Evening star., 1912-09-29
INTERESTING BOWLING NEWS
FROM ALL THE LOCAL LEAGUES

| Washington's 1912 bowling season
/ will be formally opened tomorrow
| evening, when the National Capital
| District and Arcade duckpin leagues
will have their inaugurals. The Com
| mercial League started it's schedule
| two weeks ago, along with two OF
| three of the smaller organizations, but
| the season does not get it's stamp OF
] official opening until the older and
stronger leagues start out on their cam
paisn of pin-topplins. This fcrInality will
be complied witt? tomorrow, when a
galaxy of duckpin stars takes the alleys
| for the first sets of the year.
Changes of ii most radical nature have
taken place in the National Capital
League. not only in the personnel of the
teams, but in the quintS themselves. The
Casinos. champions OF 1911, have dishanded.
The team that threw such surprise into
he league last year fer one cause or an
other has been relegated to the discard
along with the 1mHaculates and Bureaus.
In their places Will be a team from the
Y NJ. G. A. rolling as tie second associa
ton quint; the Climbers, recruited mostly
from the old Welsbach team of last year.
and quint to be called the Casinos.
which will roll on the 14th street alleys.
Palace, Mount Vernon and the Weisbachs
will. as in the past. roll at the Palace
alleys. The Fat Men and Nationals will
roll on tire formers alleys, tie two y. NJ.
c. \. teams will hold forth at the asSocia-
ton. while the Climbers will bowl at the
Rathskeller and the Potomacs in George
town.
The withdrawal of the three teams men,
toned. and especially of the Old Casinos.
has caused a great many OF the upSetS IN
the roster of the several teams. Thye.
Goodman and Hawksworth. the mainstays
Of the champions have gone to three dif-
ferent teams. Hawksworth is to roll with
the Palace outfit, having as his team
mates Harry Krauss. Lemon and Lewis
of last years team. with Frank Roberts.
a newcomer, and Wells. of last season S
Nationals. Carroll and Ricketts, have
| forsaken the street quint. and will
roll on the Fat Men team. the former
taking the captaircv. Dave McCarty of
the Mt Vernons will roll with him, to-
gcther with z. Miller, Everett and keane
Of the old team.
The Y. NJ. c. \. team will be about the
same last year. though Harry Stand
ford and Pop" Rodriok are on its roll.
John Eiker, Roy Whitford, Earl Eiker,
Farrow. jr., and President Meaney are
the other members of the team as it is at
present constituted. The second team
|. from the association has been taken
| mostly from the Y NJ. c. A. League of
| last year. the averages of the new men
for last season indicating they are capa-
BILE of putting up strong fight Osborn
(captain). r. w. Miller. Hanna, Joliffe.
| Riffel and Yeatman are on the list of
! eigibles.
Pop HALEY has gathered bunch of
F; bowlers under his wing. to roll as the
Welsbachs. which are picked as strong
pennant cOntenders. Lon krauss OF
last wears Palace team, Goodman of
! the Casinos john Baum of the Mount
VernonS, Michaud, Rippert. Borden and
Young of his team last season. and Rider
| of the Casinos constitute a list of men
| from which to pick a mighty strong team.
t,<Ni in, ta 1ifNCr ron
, drop of the hat seems foregone conclu-
| sion.
! The Nationals and Potomacs do not
| show many new faces. On the former
team will roll keeler. Wilson tcaptain),
/ H. Roberts, r. Roberts, Fowler, Oehler
and Kamnl, all of the team OF last year.
The Georgetown quint has Moses Baer,
Milt Baer. Penn, Lowney, H. Brown, W.
| Ryan, Craig, Ryan and Virts. The
Mount Vermont, as at present constituted,
| do not present a very formidable appear
| ance. With the departure of Baum and
McCarty. the teams nlainstays last year,
/ a big hole is left. Geraci, Vince GULL.
I cost!nett Howard T. Guilt and j. GULL
are all good men. but the strength re-
auired to hold it's own with the other
| teams in the league is lacking. 1t is un-
| derstood that several members OF the
| Arcade League will be added to the
| Mount Vernons, and as there are several
very good men there unattached. Costi-
i nett may spring few surprises before the
| final sets are rolled next spring. Thye,
Crampton, Riston Griffin and Sheehan
will constitute the Climbers team the
opening week.
| All the old officers of last year were re-
elected President Meaney. Wilson and
j Haley vice presidents; Whitford. secre-
| tary, and Geraci treasurer, will hold
| down their last years Jobs. G. T..
| Terry is the official scorer Of the league.
| Tomorrow battles will be between the
! Fat Men and Nationals, at the Fat Men s
alleys on D street. The schedule for the
| rest of the week follows: Tuesday. a.
| c. NJ. Y. (the name of the new associ-
IY. M. c. A. alleys; Wednesday, Mount
| Vernons vs. Y. NJ. c.. A, at the Palace
alleys: Thursday, Potomacs VS.. the new
Casinos at the 14th street alleys. and
Friday, Palace VS.. Welsbach. at the
Palace alleys.
That the rule which was adopted by all
the leagues for this season limiting a
bowler to two organizations is going to
bear good fruit is manifest already. The
District and National Capital, of course
will be the choice of the men who will
have to exercise an option to which
league they will affiliate with. But in
the Arcade, Northeast and Commercial
leagues, with the cracks of the older
leagues elimin ted bowlers will have an
opportunity to, develop who last year
spent all their time on the bench" and
got the most Of their league experience
| in the fifteen-minute practice period be-
fore the games started. keener competi-
tion in the older outfit, and more man