Evening star., 1944-02-26
Both Are Sensations
In Semis: Wilson
Tough Victim
BY GEORGE HUBER.

| Eastern High, four-ti winner in
the past of the Metropolitan basket
ball championship and this years
District public school titlist, and
George Washington High of Alex
andria, Northern Virg Ma champion,
are the survivors for tonight's big
championship game in The Evening
Stars 18th annual Metropolitan in
terscholastic court tournament at
Tech gym. 1t will be G.. WIS first
appearance in the Metro final.
Their records show them to be the
two best schoolboy quints in the
Washington area and their play
proved it again last night as they
eliminated two other good teams.
Eastern's Ramblers trailed through
out the first period and then turned
on the steam to swamp Bulls
School, 61-27, after the Presidents
were forced into a thrill-a-second
overtime period before edging Wood
row Wilson, 1914.
The Eastern-George Washington
game is scheduled for 8:45 pm.
after the girls championship final
that will send undefeated Fairfax
High against Greenbelt High at 7::3O.
Eastern Likely a Slim Choice.
Defeated only once in 10 games,
Eastern likely will be slim choice
over the Presidents tonight, but the
contest looms as torrid engage
ment. G. w. has had five setbacks
in 26 games, and 2 of them were
from Eastern, by narrow margins,
early in the season. So tonight the
Presidents are in a spot to gain
plenty of revenge.
Eastern's principal problem will
be to stop Joe Hensley, G. WIS tall
center. Few have been able to
cramp his style this season. Wilson
tried it last night with it's zone de-
fense pulled in to keep three men in
the circle with Hensley, and all he
got was % points, 6 of them on foul
shots. Seven Of his points were in
the three-minute overtime period.
In all, the two teams scored 16
points in that extra session, and
any time that happens you have
really exciting ball game.
Marshall Boaz, too, must be cred
tied with a big share in George
Washington's victory. His four
field goals in the final period of the
regular game pulled the Presidents
up to the Tigers, his last tying the
score at 37-37 only a half minute
ahead of the gun.
G. w. Gains Early Lead.
G. w. appeared to have control OF
the game against Wilson at the
start and with Hensley tossing in
three goals and a foul shot played
to a 1873 lead in the first period.
Stu Brown kept the Tigers close
with three buckets in this frame and
tossed in two more during the Sec
ond quarter, but the Presidents still
were moving away, 24-17, at the
half.
Then Wilson took off the wraps,
limiting G. w. to three points on
Hensley's foul and layup in the third
period, while Tom McLarney paced
the Tigers into 27-27 tie going into
the final eight minutes. They
matched point for point until Will
son won three-point lead with a
minute to 60. Then came0 Hen
sley's foul toss that set the stage for
Boaz's tying pot shot and the game
was sent into overtime at 37-37.
The Presidents romped ahead.
Boaz tossed set shot from the
middle of the floor, and Hensley sent
in layup before Bill Tanney got a
foul for Wilson. Hensley scored
twice again to give G. w. an appar-
emily safe ABB lead. In quick sue
cession, however, Russ Keith, Tan
ney and Brown tailed to tie the
score for Wilson. Hensley won the
game with another one-handed
pushup for G. w. only few sec
onds ahead of the gun.