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Evening star., 1961-12-28
BY STEVE HERSHEY
star Staff Writer

Bob Lewis of st. Johns and
Ron Ullrich Of O'Connell will
resume their scoring duel to-
night in the feature game of
the O'Connell Christmas bas-
ketball tournament. but the
key man may be O'Connell's
Pat Pomphrey.
Pomphrey, a 6-foot-2 senior,
has been a hot and cold per-
former for Coach Bob Rusevl-
yam for the past two seasons. He
played one of his better games
last night in the knights 77-52
victory over st. Stephens, scor-
ing IA points and grabbing 13
rebounds.
The game was the last Of
four at the O'Connell gym and
drew the lions share of the
crowd of 1900 that came and
went during the evening.
Evening star., 1961-12-28
Konguroos Face
Bustien, Apollo in
Capitol Feature

A tag team match between
the Australian Kangaroos and
Red Bastien and Argentina
Apollo will feature the wrest-
ling program tonight at Capitol
Arena. The first bout is at 8
o'clock, half an hour earlier
than usual.
In two other big matches,
Don Curtis grapples with Mr..
Sato, and Baba The Giant takes
on Carlos Milano.
Kostas Papalazaros faces
Tony Altimore, Miguel Perez
tackles ;+1:, Albano, Bruno
Sammartino wrestles Fred At
kins and The Mighty Atlas en-
cages Gregory Jarpue in other
bouts.
Evening star., 1961-12-28
Schorff, Only 5-Foot-5,
Biz Man for Generals

player for the Generals. Coach
Morris Levin also rates him "an
excellant driver" on offense.
Working on Set Shot
Richie currently is working
on tWo-hand set shot, realiz-
ing that the Generals need a
threat from the outside to take
some of the pressure off Hum
mer, Sutton and Hodgdon.
Oddly, defense had been a
problem with the cat-like
ncharff until this year. Coach
Levin reports Richie was we'll
schooled in fundamentals before
coming to WI but was weak on
defense.
He had to build the con-
fidence in himself that he
could play with the big boys"
Levin said. There is little doubt
Evening star., 1961-12-28
BY CARL SELL
Star Staff Writer

Little Richie Scharff stands
out like sore thumb on WASH
ingtonTLee High Schools bas-
ketbalr team. but it isn't all
because of his size.
Scharff, a 5-foot-5 senior, is
dwarfed by the rest of the Gen
erals starting five but when it
comes to handling a basketball,
he is equal to anyone on the
court.
The Generals high-scoring
front line consists of Ed Hum
mer, 6-6, Bob Sutton, 6-5, and
Ray Hodgdon, ga. In the back
court with Scharff is Bob
Baughan, a six-footer.
Scharff, who started playing
basketball when he was eight,
is an outstanding defensive
Evening star., 1961-12-28
O'Conne|| St. Johns Clash
In Feature Of Cage Quincy

at the half and never were
pressed in remaining unde-
feated in five games this sea-
son.
Landon had to come on strong
In the final period to defeat
winless Gonzaga In the Sec
ond game. The Bears held a
36-32 lead at the end Of the
third quarter, but Randy poore
and Bo Berger began hitting
on jumpers and the Bears
pulled away.
John Himmelberg and Lou
Rubino led the smaller Eagles
with II points each.
Evening star., 1961-12-28

SurrattSville. The Hornets, an
annual power among smaller
Maryland schools, already have
scored three victories over Class
AA teams.
Vaughan graduated from
Western Maryland College last
year. He didn't play varsity
basketball in his senior year
at the Westminster school,
choosing instead to coach the
St. Johns High School team
there.
The Alexandria City Coun-
Gil will stage dedication cere-
mony at 8 pm. January 8 at
the new Jack Tulloch Mem
orial gymnasium at George
Washington High School. Be
sides being an avid sportsman,
Tulloch was a vice mayor in
Alexandria.
Coach Joe Gallagher of st.
Johns, now armed with a
spacious new gymnasium, has
hopes that the Catholic League
will be able to find a stadium
of sufficient size to handle the
crowds the schools draw each
fall.
Joe reports that st. Johns
discussed the possibility of
buying some of the seats at
Griffith Stadium and INSTALL
ing them at the Cadets field.
However, with a new school
and gym already on the books,
the seats are a little out of
reach at the moment.
Gallagher is highly pleased
with the new gym at st. Johns,
pointing out that all of the
Cadets athletic teams now have
suitable quarters. In addition,
Joe has a sprawling new Of
flee, a far cry from, the days
when he did most Of his work
sitting at a desk in the halls
of the main school.
&M&
Mount Vernon High School
officially has retired basket
ball uniform No. so made ia
nous the last two years by
All-Metropolitan Marty Lentz.
Coach Mike Skinner, Lentz and
hletic director, retired the uni
form to the trophy case during
ceremonies last week.
\
Duke University has plucked
another plum for area high
school sports in John Carlo of
George Mason. Carlo, q hard
running tailback on the foot
ball field, also is a good stu
dent. He gets some prodding
in that department from his
father, Joe, who is the prime
ipal at Washington's Ballou
High School.
Duke lately has concentrated
on Washington area scholas-
tic stars. and among those
doing well at the North Caro-
lima school are Fullback Mike
Curtis, two-time All-Metropoli-
tan from Richard Montgomery,
and Jay Buckley, the 6-foot-
10 basketball center from Blad-
ensburg.
Wrestling, believe it or not,
is beginning to challenge bask-
etbal as a drawing card in
area schools. Washington Lee
and Wakefield drew about l.
200 for a match last week and
the Maryland schools consiS-
tently have large turnouts for
their matches.
Maryland played 1t smart
in educating the students to
support wrestling, holding the
matches as preliminaries to
basketball games. The strategy
paid off, for the mat sport is
beginning to show a profit each
year in many Of the schools.
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Evening star., 1961-12-28

son, is off to a fast start with
a 15-point average so far this
year. Sutton and Hodgdon also
are top-flight players and all
three cash in many times on
baskets after setup passes from
Scharff.
Although Richie doesn't
score much, he keeps the other
team on its toes looking for the
little man driving right under
meath the big boys for a layup.
He'll fool the big boys, on the
other team of course, any time
he gets a chance.
Evening star., 1961-12-28

Totals 2S 81 ~ Totals l6 20 ):
Halftime: 4l-2T, O'Connell.
Evening star., 1961-12-28


associations have gone all out to
insure a success.
Trophies will be presented
to the first, second and third
place teams, with gold balls for
each member of the winning
team and silver ones for the
Second-place finiShers.
In addition. a sportsman
ship trophy will be awarded,
plaques will go to the all-tourn-
ament team, an award to the
team and individual with the
most free throws. A most valu-
able player also will be selected
and the winning coach will re-
ceive a trophy.
RuSevlyan, who coaches foot
ball and basketball and serves
as athletic director at O'Con-
nell. says he plans to invite
some of the top scholastic
teams in the East during the
years to come.
However, he realizes the lin
itations of the tourney, point
ing out that the caliber of
play probably never will rival
that of the knights of Colum-
bus tournament each March
at Georgetown. This is because
the teams are just starting the
season when the O'Connel!
tourney will be played each
year.
Bob Vaughan, who played his
high school basketball at Cool
idge, is turning in a good job
in his first year as coach at
Evening star., 1961-12-28

st. Johns advanced with an
1854 triumph over Towson
Catholic, Good Counsel
trounced Calvert Hall. STAB,
and Landon defeated Gonzaga,
50-38.
Evening star., 1961-12-28
CIV and Hoyas
Back in Action
AT Richmond
BY DICK SLAY
star Staff Writer

COacneS tommy Okeefe and
Bill Reinhart found no basket
ball surprises under the tree
Christmas Day, but what Santa
Claus forgot Monday morning
their teams at Georgetown and
George Washington could pro-
vide later this week.
Actually. a two-game sweep
by either club in the Richmond
1nvitational Tournament to-
morrow and Saturday should
not surprise anyone. 1t would,
however, be a pleasant fillip
to the holiday season for both.
Georgetown is favored and
has drawn the host and de-
Tending champion, the Univers-
ity Of Richmond, as opening
game opponent at 7:30 pm.
tomorrow at Richmond Arena.
CIV plays Virginia Military at
9:15.
Saturdays final games will
begin at the same times, with
the championship affair as
signed the later hour. The likely
title opponents are the Colonials
and Hoyas.
Lost Last Games
All four entrants come into
the tournament having lost
their most recent games. In
Georgetown's case. the 1918 de-
feat at Manhattan almost two
weeks ago was its only loss in
five games. The boys are hun
CRY to get back on the winning
side" says Coach O'Keefe.
aGW's last outing was a 71-68
shocker against Richmond in
this same Richmond Arena.
That was the Spiders only VIC
tory In eight games so far.
They lost three games last week
alone and haven't been closer
than IL points to any of their
conquerors.
VMI also has won only one
game, but has played just four,
the. most recent a 105-85 lacing
at CIV exactly two weeks ago
tonight.
Reinhart doesn't think he
will have any difficulty getting
his team enthused for a re-
match with the Keydets.
Reinhart Explains
The upset at Richmond IL
days ago was easily explained.
I'VE just stood around; no
body wanted to move" Rein
hard informs. I'VE had played
pretty fair against VMI (two
nights earlier) and then we
didn't get out of the clouds.
You have to learn that the
team you're playing is the best
in the country that night.
There's no such thing as a
pushover."
CIV still is trying to over
come the pattern of losing all
its away games. The Colonials
have won all three at home for
a 3-3 record.
Capt. Paul Tagliabue missed
the Manhattan game because
Of a Rhodes Scholarship in
terview and John Kraljic
sprained an ankle near the fin
ish, but Georgetown's chief rea-
son for the lone defeat was
the "a personal fouls COM
mitted.
Twelve, OKeefe says, were of
fensive fouls and six baskets
were nullified by the calls.
Our team is too smart to
commit fouls like that" Tom
insists.
Kraljic still is favoring the
ankle and is a doubtful start
er. However. return Of the g.
foot-5 Tagliabue will be a great
help on the offensive back
boards.
Evening star., 1961-12-28
Brown, Ortiz Paired

TAMPA, Fla, Dec. % (AP).-
Lightweight CHI ampion Joe
Brown will meet top contender
Carlos Ortiz in a title fight at
Las Vegas February "a. Browns
manager. Lou Viscusi, an
nounced last night. a
Evening star., 1961-12-28
WITH THE
HIGH SCHOOLS
By CARL SELL

Judging from the prize list for the first OConnel High
School nvtaonal basketball tournament progress
the Arlington school, Coach Bob Rusevyan will little
trouble finding entrants in future years
Rusevyan, who hopes the tourney will develop into
annual attraction the during the Christmas holidays
Evening star., 1961-03-01
The Professors Avoid Pitfalls

is Prof. Walt Rostow, late Of
Massachusetts, Institute Of
Technology, and he will IL
lustrate the point. AS a White
House adviser, he has much
on his plate - including the
Congo, the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization. the
foreign aid program. But
when you talk to him you
find no knee-jerk profess
Sional liberalism" no eager,
dogmatic saver Of this world
by tomorrow morning at
1922.
You find a man who cheer,
fully accepts two epigrams.
One is that when you are not
in power you can afford much
grand rhetoric, but when you
are in power you must cut
your talk to fit the cast Of
reality. The other is that
while reformers can do many
things, they can't do them
all at one, and shouldn't.
You can't, so to speak, raise
the minimum wage and free
Tom Mooney" all at once.
(Mooney, while imprisoned
in California half a genera
ton ago as a laborite bomber,
was a special martyr to the
professional liberalism Of
that periodO
Evening star., 1961-03-01
Education and Bad Politics

been an accepted fact Of life.
Many in the Congress
would welcome a court test
which quickly would settle
the issue. It certainly Is not
constitutional to use tax
money. collected from all the
people, on q discriminatory
basis. Perhaps a White House
directive can solve the di-
lemma Of these men in the
Congress.
The spectacle Of Senator
Byrd and those who stand
with him in unreasoning fear
and prejudice is really one Of
the saddest In our national
politics. One does not grow
angry about it. One is made
sad. The need Is 80 great.
Only education can provide
freedoms margin Of victory
in the great contest with
communism.
Einstein once said, "Poli-
tics Is more difficult than
physics" The world, he said,
is more likely to die Of bad
politics than bad physics.
And certainly no southern
State and few others will be
able to acquire what Mr..
Darden so truly says we must
have without Federal aid.
The symbol of Senator
Byrd'S mo" to such aid is
bad politics for his State
and the Nation, however
good it may be for him.
Clarity Of thought, in the
midst of change, is desper-
ately needed.
Evening star., 1961-03-01
A Blow Against Communists


