Evening star., 1955-01-15
Chamberlain Slopes
Hf by Armstrong;
spingarn Surprises
By piek sIoy
IE!EEHEoH LEAGgE sTAEDMeg.

Chamberlain Vocational High,
trying TO rthe second straight
year to match Bell as the Gin
sderella club Of the Interhigh
Basketball League. stumbled
hard yesterday over its highest
hurdle Of the young league sea-
son.
Armstrong outgunned the
Volts from every angle, 62-40,
In an afternoon game at Spin
garn involving two Of the East
Divisions leaders. In a night
uouble-header at Tech Ana
costa beat Eastern. 1880, to
keep abreast Of the Generals
and Spingarn surprised Tech in
Its league opener. 58-51. to slip
into third place in the stand
@ings.
Another afternoon game at
Roosevelt saw the Riders dump
defending champion Wilson,
55-46, In the only West Division
contest. The West side plays
two more tonight at Tech, when
Bell meets Dunbar at 1880 and
sCardozo takes on Coolidge in
the night cap.
Chamberlain Coach Means.
Ed Crawford, the Chamberlain
coach, takes nothing away from
his opponent yesterday, but still
believes everything went wrong
with his club.
my big man (6-foot-5 Gene
,White) couldn't do anything"
Crawford pointed out. Hes
been averaging 10 points q game
and what did he do today?
when we beat Coolidge, they
told us we had the best defen-
siye club they'd seen. Today I'd
say We didn't have any defense
Mt all"
! White scored only 5 points
and had almost as frustrating
% time fighting for rebounds
with three jumping Jacks named
Charlie jenkins. Bob Green and
Orenzie Hooks.
Sharpsh0oters Get Loose.
Chamberlin used a loose man
to-man defense while trying to
drop back to guard Jenkins In
the post. That left Willie Woods.
George Bailey. George Dill and
Hooks free on the outside too
often and they hit with good
percentage.
Woods scored four times in
four shots before halftirne and
finished with IA points. Jen-
kins, whose slim build stretches
his 6-foot-3 height, got the ball
enough to score 81 points, IL Of
them In the third quarter when
Armstrong widened the gap
from 24-18 to 47-30. Hooks
finished with IL.
Tony Maio. q transfer from
Wilson's Division / champions
or last year. was doing the best
lob under the boards for the
Volts but had to be used SPAR
ingly because Of personal fouls
and heflnally fCuled out early In |
the fourth quarter.
,@Maio got 8 points, second
In that department to Sonny
Lindamood. who kept pace with
the fast : breaking Generals
until he sank Is points for
Chamberlain.
It Is natural to compare
Chamberlain with last year.
when 1t was a big noise with an
early season winning streak.
Things turned bad for the Volts
as the schedule progressed, how
ever. and they missed the play
offs.
Crawford. who feels he has a
better first five this time but
not as much depth. hopes the
swapping Of his six-game win
ming streak yesterday does not
spell the same fate in 1866.
"I'll guarantee you one thing.
though; this Armstrong team
will be in the piayoffs," Craw-
ford added.
Roosevelt used It's height, par
ticularly Ken Ericsson, Demetre
Koutras and Charles Feather
stone, to throttle Wilson and
Dick Preziotti hit for 18 points
for the Riders.
Tech Again Peters Ont.
Tech for the second week in
Q row, sagged in the waning
stages of the fourth quarter to
) lose In overtime before 1900 fans
In the nightcap Of a double
header at Tech.
In the first game, unbeaten
Anacostia scored its eighth VIC
tory In Interhigh play by running
away from Eastern.
Calvin Knott and Bob john
son led the Indians with IL
points each and DON Rhine
chipped In with IL.
Tony Washington Of Spingarn,
who almost became the goat"
by missing a technical foul shot
with two seconds to 60 in regu-
lation time, instead wound up
the hero by hitting for six Of
his teams eight points In over
time.
Staked to q seven-point lead
with five minutes to 60 by Sharp
shooting Bob Bolen, whose 2l
points were high for the night.
and by Tony DiChiacchio. Tech
saw its advantage disappear just
as against Armstrong last week.
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