Evening star., 1940-02-29
Cadets and Gonzaqa
Meet First Night;
6. ". Honored
AIexundriuns Featured
On Second Evening;
Girls Will Play
BY ROD THOMAS.

ne OUTCOME was unpreQlCCdDle as
pairings were made today for the
eighth annual Evening Star tourna-
ment for the metropolitan WASH
ington public high school basket ball
championship. It was certain that
the parochial title for this sector
would be won in the first round,
with st. Johns meeting Gonzaga,
but from there on the tournament
became string of question marks.
st. Johns and Gonzaga broke
even in two games and elected to
shoot the works in Star tourna-
ment contest. 1t will be held next
Tuesday night at Tech as the fea-
ture of a double header with Mont
gomery Blair of Montgomery County
meeting the winner of the District
interhigh series in the opener.
A round-robin for the District
title will start Friday night at
Tech with Western facing Roosevelt
and Eastern opposing Central. The
winner and runnerup in this COM
petition will become eligible for the
metropolitan scrap, the pairings for
which follow:
Blair VS.. District champion.
Bethesda Chevy Chase VS..
Westinghouse.
st. Johns VS.. GonZaga.
George Washington VS.. District
runnerup.
Program Is Established.
The program: Next Tuesday night
Blair VS.. District champion; St.
Johns VS.. Gonzaga.
Next Thursday night: Bethesda
Chevy Chase VS.. Washington and
Lee; George Washington VS.. District
runnerup.
The succeeding Saturday: Semi
finals.
The Monday following: The boys
final and the girls final.
-Four girl teams will be chosen
To-Day to play for the Metropolitan
title. Starting time on each night
of the tournament will be 7:30
o'clock.
Conspicuous in the boys pairings
is the position of George Washing
ton. Heretofore the Alexandria
school has been tossed to the wolves,
as it were, sportingly accepting a
place in the tournament with the
knowledge it had only fighting
chance to survive the first round.
This time George Washington enters
the struggle as one of the most re-
spected contenders. Py virtue Of its
showing in the Virginia State cham
pionship race, it was given the honor
spot on the second night of the
tournament, a distinction not rel
ished particularly by the presidents
coach. Rasty Doran. His charges
next Friday and Saturday evenings
must whip a scrappy Washington
Lee team to win the Virginia Gen.
+ral Division Glass A championship,
and in the event of success will be
called upon to play Newport News
High at Alexandria, in the State
finals, the night before their debut
In The Star tournament.
1t Might Be Worse. Rusty!
'For an opener in The Star tour
nament," said Doran, examining the
pairings, I'VE might have liked
somebody softer than the runner
up of the District tournament,
whoever it might be, but from the
looks of this lineup I suppose it
makes little difference who plays
who"
Most of those who have tabled
the schoolboy feuds this season hes
itate to predict a winner.
Tomorrow night Roosevelt, which
negotiated the regular series with
out a loss in six games. will face
In Western a determined foe. The
Raiders came from far behind in
the closing minutes to whip Wood
row Wilson the other day in a
special playoff for third place.
Eastern, defending champion, which
survived a playof for fourth place,
will meet in Central the surprise
team of the race. 1t finished Sec
ond in the regular series.
The winners of the double-head-
er. which will start at 7:30, will
meet Saturday night at Tech, while
the losers will play for consolation
honors.
Yesterday Bethesda-Chevy Chase
won it's 18th game of the season
by stopping st. Adams at st. Al
bans, al to "a.
Bethesdas victory was its third
In three days. Johnny Shumate and
Bob Cremins were the winners
stars with 20 points between them.
Bill Terry and Bill Harmon were
high for ST. Alban's with 13 and 8
points, respectively.
Harmon was carried of the floor
late in the game after suffering a
fractured ankle from a spill.
Roth C c. GFPts. St Adams. G.F.Pts.