pose Of these congressional
investigations is to expose
the espionage and subversive
activities Of the whole Com
muniSt apparatus in the
United States. Loyal Ameri-
can citizens are expected to
cooperate with their own
Government in all its
branches. The Communists
have stolen atomic. secrets.
They have at times infil-
trated the departments in
Washington. The Supreme
Court in the past has taken
the. view that it isn't a right
Of free speech" falsely to cry
"Fire!" in q crowded theater.
Nor does the "free speech"
clause of the Constitution
give anyone immunity from
an investigation to determine
whether he belongs to q party
that is financed by. insti-
gated by. and often directed
by a foreign. government
which is seeking to damage
the United States and pos
sihly to bring on q war.
Justice Black argues that
editors and newsmen who
have criticized o congress
sional committee now could
be brought before that same
committee and punished for
refusing to answer questions.
But whenever there is basis
for SuSpecting that a news
paperman is paid by or work.
ing for an enemy government,
he shouldn't be able to claim
immunity under the First
Amendment, either.
The House Committee on
Un-American Activities Is
under attack these days by
so-called liberals" who will
be encouraged now by the
dissenting opinions Of the
Supreme Court to carry on
their campaign to curtail, If
not abolish, the work Of the
House committee and also Of
the Senate Internal Security
Subcommittee. But the de-
tenders Of Americas safety
against the Com munist
enemy will find an irrefu-
table argument in the two
opinions rendered this week
by Justices Stewart, Clark.
Frankfurter, Harlan and
Whitaker.
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Evening star., 1961-03-01
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Republican Party's in dilemma in its search for
new leader partys basicay conservative 1t views
with suspicion who's both Republican and popular
Secretary RuSk ambassadors to learn
the language Of the country Prize of the foreign service
the envoy who learned Yankee Go Home in is tongues
Living down in January for the first time In
year. That's the way it is in recession Even some prices
60 begging.
One careful Washington observer has finally diagnosed
his vague feeling of resentment against the New Frontier
already older than Kennedy will be after eight
years office. l
Small fry dictionary: Longtude-The other one Of those
two things out in the ocean
The White House demands more taxes on trucks to
finance the highway Rear-end truck sticker Heavy
duty truck-in ways than one.
Evening star., 1961-03-01
WILLIAM S. WHITE

One hardy stereotype-the
cliche that "the wild-eyed
professors" would surely be
the first to embarrass Presi-
dent Kennedy-is dead be-
fore the administration is
two months in office. 1t just
has not been so.
Another equally hardy
stereotype was that anyhow
the President would be saved
from professional folly by
the professional politicians in
his shop. The pros on the
whole have done well. But
there is one glaring excep-
ton - though this corre-
spondent, as a pro-politician
writer who has held the live
liest suspicion Of academies
in public life, regrets he must
report it.
The one official Of the
Kennedy administration who
has thus far plainly embar-
raSsed 1t is q professional
politician, former Gov. Men
men williams Of Michigan.
His behavior in his current
African tour, as Assistant
Secretary of State for Afri-
can Affairs, has been almost
incredibly irresponsible.
In that tragically en-
broiled continent, where any
official has the plainest duty
to walk with care, he has
gone about on . demogogue's
holiday. 1t is as though he
saw the whole problem as
crudely simple as trying to
catch Negro votes in Detroit.
He has offended our major
Allies. notably Britain, by
passing harsh, off-the-cuff
judgments on matters neither
his business nor remotely
within his competence. His
warmest friends could hardly
Evening star., 1961-03-01

Secretary Of State Rusk
has left with the Senate For
eign Relations Committee
the firm impression that the
current uproar over his nu-
clear arms policy is but an
other chapter id the long
history Of bureaucratic war
fare at the Pentagon.
He reviewed with the COM
mittee q wide range Of prob
lens, including his purported
shift from the Eisenhower
massive retaliation" stance
to a big buildup Of conven-
tiona1 forces. The Rusk views
were contained in a secret
report to Defense Secretary
Mcnamara and several YER
sions have reached print.
Mr.. RuSk is understood to
have made the point that
only summaries had been
leaked to reporters, none of
them strictly accurate. He
emphasized that all such pol
icy questions are in the dis
cussion stage only.
Asked how the new Secre-
tary handled himself under
fire, q Democrat present re-
called with q grin that Mr..
Rusk was a combat veteran
Of "the bad old days" when
forces led by the late Sena-
tor Mccarthy were trumpet
ing the Acheson demon the
ory Of why China was lost
to the Communists. Mr.. Rusk
was then Assistant Secretary
Evening star., 1961-03-01
Secretary Called an Old Hand
In Crossfire of Dead Cats

