hiilhouse Started poorly, going down before Branford, destined to become "B" qualifier, in an early season game but recovered amaZ- ingly and after it's early defeat, lost only one contest, and that to New Britain, before the aspirants' rec ords were closed. The Central-Hill- house game is expected to be the firct round thriller"
 Sjtratford gained qualification with victories over "B" teams not considered as tough as many of those which were howitzered into defeat by the other "A" teams. AL though it's record is good one, Stratford, whether justly or not. win be considered the Class "A" weak sister," It has drawn one of the tournament. '..under-dogs" in Bridgeport Harding which squeezed ln near the tail end of the list.
 "Naaigy" a Tartar
 The "B" tournament at Wesleyan university in Middletown, first of its kind to be sponsored by the Con- 1feeticut Conference, is sure to be crammed with surprises. The four upper lighters, the undefeated (during the Conference season) Chapman Tech team of New Lon- don, the undefeated Windsor high school squad, and Norwalk and Branford, will of course rule favor ties with some prognosticators on form, and records but many who have watched Naugatuck Ego to town' in Yale A-B tournaments will string along with Coach Pete Foley's "Naugy" outfit. The fact ,,.,'b x,Ia if low on the list means nothing since the Naugatuck team, according to Coach Foley, played only At cams : except for one "B" opponent this season. ..r,s {. ,7-
 The Naugatuck team, if it is like its predecessors in the Yale tour- naments, will be chock full of fight and speed and it would cause no great surprise if the Foleymen should battle their way through 60 the rB" semifinal. ,..
 The Hartford Trade school, tail- ender on the "B" list. may also smash the dope bucket" without q startling surprise. Starting it's cam paign with fairly good form, the Traders later begged down but bounded out of their slump to give Bulkeley, the "B" sixth placer, a flammer-and- -tongs" battle in the Hartford rivals last game of the season last Wednesday.
 9gz New Canaan Flashy
 New Canaan, defending it's CD championship, began Its campaign this year with only one veteran in the lineup but has played some fiashy basketball. Old Saybrook, which wrecked many of the down state" teams, will be the favorite only. because of it's greater number of victories, any other comparison between teh teams, which carried out their ampaigns in separated sections of the state, being practi- cally impossible.
 Farmington, "cock O the walk, :" in the "C-D" division, looms as the winner over Madison mostly be- cause the latter's record is the poorest among the eight CD quail ifiers. New Milford, runner-up to F'armington in the CD standing, is 4 favorite over Litchfield for the same reason. Thomaston is said to be inferior to the team which blazed its way into the Storrs final two years ago when the CD tour- nament was last held there.
 First round schedules:
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