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Race for Class AA Championship Quickly Develops Into Photo Finish Spartans Spring Into First Place Walter Johnson’s Spartans swept into a tie for first place in the Montgomery County Class AA title race with North wood last weekend, by defeat ing the Wheaton Knights, 65- 57, as the Indians lost to B-CC. After a close first half that culminated in the Spartans leading by a one point margin at the half, 25-24, the WJ quin tet got moving and widened the gap as the game wore on in the last two quarters. Ted Wilson and Joe Fair banks connected in the second half on the majority of their shots and wound up as top scorers for the victors with 17 and 15 points, respectively. Boswell was the top man in the point department for the losers with 15. It was the eagle eye shooting of the Spartans at the foul line that won the contest for them, as WJ picked up 21 of its 65 points on charity tosses. Whea ton outscored the victors in the field goal department, connect ing for 25 FGs as compared to 22 for WJ. Walter Johnson Is now faced with the task of taking on the Northwood Indians tomorrow Poolesville Wins Poolesville defeated Damas cus last Friday night, 63-53, in a contest at Damascus. Ed Sewell and Gene Hamilton set the pace for the Indians with 17 and 15 points In that order. dHk. '^iß^BA 'Ww&EwL' ,j*. m i' * -> *^B j^bK M J • - ~- ' ' 'fr^^CrßMHjjl P*vrn* : * ••- - On the left. Barclay Dorman of B-OC and Soot MkDouibl (right) of North wood vie for the hall under the Barons’ basket. On the right, three Barons (In center, left to right), Tom Walsh, Ronnie Loewenthal (35) and Bryant Agnew (11) grab one of their Peary Loses 1 cdcc Bob Westwood sparked Ein- HU—/ l'*dw stein to a 49-34 victory over .jfcr- —. - * •> Peary last weekend with 16 s | ||f Pf D points, while teammates Tom ' ’— '—■ - I MI I lfl Hopkins and Dick Richards fCMA DDADI r"||J| a j scored 12 and 10 points in that rllV/PLIIIVI GBt 3 order for the victors. m l|Mp Peary’s scoring was led by with lovely Terry Kilpatrick with 11 mark- j" ftfa nn..,, ers. 3 J j 8 j rtOSe thatt kept the Peary quintet Suburban I—|1 —| | ! Romance” from beneath the basket moot _ ■ i; ~-J Phstham of the evening, Dynaire wnatnafli , Qam Clothes Dryer Blanket ROCKMONT nnlu tl7q * 11095 Stmso, r —| only *1 #3. - *l9.® *>wn when VD|| ) I and no monthly payments until April 1, j| * J J 1963 with 36 month* to pay. DUV 3 Pllllf Rfll IT J Ejttra Bonus-No charge for delivery, C.ihiirhan vnCVniILCI / connection to Suburban Propane gas sHtOUrUdll TMCMOMeof \ service, vent kit or venting—a $25 to S4O CKvmtnl \ °y na,rß CHEVYM 1 f(W)\ For f P ore • nformation wrlte P* loo6 Hrypr poduiid I v ) I stop in at suburban propane before I 1 —— 1 GAS CORPORATION * nri , * 5930 Haipine Road |h„ f:■ W * | r° R artsL I j night, as league competition swings into the next to last week of play. The winner of the meeting tomorrow night will be the odds-on favorite for the county championship un less an unexpected upset occurs in next week’s play. WALTER JOHNSON FG F TP Fairbanks 4 7 15 Barnes 4 0 8 Beebe 32 8 ; Spruill 5t 2 12 | Wilson 6 5 17 Bloomquist 0 2 2 Weher 0 4 4 Totals 22 21 65 1 WHEATON FG F TP Boswell 71 15 | Norland 4 2 10 i Taylor 3 0 6 Woods 5 3 13 Thompson 5 1 11 Robinson 10 2 Totals 25 7 57 Rockville Men's Basketball Standing W L Fabulous Five 6 0 Wootton’s 6 0 Summit Apartments 5 l RMHS Alumns 5 1 Gaylords 3 3 Broome 3 3 Hydronautics 2 4 Owls Club Five 2 4 Market Center 2 4 Lary Alan 2 4 Country Squire 0 6 Haynes Lithograph 0 6 -; >. -•%^': : jXm* < *'"& own rebounds from John Bowers (44) of North wood. Also seen are Scot MacDougal (34) and Dave Crarrasoo (SO) of North wood. The Barons defeated the Indians, 66-57, throwing North wood Into a first place tie with Walter Johnson. Photos by Stu ('rump, Jr. inttmqCiiiigSrM Sports 10 Wrestling Tournament Scheduled Feb. 22-23 Eight teams will gather aat Springbrook a week from to morrow to compete in the first Montgomery County Inter scholastic Wrestling Tourna ment, set for Feb. 22-23. Spring brook Coach Jack Delastatious is the host for the tourney. Mat teams from Springbrook, Blair, B-CC, Northwood, Gaith ersburg, Peary, Wheaton and Walter Johnson have entered teams in