Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
Met Tourney Path
Looks Familiar After
TONES and CIV Win
BY Dick sloy

st. Anthony, defending cham
pion in the current Metropolitan
basketball tournament at WASH
ington-Lee High, most likely will
have to knock over the same OPP
ponents as last year to fight its
way to another championship.
The TONES took a step in that
direction last night in the first
round Of the 22d annual tourna-
ment by knocking OF Wilson. the
Interhigh champion, 1868. be-
fore an opening night crowd of
$500 in Campbell Memorial
Gym. The game followed George
Washington's 56-49 victory over
Landon in the opener of the
double header.
The first-round Examinations
continue tonight at WI when
Mount Vernon opposes Gonzaga,
the Catholic League champion.
at 1880 O'clock followed by a
meeting between favored Wash
ington-Lee. the Northern vir-
ginia Group I titlist. and Tech.
the Interhigh runnerup.
CIV Next for TONES.
Wilson was the Interhiph
champion last year. too, when it
ran into st. Anthony, a last-min-
ute substitute team. The TONES
got by Wilson and then whipped
WI in the semifinals and CIV
in the final game to complete its
amazing sweep in the 1853 event.
CIV will be st. Anthony's OPP
ponent in the Semiflnals this
time Thursday at 1880 PM.
and. should the TONES get by the
Presidents the other flnalist is
expected to be Washington-Lee.
thereby duplicating st. An
thongs path to a repeat cham
pionship. There, however. ends
the similarity between the two
tournaments, according to Jack
Bohne. st. Anthony coach.
It was more Of an everything
to gain. nothing to lose" affair
for the TONES a year ago. "We
got in the tournament by mis-
take in the first place last year. +"
Bohne reflected last night. I'VE
didn't expect to beat Wilson
then. but we did anyway. Well.
it was nice while it lasted, now
we get Smeared by W-L,' we
said.
No Pressure Last Year.
But we beat WI, too. We
were relaxed. free and easy, no
pressure. We were still that way
going into the final game with
CIV. What the heck. St.. An
thony had never won any cham
pionship before, and we'd al
ready made a good showing. So
we won the final game.
"It's different now, of course. +"
Bohne explained. There always
is a lot of pressure on the de-
Tending champion.
Asked what was the difference
in last nights game with Wilson,
Bohne replied without any hesi-
tation: 1T was Bill Cassidy. Be-
sides his scoring (33 points, he
did well guarding Lew Luce. Luce
got 80 points. but Bill still did
good job on him. You just
can't hold Luce down, that's all. :"
Cassidy. 5-foot-11 senior,
sank seven points in the first
quarter to pace his team to a
l7-l4 lead and in the meantime
held Luce scoreless for the Pc
Rod. But the Wilson sophomore
got hot after that and dunked
IA points before halftime, which,
combined with more fight under
the boards by Tony Maio. Gene
Girard and Larry Alster. got the
Tigers a 1884 advantage going
into the locker room.
Cassidy Leads Surge.
Cassidy led a 21-point surge
by the TONES in the third quar-
ter with eight points. while Luce
continued to gain on him with
10 of his own. But Charlie Fac
china, Martin Mitchell, Joe Sulli-
van and Harvey Dant all helped
out for a two-point lead going
into the final, $3.50.
Two goals by Luce at the start
of the fourth quarter got Wilson
within two points twice, but the
Tigers never took the lead. On
top at $3.50 with 31a minutes to
go. the TONES went into a freeze
and Wilson fouled the game
away. ST. Anthony made 13 foul
shots. IL in a row, while the
Tigers missed all but two of at
least a dozen shots from the floor.
CasSidy's total of 80 points tied
the tournament record set by
Bob Hampton of Maryland Park
in 1851 and set two new marks
for his school. The previous high
by st. Anthony player was 30
by Jack Sullivan last year. Also
CasSidy'S IL straight free throws
is a new mark in that department
for the school.
In the opening game. Landon,
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