Evening star., 1953-02-04
| Wins Show
Wilson and Roosevelt
Are in Top Form

Roosevelt, Wilson and Wash
ington-Lee are playing some of
the best scholastic basketball in
the area these days. Roosevelt
has won 13 straight. Wilson
hasn't been beaten since an
early-season loss to st. Adams
and Washington-Lee is back in
stride with a four-game winning
streak.
Yesterday Roosevelt and Will
son showed they were in top
form. The Riders knocked off
Bladensburg, Prince Georges
County leader. 67-41, for their
18th straight victory without a
loss and Wilson routed George
town Prep, 68-44.
Phil Perlo made 19 points for
Roosevelt to help his team give
Bladensburg its fifth loss in 13
games. AL Hobleman paced
Wilson with % points. while his
teammate, Lonnie Herzbrun. and
Prep's Don Nalty each hit for II.
WI Easily Beats Fairfax.
Westinghouse had an easy
time with Fairfax. The Generals.
playing a preliminary to the
George Washington University
Maryland game. led 40-6 at half
time and finally won, 67-28. Jack
Schilling paced WI with Is
points.
In another college prelimi-
nary, the Georgetown University
freshmen went past st. Johns
in a high-scoring duel, 106-83,
to precede the Georgetown-Penn
State clash. Bill Cowley. with
18, and Jack Walsh, with II, led
the frosh while st. Johns top
point-getters were Frank Haw-
kins, 10; Bob Rusevlyan, II. and
Frank Harding. Is.
Montgomery Blair and Bethes-
da-Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County's biggest schools. met
with mixed success. Blair beat
Annapolis, 51-41, but B-CC was
downed by Coolidge, 55-41.
Moose Turner topped Blair with
13 points as Ralph Rhodes and
Bob Brown shared scoring hon.
ors for Annapolis with 16 points
each. Jerry Sander led Coolidge
with 16 points.
In Negro interhigh action,
Dunbar (6-D kept half game
behind idle Armstrong (6-O in
the league standings by getting
past Spingarn, 48-41, in the Sec
ond game of a double-header.
Phelps (2-5) beat winlesS Car
dozo O-8), 62-56. in the opener.
Billy Graham was high for
Phelps with % points and Edgar
Phoenix topped Dunbar with IA.
Lackey Beats OxOn Hill.
Most of the other high school
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yesterday. Lackey rolled over
Oxon Hill, 82-39: Charlotte Hall
Military Academy beat Surratts-
vile, 54-44: Sherw wood went past
Howard County, 45-37; Gathers
burg edged Poolesville, 54-45:
Frederick Sasscer rolled over
La Plata, 74-52; 1.andon squeezed
past Suitland. SO +31; Northwest
ern defeated DeMatha, $3.50;
Laurel downed st. Paul's, 52-31,
and st. Stephens of Alexandria
won, 71-33, at Rockville.
Dick Lambdin and Floyd Buck
led Lackey with 81 and 20 points,
while Charlotte Halls Cliff Girls
pin made his scoring average Is
points with a 81 point perform
ance. Don Hobbs Is points
topped Sherwood, Donald
Pearre'S free throw in the last
20 seconds won for Gaithersburg
and Bob Rollings paced Sasscer
with rs points.
Landon rallied with is points
in the third period to win as
Howard Phelan and Larry Sui
Ivan took scoring honors with
IS and IA points and Everett
Beavers was high for Suitland
with Is. Bob Baldwin topped
Northwestern with 16 points:
Laurel's Earl Taylor scored "a
to help give st. Paul's it's 18th
straight loss and Russ Holcomb.
g. foot center, paced st.
Stephens with 81 points.
In other games, Priory edged
Friends, 58-57, on AL Smalley's
two foul shots with II seconds
remaining and Mount Vernon
won, $3.50, over National Train
ing School.