Evening star., 1940-03-11
Lincoln Parkers Out
To Keep Title and
Gain Revenge
Girls Also Will Decide
Metro Honors; Malone
To Present Prizes

metro nonors; Malone
To Present Prizes
In as climactic a finish as any
local scholastic basket bali tourna-
ment ever knew, Roosevelt and East
ern-undisputed contenders for the
rank Of Washington's No. l school,
boy court team-meet at Tech to-
night In the final game Of The
Stars annual metropolitan cham
pionship.
1t promises to be a great battle,
with the Rough Riders, the new in
terhigh champs, seeking to add the
White Tides title in The Star
classic just as they lifted its inter-
high crown and the Lincoln Parkers
striving desperately to avert a COM
plete surrender of their honors Of
yesteryear by beating Roosevelt for
the first time in three starts this
season.
The title game is scheduled for
$3.50 o'clock, one hour after the girl
teams of Bethesda Chevy Chase and
Hyattsville take the floor to de-
termine the best team among this
areas sextets.
Malone to Present Prizes.
At the end Of the evenings fire.
works, Charles Malone, great and
popular end of the Washington Red
skins, will make the presentation of
The Star prizes. Malone, now a
bona-f1de resident of the Capital,
will award the championship trophies
to the winning boys and girls teams,
secondary trophies to the runners
up, individual trophies to members
OF the victorious boys team and
two more individual trophies to the
boy and girl selected most outstand-
ing in the entire tournament.
Because Of its sensational showing
IN its two appearances in The Star
tourney and because of the presence
OF the illustrious Bob Custer, Eastern
has been installed as no worse than
an even choice to avenge two earlier
defeats at the hands of Roosevelt
this season.
In Its two tourney games against
Georgetown Prep and Gonzaga, two
OF the better prep fives around the
Capital this year, the White Tide
rolled up the amazing total of 107
points. OF that number, Custer
scored 44-22 in each game-for an
individual record as consistent as it
is noteworthy.
Riders Find Going Tough.
Roosevelt, on the other hand
struggled in beating Montgomery
Blair. 27-17, and had the scare of its
lift before nosing out Bethesda
Chevy Chase, 31-25, on, Saturday
night. On the Riders behalf, how
ever, it should be mentioned that
BIC. c undoubtedly presented its
biggest threat in the tourney outside
OF Eastern and the fact that it had
to wage an uphill fight to win only
adds to the Riders laurels.
But. although it has three stellar
players in George West, Ernie
Travis and Hymie Perlo, none of
them has matched the Individual
record OF Custer and It would not be
surprising If Coach Herman 1dttman
assigned two men to guard Eastern's
Big Gun tonight. West scored ID
points against Bethesda Saturday.
but his twc-game total of "a is only
two more than Custer scored in each.
II Eastern does win, the scholastic
campaign will end in as big a
muddle as the college season closed
last week when GEORGETOWN upset
George Washington.
Girl Teams Get Support.
Roosevelt, of course, can squelch
any incipient argument by whipping
its across-town rival for the third
time. If it does, there will be none
to deny that it is entitled to be
known as. 'Washington's best" In
contrast to the late-season squirt
which Eastern had to stage even to
enter the interhigh playoffs, the
Riders still have to be defeated by
an interhigh rival this year. And
their supporters will insist that its
35-32 defeat OF Eastern in the inter-
high title game was no true refiec-
ton of the difference in the teams.
The big point in Eastern's favor,
however, is that 1t has been improv-
ing by leaps and bounds as the
season progressed and that right
now it is playing its best ball of
the campaign Whether it has at
tanned level with which it can
reverse the tables on a Roosevelt.
team which has been consistently
good is the intriguing question that
will not be known until around 10
o'clock tonight.
Bethesda Chevy Chase is expected
to send another colorful contingent
to root for its girls against Hyatts-
vile, but the latter is expected to
counter with just as strong sideline
support. Both won their preliminary
games by about the same margin,
BIC. G. whipping Mount Rainier,
23-14, and Hyattsville taking Blair,
the defending champ, into camp
by 25-19.
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