The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06
Prelude To Victory

The Chase Brass and Copper
Hoop Squad. met and defeated the
very fast Waterbury Tool combine
last night, at the Central Y. NJ. c.
A.. before $50 crazed hoop fans, for
the No. position in the Industrial
Basketball League. Previous to game
time jeff Boland, popular Crosby
teacher and track coach led the
Chase cheering section, in a mighty
yell, trying to Guido Benny Mar
tino, maestro in charge of Tool
roofing section. This put the fans in
just the right mood for the forth
coming basketball bombardment.
The firing First Period
In the opening minutes of play
in the first period in this feature
game of the evening, between Chase
and Tool, for the No. position in
the Industrial League, both teams
got and retained the possession Of
the ball intecmitten.ly. Volleying
from one end of the court to the
other But after three such furious
volleys back and forth, the terrif-
tic pace was broken as all eyes fell
upon Andy York. fast Tool right
forward and high scorer, who very
gently popped basket with SEEM
ingly apparent ease from the right
side of the foul line, for the first
hoop Of the ball game, and the be-
ginning of a very fast game for all
concerned. This hoop was followed
up with another by Big Ed Stanley,
lanky Tool center, making the score
four to nothing in favor of Tool,
but this was the beginning of the
end for Tool, which was firing very
fast. In the following few minutes
Chase set a furious pace popping
two hoops for each of the Tools,
forcing the Tool to use three of their
five time outs in the first period.
And by thus hewing to this grand
strategy, Chase managed to hold
decided edge Of II to at the quar-
ter time.
The Encouraging Second Period
The second period seemed much
more encouraging than the first at
least to the Tool fans, as their
hero, Handy Andy York got NOV
ing very potently to score eight
points via four field gaols. These
plus two by Stanley. and one foul
shot by Bill Sweeney. plus a well
rounded out defensive job, found
Tool anchorirg the high scoring
Chase combine to only eight points,
and forging a favorable score at the
half of 10 to II, Chase up, but by
only two points. OF course during
this period of fast moving action,
the question on everyone's lips was,
how long can the Tool keep up with
this pace?
The Strategic Third Period
The answer to this nicely worded
question was answered very shortly,
because as the Chase combine hit
the court in the third period, they
set furious nerve shattering pace,
with which the Tool combine was
unable to keep up. And before the
period was half over the Chase
squad was scoring rapidly, with
Karpovich, Koch and Riccuitti
leading their team on this bounti-
full scoring binge, which Melted
them eleven points in one period,
against four for the Tool. Despite
the valiant attempts of Andy York
who at all times was well covered,
and the futile attempts of Ed STAN
ley, and Big Bill Sweeney, the Tool
found themselves on the bottom
end OF 81 to 81 score at the be-
ginning of the fourth and final
period.
The Impotent Fourth Period
In the opening seconds of the
fourth period. it locked as though
the Tool, under the gushing genius
of York, Sweeney. and Stanley,
were going to stage a photo finish
comeback. But as the period pro-
crossed, Karpovich, Pomponio, and
Koch dropped in an equal number
of baskets, to match the Toolmen's
nine points for nine in this fourth
and final period. Then after they
had thwarted this comeback at
tempt, the Chase squad, stalled the
ball until the game had ended.
This game, however, proved to be
great one, as j. Alden White re-
ceived his reward for playing his
cards well. in this well thought out
game OF Strategem. This victory
might be called a strategic victory,
or just plain good BASKETBALL.