Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-21

There are q whole Tot of things the
tournament committee OF the WASH
ington City Bowling Assoc1Ation cou1e
do worse than pass m tron-oaad RUE
the substance OF which would Drohaoa'
the switching Of dates after the scneo'
ule has been submitted. approved and
adopted. Previous Journeys have shown
that the making OF the schedule u
nothing more than . mere formaaity
The writer has actually seen cases Of
where q team has submitted Its entE,
two weeks before the openint night
with a request that they DO granted
such and such Q date. the request be-
ing granted by tho committee. and
then as late az on the date on which
they are scheduled to take tho alleys
phone In that It win be Impossible foI
them to shoot that evening. R1thof
than see the team forfeit, the schedule
committee had been pressed TO the
limit in an endeavor to secure another
team to take the -nen-appearing ones
place. That they were successful can
be seen from the fact that, 90 yet, q
team has never forfeited after their
entry to the five-man event had beer
made.
strange d6 tulAy UO01us tuOcO
quests generally como from oowieFs
who are in no way connected with the
association as IN ofncAr or otherwise.
Most Of them seem to think that the
tournament committee Is putting It
self under obligations to them when
they enter the different eventA About
the best way to abolish this practice
would be for the local organisation to
follow the rule OF the American Bowl
ing Congress. After submitting your
entry with a request for a certain date
and that date IL allotted to you, the
team either shoots when scheduled or
forfeits It's entrance money. A .rui.
inasmuch as 1t will relieve the tourna
ment committee OF q lot OF uu
necessary work and worry and. Ct the
same time. will not cause confusion
among the bowlers who may appear
at the alleys thinking they are sched-
uled to bowl, only to find that they
have been switched to q later date.
The fourth roll-off in the Palace down
and-out tournament. Friday night. n
Harley and Lizzie List were the prin-
cipais, furnished some Of the classiest
duck pinning ever seen in washington.
To start the ball. Harley brought the
crowd to its feet by making 8. and =, 70.
big crowd when Etker pulled the s. 2. 8
and 10, and the 2. 4, s. 8 and 8. but Bed
lam broke loose whom Last opened up
the first box Of the second game by max
Ing 4, Z, and o. and then pulled 4. 5.
and s in the second franc. List followed
this phenomenal spare shooting 10y max
ing four more. but picking four on OF
eight stopped what might have been q
record game. In his second game. Eikef
missed single pin spares In the nth, sev.
enth and eighth. and two-pin spare IN the
tenth. Had he pulled tnese his count
would have been well over no. All In
ALL the nights shooting veas the greatest
ever seen in this city.
There seemed to be quite an unneceS-
sary amount Of complaining on the part
Of those who participated In the third
roll-off Of the down-and-out tournament
at the poor way In which the pins were
breaking. That the pins were falling
badly is not to be denied. but nevertheless
one Of the noticeable features OF the
evenings play was the inability OF the
mon to get the head PIN with the drst
ball. Therein lies the secret OF those
bad breaks.