the tournament. The tournament will consist of three sessions, with the first listed for Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. The second round takes place at 1 p.m. on the 23rd and the finals will be held that night at 7:30 p.m. Wrestlers will compete In 12 weight divisions for 39 ttournament trophies. Thirty six of the trophies will go to the first, second and third place winners in their respec tive weight divisions. The other three Include a team trophy, a runner-up team award and a trophy for the outstanding wrestler of the tourney. While the first, second and third place winners in the 95- pound competition will receive trophies, their scores will not count toward their team’s ag gregate total. Admission to the first two sessions will be 75c for students and $1 for adults. The admis sion charge to the finals is $1 for students and $1.50 for adults. Delastatious says 1350 fans can be accommodated at the first two sessions and there will be room for between 1500 and 1600 at the finals. Eighteen officials, including timers and scorers, will officate at the matches. Tenpin Trail By Paul O. Mnhn College Park-Dolgner, who rose from 10th place to top rung in the MWBPA Men’s AA League on a two-month string of wins, met their come-up pance when they met a fired-up Congressional Plaza Brown team at Town Center. Big guns for the winners were Ed Brown and Bill Baker with games of 254 and 255 and Charlie Tetlow with a set of 610. Les Wyer seemed well on his way to a 700 as he led Con gressional-Powell to win over Capital Plaza, but he tightened up in his third game. Winners will soon be an nounced for this year’s BVL tournament Entries totaled 6,683, an increase of 4,000 1 over last year’s record turn. 1 I out Most entries came from Rosslyn where Jack Labonte, vice chairman of the tourney, collected 700. Congressional Plaza and Sliver Hill had the next largest group with 629 and 623 respectively. In the Wheaton Plaza Men’s | Commercial, Marty Fagan led Acme Printing to four wins over Wah- Que Restaurant. Glick’s Opticians maintained their three-game lead In first as both they and Discount j Drugs won three points. Standings shifted In the Con gressional Classic this week. Good ’n Ruff Crab House saw their lead shrink to half game when Tyson Wheeler Funeral Home, next to last in the league, took 1% points. Sports Rosin broke their second-place tie with Blue Ridge Sports by taking all three points from Blue Ridge. Silver Spring Sports won three points from FAFOO Contractors to become the new third-place team. hn IN! NOW! State Farm insures 7,000,000 cars! Why not make yours No. 7,000,001? You'll en joy the Famous Low Rates and Hometown Service that have made people insure more cars with us than with any other com pany! Call today! ] RODNEY THOMPSON 10 N. Summit Ava., Gaithersburg, Md. WA. 6-3700 Thursday, February 14, 1953 CHAIRMAN for the County Wrestling Tournament set for next weekend at Springbrook is Coach Jack Delastatious, a graduate of Montgomery Blair and Penn State University. Delastatious is the Spring brook wrestling coach. Victory Keeps B!a*r in Pace For AA Title Montgomery Blair’s Blazers held onto a tie for place honors in the Montgomery County Class AA League last weekend by thrashing Richard Montgom -1 cry’s Rockets, 6146, at R-M. I Blair showed the dazzling brand of basketball that en abled them to capture the county championship last year, as the Blazers moved out fast and held a 31-15 half time advantage. The fast-moving Blair, now with a 4-3 record and tied for second place in the league with B-CC, outplayed and outscored the Rockets in every depart ment. The Blazers, paced by the seoring of Bay Ruhling with 15 points and Ned Blackwell with 13 markers, hit 21 field goals and 19 charity tosses as oempared to 18 FGs and 10 free throws for the Rocket*. Top man In the scoring de partment for the Rockets was Richard Prugh,. who scored 21 points and was high man for the game. Ten Blair cagers saw action in the lop-sided contest, while the Rockets put eight players Into the game. Tomorrow night the Blazers Crucial Game Listed For This Weekend The next two weeks are vital in Montgomery County basket ball competition, with two teams tied for first place sched uled to