Evening star., 1941-01-09
Loop Struggle Opens
For Both Tonight
On Home Floors
Presidents Are Hopeful
OF Crown; Roosevelt
Has Weekend Tour
By GEORGE HUBER.

Competing for attention with the
recently opened high school cham
pionship basket ball series which
continues with a double header to-
morrow night at Tech is the begin
nings of Virginia Glass A Conference
competition the same evening.
George Washington of Alexandria
and Westinghouse of Ballston are
set to repel boarders from the South
with both Thomas Jefferson Of Rich
mond and Hopewen High arriving
for pair of games each. Hopewell
plays the Generals tonight while JEFF
ferSon meets the Presidents. Tomor-
row night the order will be reversed,
with all games beginning at o'clock.
After launching their conference
competition at home this week end,
the two nearby schools band next
week for trip to Petersburg and
Richmond.
Interest in these Virginia cham
pionShip games is especially keen at
both schools this year. The Presi-
dents missed winning the State title
by q hair last year and have hopes
OF at last reaching the top this time.
The Generals up to now haven't been
able to make mark in the title race,
but they suddenly find themselves
with a potentially good team that
promises to make life interesting for
opponents. George Washington has
been Snatching all the basket ball
glory and the Ballston boys think it's
time they came in for their share.
Students Backing Needed.
They added immeasurably to their
prestige earlier this week by beating
Bethesda Chevy Chase, trick that
only the undefeated Eastern had
been able to do previously. Coach
Elwood Clements has a collection of
fairly tall boys who are full of fight
and who need only the support of
the schools student body to become
consistent winners.
It's fact that at Washington
Lee basket ball is not highly re-
garded and games are poorly at
tended by the students. Possibly the
usual $3.50 record of cagerS when
compared to the top-ranking foot
ball records has something to do
with poor support. Now that the
Generals promise to win good
majority of their games those
youngsters who pack the football
stadium probably will turn their at
tention to the gym and the basket
ball team.
Roosevelt's championship team,
| after successfully opening the cam
/ paign in defense of its crown last
Tuesday takes trip this week end
starting at Martinsburg (W. Val
: tomorrow and returning by way of
Annapolis and the Navy plebes on
/ Saturday.
/ Coach Herman Littman is taking
/ large squad with him. Those MAX
/ ing the trip are George Robertson
Frank Ciango. Jim Norton, P
Scuderi, Preston Wannan, Bob
Kershenbaum, Charles Howard, Dick
Goodman, Frank Redinger, Tom
Robertson, Hymie Perlo. Lester
Wicklein, Irwin and Bernie Kolkey
and Chick Silver.
Riders Perle Still Ailing.
Perlo, the teams captain and one
of its leading scorers. still is suf-
fering the effects of his injured
ankle received in football 1t must
be taped prior to each game and he
was noticed favoring 1t at times dur
/ ing the Central game on Tuesday
| 1t only hurts him toward the end OF
a fast contest, however. and he says
it soon will be as good as ever. Sc
/ far it hasn't hurt his running or
! scoring and he has counted 48 points
in five games. That's only one point
less than Frank Ciango, who tops
| the Rough Riders.
/ Speaking of leading scorers, one
of the top-notchers at Woodrow
Wilson is Bobby Beden, whose 25
points in four games rank him only
behind Ed Polhamus for the Tigers
He's a real help to the team and
just as Coach Tony Kupka is get
ting him ready to go places he has
! to leave. His family is moving to
California and Bob naturally enough
must go with them, robbing Wilson
of one of its biggest threats.