The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-26
MANCHESTERIS
FIRST HOOP FOE
OF LOCAL LADS
Borough Boys Paired With
West Haven; Both Games
Wednesday
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New Haven, Feb 25-Crosby ard
Naugatuck, those valley league rivals
of three sport competitors for
more than a quarter of a century,
both made" Glass "a" high school
state basketball tournament sched-
uled for the Arena in March, a
meeting Of Connecticut Interscho-
lastic Conference officials disclosed
today. Naugy's record for the 194l
season was SO spotty that 1t hardly
expected to squeeze into the top
flight play, but that is just what
happened, as it was the last team
of IA named with a percentage of
.584.
Crosby, of course, was sure
thing for the tourney, as its high
scoring outfit finished third in the
Naugatuck Valley league while Gen.
trail Of Bridgeport was given the
only perfect rating of 1000 by the
committee headed by Harold Swat
field of Fairfield and Irving E.
Trask of Plainville, with Windham
of Willimantic given 800 rating
though it, like Central ahd lost but
one game this past season.
The Glass A qualifiers and per-
centages follow: Central 1000;
Windham $50; Hillhouse .929;
Manchester 800; New Britain .8l3;
West Haven 1854; Warren Harding
TAG; Torrington 100; Meriden TIA;
Crosby 700; Bassick .676; Danbury
662; Bristol 653; Naugatuck .584
East Hartford Ninth
Glass B qualifiers and percent
ages; Stonington 1000; Woodrow
Wilson 1.142; Shelton 918; Gilbert
300; Branford 800; Milford I'll;
Wethersfeld III; Middletown .767;
East Hartford 1857; WATERFOWL .760;
Lyman Hall 658; Seymour .612
Class CD qualifiers and percent
ages: Tourtellotte ILL; Portland
1O87; Ellsworth 1912; Pratt 1888;
Staples 1888; Terryvlle 1927: Farm
ington 1876; Morris 1921; Bloomfield
1859; Litchfield $50; Woodbury. 1858:
Saybrook .627; Lyman Memorial Of
Lebanon .568; Glastonbury .539.
Though proceedings in rating ani
bracketing the Glass A and CD
schools went along without hitch,
trouble developed In arranging the
B listings when 1t developed that
East Haven high, which was among
those seeking qualification, had had
several boys playing outside ball
during the latter part of the season.
After several efforts to reach East
Haven authorities had failed, the
committee finally voted to declare
all that schools games forfeited.
b Goes to Weaver
After rating the teams, the CON-
mittee, headed by President Harold
A. Swaffield of Fairfield and Tour
nament Director Erwin T. Trask of
Plainville, drew for pairings.
Trask announced that the Glass
B playdowns will this year be held
in the Weaver high gym in Hart
ford, the quarter finals and semi
finals going to Yale's Payne Whit.
ney gym and the finals to the New
Haven Arena
Danbury and New Britain start
the Glass A firing Monday,
March 2, at the Arena at 8 p. nj.
with Bascick of Bridgeport and
Torrington meeting in the second
game at 9:15 p. m.
Tuesday, Meriden faces Hill
house at p. m. and Bristol OPP
poses Warren Harding at .9:15 D.
m. Wednesday night, when the
A playdowns will be completed,
West Haven tangles with Nauga-
tuck at p. m. and Crosby meets
Manchester at 9:15 p. m.
West Haven, which ranged sixth
in Glass A, almost didn't get IN
through an oversight which was
caught in time, however. AS the
pairing were being made, one COM
mittee member inadvertently called
out west Hartford" This was be-
ing written into the records when
1t finally developed that West
Hartford didn't even approach
qualifying.
The Glass B examinations will be
held Wednesday at Weaver, all in
the same day. Two games will be
played in the afternoon, Lyman
Hall of Wallingford meeting Weth-
ersfield at 3 o'clock and Seymour
facing Midd,stown at AIS. Bran
ford and Easo Hartford, the Hart
ford districts only representative IN
any tourney. tangle DIT D. m. and
Milford meets Watertown at 9:15.
Ellsworth Meets Lyman
The Glass CD playdown games
at Weaver will all be held in the
afternoon. Monday, March 2, Sta
pies meets Woodbridge at 2 p. M,
Morris faces Bloomfield at 3:15 and
Pennington opposes Glastonbury
at 4:30. Tuesday, Ellsworth tackles
Lyman of Lebanon at 2 D. M, Old
Saymrook takes on Terryville at
3:l5 and Pratt plays Litchfield at
4:30 p. m.
The Clas. A quarter finals are
slated March and 8, with two
games each night. The semi-fnal
will be played March IL and the
finals March ID.
In the Glass B division, the quar-.
terminals will be held at the Yae
gym March 8, the semi-tina
March II in the same gym and tie
nails March IA at the Arena.
Glass CD quarter finals will he
he'd the afternoon and night Of
March 10, the semi-1inals March -
at night and the finals the aft=i-
r<,Oy, nf NHoroI