Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15
|BAL TIMORE TENPIN BOWLERS
ANXIOUS FOR TRICITY MEET
Believe Proposed Tournament Would Re-
vive Interest in the Game-Rich-
mond Also interested.

tempt maze 10 observe the RUE, duo III.
spectacle Of bowlers going a foot ana
even two feet down the alleys after de-
Hvering the ball is common sight. FAR
ticularly is this SO in the Colonial Ten
pin League and the Interdenominatlona
Duckpin League, two ORGANIZATIONS
which number many fine bowlers in their
lists of members. The Colonial has been
ranked as the leading tenpin body In the
city. yet 1t would seem that until games
are rolled according to the rules OF bowl
ing 1t is not entitled to that honor. In
the INSTRUMENTATION League spas
modic efforts have been made by different
members to have man stationed on the
lines, but so far without result.
The leagues which are having their
first season, and which contain men who
until the present time have never bowed
before. might raise the point that the
beginner would be at a big disadvantage.
as he is more apt to slide past the line
than his more experienced brother.
While this is partly true, the answer is
plain. 1t is Just as easy to learn a thing
the right way as the wrong way. and
while a man Is learning to bowl he
might just as we'll learn right.
Several solutions have been offered tn
this foul line Judge problem. among
them being the proposition to paw per-
son to act in that capacity. If there
was any return for the more or less
tedious duty of sitting for two hours on
the foul line outside Of a thank you.
kindly" perhaps there would be more
volunteers. At any rate. whether man
is at all times available or not those
leagues not now respecting the line. and
particularly the two bodies mentioned.
should adopt the rule and start bowling
according to the recognized regulations
of the game, one of the cardinal points
Of which is the one prohibiting man
from passing over the foul line.
The A. c. NJ Y team of the National
Capital League succeeded where the Pal
strong Welsbach outfit in its fight for
the leadership of that organization-and
it stopped them good and hard, too, adj
ministering a two-game defeat Tuesday
night at the Association alleys. Goodman
and Baum were the only members of the
WeIsbachs to shoot anything near their
games, the former being in exceptional
trim and turning back a 351 set. while
Baum, with two 113 games, faltered to
az in his last effort JOliff's 321 set was
the best made by the junior Y. M. c. A.
team.
In the Commercial League, thanks to
the strong rolling by the Woodward 4
Lothrop team in the last month. race
of exceptional interest is now being
staged, with three teams in the hunt for
premier honorS JohnSons team has been
rolling a steady game against the weak
er teams of the commercial organization,
and when 1t threw the harpoon into The
Stars for three games two weeks ago
and followed this up last week with a
two-time victory over Hahn, it brought
the latter team to within one game OF
The Stars with the newspaper quint a
like distance in front Of Woodward d
Lothrop.
The coming week will be the last until
after the holidays. and the set between
the present leaders and The Star team.
scheduled for the 9th of January, VIII
have an important bearing upo on the ulti-
mate outcome of this race. Nogelsberg
and Hollidge, the former with 13J and the
latter 125, saved the shoe store outfit
from suffering a clean sweep in the set
Monday night. The work of the entire
Boston House team was good
McI<new won his two sets in the tour
nament Tuesday night, beating Charlie
Miller and Lon Krauss with plenty of
margin. The set between Krauss and
Mcknew was the first time these two
men have ever opposed each other I'm a
match, having at all time been coupled
together in doubles on teams. Their
work at the a. B. G. in Chicago last
spring. when as a two-man team they &C.
clipied second place in the doubles for
several days, has won for them an en-
viable reputation as winning pair.
of four in games which showed scores
much below what was expected of them.
One more week of bowling and then
will come the intermission for the gift
exchanging and good resolutions periods.
Washington duckpin men are awaiting
some sort of challenge from their
Baltimore neighbors. Isn't there some
team over in the Monumental city which
would like to measure prOwess in the
little pins and balls game with local men
Boosters won five of the six games they
played in the Ingram League; Eau Clafres
split even in the same number of con-
tests, while the White Caps dropped five,
their only victory being bv three pins.
131; Myers and Lowering. I'D. and nearly
all of the teams showed several bowlerS
with two or more centuries in their sets.
Inconsistent rolling marked the Young
Mems Shop-Carrolls set in the North
two games. ]. Loveless 115 score was
high.
Spalding Council shot three games over
800 in the Intercouncil League, winning
the last by five pins. Thye had 100 in
his first and 40 in the second, but fell to
So in the last. His team carried him in
this one. Dornorff Q14. Werner Q19.
Rickenbacker 400. and Stanton Gid
making up for his low score. Daddy had
high score 1913, and Dornoff high set,
1873.
Elmer's 100 game offset the IS score
their set with the Good Fellows, and