Evening star., 1939-01-12
Swimmers Promise to Land
First Scholastic Honors
For SwdddHnq Wilson

a good record In It's early meets and
especially was impressive when it
downed Baltimore Poly. which later
beat Central by II points.
The high school championship
will be decided this year in a tri-
angular series in which each school
meets the other twice. The opening
meet will be held tomorrow at $3.50
pm. between Central and Wilson at
Central and after that something
definite may be known on the way
the title will go.
Among the Wilson swimmers whom
Coach Wilson expects to make a
good showing tomorrow are John
Miller in the so and 100 yard free
style. Dick Sawyer in the back stroke
and Bert Williams in diving. Others
who may add points are John Little,
Nick Fratt, Milton Kettler and
Charles Mead.
Drops Varsity Girls Team.
Girls basket ball at Bethesda
Chevy Chase has been made an
intramural instead of an interhigh
sport this year, the change coming
just at time when the girls might
have carried the Leland banner
should the boys falter. For the boys
are faltering, having lost their last
five games, and they are threatened
by Montgomery -Blair's team, which
fast is rounding into shape for its
campaign to end the Lelanders su-
premacy in Montgomery County.
The shift was made, according to
Mrs. Beatrice Crocker, director of
girls athletics, to follow a gen.
eral trend throughout the country
which gives more girls a chance to
participate in the sports program.
That leaves Sherwood of Sandy
Spring, Montgomery Blair of Silver
Spring and Richard Montgomery of
Rockville with girls teams to fight
for the honor of representing their
county in The Evening Stars Met
ropolitan Championship tournament.
At Bethesda several teams have
been formed in the tenth, eleventh
and twelfth grades for intramural
competition. 1t also is planned to
play games against teams from cor
responding grades at other Mont
gomery County schools. Other sports
on the girls program are ice skating,
bowling, archery and swimming.
Tech Basketers Given Rest.
Bruce Kessler of Tech is giving his
basket ball team two-day rest fol-
lowing its victory Tuesday over Be-
thesda- Chevy Chase. It was its
fourth game in 10 days, so the
players had a layoff due. Practice
will be resumed tomorrow and Sat-
urday in preparation for Techs par
ticipation in the championship series
opening next week.
The Manuel Trainers are having
little or no trouble with studies. Not
a player is ineligible, and most of
them stand high in their classes.
Among the leaders is Charley Ken
dali, center, and one of the teams
high scorers, who is president of the
General Organization, Techs stu
dent council.
Tommorrow's Program Classy.
Several choice games are on tap
tomorrow. st. Johns, the only un-
defeated Glass A team in and around
Washington, meets Easterns cham
pions at $3.50 at Eastern. The
Johnnies already have taken care of
Anacostia, Tech and Western, so
some real comparisons of probable
scoring strengths for this years title
race can be made after the game.
Georgetown Prep visits Western at
$3.50 for its first game since before
the Christmas holidays, and is q
bit heartened since st. Johns de-
feated Western by 13 points yester-
day. Another interesting game
should be the one between Bethesda
and Anacostia at Anacostia, also
1T $3.50.
Seven games in all are scheduled
In and around Washington. Jeffer-
son High of Falls Church visits Fair
fax High tomorrow night for a game
which will decide the lead in the
Fairfax County League. Jefferson,
defending champion, is undefeated
in five games, while Fairfax has lost
only one in seven, and that not in
county competition. The boys game
will be preceded by a clash between
the girls teams.
Other games are Rockville at ST..
Adams, 4; Montgomery-Blair at
Mount Rainier. 8:15. and Thomas
Jefferson at Washington-Lee, 8.
Eastern Quint Pains Guyon.
After watching Eastern's basket
ers practice ths other day, Chief