Evening star., 1912-11-24
INDIVIDUAL TOURNEY REVIVES
INTEREST IN TENPIN GAME
Close and Exciting Contests Being Rolled
Good Races in Several
Leagues.

That the individual tenpin tournament
now in progress at the Palace alleys Is
TO a great extent reviving interest in the
big pin game becomes more evident. as
the affair progresses, and while 1t IS
hardly likely that the present popularity
of the duckpins will be affected to any
appreciable degree tenpins will undoubt-
edly receive a big boost. The matches
each evening are we'll attended, and later,
when the prize money contenders begin
to manifest themselves, and possible Win
ners are matched, interest Will no doubt
be intense.
In nearly all leagues the first series
of games has been rolled. and the class OF
the several organizations is beginning to
show. Agriculture of the Departmental
League IS still in the van. although the
schedule in that league has been sadly
iumbled. