Evening star., 1941-12-03
RambIers Can Stock
Two Court Teams
With Veterans
Tigers Also Have Fine
Squad Of HoIdovers
For Series Sturt
BY GEORGE HUBER.

If Roosevelt doesn't win its thirC
straight high school basket bal
championship, who will? The wa!
things 60 in the schoolboy cag'
game almost any of the eight team!
in this years race could do it, bu
the biggest potential threats be.
cause of their number of expert.
enced, proved players appear to bt
Eastern and Wilson. with Coolidge
young quint coming up on the out,
side as a dark horse.
Phil Fox over at Eastern has near
~ enough letter men to stock two
teams. He'll miss Moe Shulmar
and Richie Posten from last year
second-place team. but he still car
put eight letter men on the floor
and e.s many more good boys from
last seasons lightweight squad He
doesn't have the worries facing some
coaches.
Eastern's best might be Mike Lieb
6-foot l-inCh center. Come to
think of it, there will be a lot OF
good centers around the series this
year and filling that spot on all-high
selections may mean p tough select
ing Job. There's Don Hillock at
Wilson. Charley Howard at Roose-
welt and John Gibbons at Central in
addition to Lieb, who already have
proved themselves in that position
Eastern Boys Team Well.
Other letter men at Eastern are
the 6-foot-4 Jim Oliver, Don Durkin
Jim Brady and Neil Craig, all
guards, and Larry Capone. George
Piggott and Harry Bond, forwards
Most Of these are tall boys, with
Brady the shortest at 5-10. This
dark-haired scrapper is one of the
best, however.
One of the things making Eastern
such threat is that these players
all are experienced not only at bas-
ket ball, but in working with each
other. The trio of Brady, Craig and
Piggott has been together for four
years now and almost can work
the ball down court with eyes shut,
so we'll do the boys know each other S
methods.
Coach Tony Kupka at Wilson has
five regular lettermen from his 194l
team returning as well as one sub
letter man. These are Center Don
Hillock. all-high selection last year
Guards Charles Hardison. Red
Davies and Bud Lemerise, and For
ward Freddie Vinson AnotherEfor-
ward back with the team is Bill
lavish, who didn't play regularly
last year because of an injured leg.
His pins now are okay.
The fact that these boys played
last year and all own letters is no
guarantee they'll be regular starters
this season. according to Kupka, and
he isn't just saving that as a matter
Of training routine to keep these
players in line. He has number of
promising newcomers who easily
could fit into starting quint.
Hillock Not Sure of Berth.
Three of them, especially. are
threatening to displace some of the
letter wearers-Stanley Patton, John
Coffee and Keith Stewart. Even ALL
High Hillock doesn't have a sure
starting berth yet. He's in the
throes of bout with geometry and
that takes a good part of his time.
Just across the line in Silver
Spring a different picture is pre-
sented at Montgomery Blair School
Coach Cres Bride there isn't at all
we'll stocked with experienced play
ers In fact, he has only one man
back from last years 12-player team
He doesn't know whether that's S
good, because the l941 Blair edition
won only games while dropping 13
Maybe it's just as we'll he must start
practically from scratch.
One returning player is Bob Weir
center, and he was sub. He's due
for a starting post this year, how
ever. For starting forwards, Bride
probably will depend on two sopho-
nores, Jack O'Connor and Bruce
Russ. The guard position will be di-
vided between two juniors, Jack
Clarke and Bill Mcdaniel. and two
seniors. Jim Davis and Ken Barg-
man. Completing the team probably
will be Marvin La Scala. LeWe Boyd
Bud Nixon and Joe Wells.