Evening star., 1940-03-01
Double Incentive Puts
Extra Pep in Twin
Card Tonight
Winners Will Be Chosen
To Seek Metro Title
In Stor's Tourney

With q variety OF incentives to
spur them on, Roosevelt and West
ern will clash and Eastern and Gen.
trail shoot 1t out tonight at Tech in
the elimination series for the Dis
trict interhigh basket ball cham
pionship, with the victors to play
tomorrow night on the same court.
The Roosevelt-Western game will
start at 7:30 and the other at $3.50.
Not Only the city title is at stake.
The teams reaching the final will
become eligible to try for Metropoli-
tan Washington interscholastic
honors in the annual Evening Star
tournament to open next Tuesday
night at Tech and the metropolitan
crown is more coveted this year
than ever before, what with the un-
precedented strength Of the suburb
an teams that make up half the
field Of eight.
While the city schools are going
to 1t tonight, George Washington
High of Alexandria and Washing
ton-Lee Of Arlington will be feud-
ing for Northern Virginia honors in
a game at G. w. Tomorrow night
they will face again at WI. and
should George Washington win both
contests 1t will enter the finals Of
the State competition.
Roosevelt and Eastern Favored.
Although Roosevelt was all out to
beat Western In regular series
game and Eastern surprisingly
bowed to Central shortly after the
season opened, the Riders and Lin
coin Parkers rule fairly strong
choices.
Roosevelt, which swept through
the series with six triumphs In as
many games, defeated Western by
3 points after the Riders had come
from behind near the end of the
first half. Several members Of the
first team were suffering with colds
and many had missed practice. The
game was the only one this winter
in which Roosevelt was of form.
Western, which usually plays well
against the tougher teams and over
confidently against the weaker, has
been lax Of late and been forced to
rally in the second half to win.
While they have no player who can
match any of Roosevelts trio of
Hymie Perlo, George West and
Ernie Travis, the Raiders have bal
ance and a never-say-d spirit.
Woodrow Wilson had a 10-point
lead recently in a playoff game for
third place, but Western cut that
down and won In the final few
moments.
Eastern Now at Peak.
Roosevelt will line up with West
and Frank Ciango, forwards; Travis,
center. and Perlo and Tom Robert
son, guards. Western will present
1rv Schenker and Jimmy Karas,
forwards; Johnny Lumpkin, center,
and Hal Mitchell and Jake Hilleary,
guards.
One Of the biggest upsets of the
season was Centrals victory over
Eastern, defending titleholder. Far
from the smooth-running machine
1t has been since, Eastern that day
repeatedly threatened to take the
lead. but &, :. time Central man.
aged to hold on. Both teams have
improved since, but Eastern with
Capt. Bob Custer in top form should
reverse that defeat It's record OF
four straight during the last three
weeks indicates that the White
Tide is at the peak.
Eastern will depend on Warren
Erhhardt and Custer, forwards; Joe
Essex, center, and Moe Schulmar
and George Adriani, guards, while
Central has ready Teddy Thomaides
and Charley Kligman, forwards;
Benny Steiner, center, and jim
Mandes and Harry Martin, guards