The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-14
Naugatuck Hopes To Meet Manchester Again
 M New E11gland Play

state basketball hoop champion ship will strive to show it can well assist in representing Connecticut when it plays in the New England tournament, starting Thursday. Naugatuck meets the Spaulding high five of Barre, Vermont, at D. m. in the Brown university at Providence, R. l., that day.
 Manchester high, which trimmed the Garnet 32-25 to win the state title Saturday at the New Haven Arena, will also compete and if both Naugatuck and Manchester win their matches Saturday they will clash in the Semi-finals.
 Faced Two Teams
 Many Naugatuck fans are still unconvinced that Manchester at its best is equal to Naugatuck at it's top form. The Garnet was not up to the form Saturday it lad exhibited Friday night against Bristol, but it waged 8 courageous although des- perate battle.
 Even playing as it did, local fans believe Naugatuck would have won if it did not have to play 10 men, or really five fresh men each quar- ter. Naugatuck took a 9-6 lead in the first quarter, but when Man chester inserted an entirely new and fresh team in the second quarter, the games outcome appeared to be indicated as the visitors held Nau- gatuck to only foM goals in the sec- ond period an dtook 17-14 lead at half time. Again Manchester in serted the team which played the first period, now refreshed after a rest, and in the third period both Naugatuck and Manchester scored five points to make the score 22-19 with the upstate team still leading.
 Locals Chances Ebb
 Then back went Manchester sec- ond quarter team which looked bet ter than the other five, and although the Garnet, spent with its efforts in a gruellng fight, drew up to 25-24, Captain Bill Cross went out via the foul route and his play was sorely missed as the Manchester team dropped in three neat baskets to clinch the outcome.
 With its big squad of first class players, Manchester apparently elected to stop Naugatuck from get ting in close to the basket, even though it meant a foul. It scored g fouls but lost none of the play CTS because it was using two teams. Naugatuck might have won had 1t been up to its usual foul shooting standard but it sank only Il out of 22 tries, where Manchester made good on eight out of IS.
 Most of the field goals Nauga- tuck scored were from beyond the foul line, and 8 number of local players shots trimmed the hoop and bounced out. Govello, clever and speedy Manchester forward, starred for the visitors with 10 points and Mariana was tops for Naugatuck with nine. Lefty Farrar did not have his usual eye and tallied only three foul goals.
 Vince Cuddy and Bill Cross turned in the best flood play for Garnet, Cuddy with three fouls on him be- fore the first half ended, playing like a whirlwind and Cross often intercepting Manchester passes and taking balls off the blackboard.
 The locals were presented with medals after the tourney ended but they were a tired, disappointed group of boys which had won four tourney games only to lose out ir the final
 Picked on Teams
 Local hoop stars were honored il the selection of all-tournaments first teams by sports writers after the tourney ended Saturday. Lefty Farrar was chosen as forward and Captain Bill Cross was named cen. ter on the first team, with Bob Mar iano of Naugatuck being forward or the second team and Czaplicki being guard on this five. Vince Cuddy of augatuck was among those re. ceiying honorable mention.