Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-24
FINAL CURTAIN FOR LOCAL
BOWLING SEASON AT HAND
Crisp Paragraphs About the Different Play
ers and Leagues Season Has Been
Big Success.

| Practically all OF the leagues Of tn,
city will have completed their schedules
during the next two or three weeks. TIL
Departmental Colonial, Washington Rail
way and one or two others will CLOS
during the next two weeks, and the 9th
ers will quickly follow suit
| Congratulations are pouring In upoI
the boys who made up the Palace ant
Manhattan teams. That they gave {
good account of themselves can be seer
from the standing which they occupy IL
the two big tournaments
It must be all in the name. Jonnts
Krauss, substituting for his brother
Harry on the Palace duckpin Quint
turns in a set Of no. 1874 and 90, against
the Mount Vernons. Harry would have
had to go the limit to have beaten the
total
That the new Potomac Council League
of the knights Of Columbus Is more thar
making good in it's initial season there
can be no doubt after watching one o.
the league sets. That greatest of al
things, enthusiasm, Is on tap at all times
You will have to hand 1t to the A J
Bennett Company aggregation OF the
Northeastern League. Here Is a team
that has been handicapped the greater
part of the season through inability to
put its best men on the floor each night
yet, nevertheless, has proved Its right te
champs nship honors by consistent bowl
ing.
One Of the peculiarities Of the game Is
the way in which some star bowler will
hang up total around the 40 mark In
his first game, then register something
in the SOS in the second. and to cap ii
off pulls up with another over the 12C
in ha irn " MI 'OrrnlCE-
So and 131: Krieger, 1O!. "a and LIT, and
Chadwick with 10, 50 and la
Quigley's excellent pinning practically
decided all three games in the Salvador
Genoa set in the Carroll Council circuit
Starting in the first with III. he contin-
ued to make pace and finished with lie
and 1O4.
In a match last Wednesday night be-
tween the Thunderbolts of the south
east alleys and the Congressiona1s the
former team had a great chance to
break the high-team game for the Dis
trict. Had Heindel been able to have
contributed about twenty more pins
in that last game his team would have
gone we'll over 600.
One of the biggest surprises of the
season came in the Belmont-Acme set.
Buck" Clayton, with all the honors
in the world practically within his
grasp. turns in 81, 81 and 106, un-
doubtedly the worst set he has ever
Here's a beautiful example Of con-
sistency. Johnnie Murphy of the
Ralphs. who. by the way, is the pos
SCISSOR of one of the sweetest averages
in the city, piles up IS in his first
game, then tops 1t off with 140 and 139.
When it comes to tournament play, our
tenpinners have demonstrated their ability
to hold their own with those of the
country at the tournaments held in Chi
cago and Paterson. 1t is not necessary
to say that Washington possesses the
greatest duckpinners in the business.
It's fact.
Here's the latest from the front Jack
Brosnan pulled the following, after
watching George Campbell try to tear
the back wall Of the Palace out shooting
for No. s: '"Tis not always the swiftest
ball that indicates the fastest pace"
All aboard for the Washington City
Duckpin Associations tournament. We
still claim that there will be over
seventy-five teams entered. The one
best bet Of the tourney Will be for the
Might Hawks to show.
Rickenbacker of the Normoyles had q
great chance to put up a new league
record for high set In the clash with
the Ralphs. as he got away with 116
and 100 in his first two attempts. Back
ing 1t up with only 81 twisted the dope.
Sensational pinning on the part of
Malcolm put two out Of three games on
the right side of the ledger for the
Maplewoods in their set with the I'M