Evening star., 1941-03-03
Barons and Coolidge
Play Rubber Game
In Tech Show
Admiral MeIntire, City's
College Coaches to
Judge Best Player
BY GEORGE HUBER.

ern have been installed as favorites
to triumph in tonight's f1rst-round
games of The Stars Metropolitan
interscholastic basket ball tourna-
ment at Tech, but either of the un-
seeded teams, Calvin Coolidge and
Georgetown Prep could triumph
without it being great surprise.
The opening game between Be-
thesda and Coolidge, starting
promptly at 7:3O, particularly prom
ises TO be close. 1t will be the sea-
sons rubber clash between the two,
Bethesda having won the first game,
36-19. and Coolidge the second, 33-
90. Ir natural" meeting of this
sort anything can happen and likely
will. particularly with so much at
stake.
The Barons hope with a good
showing in The Star tourney to earn
bid to the Duke-Durham tourna-
ment at Durham, N c., next week.
They already have received feelerS
based on the impression they made
at Durham last year and their good
record so far this season, which in
cludes undisputed possession of the
Montgomery County championship.
Coolidge History Starts.
Coolidge. too, has a big incentive
for winning. The schools sports
history will date from this weeks
tournament, 1t being the first formal
competition for the Colts.
Comparative scores give Eastern
a pre-game edge over Georgetown
Prep The Little Hoyas sport
puzzling zone defense which may
disrupt much of EaStern's under
the-basket work and force the
Ramhlers to shoot from outside,
always haphazard method of scor-
ing.
First-round action will continue
tomorrow night at Tech with two
more games listed Roosevelt, de-
Tending Metropolitan champion, will
match shots with Landon, second
place team in the Interstate Ath-
Iettc Conference, and Gonzaga,
Catholic school champion, will face
Westinghouse, Northern Virginia
tttlehClderS. There will be a lay
of In the boys section until Thurs
day when semifinal games will pit
the Gonzaga a-W.-L. winner against
the survivor of Eastern-Prep. The
other two winners will meet in
Thursdays nightcap.
Girls Closely Matched.
The girls section of the tourna-
ment, this year increased to eight
teams, will open tomorrow night at
Ritchie Coliseum with all four games
to be played starting at $50.
Competition among the girls has
been so close all season that it is
difficult to name favorite.
Among the outstanding teams
entered are the winners of two
tournaments last week, Montgomery
Blair, which took the Sherwood |
event, and Hyattsville, victor in
the Hyattsville tourney. Hyatts-
vile, in triumphing over Mount |
Rainier in the firals Saturday night.
ended 19-game undefeated streak
sported by the Mount lassies. l
Several of the girl teams in The
Star tourney also are entered in
the Rockville sportsmanship affair
later this week, dates for The Star
tourney having been so arranged
so as not to conflict with Rockville's
competition on Thursday and Fri
day.
Judges Are Announced.
The committee to pick the out
standing boy player in the tourna-
ment and the best team among
those that did not compete in the
public high series, was named to-
day. 1t includes Admiral Ross T.
McIntile, personal physician to the
President, one-time basket ball star
and now a close student of the
game; Fod Cotton of Catholic u,
Bill Reinhart of George Washing
ton, Staff Cassell of American u,
Elmer Ripley of Georgetown and
Burt Shipley of the University of
Maryland, all coaches.
A trophy also will be awarded the |
outstanding girl player as chosen
by a committee of tournament off,
cials.
Another well-known sports per-
sonality, Jack O'Connell, will be in
his traditional job at the micro
phone of the public address system. !
Jack cut short a vacation at the
Mardi GraS in order to attend the |
tournament. The crack Elk Boys |
Band will play.
Tickets, priced at 25 cents a ses-
sion, may be purchased at any of |
the participating schools g. admis-
sion may be paid at the gate, Gate |
receipts are used to defray expenses
of the tournament while the schools |