Evening star., 1961-12-16
Cardozo Wins
5th as Cadets
Suffer Isl Loss
BY JIM CAWOOD
Contributing Writer

ketball team will take a three
week Christmas vacation with
a SO record, and the designa-
tion Of favorite when the Inter-
high West Division starts league
play next month.
The Clerks won No. 5 and
handed st. Johns its first loss
in three games, 67-66, last night
at st. Johns. Billy King, who
scored the winning basket Tues
day against Parker-Gray with
20 seconds left, waited until 3
seconds remained to settle last
nights thriller with a 20-foot
Jump shot.
DeMatha waltzed over
Bell, 61-39; Mackin got by
AnacOstia, $3.50; Western
defeated Chamberlain, 57-44;
Parker-Gray won over Dun
bar, 56-48; Roosevelt edged
Carroll, 44-41, and Spingarn
wallOped Douglass of Lees
burg, 108-3S, in other games
involving Interhigh teams.
AS might be suspected. Coach
Frank Bolden of Cardozo
cringes when the word favor
ite" is mentioned, but even he
admits he's more than satisfied
by his teams progress. The
Clerks are a wall-balanced,
hustling team, although they
lack the good big man, and
they showed they could come
from behind last night.
Substitute Dave aney
scored on a jump shot, and
made one of two free throws
with 81 seconds remaining, to
give the Cadets a 66-63 lead.
But Cardozo's Clarence Eggles-
ton hit a long jump to reduce
the margin to a point.
st. Johns had trouble getting
the ball over half court, and
Bob Lewis, trying to hurry his
pass, had it picked off by David
Burns. Burns passed to King.
and the 6-foot senior, who had
made only one goal in 10 pre-
vious attempts, fired the win
ming basket from just to the
right of the foul line.
Eggleston paced Cardozo with
21 points and Jim Petty made
l9, but the high scorer of the
night was Lewis. who accounted
for 80 points. The 6-foot-3 jun
ior made 8 of II attempts from
the floor and converted 16 of
IT free throws to come within
three points of Ralph Hawkins
school record.
DeMATHA-BELL-With ALL
Metropolitan John Austin lead
ing the way. the powerful Stays
romped to their third straight
this season and 29th decision in
their last 80 games. Coach Nor
gan Wootten pulled the first
team with DeMatha holding a
5o-25 lead early in the fourth
quarter.
Austin. who appeared COM
pletely recovered from a knee
operation during the summer,
scored Is points and set up his
teammates for baskets with
plnpoint passes. Gary Ward
contributed IL points to De-
Matthias well-balanced attack.
James Jackson had 20 points
for Bell.
MACKIN ANACOSTIA -
Sharpshooter Butch Braxton
scored 20 points in leading
Mackin to its third victory in
five games. Braxton hit a field
goal at the end of the third
period to put Mackin ahead
for keeps. 40-39. Dick Ansher
dropped in 20 points for the
Indians.
CHAMBERLAIN WESTERN
The Raiders. leading all the
way and paced by Harry Brock
enberry 17 points, and Jeff
O'Neal t16 points, brought
their record to 2-2. Chamber
lain Is Ia for the season.
PARKER GRAY DUNBAR
james Lewis got % of his
28-point total in the first half
as the Bulldogs brought their
record to 80. Dunbar, now 81,
was paced by Larry Ford, who
had 16 points.
ROOSEVELT CARROLL =
Boyce Smiths field goal pulled
Roosevelt into a 41-41 tie and
then Calvin Alexander sank
three free throws, one on a
technical foul, to give the
Riders their third victory in
four games. Alexander led
Roosevelt's fourth quarter
drive, scoring eight of his II
points. 1t was Carroll's fourth
straight loss.
SPINGARN DOUGLASS
(Vao-Four players hit in
double figures for Spingarn, led
by David Bing'S 81 points, as
the Green Wave went over the
century mark for the first time
in routing the Leesburg team.