Evening star., 1954-01-08
Two Double Headers
Today and Tonight
Open Inferhigh Slate

Vpen lnIernlgn 9ldIe
The eyes Of the scholastic bas-
ketball world are on Chamber
lain this afternoon as the sur
prising Volts. unbeaten in seven
starts. run into Roosevelt. but
the bill Of fare tonight offers
several other attractions. Three
other leagues open round-robin
play and an inter-league double
header will be played at WASH
ington-Lee High.
Following the ell-Western and
Chamberlain Roosevelt games
this afternoon the Interhigh Di-
vision u League closes out its
opening-day program with an
other double-header at Tech.
Anacostia meets Wilson at 1880
o'clock and Coolidge faces Tech
at about 8:45.
Half the teams in the Catholic
League open their league seasons
tonight at Carroll High. st An
thony, Metropolitan champion
last year and winner Of three of
four outings SO far, is favored to
beat Georgetown Prep in the
opener at z o'clock but the night
cap between Priory and Carroll
looks like a tossup. Carroll won
a previous meeting of the two but
since has dropped three straight
games. Priory showed signs of
Improvement by trouncing st.
Stephens.
Suitland Is at Bladensburg
and Montgomery Blair travels to
Northwestern IN the opening
games of the Maryland BIZ
County League campaign to-
night.
Double Header at Spingarn.
| Division II of the Interhigh
League will get under way with
double-header at Spingarn.
Phelps plays the host team at
2 o'clock and Armstrong, again
favored to win the. champion
ship. faces Cardozo in the Sec
ond game
Mount Vernon which defeated
Fairfax. 60-44, in December,
plays Fairfax again tonight at
Fairfax.
Among more than a dozen
non-league games, the big at
traction appears to be at Wash
ington-Lee High tonight when
Eastern opens its season by TAX
ing on the undefeated Generals.
Coach Bobby Hart's Ramblers
will be facing WI club that
hasn't yet recovered from the
loss of Doug Watson. who was
dropped from the team this
week for breaking training rules.
Jim Woodbridge, 6-foot-4 pivot
man who sprained his ankle last
Monday. is not expected to play
for the Generals.
| Coach Pessimistic.
| WI had an easy time against
Eastern last year, winning, At
36. but Coach John Rothrock is
not his usual confident self
when looking to tonight's en-
| counter. This year may be
different when our two big
losses are fully realized" Roth
rock said. referring to the alb
sence of Watson and Woodbridge.
! Eastern has impressed Hart in
its workouts so far and at least
one other District coach has
spoken in glowing terms of the
Ramblers.
Hart will lose first-stringers
Graham Pennington and Gino
D'Ambrosio in February. but un-
til then the Ramblers figure to be
tough. The other starters are
Bob tTunafish) Ellis, Joe McHan
and Jimmy Stephens.
In a preliminary to the W-L-
Eastern game. Wakefield will
play the undefeated WI junior
varsity squad.
The scholastic schedule tomor-
row finds Episcopal opening its
season by entertaining Landon.
Bulls travelling to Annapolis to
meet the Navy plebes and Co
lumbar Prep playing the George
Washington University freshman
team at CIV.
In games yesterday, Bulls
rolled to an easy 66-46 victory
over Coolidge at Coolidge. Steve
Madreperla hit for 81 points,
high for Bulls. Bob Wondrack' S
13 points were high for Coolidge.
Kenneth Marshall scored 35
points for Fairmont Heights
High. but couldn't prevent his
team from dropping a 69-65
game to Dunbar of Baltimore at
Baltimore. Gardozo jayvees.
trailing 21-16 at halftime, rallied
to defeat Dunbar jayvees, 1874,
at Cardozo.
The complete schedule:
To-day.
Dunbar at Fairmont Heights. I.
Bell vs.. Western at Tech, 3:l5
Friends at Richard Montgomerv. $40.
Chamberlain VS.. Roosevelt at Tech 4:45
| laurel at Frederick Sasscer. z.
| Glen Burnie at Lackey. T.
! Wakefield at Washington-Leej jayvees, T.
Gaithersburg at Damascus. T.
st. Anthony VS.. Georgetown Prep al
Carroll, Z.
oxon Hill at surrattsville. ESQ
Charlotte Hall at Sherwood. T:I5
| Anacostia vs., Wilson at Tech, 1:30.
Phelps at Spingarn, 7:30
George Mason at Nokesville, 40.
| Suitland at Bladensburg. 7:30.
| Montgomery Blair at Northwestern, 3
Mackin VS.. Capitol Pages at Wilson
Poolesville at Maryland School for
ST. Stephens at Herndon, 8.
Thomas Jefferson OF Richmond at