Evening star., 1941-03-02
Honors and Trophies
Galore at Stake in
Metro Contests
&c. c. and Coolidge,
Eastern and Prep in
Opening Games
BY GEORGE HUBER.

Sixteen basket ball teams evenly
divided between boys and girls, pick
of the high school crop in this area
are ready and, it seems, unusually
eager to start firing tomorrow in The
Stars ninth annual Metropolitan
Washington interscholastic cham
pionships.
Boys will get under way with two
first-round games tomorrow night
at Tech, the opener at 7:30 o'clock
The lassies wait until Tuesday fol-
their first-round action when they
will 90 to it in big way with all
eight teams participating in quad
ruple header at the University OF
Maryland's spacious Ritchie Coli
scum starting at $50. Boys also
will play two first-round games
Tuesday night at Tech.
Girls semifinals will be held
Wednesday night at Ritchie Coli
scum with the boys semis slated on
Thursday. Finalists in both divis-
ions play Saturday night at Tech,
the girls championship game to
start at 7:30 and the boys an hour
later.
Coolidge Draws B.-C. c.
Bethesda Chevy Chase, champion
of Montgomery County, will take
on Coolidge, newcomer to the Wash
ington scholastic scene this year
which made an enviable record play
ing independently, in the opener at
Tech. This will be rubber game,
incidentally, the two having split a
pair this season. The nightcap to-
morrow will pit Eastern, runner-up
in the District public high race,
against Georgetown Prep.
On Tuesday, Roosevelt, defending
METROPOLITAN champion and this
years District of Columbia public
high titlist, will meet Landon School,
runner-up in the Interstate Athletic
Conference and sporting a season
record of 16 victories in 20 games.
Tuesdays closing f1rst-round contest
will send Gonzaga, champion OF the
Catholic School League, against
Washington-Lee, Northern Virginia
champion.
Thursdays semifinals will bring
together the Eastern-Prep and Con-
zaga-W.-L. victors with the Cool
idge-Bethesda winner taking on
Roosevelt or Landon in the night
cap. The two Thursday winners
will clash in Saturdays champion
ship battle.
How the Girls Square Off.
Opening the girls competition
Tuesday night, Mount Rainier,
champion of Prince Georges County,
Md, meets st. Cecilia, winner in
Washington's Parochial School
League. At 7:3o, Fairfax, champion
of Fairfax County, Va, meets Mont
gomery Blair, winner in Maryland's
Montgomery County. The $3.50 game
lists Bethesda Chevy Chase against
George Washington High, while the
closing game will be between Sher-
wood of Montgomery and Hyattsville
of Prince Georges.
Wednesday night the Mount Rain
ier-St. Cecilia winner will tangle
with the Bethesda-G. w. victor at
7:3o, with the two other winners
meeting an hour later. The two
survivors will face Saturday night
at Tech in the final.
With the honors will 60 a host OF
trophies. Winning and runner-up
teams, and winning coaches in both
the boys and girls sections, men,
bers of the championship boys team,
the outstanding boy player in the
tournament, to be selected by COM
mittee of college coaches, and the
outstanding girl, selected by tour
ney officials, will receive trophies.
Not only will the teams be battling
for championships and trophies. The
boys will be playing for bids to out
of-town tournaments, principally
the Duke-Durham, N. c., and the
Glens Falls, N. Y, annual affair.
Last year both Roosevelt and Be-
thesda- Chevy Chase represented the
METROPOLITAN Area in the North Car
olina gathering, and the previous
wear Eastern went to the final.