Evening star., 1937-03-18
CADET DR|BBLERS
END DEASTERNR RULE
Bethesda Chevy Chase, Mt.
Rainier to Battle for
Suburban Title.
BY BILL DISMER, JR.

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V ways being found in the final
4 round of The Stars metro
politan basket ball tournament. West
ern today was ready to uphold the
reputation of its predecessors against
st. Johns, private school champion,
and Just as prepared to break the hold
of the public high fives upon the title
OF the annual schoolboy classic.
Two days of rest await these WIN
ners Of last nights Semi-f1 final games
before they meet in the tourney's
climax on Saturday afternoon. At
that time Tech Highs spacious gym
may not be any too spacious to ac-
commodate the student bodies of
three other schools represented in the
finals.
Because Judges Jim Pixlee and Fod
Cotton named Mount Rainier and
Bethesda Chevy Chase as productive
OF the best boys fives among the sub
urban entrants, the latter will have
two teams playing for as many cham
plonshipS. Bethesda Chevy Chase's
girls team entered the finals by trim
ming Mount Rainier's sextet and will
meet the lassies Of George Washington
High of Alexandria for the girls title.
Mount Rainier and Bethesda Chevy
Chase will meet for the interSuburban
championship, newly-established
title in The Stars five-year-old event.
pLANS call for the triple champion
ship encounters to start at 2
O'Clock Saturday, with the girls play
ing the first game and Mount Rainier
and Bethesda Chevy Chase the sec
ond, leaving the st. Johns Western
game as the grand finale. The latter
should get under way around 4 O'Clock.
For the first time since 1888 East
ern will watch the metropolitan cham
pionship being decided from the side
lines. Shorn of its interhigh title for
the first time since that year, when
Central won and added The Star
tournament championship, Easterns
elimination from the current compe-
tition was not entirely unexpected.
Especially, in view of a great fight
ing st. Johns team, which last night
captured its second game in four
starts from the Lincoln Parkers this
seaSon-and the most important one
at that AS in all three previous con-
flcts, 1t was real battle down to the
final second, with Carroll Cotton sink
ing snowblrd five seconds before the
end which came within one point of
tying the score. Five seconds later
hrt
tory-its most glorious of fine sea-
son.
No one man can be singled out in
the cadets lineup as outstanding
during the nights play, which found
Capt. Jim Giebel, Jack (Ace) Reyes,
Rosy Swagart, Joe Gallagher and
Francis (BaD Battiste coordinating
perfectly in their teams triumph.
Reyes = Busy Warrior.
n EGES was on his toes all night,
getting his elongated frame into
the air for rebounds, interception of
passes and tap-offs and twice pivot
ing for sensational one-handed shots
which gave his team valuable points
Giebel continued the steady. brainy
play of a crack leader, directing his
team faultlessly and giving it poise in
the heated spots. SWagart and Gal
lagher each had their individual mo-
ments, the former three times finding
the cords for field goals to emerge as
the ST. Johns high scorer, and Gal
lagher playing a whale of a defensive
hn oh ~ &c
player on the flood to Outright his
bigger opponents was almost uncanny.
Battiste, too, made his presence felt
from whistle to whistle, pulling his
club out of several tough spots with
timely tactics.
Eastern held the tlead three times
oil in the first qrarter-but when
Battiste scored twice from the foul
line just before the first period end
ed, st. Johns never was headed |
Eastern tied the score once again at |
8-8 on Lee Lusby's pot shot, but |
Gallagher pulled one-hander that |
sent the Cadets ahead at 1913 and |
followed with free toss to give them |
an l1-8 lead at intermission.
ST. Johns Speeds Up.
THE private-school champs started
the second half as if they we're
going to make a runaway of it, scor-
ing six points while Eastern was be-
ing held to two, from the charity |
stripe. Reyes pulled his one-handed |
speciality at the start, SWagart drib- |
bled the length of the floor for an
other and Giebel got away for snow
bird. All Eastern could accomplish |
during that time was a free toss by
Cotton soon after play was resumed
and another by Lusby midway in
the period.
Russ Lombardy's pot shot left the
Light Blue and White on the short
end of a 12-l7 count as the third
quarter ended.
p Eastern made a mighty bid in the
fnal period to remain in the running
Sor It's fourth Star championship, out
scoring the Johnnies, 8-4, but they
just didn't have enough to win. After
6Wagart scored two points for ST.
Johns, Quantrille dropped in his only
field goal of the night and Speith twice
got away for double deckers, which
left Eastern only one point behind, at
1919. Swagart pocketed another one,
though with two and one-half minutes
to 60, but st. Johns frustrated all
further scoring attempts until Colton's
snowbird, five seconds from the end.
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