The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-21
CROSBY SQUADS
 IN BOTH SPORTS
 GO THIS WEEK
Meriden Here for Opening Hoop Game Tuesday;
 Aqua Show Wednesday

With its very successful football season and grid banquet now things of the past, Crosby athletic teams are about ready to take up where the gridders left of last Thanks giving morning.
 Tomorrow, Tuesday night, the newly organized l942 basketball squad opens the season at the Wilb. gym against Q Meriden club tha has yet to lose game in three Q, four starts and only last week, Fri day, outpointed an able Bristol higl combination. In Jack French, it 6-2 center. D'Anniable, guard anc Kaczmarski, a forward, the Silvei City squad, despite the loss of last seasons walter (Mpuse) GoStyla, apparently has another formidable aggregation, which figures to prove very tough going fot an ambitious Crosby club including Bob Reynolds Francis Fasanelli, Jocko Conlon and Ugo D'Agostino and Joe Smith, On Friday (ChriStmas) night of this woke, Crosby takes on a strong Alumni squad, rounded up by Bobby Boucher; with Art Fisher and Hor- man Teitelson of Connecticut Uni- versity; Albie Kelly and Joe Han non of Holy Cross; Bud Belanger; Frank Shugrue of Vermont Univer- sity; Jim Hanrahan" of St, Thomas Seminary, and Jimmy Lord of Mt, St. Mary's among those expected to see action with the Old Grads com bine.
 Water Meet
 On Wednesday night, at the Crosby pool, real strong squad of Alumni swimmers will splash into action against another prom ising array, coached by J, o. P, Manherz with the following boysl home from College and the U. S.| armed services expected to swtml against the newest crop of potential Johnny weismuellers: Tom Jack son, of Yale; Paul Lux and Jacll Hummer, of Dartmouth; Jack Ahearn, of Brown; Bill Kurtz, of| Duke; Al Schailer, of R. P. l.; Grand Huber, of Williams: Chris Reilly, oM st. Bonaventure; Al Povalaitiss formerly of Iowa; Dick McCleary of Colorado; Dom Spallone, of thu Army Air Corps, and Jack Manher Jr., of the U, s, Naval Academy.
 AS for Crosby, Bowen, Jackson Mecca Kirtz, Lombard. Mecca Peterson and John Holmes ar scheduled for tests in the sprirlf events; with Webster, Donahue aIi Judd in the back-gtroke; Kurt Bowen and Jackson in the 2 swims and Hommes and Mark the diving competition. Brown on Perelli are breast-stroke entries fdF Crosby.
 Meriden will be met by Crosl Crosby swimmers, February Hartford high, a keen competitoM comes to Waterbury February and Hillhouse of New Haven hen March 6 with other tentative dateN hoped for with Bridgeport Bassicl Bristol and Bridgeport Harding.
 Wartime swimming, as advocateN by the U. S. Navy, also has a defi mite part in the Crosby tank prot gram this season.
 Photo Finish
 Winning over its Alumni, 26-24 the proverbial skin of its teeth wilby hoopsters vii lwork out ernest this wek in preparation II a game at winsted Saturday nigl against Gilbert high. Weak wor from the free throw line, in whicN wilby players missed l4 of l8 trief Saturday against the grads will havN to be much improved, if the Wild cats are to mark up their seconM victory of the season. PaoagaiS Wilby center, whose late hoop WOW the ball game for the students, gof 6 points, Behr and Mellon four eacfl Summary: