Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-28
HornetsEdged
81-77 for B.
Cinder Grown

Vuh0SA VHVVH
Saturdays Maryland
State Championship Track
Meet started in sunshine and
ended in rain but the moods
OF Coach Jim Davis and his
B-CC squad must have fol-
lowed just the opposite pat
ern as the Barons won the
Class A meet with a surge
of late foot.
North Carroll High School
scored heavily in the pole vault
to beat out Damascus 81.77 in
the Class B segment of the big
A-B-C championships at the Uni
versity of Maryland. Damascus
did not enter any pole vaulters.
The Hornets finished fourth
= last year and their near miss
this year is all the more praise
worthy because they have had
no track to practice on.
1t was the second state cham
plonship of the school year for
B-CC and trippled with the Bar
ons No. l Washington Metropol.
itan football rating, the meet
capped the Bethesda schools
greatest year in athletics. B-CC
also won the state basketball
championship in February.
B-CC has. finished second
three times and third once in the
big meet.
B-CC rolled up go points but
had to scramble to heavy scor-
ing in five of the last six events
to edge second place Northwood
who piled up SO points. Other
Montgomery County schools
placed high. Blair finished
fourth with "a points and Wal
ter johnson, last years runner
up, finished fifth with 301a
points. Only Fort Hill of Cum
berland broke into Montgom.
ery's bid to sweep the top places.
Fort Hill scored 81 7/8 points to
finish third.
Abrahams Top Scorer
Louis Abrahams of Damascus
ran off with the individual scor-
ing honors for the big meet with
% points. Louis won the class B
100 in los, placed second in the
shot with a put of 43 feet and
placed fourth in the discus with
a throw of 119 feet.
Young Abrahams, an ALL
County BASKETBALL. selection, got
off his worst toss of the year in
the discus. He had set a county
class B record of 1877 2" five
days earlier.
Northwood jumped off to an
early lead in the morning
events. The Indians, beaten out
by the whiskers for the Bi.
County basketball crown by
B-CC, led the Barons 1920
through the field events. At 4
o'clock with the meet seven
hours old, B-CC forged ahead
for the first time at 1856 as
Paul White and Lee Malloy fin.
ished second and fifth in the
440-yard dash. The Barons then
racked up A points in the $50,
440, and mile relays and the $50
run to pull away. Northwood
finished second in both the $50
and 440 relays and fourth in
the mile relay.
Billy Grey of Walter John.
son scored IS points but not be-
fore he was beaten in the 100
for the second time of his career
by Eric Wowra of Bladensburg.
Grey beat Wowra twice pre-
viously this year. His only other
100 loss was as sophomore to
a Splinter from Landon school.
He won the state 100 last year.
Perhaps the most exciting
race of the day was the 440
spring relay where Bob Coherd
of B-CC nipped anchor man Ron
ME Beard of Northwood in a
stretch duel
Sherwood Boys All Score
Sherwood Coach Toni Auritti
had one of the best averages for
the meet as all five of his en-
tries IN the class B segment
scored. Sandy Spring school fin
ished fifth with 81 points.
Sherwood took one-two in the
220 as Tony Shanks and Ronnie
Purcell raced each other to the
wire. The Sherwood 440 yard
relay Of Dick Marcionette, John
Davis, Shanks and Purcell fin
ished second behind North
Carol. Purcell also placed third
In the broad jump and Bob Pack
finished fourth in the $50 run.
Damascus had four firsts be-
sides Abrahams' 100. Arthur
johnson won the mile In 4:49.4,
James King tied for the high
Jump at s. 6" and the $50 relay
team Of Bob Stup, Leonard King,
Frank Grimes and Frank Rice
won in 1915. Woodie Ward
placed second in the 440 dash
and the mile relay team of
Kemp, King, Pat Duvall and
Ward alao nlacad eacond nov