By JOHN K. SMITH

Sun Sports Writer

East Knights, 10 other members of the Olympic league and special guest Vashon which will join the circuit next year divide three ways for high school basketball jamborees tonight.

Local focus will be on Central Kitsap where four of the class AA members battle - East, South Kitsap Wolves, Shelton Highclimbers and host Central Kitsap Cougars.

All three jamborees will start at 8 p.m.

AT WINSLOW and Port Angeles, three class A fives will be matched with one double-A quintet. Little Bainbridge hosts double-A North Mason Bulldogs and Vashon Pirates. Big Port Angeles entertains the class A Port Townsend Redskins, Sequim Wolfpack and Forks Spartans.

Draw will pair opponents for the first two periods at all three sites. First round losers then will clash in the third panel and the opening winners will meet in the finale for the individual jamboree championship.

Knight coach Les Eathorne has seven lettermen and five graduates of last year's junior varsity to draw on in East's first competition back in the Olympic league after a lapse of a few seasons while in the Capital league.

Probable East starters, all veterans, include Mike Holen and either Jim Tienharra or jumping Bill Carter at forwards, Darryl Fry at center and Greg Morrison and Dave Garrison at the guards.

SOUTH KITSAP mentor Orville Anderson has just three lettermen to form a nucleus for the 1962-63 captain - Errol Darling, Steve Lovely and Rick Piercy. All three probably will start tonight along with 6-3 Tom Brickson, a strong senior who didn't turn out a year ago. A fourth letterman, forward Larry Lund, isn't turning out this year Other seniors available include 6-5 Charles Server and 6-0 Bob Houston.

Shelton pilot Jim Doherty doesn't have exceptional size at his command but he has four youngsters back who started a year ago - 6-3 Bill Smith, 6-1 Bill Sloan, 6-2 Jim Goodpaster and 6-1 Mike Carte, the latter a last-season advancer. Biggest Highclimber is 6-3 senior John Anderson.

At Silverdale, host coach Kenny Lund has a lonesome letter winner in Joe Burroughs, 6-1 senior guard. not only is Burroghs the only veteran varsity player, he is almost all the height, too. Junior Bruce Conn is 6-2 and sophomore Jerry Turner 6-0. Everyone else in the team, including power center candidate Dennis Hudson, 5-11 or shorter.

SEQUIM and Port Angeles have the height and the experience in the far north. Len Beil, 6-4 pivot for the Wolfpack, is two-year starter, all-league performer and likely circuit high scorer this winter.

Although NK will be only "big school" in the jamboree at Winslow, the Viks won't hold any height advantage over their opponents tonight. Vik strength this season is strength while the host Spartans of Bainbridge are about of a size and sure to be slick pattern operators under veteran coach Tom Paski.

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Whites defeated the Blues, 27-21, in a regular half-game intra-squad scrimmage yesterday at West. High scorer for the White's was 6-2 senior Steve Schumacher with 12 points. However, Les Dicks, another 6-2 senior, pumped in 14 for the losing Blues.

Other members of the Whites were Bud Grahn, Fred Kegel, Steve Balcom, Albert Ferris, Ron Burley and Rick Lambert. On the Blues were J. D. Tamerius, Dan Shedwin, Dick Wright, Leon Leslie, Lonnie Folger and Jim Stockton.

Wildcats open their schedule here, nest Tuesday, against Mount Tahoma Thunderbirds in a Capital league contest.