meet this weekend and only three tilts left in the race for the Class AA championship. The upset of Northwood last weekend by B-CC and Walter Johnson’s victory over Wheaton turned the race for the county title into a photo finish affair. Northwood and Walter John son play at Northwood tomor row night in what is easily classed the game of the week, if not the season. The same evening the two quintets tied for second place, B-CC and Blair, meet at Blair. Coach Paul Bolyard says that It has now reached that point where his Northwood Indians can’t afford any mis takes if they are going to live up to pre-season predictions and win the county basketball championship. And, Bolyard says, “Anything can happen.” The other coaches are in agreement with Bolyard, par ticularly underdog Walter John son. The WJ Spartans have been out of the limelight most of the season and now bask in the glory of sitting on top of the league for at least a week. WJ Coach James Gilmore Sherwood Beats Gaithersburg Sherwood, leaders of the Montgomery County Class A League, won their first contest on the Gaithersburg court in 22 years last weekend, 52-45. The Warriors led 22-18 at the half. The Sherwood quintet also set another record In games this season by grabbing 95 re bounds during the contest, with Ken Johnson account ing for 28 of them. Clark Thomas led the Sher wood attack with 20 points and also grabbed 20 of the rebounds for his team. will meet B-CC and the loser of that one can forget about any j title aspirations, as slim as they already appear to be. B-CC. fresh from an upset victory over the league-leading Northwood Indians, Is favored in tomorrow night’s encounter at Blair. 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W °* vyju ~ matchlibb scnvicee W PERCO A eOTOMAC MCTMC SOWCM COMUNT W 9 Lux hater dedrieaUy ...in a Total Electric ... Gold Medallion Horn* "laE® has said ail along this this season was going to be load ed with surprises and his quintet has made good the coach’s prediction. Whether the Spartans can pull off a victory over Northwood to morrow night and become the odds-on favorites for the AA crown is yet to be seen, but the Spartans Intend to make a contest out of It. Northwood still has to take Agnew Leads Attack Against Northwood Bethesda-Chevy Chase pulled the upset of the season last weekend by defeating the Northwood Indians, 66-57, and throwing the losers into a first place tie in the Montgomery County Class AA League with Walter Johnson. The contest was played at Northwood. Bryant Agnew proved to be the spoiler, as the B-CC scoring ace hit the nets for 27 points against Northwood. Agnew, who has pulled the fat out of the fire for B-CC several times this season—twice in the final Montgomery County Class AA Standings Won Lost Northwood 5 2 Walter Johnson 5 2 B-CC 4 3 Blair 4 3 Richard Montgomery 2 4 Wheaton l 5 Basketball Schedule f, JV Varsity Feb. 15- B-CC at Blair 6:30 8:00, Howard County at Damascus 6:30 8:00 Gaithearsburg at Einstein 7:30 WJ at Northwood 6:30 8:00 Richard Montgomery at Wheaton 6:30 8:00 Peary at Walt Whitman 6:30 8:00 Sherwood at Springbrook 6:30 8:00 Feb. 16- - Walt Whitman at Poolesville 6:30 8:00 Wheaton at Sherwood 6:30 8:00 Feb. 20 Wheaton at B-CC 6:30 8:00 Northwood at Blair 6:30 8:00 Damascus at Poolesville 6:30 8:00 Einstein at Walt Whitman 8:00 Springbrook at Gaithersburg 6:30 8:00 WJ at Richard Montgomery 6:30 8:00 Sherwoood at Peary 6:30 8:00 on Blair, the 1962 champs, and Richard Montgomery before th# league play ends Feb. 22. While a few weeks back the schedule wouldn’t have seemed overly tough for the Indians, things have changed. Richard Montgomery has pulled a startling upset over B-CC, and Champion Blair is viewed as a spoiler outfit Both are sure to be out to sink the Indians. seconds—was unerringly accu rate in his one-handed jump shot in the contest with the In dians, hitting approximately 90 per cent of his attempts. Walsh also hit double figures to contribute to B-CC victory, gamering seven field goals. Bowers was high man for Northwood with 18 markers. The victory kept alive the aspirations of B-CC to win the Class AA title this season, upset over Northwood suddenly put four teams In the race, but that is sure to change this weekend.