Patten Eagles Tackle Boston Latin Tonight Maine’s
Patten Eagles Tackle Boston Latin Tonight Maine’s Class B Champs Set For Garden Opener
BOSTON Mass March 21 — Patten Academy’s basketball outfit will attempt Saturday night to grab some of the honors for Maine in the New’ England Basketball Tournament when they collide with Boston Latin in a 7:30 p m contest in big Boston Garden.
EXTRA TILT
The contest is not an actual part of the tournament But is an extracurricular affair between the Class B champions of Massachusetts and Maine The game will be played as a preliminary to the New England finals Patten although a Class C team In enrollment won Maine’s B crown with a great display of basketball in the sectional tournament and In the state playoff with Gould academy of Bethel Boston Latin rolled to its crown In a Boston Garden tussle last week Patten a team drawn from the available 27 players in the academy will be racing a team representing a school of Class A caliber Coach Willis Pharl and his men aren’t worried by such numbers They figure that the starting combination of Gill Rosslngnol Carroll Halt Lloyd Wilson Ken McCourt and Thurtson Townsend will have enough power to give the Latins the stiffest battle they’ve had this year The boys got the feeling of the Garden court today getting familiar with the springy floor and the glass backboards and they showed they hadn’t left their shooting eyes in Maine Despite the Mutt and Jeff arrangement as -far as school enrollments go — Patten with a total of 88 and the Hub institution with 1800— all boys— only five men can play at one time and with the Eagles recording an excellent record all season even game-hardened Boston sports writers are giving the kids from Maine almost an even chance of winning Many Maine hoop followers who have witnessed the Eagles in action are predicting them to stage the season’s greatest upset
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WATCHED TOURNEY
The Patten squad — all ten men— have witnessed all tilts In the New England tourney so far and after attempting to get acquainted with the glossy glass backboards from the bleachers toddled onto the Garden court today for a brief workout and proved to the scattered onlookers that they hadn’t left their shooting eyes in Maine Capable ’subs Harley Dow Lynn Vickery and the balance of the squad all scampered over the court As In the Maine tournaments most of Patten’s 1500 fans are expected to be in attendance with their five-color banners of orange black blue gold and white while. the best of all
Maine fans goes to the team.
