Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-08
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GiebeI Of victors Judged
Best Player in Series.
Sherwood Girls Win.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

Sherwood Girls Win.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.
Out Of . chaotic, thril-saturated
scramble for scholastic basket ball SUI
premacy today emerged st. Johns, the
first team outside the public high
school realm to win the coveted Eve.
ming Star Metropolitan Tourney cham
pionship in six years. And moro than
1000 temporarily insane spectators
will testify the Cadets are the smooth
est schoolboy tossers produced here In
several seasons.
BY virtue Of It's 1925 victory over
Eastern, interhigh champion and
three-time winner Of The Star event,
last night at Tech High gym, st. Johns
rightfully claims undisputed posses.
sion Of the city championship. It's
time for Growing will be brief, however,
for tomorrow morning the Johnnies
will depart for the South Atlantic
title tourney, sponsored by Washington
and Lee University at Lexington, Va.
A polished sextet Of Sherwood las
sizes took the girls championship with
a 1922 conquest of q stubborn Be.
thesda-Chevy Chase outfit.
Another Chance for Eastern.
If any consolation Is needed for
teaming with st. Johns in manufac-
turing the finest display Of scholas-
tic basket ball ever seen here, Eastern
has the satisfaction Of knowing it may
catch up with the Johnnies at Lex
ington, but by now the Lincoln Park
ers may not be relishing that.
Forced to turn away several hun
dred fans after the spacious Tech gym
had been pumped full Of humanity,
tourney officials saw spectators re-
warded with battle that never found
either team in front by more than
four points. Not until Francis Bat
tiste, Cadet forward, pocketed . follow
shot in the last three seconds did st.
Johns clinch its most notable tri.
umph Of sensational season that has
found the Johnnies capturing "a Of 70
scholastic games.
Spectators squatted on the floor, on
window Lodges and on any unclaimed
inch, but despite the spirited atmos-
phere, 1t was . good-natured crowd
throughout and local scholastic bas-
ketball in general benefited from the
show.
Battle All-Even.
Eastern sporadically appeared head.
ed toward revenge for an early sea-
son setback. grasping . APPOINT lead
twice early in the first period Is only
Jim Giebel, lated adjudged the out
standing player Of the tourney and
awarded q trophy In token thereof.
was able to sandwich . snowbird be-
tween field goals by Howard Han
cock, Ralph Matera and Lee Lusby.
The beefy Giebel then inserted q foul
toss and follow shot and Johnny
Swagart netted lengthy set shot to
present st. Johns . rs margin en-
tering the second period.
The lanky Matera then made good
from the foul line to knot the score
again, and thus the teams fought
down the first-half stretch to . ISIS
tie. with every player on the floor
figuring in brilliant defensive and
offensive maneuvers.
BY the grace Of two foul shots BY
towering Clint Quantrille, leading
scorer Of the tournament with "a
points, and a pot shot by Russ Lom-
hardy, Eastern again spurted into a
APPOINT lead, but . foul by Giebel and
field goal by the creamy COM
plexioned swagart pulled st. Johns
to 1919 at the end Of the third period.
st. Johns FORCES Ahead.
Quantrille. Wit . sparkling follow
shot, staked the Lincoln Parkers to
3-point lead, but Qiebel and stumpy
Jimmy Mulvihil oollaborated to boost
the Johnnies ahead ct 1921 before
Quantrille caShed in on Q ons-handed
side shot to swing the edge to Eastern.
It was here that little Joey GAL
lagher picked his timely spot to start
scoring. With q mowbird he placed
the Johnnies ahead, 24-23, and then
buoyed the gap with . foul shot.
Quantrille, something Of . money
player himself, calmly stepped to the
foul line and sunk two fouls to knot
the count at 25-all, but Gallagher,
with only q minute and 80 seconds
OF action remaining, swished the cords
with a free flip and that was enough
to win.
AS the Cadets frose the ball in th>|
waning seconds Quantrille fouled Bat-|
tiste In fruitless attempt to snare|
the ball. Battiste missed the try bud
followed nicely to seal st. Johns tri1
umph just as the final gun doomed
Leemans Presents Trophy.
Tuny Leemans, popular former
George Washington football star and
current New York Giants halfbsck
presented the gigantic major trophy
to Capt. Giebel, who . moment later
also received a towering gold monu-
ment in recognition Of his general ALL
around effectiveness throughout the
tourney. Freddy Mesmer, Georgetown
coach; Fod Cotton, Catholic Univer-
sity mentor, and DR.. Ross Mcintyre,
physician to the President, were the
judges.
BY virtue Of Its upset Of Western
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