Evening star., 1940-03-12
Riders Seeded Third
For Tourney Clash
Friday al Durham
Vests Long Shot Brings
34-32 Triumph; Girls
Title to HyottsviIIe
By BILL DISMER, Jr.


pulsating basket ball games ever
played at Tech gym, but convinced
by The Star tournament that
Roosevelt truly deserves the title
OF champion, Washington's entire
scholastic colony rose today to wish
the Rough Riders godspeed on an
other assignment this week end
which promises to be no tougher
than the one they successfully COM
pleted last night.
Informed that Coach Herman
Littmans team had been seeded
third in the Duke-Durham South
ern High School tournament and
will play its first game against
Harrodsburg, one of Kentucky's
leading schoolboy flves, early Fri
day morning. one astute observer
remarked:
After seeing Roosevelt coming
through against such teams as
Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Eastern
on three nights, Id back the Riders
against any opponent"
That, in general, seems to be the
general consensus in the wake of
Roosevelts glorious 1892 extra
period victory over Eastern last
night, a victory which came when
a calm and self-possessed George
West let fly with a shot yards
from the center line which sailed
through the cords without touching
the rim or blackboard midway OF
the 3-minute overtime session.
Hyattsville Girls Rally.
Thrilling as it was. however,
RooseveltS victory had nothing on
that scored by plucky Hyattsville
High sextet for the girls title when,
with only 81 seconds to play, that
team scored 6 points to whip a de-
termined Bethesda Chevy Chase
aggregation, 3l-28, for the girls
metropolitan title. 1t was the 10th
triumph in 20 games lor Coach
Agnes Turner's team and more
than atoned for two earlier defeats
by BIC. G. this season.
But the greatest excitement, natu-
rally, was aroused by the boys
clash which, contrary to expecta-
tions, attracted the largest crowd to
see a local hlgh-school game this
year. Despite the fact that the rivals
had met twice previously, nearly
1000 all but jammed Tech gym for
The Stars classic.
In the final analysis, Roosevelt's
closely knit team play proved Just
fYif1o S1Inari0r fn ocfa -
Capt. Hymie Perlo just one point
better than the White Tides big
gun, Bob Custer. The latter, though,
gained the most cherished individ.
ual honor of the tournament when
he was named the most outstanding
player by Fod Cotton, Catholic Uni
versity coach, who served as chair
man of the Judging Committee.
But it was Perlo whose timely bas-
kets set the pace for Roosevelt from
the opening minute of play when he
gave his team a 20 lead. And it
was Perlo who regained the lead for
Roosevelt early in the second half,
with two set shots to overcome East
ern at 20-19, and two twice in the
final quarter regained 3-point leads
for the Riders when Eastern had
come within a point of tying the
score.
The White Tide produced another
hero'in Warren Erhardt Erhardt's
most notable feat came with a min
ute and Is seconds Of playing time
left in the regulation game when he
broke away from his guard to score
the tying points. But it had been
Erhardt who took beautiful pass
from Moe Schulman midway the
second quarter to score the basket
which put Eastern ahead for the
first time at 1910.
Eastern Ahead at Intermission.
Roosevelt led at the end of the
first period, 1917. and Eastern at
half-time, 17-14 Had Neil Craig
been split second quicker in
getting off a midcourt shot, the
Tides intermission advantage would
have been two points greater, but
all the officials agreed that Time
keeper Ben Zolas gun sounded
fraction Of a second before the ball
left Craig's hands.
No more than 3 points separated
the teams at any point during the
second half, with the lead changing
hands three times during the third
quarter, which ended with Roose-
welt ahead, 1925. Trailing, 1892,
Eastern got its chance in the final
| n1la rter v,heY, Tim Pohertsop foI,1Ad
Schulman and the latter's free
toss preceded Erhardt's game-tying
basket.
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