Evening star., 1939-01-26
Eastern Alone Holds
Victory Over Each
In Current Play
Purple Tossers in Fair
Way to Snop 4-Gome
Reign Of Rivals
By GEORGE HUBER.

The traditional athletic rivalry
between GonZaga and st. Johns
will be renewed tonight when their
basket ball teams meet at Tech gym
In the feature of a double-header
involving the four local Catholic
high schools. The first game. start
ing at tbs pm, brings together st.
Anthony's and st. Paul's.
The two leading schools go into
tonight's contest with almost SINH
lar records. Gonzaga has lost one
game in five, while st. Johns
dropped one in eight. Eastern was
the cause of defeat in both cases,
and by the same 7-point margin.
st. Johns has won the last four
games between the two, starting in
1887 after dropping the first of three
played that year. Coach Orrel
Mitchell believes, however, that with
this years rapidly improving purple
squad he has good chance of
swapping the Johnnies' young win
ming streak.
Gonzaga Improves Steadily.
Led by Jim O'Brien, It's tall sharp
shooting captain, Gonzaga has been
improving all along this season. On
Monday it more than doubled the
score over Fredericksburg. consid-
cred one of the best quints in
Northern Virginia. and last week it
defeated a Woodrow Wilson five
that earlier In the year had given
1t an 1l-point beating in a practice
game.
Starting for Gonzaga with O'Brien
probably will be Bob Mulvihill, Fred
Rice, Bill Gardiner and either
Francis Councilman or Ray Judkin.
OF these only Rice is a veteran
regular, but the others have de-
veloped into good players and are
experienced working together.
An interesting rivalry for family
honors will reach a climax in to-
nights game. Gonzagas Mulvihill
is the brother of Jimmy Mulvihill
Of st. Johns. for two years stand
out on its fives.
Both teams finished practicing for
the game yesterday, st. Johns
working against the Tech team on
the Tech floor, while Gonzaga toiled
at st. Alban. where the new gym
IL about the same size as Techs.
High School Leaders Meet.
Tomorrow nights game at Tech
between Roosevelt and Eastern may
determine the ultimate leader of the
round-robin tournament. They now
are tied on top with two victories
each, and Roosevelt is given more
than fair chance of spilling the
championship Eastern outfit.
George West, tall blond star of
the Rough Riders, is one of the most
modest and lf-effacing athletes of
the current schoolboy crop both on
and of the floor. When playing he
often passes up possible shots to slip
the ball to a teammate, and off the
court he would prefer to talk about
the team rather than himself.
Reason for its current success, he
says, Is that there is not hungry"
man In the bunch. None of them
tries to monopolize the shots, and
they work togther as unit, keeping
the Dali moving and getting 1t un-
der the basket.
West is a Junior, II years old. If
he continues his current pace he
probably will be numbered among
the best cagers ever turned out by
the Rough Riders.
Moe Tanenbaum yesterday was
elected captain of Techs basket ball
team. He is senior, but didn't
come out for the basket ball squad
until last year. He earned a regular
berth on the team and developed
into an outstanding defensive guard
and was selected on The Stars sec
ond all-high team.
This year he again is outstanding.
although. due to illness, he did not
report to the team until three weeks
after 1t started practice.