Evening star., 1937-03-07
LINCOLN PARKERS
QUIET FOR WHILE
Look to Defense of Metro
Title as Rivals Eye
S. A. Hon0rs.
BY ROD THOMAS.


r. ASTERN HIGH, yanked from
- the District public high school
throne by Western after a
- three-year squat, wishes its
conqueror well-for a week.
After that the snappiest feud in
the modern history of Washington
scholastic basket ball will be renewed
with variations Eastern and Western
will shoot for the championship of
the Metropolitan District in the fifth
annual Evening Star tournament to
open a week from tomorrow at Tech
with the eight leading schoolboy teams
Of the Capital sector engaged.
In the meantime, Western Is ex-
pected to try for the South Atlantic
title in a tournament sponsored by
Washington and Lee University, to be
held next Thursday. Friday and Sat-
urday at Lexington, Va. Tomorrow
W. and l.. will announce the 16 teams
invited and, as champion of the big
gest city in the section, Western is
due a nod. If Eastern, too. is invited,
It will decline, according to authorl-
tative advices received last night.
Rivals Seeded, l, 2.
IF WESTERN and Eastern clash in
= The Star tournament, it will be
In the final. Eastern, three times win
ner of the Metropolitan tournament
and defending champion, is seeded
No. and Western No. 2, the pairings
having been made before the public
school series ended.
Figured on paper, Eastern drew the
only first-round assignment that
doesn't appear extremely tough. 1t will
meet valiant little Sherwood OF Mont
vomery County. coached by Billy Cross.
Sherwood was selected last night by
the tournament management to rep
resent the Maryland county along with
Bethesda-C Chase, which has
been a participant in every Star tour
nament. Sherwood's triumph Friday
in the annual craftsmanship joust at
Rockville sponsored by Principal L.
F. Schott of Richard Montgomery
High, clinched place in the Metro
politan scrap. Eastern and Sherwood
will meet in the opening game.
Spirited Sherwood has the only
team with an opportunity to pull a
distinct upset in the opening round
The other game in the upper bracket
will bring together ST. Johns. Catholic
High champion of Washington, and
Bethesda Chevy Chase, which nicked
St. Johns in a tight game before the
Cadets hit their fastest stride-in a
sensational series with GorZaga.
Mount Rainier mystery Team.
IN THE top game Of the lower
L bracket, Washington-Lee. cham
pion of Northern Virginia, will meet
the mystery team of the tournament
Mount Rainier.
Nobody can tell how we'll go in the
kind of company you have in The Star
tournament this year." said Coacn
Perry Wilkinson of Mount Rainier yes
terday, because we haven't played any
of the big city teams"
But it's cinch the Mount Rainier
lads carry punch. In competition
with teams of their own general rating
they have won 20 consecutive games,
with no defeat to mar the finest record
In the history of the school. In their
last contest they knocked off the
champion of Carroll County, West
minister High, in the first round of the
Maryland intercounty title tourna-
ment. Statewide affair, and in doing
so blasted winning streak which had
endured for IA games. In this battle
of unbeaten teams Mount Rainier tri-
umphed by 80 to %.
Even Forrest P. Blunt, learned,
quietly progressive principal of Mount
Rainier, is showing symptoms Of bas-
ket ball fever as the scrappy young
sters under his memorial wing win
game after game.