The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-07

the finance boards request for rec concentrations to wipe out the defl- cit. It is the view of the board that the building cannot be made self- sustaining under the present set-up.
 Winners of the Washington Park basketball league championship, the Gents of the Hill will be guests of honor at banquet in Harmon's grill tomorrow night. The team will also be honored at a vict ry ball in the Community house April 2l, and the final award, a three day trip to New York, will begin Friday, April 28.
 The Martin Scully trophy will be presented the Gents at the victory ball, to be attended by members of all the competing teams, and their friends. Committees will be an- nounced at a later date.
 The banquet tomorrow night is given by the Gents of the Hill club, and will be attended by the team, club members and guests The guests will include four members of the West Side Speedboys who played with the team early in the season.
 Arrangements have been com- pleted by committee including Robert Grady, Bill Began, John Murphy, Mike Cirello and Joseph Donahue.
 It is believed that the team, man. ager and coach will stay at the Ho- tel Plymouth on the three day trip, as has been the custom the past few years. The trip will be made by bus.
 Basketball Finales
 Basketball games at the Commu- nity house Monday night, in which the Gents of the Hill Juniors will meet the Texans for tie champion ship of the junior league, will bring to conclusion the hoop season of the Community house.
 A highly successful and beneficial season was experienced, with almost 250 players participating in the various leagues. Under the supervi- sion of William D. Shea, the senior, junior, midget, cub and girls league were organized and each functioned smoothly.
 The Gent Juniors will attempt to follow the leadership of the Gent Seniors, who took the hoop cham pionship of the park Wednesday night.
 Leaders of the various leagues, in- cluding Frank McGrath of the sen- for league; Roland Boucher of the juniors, Thomas Conway of the midgets and Edward Vallone of the cubs and girls, will plan post-season events for the teams.
 Winning teams of the junior and midget leagues will be presented medals.
 Spring activities will be organ ized during the coming weeks at the Community house.
 Women Bowl
 Final games of the women's bowl ing league of the Washington Park Community house will be rolled next Thursday, and will be followed by social. The annual banquet will be held April 20 at Shel Chateau.
 Last nights individual honors were taken by Mrs. K. Bergen, with high single of 106 and high three of 300. The Hemlocks won two of three from the Naples and the Spruces defeated the Cedars 2-1.
 Easter Saturday
 Easter water will be blessed and distributed tomorrow morning fol- lowing the 2 o'clock mass. Masses on Easter Sunday will be at the regular hours at St. Francis Xavier's church. The mass of the pre-sanctif1ed was celebrated this morning at 7:30 o. clock.
 Community House
 All activities at the Community house, with the exception of bowling, were suspended today in recogni- tion of Good Friday.
 Hillies to New York
 The Raymond Hillies, runners-up in the Washington Park hoop league, will spend one day, April 30, in New York as a reward for their showing. It has been the custom since last year to send the champion ship team to New York for three days and the runners-up for one day.
 The two teams will have dinner together.