Evening star., 1941-02-26
Landon Accepts Spot;
Virginia Team Yet
To Be Selected
Roosevelt and B.-C. c.,
Gonzoeo and Eastern
In Same Brackets
BY GEORGE HUBER.

Selection of Northern Virginia
representative today or tomorrow
will complete the list of eight out
standing high school basket ball
teams in the Washington area to
compete next week in The Stars
metropolitan tournament which de-
cides the schoolboy cage champion
ship of this district.
Landon School of Bethesda, run
nef-up for the second straight year
IN the Interstate Athletic Confer
ence, loop embracing strong private
schools in Maryland, Delaware and
the District, yesterday became the
seventh team to receive and accept
an invitation to the tournament.
Only school to defeat Landon in the
l. A. G. this season was st. Pauls of
Baltimore, an exceptionally strong
team that didn't lose conference
game and in fact tops the class A
school in Baltimore, having won
something like 81 games against only
one defeat this season.
Seedlings and Pairings Announced.
Addition of Landon to The Star
tournament roster enabled tourney
officials to announce seedlings, dates
and pairings. The tournament will
be held March 3, 4, 6 and 8, or next
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday at Tech gym. There will
be double e-headers every evening,
with the first game to start at 7:30.
First-round games will be played
Monday and Tuesday, the semi
finals on Thursday, with the cham
pionship game set for Saturday
night. This title game will be pre-
ceeded by the girls title contest.
Seeded teams. in order, are Roose-
welt. District public high champion;
Eastern, runnerup for the District
crown; Gonzaga, winner of the
Catholic School League title, and
Bethesda Chevy Chase, champion
of Montgomery County. That places
Roosevelt and Bethesda in the upper
bracket with Gonzaga and Eastern
in the lower.
The tournament opens Monday
with Bethesda meeting Coolidge at
7:30, to be followed at 8:45 by East
ern against Georgetown Prep. Tues
days first round competition has
Roosevelt meeting Landon at 7:30
and GonZaga taking on the Virginia
representative at 8:45. The Coolidge
Bethesda game opening the tourney
particularly Is attractive, being
rubber clash between two excellent
teams.
Make Girl Pairings Tonight.
Seedlings and pairings for the eight
girl teams in the tournament will be
announced tomorrow following this
evenings meeting of the committee
in charge of that section.
Picking a favorite for the tourney
is becoming increasingly difficult.
The four unseeded quints-Landon,
Coolidge, Prep and the Virginia
school, WI. or G. Wall are
potential upsetters, in fact, have
turned in several upsets this season
against some of the seeded quints.
Landon is bringing particularly
good record into the tournament.
Coached by Bob McCartee, one of
the outstanding schoolboy mentors
in this section, it has record of
IA victories against only defeats.
1t has lost only to Episcopal, st.
Pauls of Baltimore-the I. A. C.
champion-Georgetown Prep and
Bethesda. This Bethesda defeat,
incidentally, is balanced by win
earlier this year.
Star of the team is its tall center,
Paul Baker, who for several weeks
during the middle of the season led
District and nearby cagers in
scoring. Other outstanding players
on the quint are Crandall Afford.
Ted Brawner, George Kriner and
Chuck Boteler.
Priced at 25 cents each, tickets
for The Star tournament went on
sale today at all participating
schools Student sand friends are
urged to purchase their tickets at
the school in which they are in
terested. Tickets sold at the gate
or game nights will 60 toward de-
fraying expenses of the tournament
while funds derived from school
sales go into that schools athletic
treasury. Schools will be taxed ac-
cording to the number of tickets
theV sell To make llD anV deficit.