Evening star., 1942-03-02
County Champ Plays
Georgetown Prep
In First Round
Holds Season Record
With II Wins in Row;
Aces Scrutinized
BY GEORGE HUBER.

Lineup for the 10th annual
Evening Star Metropolitan inter-
scholastic basket ball tournament
was completed today with Bladens-
burg High, Prince Georges County
champion, accepting an invitation
to compete as the eighth team. Not
only does this round out the list Of
topflight teams but it brings in the
quint which during the season ran
up the longest winning streak en-
joyed by schoolboy cagers in or
around the District.
The Bladensburg boys tailed IL
straight victories to win the Prince
Georges County title. The streak
was broken two weeks ago when
Greenbelt upset the Peace Cross
boys. Bladensburg previously had
downed Greenbelt, however, and at
that time already had tucked away
the county title by defeating all
other teams it hhet in nearby Mary
land, including Hyattsville which
won the Gold Cup Tournament last
week and in doing so avenged its
loss to Bladensburg.
Addition of Bladensburg TO the
tourney brings in every champion
ship team in this section outside the
District public high winner, which
Is not competing this year and whose
absence serves to make the annual
schoolboy cage classic wide open
nFoir
Montgomery County titHst, Bethes-
da-Chevy Chase, which is meeting
Its traditional county rival, Mont
gomery Blair, in its first-rouud game
on Thursday.
Virginia Well Represented.
Virginia is represented by George
Washington of Alexandria and
Washington-Lee Of Ballston, the two
strongest quints in the Northern
Virginia section of the Glass A Con-
ference who have battled to stand
of in two games this season. They
will settle the issue in a first-round
game on Friday. GEORGETOWN Prep,
Catholic League champion, is paired
against Bladensburg in what stacks
up as hot game for Friday.
Representing Washington are
Gonzaga. defending Metropolitan
champion, and ST. Johns, which
compiled an excellent record in both
the Catholic League and in inde-
pendent competition. These teams
also have battled to a standof in
regular season competition and will
decide the hottest of D. c. schoolboy
feuds in the nightcap Of Thursdays
double-header.
Semifinals will be played next
Monday, with the final slated
Wednesday. A girls section of the
tourney, in which the four outstand- |
ing teams of nearby Maryland and
Virginia will battle, is being ar
ranged with the lassies to decide
their championship in a preliminary |
to the boys title game. I
viii Select Best Player.
A feature Of The Star tournament |
each year is selection Of the out
standing player by a committee of
local college coaches. Last year this
honor, along with a handsome
trophy, went to Gonzaga's Bob Null
vihill, while the previous winner was
Eastern's Bob Custer, one Of the
best schoolboy cagers ever developed
In this section. Other recent win
ners, each worthy of rank as the best
player in or around Washington,
have been joey Gallagher of ST.
Johns, who currently is star at
George Washington, and Jim Giebel,
another st. Johns standout who
later played at Georgetown before
leaving school to go into the service.
The Metropolitan tournament an
nuany brings out the best high
school players in this section. Every
team entered has a candidate or two
and the battle for individual honors
looms as hot cne BladenSburg,
for example, presents Tex Givens
and Duke Myers, both real scoring
aces. George Washington has Cal
win Bailey and Jack Blackburn,
while the 6-foot-2 Johnny Grinnell
of Washington-Lee is among the
best in this area, both extensively
and defensively.
List Of Stars Long.
Joe McAndrews and John Shovel
of Georgetown Prep, Carl Julien
and Dick Poerstel of Bethesda, Bob
Weir of Blair. George Hughes. Chuck
Dudley and Sleepy Thompson of st.
Johns, and Red Murphy, Ray Fan
ming and AL Lauck of Gonzaga are
among others on the long list of
players who will be considered by
the judges.
Interest in the tourney has quick
ened since the announcement of
pairings yesterday promised hot
action all the way, including even
the f1rst-round games which some
time, but not this season, figure in
advance to be one-sided.
Tickets for the tournament, priced
at Is cents plus a Scent Federal
tax, are on sale at all schools entered
and the patrons are urged to pur-
chase their pasteboards at the
schools In which they are interested.
Competing schools stand to enrich
their athletic treasures from pro-
ceeds of tickets. Expenses are paid
from gate receipts, with the deficit,
If any, being prorated among the
schools according to the number of
tickets sold. Likewise, profits are
distributed.