Evening star., 1933-02-15
MI. RAINIER VICTIM
IN T0RR|D BATTLE
Point in Second Extra Period
Gains Entry to Stars Metro
Title Event.
BY TOM DOERER.

II which jiggled precariously
4 \ along the rim of a basket.
gave Hyattsville High a IA
13 victory over Mount Rainier
High yesterday afternoon at
Ritchie Coliseum, and, with the
settling Of the fateful shot went
the championship of Prince
Georges County, and the victorious
quint's right to compete in the
Metropolitan District High School
championship, a sports fixture
sponsored by The Star.
1t took eight extra minutes. a period
OF nve, and another of three to decide
game which had terminated in a 1918
deadlock. On three occasions, once at
tne opening OF play, again at the con-
clusion OF the first half and once more
Ia tne epoing moments Of play, Mount
Rainier held the lead. But on each
occasion the conquerer came I'D to
either tie or brush away the advantage.
Inls pocket-sized floor epic was the
third and final clash of a three-wav
series between the two warm rivals.
Inc nrst tilt went to Hyattsville. 26-
10, and the second, and tieing COM
Dat, went to the Mounts, 23-17 points.
DOUGH riding, overzealousness and
N an overwhelming desire to take
yesterdays classic cost the van
quished five a victory. Added to this
was the extremely torrid shooting hand
OF De Voc Meade, lanky and sturdy
Hy center, whose foul singing won the
right to enter the Met tourney for his
team. De Voc rang up four telling
fouls OF the eight which his team gar
nered: I And the eight foul points
low score Of IA points for the victory
Is considered.
But the losers were netting their
points via the two-point route. Great
offensive work on the part of the
Matthias brothers and Ziegler, the latter
spectacular, heet-footed mite of a
guard. aided the scoring and their play
was the bright spot in q combat which
mas not been equaled In nearby scho-
lastlc ranks this season for battle and
action, according to the coaches. This
trio Of Mounts rode SO hard. and 20
consistently, that spills on the floor
were constant. But Hyattsville's ster-
ling forwards and guards, Calhoun,
Cain, Cogar and Brown, met the on
slaueht in such fashion that the scrim-
images VIII be long remembered by the
several hundred fans who kept the
atmosphere ringing with cheers and
jeers.
IT was Just the sort of bali game
1 from which q champ emerges, rough,
rugged and everything in it to test
the steel OF headliner. The battle
spirit to which it was forced to arise
In this fray should make the Hys q
fighting contender in the Met series.
A piece OF roughing in the final min
ute OF the last three minutes Of the
eight-minute extra period gave the COM
bat to Hy. Meade took the big egg
plant, just as he had been doing all
afternoon, and lobbed it neatly into the
gaping aperture, but not before it had
trollied the rim. 1T was the final ges-
ture OF free-line shooting champ, a
young man who twice during the hectic
play had broken up ties with his foul
shots. as
B. Matthias, the Mounts smart pass
ing and cutting guard, gave the tip-of
to the action which vas to come when.
in the opening moments of the tilt, he
took pass and Sprinted across the
floor to lleave into the netting amid a
wild scramble of hands and feet. Be-
fore the first eight-minute period had
ended the Mounts had rung up five
points, and the CHAMPIONSHIP be were
scoreless.
DUT. the prelude fast work on the
- part of the Mounts was matched
IN the next eight minutes when
Coach jenkins charges burst into ac-
tion at the whistle. Playing chance
taxing ball, Cogar, Hy guard, flung q
random shot from the 30-foot mark to
have 1t nestle in the basket for the
teams first two-pointer. Three foul
shots followed to give the Hy quint
enough points to match five against
nine at the half's close. Quantrille,
Calhoun and Brown were doing the
bulk In this offensive.
And still more determined Hy Quint
started the second half to fight the
Mounts of their shoes. They broke
quickly. took possession of the leather
and, after series of smart passing,
pivoting and cutting went to the basket
enough times to enable Calhoun and
Quantrille to score two baskets. the f.
nal two the young men were to see
for the afternoon.
With the score standing Gall In the
third period Quantrille shot a foul to
give the Hys their first lead during
the hair-raising ball battle. But Zieg-
Ter came back a few minutes later to
shoot foul to lock up the game once
more, and the situation caused both
teams to break loose with the greatest
piece Of floor-spilling high school root
ers must have witnessed in long, long
while. 1t brought fans and coaches to
their feet, 1t caused Referee Johnny
Fitzgerald to look appealingly at the
two mentors, and to begin q whistle
footing serenade which sounded much
like a canary sangerfest.
WITH the score locked and the lid
w off mighty little Ziegler of the
Mounts rode up and down the
floor freezing to the leather in an eff
fort to shoot a wild one. Thrice ne
tried, and the final try went singing
into the basket to send the Mounts
ahead again, 1911.
Ratified, bewildered by the rafter-
quivering shouts of the Mounts parti-
sans, the victory flushed quint went
shooting cafard and, in so doing
roughed up the enemy considerably,
seuffed 1t sufficiently to allow the Hys
Two free shots which Meade promptly
garnered again to put his quint on
even terms with the Mounts.
And there it stood at the end of the
'ame. at the end of five minutes, and
10y unta just peioIe the enQlng OF an
Extra three-minute period was it
broken. And De Voc was the blue-eyed
,aby.
It was In this manner that Hyatts-
ale High earned its right to compete
lgainst Montgomery County's champ,
iearby Virginia's leader and the Dis
rict OF Columbia's ace in the metro
,olitan district title play on Washing
ons birthday at Tech gym.
iyattsviile Q4. Mt. Rainier Q3l.
GFPts G,F,Pts.