Evening star., 1937-03-15

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band of st. Johns College, the
fifth annual Evening Star
basket ball tournament, with
eight teams of boys and four girls in
quest of three Metropolitan District
intercollegiate championships, will
get under way tonight at Tech.
Eastern High of Washington, meet
ing Sherwood of Montgomery County
Md, will swing into action at 8
o'clock, in defense of the Metropolitan
title 1t has won for three consecutive
years, but the big battle of the evening
will be fought by st. Johns of Wash
fngton and Bethesda Chevy Chase of
Montgomery County, starting about 9
O'Clock.
st. Johns, sporting the title of
Catholic high champion of the Dis
trlct, recently has come through a
sensational streak of action with vary
ing fortune. The Cadets move against
Bethesda-Chevy Chase with a triple
incentive.
Cadets Are Vengeful.
THEIR ambition to win the metro
politan title is heightened by a
craving to make up for their second
round defeat in the South Atlantic
championship at Washington and Lee,
after they'd upset the defending title
holder, and by a keen desire for re-
venge over the team which admin
istered to them their most decisive
defeat of the season, in fact, the only
loss they suffered by more than a few
points. BY a margin of eight, Be-
thesda- Chevy Chase while back put
the bird on st. Johns.
The metropolitan tournament will
be played tonight, tomorrow afternoon
and night, Wednesday night and Sat-
urday afternoon, with doubleheaders
at all sessions except Saturday. when
three championship games will be con-
tested
The girls will enter the struggle to-
morrow afternoon at $50 O'Clock,
with Mount Rainier battling Bethesda
Chevy Chase. Inasmuch as Mount
Rainier represents Prince Georges
County and Bethesda-CheVy Chase,
Montgomery. this one is a natural,
but the boys contest to follow, too
should be a corker. 1t will bring to-
gether Mount Rainier, which has won
AZ consecutive games and the Prince
Georges championship, and Washing
ton-Lee of Arlington, title winner in
Northern Virginia. There are no odds
on this match.
Western on the Spot.
NOR will there be tomorrow night
in games between the girls of
Washington-Lee and Alexandria S
George Washington and the boys of
George Washington and Western.
Western is as much on the spot
as Eastern. While Eastern is defend
ing the metropolitan title, Western is
out to uphold its prestige as the public
school champion of the Capital.
Eastern gets a break in the first
round, for Sherwood is not expected
to be a particularly tough opponent
for the bigger school, but Western is
hard up against it in tackling George
Washington.
In former years. George Washing
ton, in drawing a Capital team in the
opening SkirmiSh, was as good as
licked before the whistle sounded,
but the reverse is true this time. The
Presidents during the last several
weeks have been touted by some OBJ
servers as the strongest Schoolboy
ouint in the metropolitan area. They
are eager for battle with Western,
which early in the campaign handed
them a whipping.
The semi finals in the boys division
will be played Wednesday night, and
whoever the participants, both games
will be naturals.
Finals on Saturday.
ON SATURDAY the boy and girl
~ finals will take place and supple
menting the program will be contest
between the two strongest suburban
teams in the tournament, for the sub
urban championship The quintS for
this battle will be chosen by Jim Pix
lee. athletic director of George Wash
ASpoH anu oilCt seiloalloildiiy SuS-
oeSSful basket ball coach, and Forrest
Cotton, basket coach at Catholic Uni
versity Pixlee and Cotton will judge
the out-of-town teams on their show
tngs in the first and second rounds.
The largest attendance in the his
tory of the five-year-old tournament
apparently is assured. There are eight
teams where there used to be four in
the boys division and four where
formerly there were two in the girls.
with sharp rivalries.
An admission fee of two bits will be
charged at each session, with all re-
ceiptS above expenses to be given to
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