Of State for the Far East and
directly in the line Of fire
for the dead cats.
The same experience quail
ified him as an expert in the
ways and means by which
the bureaucrats pursue their
special goals In an internal
war as savage in its way as
armed conflict. His explana-
tions had that plausibility
which politicians readily rec.
ognize and tend to accept
when they know the witness.
Even so, the Secretary's
dampening Of the fire Of
nuclear arms debate can be
only temporary. 1t is q criti-
cal area, and men of good
will and great experience
differ fiercely on what can
and should be done.
The Rusk paper. whatever
its actual contents. conveyed
to some people who saw it
the impression that the ad-
ministration had change in
mind. Mere disclaimers that
the discussion is provisional
and Kennedy policy still to
be set do not settle anything;
they only make the sup
porters Of opposing views
the more determined to be
heard.
The President is tempor-
izing while he learns and
studies to decide. He has con-
tinued the Eisenhower ces-
Evening star., 1961-03-01
Senator Byrd's Opposition to U. S. Aid
Held Inin1icoI to His State and Nation

parent awarenesS of the
changes produced by a con-
stantly burgeoning popula-
ton concentrated more and
more in an urban society.
1t is a far cry from the
pastoral peace Of the apple
orchards to the modern in
dustria1 State which Mr..
Darden declares must have
adequate skills to survive.
Senator Byrd is against
Federal aid to education, on
the equitable basis Of pupil
attendance and per capita
income. because, he fears,
some day in the unknowable
future State schools may be
required to accept the con-
stitutional guarantees and
the orders Of courts. One
wants to respect the thought
process Of the Senator who
will, If he can. deprive mil
lions Of American children
Of q first rate school system
and the skills necessary for
competency and a fuller life
which Mr.. Darden seeks. But
Senator Byrd makes it. diff
cult.
There is posed, by Senator
Byrd's opposition, q problem
for all Southern congress
sional members. They acute
ly are aware their own State
school systems are not ade-
quate. OF the 13 States which
would profit most under the
Kennedy formula, nine are in
the Southeast. Among the
States which also would be
greatly assisted is Virginia.
Most Southern Congress
men and Senators dread the
day when they will be re-
quired to vote against the
children Of their State in
order to sustain old fears and
prejudices. There will be no
voice raised in denial Of Mr..
Darden's thesis. It long has
Evening star., 1961-03-01
RALPH McGLL

Within the span Of "a
hours, two Of Virginia's best
known names are in the
news. Senator Harry F. Byrd
opposed the Kennedy plan
for aiding education because
Of q probability that Con-
gress eventually may require
desegregation in States which
accept Federal funds.
A few hours after the Sem
ator made his position known,
Virginia's former governor,
Colgate W. Darden, spoke at
Union College, Schenectady,
N. Y. His major theme was
that the South needs a first
rate school system. THE
skills required by a modern
industrial State cannot take
root in a population plagued
with illiteracy we need
q first-rate school system
primarily because 1t
makes for competency and q
richer and fuller life for each
individual"
It is easy to understand
Mr.. Darden. There is no flaw
in his conclusion, Senator
Byrd is different. The Byrd
organization has given Vir-
ginia honest State govern
ment. 1t does not tolerate
the rascals so familiar in the
expensive wastes Of public
money ip other States, par
ticularly in some Of the Old
Dominion's neighbors to the
South.
The Virginia Senator grows
good apples. He is a man of
complete personal integrity.
But while one may respect
these qualities, it is difficult
to admire the almost COM
plete negative quality Of his
record as a Senator. His
Senate career has consisted
largely of saying no" It
assuredly has lacked innova-
tion, imagination or any ap-
Evening star., 1961-03-01
DORIS FLEEsON ..''
Rusk Explains Arms Leak

sation Of 'nuclear testing
without controls in favor Of
one last big try for . dis
armament agreement. The
trouble with this, In the eyes
Of many men Of expe-
rience. Is that the months
roll by with disarmament
seeming to come no closer
and with no assurance that
the Russians actually have
ceased their own nuclear
testing.
In leaking the supposed
content Of the Rusk memo
randum to Mr.. Mcnamara
Pentagon officials are in q
sense sounding the alarm.
They can be expected to fight
any remuneration Of the pos
sible use Of nuclear weapons
in any war until disarmament
Is an established fact. Many
also now itch to resume test
ing and they have important
civilian support.
The voices most important
to the President are those Of
his own White House ad-
visers. and this is true Of
nuclear matters. Since these
voices are not part Of the
normal bureaucratic ex-
changes between departments
and agencies, interested par
ties tend to get very nervous
at any and all reports about
presidential policy. But they
cannot crack the privileged
communication" between the
President and his staff nor
can Congress though It has
often tried.