Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11
Gonzaga Boys Eager
To Atone for Early
Loss 10 Roosevelt
Mount Rainier Lussies
Burning for Revenge
On HyottsviIle Six
By GEORGE HUBER.

Two long winning streaks, both a
month or more old, will be in danger
tonight when Roosevelt and Con-
zaga provide a torrid climax to
Washington'S scholastic basket ball
season by tangling in the final game
of The Stars Metropolitan tourna-
ment.
Their game at 8:45 at Tech gym
will be preceded by another promis-
ing encounter at 7:30 when Mount
Rainier and Hyattsville 60 after the
girls championship. These teams
are the survivors of eight outstand-
ing aggregations in each section,
pick of the schoolboy and schoolgirl
crop in and around Washington,
which began tournament COMPETE
ton last week. The tourney wind
up originally was scheduled for Sat-
urday, but inclement weather forced
a postponement.
Not since late In January has
Roosevelt, last years Star tourney
champion, tasted defeat. Western
handed it one of the few setbacks
of the season and that loss later was
avenged. The Eagles did it in a
school championship playof series
in which the Rough Riders captured
their second successive title. Their
string now stretches to 10 victories
with hardly an easy game in the lot.
Gonzaga Would Even Score.
Gonzaga's Eagles have earned
eight in a row since dropping a
game to Eastern early In February,
and that defeat also has been
avenged. The Eagles did nit in a
satisfactory, to them, manner by
eliminating Eastern from the Metro
politan tournament in last Thurs
days semifinalS. In fact, one of the
few defeats Gonzaga's hasn't made
up for this season was one by
Roosevelt, 1886, in January, and the
chance to erase that comes up
tonight.
That earlier victory and a slightly
better comparative record make the
Riders slim favorites to capture The
Stars tournament championship,
but the Eagles have come long
way since January and the game fig
ures to be close. Bob Mulvihill,
Francis Counselman and Hart
Downs form the nucleus of a good
Gonzaga quint that can match
Roosevelt with Hynie Perlo, Frank
Ciango, Charles Howard and the
Robertson boys almost man for man.
Roosevelt is the favorite, but not
by such a margin that victory for
Ganzaga would be real upset. That
together they represent the best in
or around Washington is proven by
the fact that they survived to the
final in a tournament that had the
eight choice quints originally en-
tered.
Keen Girls Battle Looms.
Equally hard to predict is the out
come of the girls encounter The
two teams-Mount Rainier and
Hyattsville-already have met three
times this year. The Mounts won
the first two as part of 19-game
winning streak which ended when
HyattSville came back to win the
final of the Hyattsville Gold Cup
tournament, a real payof game. If
HyattsviQe repeats tonight, it will
have a real clincher to its claims
for the Prince Georges County (Md)
championship because it really will
be champion-not only of Prince
Georges, but of everything within a
20-mile radius of Washington, the
area covered by the eight girls
teams that began The Stars tour
ney.
1t will be no cinch, though, be-
cause Mount Rainier's girls are out
to prove the Gold Cup victory moth
ing more than a fluke.
The entire program as originally
scheduled for last Saturday will 60
on tonight. The Elks' Boys Band
will provide poppy music and Jack
O'Connell will man the mike on the
public address system.
A committee of college coaches will
be on hand to choose the Journeys
outstanding boy player, who will re-
ceive trophy, and an outstanding
girl basketer as voted by tourna-
ment officials also will be presented
a trophy Another prize is for meri-
torious performance by a team not
in the finals, these, of couse, being in
addition to awards for winning and
runner-up teams in both divisions.
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