The Washington herald., 1911-12-24
By AL MACHLER.
A merry Christmas to all the bowlers

least two teams in the American Bowling
Congress tournament to be held in Chi
cago, Ill, next March. One of these
teams will be known as the Palace team
and will be, composed of about the best
aggregation OF bowling talent ever gotten
together in the District.
This aIl-star team consists of Harry
Krauss, conceded by all to be the indi-
vidual champion of the District: Willie
Miller, leader of the District League and
one of the crack performers on the ma
pie drives, and Jimmie Fields, Van Bus
kirk, and Jack BroSnan, who all rank as
tOpnotchers in the Departmental League.
The Palace team has been organized for
some time and holds regular practice on
the Palace alleys every Saturday night
and will in the near future be one of
f"ur-team intercity league to bowl regu-
lar scheduled games with two teams or
ganiZed for a similar purpose in Balti-
more. The other team to make up the To-
cal end of this league will be known as
the Colonial team, picked from the best
talent in the Colonial League.
The personnel of this team is not COM
pleted as yet, but on it will be Billy
Warren. who can always be depended
upon to give n good account of himself
Big Page, George Campbell, and Eddie
Mcknew. all of whom can hold their
has not been selected yet, but is likely
to be Parker, who is a pin artist of no
mean ability.
On paper the Palace quint looks by far
tie strongest, and if it is the least bit
favored by the lucky breaks of the game
should certainly make a Creditable show
ing and bring home a goOdly slice of the
prize money offered.
Some fat prizes are hung up for the
duckpin bOwIers by the management of
the Palace alleys in the down and out
tournament now going on. Four high
qualifying ECores-three at s. and one
the last, Sl0-are some of the INDUCE
ments offered local pin knights. The
prizes in the finals, however, are espe-
c!ally rich ones, as the lucky winners
will pull down $40. $40. 80. and s., re-
spectivcly, in the order of their tota!
rims.
a new record for the season, and one
that is likely to stand for some time. was
hung up by Eckstein in the last match |
between the Sacngers and Nationals in
the District League on the formers al |
leys, with a total for three games of 7O5 !
seven pins short of the District record !
Of 7l2, made by Allison on the same |
alleys.
Starting off with pa Eckstein ran 257. |
and followed this by "a. averaging 90 !
for the three games. Eighteen strikes |
and eleven spares were made in this |
set. which WAS marred by a miss in the /
second frame of the first game.
About the best team set of the season
WAS rolled by the Pioneers. of the Co
IoniaI League, in their match against
the Iroquois with scores of 9O5, 9Sl, and
95I, totaling @,S37 With the exception of
the last game, which they lost by thirty
four pins. the Iroquois five never had a
lOOk-in, and this only on account of
I>rauss' 2a5 game. For the winners,
Allison. with 5gl. and Thomas. with
$50 starred, while Krauss. for the losers,
turned IN the best total with 606.
Jones. OF the Nationals, apparently does
not entertain any superstitions regarding
member thirteen being a hOodOo with !
this number of strikes and spares in the
last Saenger-NatiOnal set, Bob managed
TO roll scores of 1888 2222, and IS, aver
aging lg9. which is some average to
make at any time. Keep up the good
work, Bob. nobody to hinder you.
Too bad. Eek. you blew that spare or
YOU would have had the additional honor
of clean set"
The past weeks highest duckpin score
WAS rolled by the Evening Star team
against the Havenner Baking Company,
who incidentally. were trimmed three
times. with the respectable total q 54S,
with ROdeT as the star performer, turn
ing in I22 pins. while Mccarthy and Cor
win totaled 10 and l19, respectively.
Those buttons are still on that over
coat.
With six big, wide-Open splits, Thomas
had great difficulty in bowling any kind
of score in the Carroll-Chamber of Com
merce set, but Frank did manage to top
pie over III Of the naples. The raisns
were not very effective, this time at
least.
That last set showed considerable I'm
provement, Harry. Now keep on going
up.
In the match between the Al-Stars
and the Mohawks, the formerly belied
their name by doing no starring
worth mentioning, and were lucky to
pull the last game out OF the fire by
twcnty-three pins,
Some peculiar individual sets were ,
rolled in the Bureau Commissioners
match in the Departmental League with
the last-named team winning the odd
game. MiloviCh, of the Bureaus, stand
ing out with l23, followed this by a go
game, and winding up with $50, while
of the same team, sandwiched
a 30 game between scores of 1856 and IS9
Jones committing a similar offense by
a l47 game with 1879, and end
ing the spasm with 80.
Eiker braced up some in his last set
with the big pins when he spilled 'em
for scores of lS2, 1885, and 200. About
time Guy was being heard from.
BY taking all three games from the
Johnsons, the Sheehys, of the Spalding
Council League, put a decided crimp into
The formers pennant aspirations.
The LabOrites found an efficient substi-
tute for Richards in Sammons, who
bowIed the last two games OF their set
against Maplewood. having scores of lOi !
In both attempts, as against his prede-
cessors "A.
Quite a number of close team games
were rolled during the past week. among l
Ihem being the Santa Maria-Genoa set in
the Carroll Council League, won by the
former team by one pin, while the Me-
chanics beat the Farmers by two pins
In the Patent Examiners League, ,and I
Laborites and Maplewood in the Arcade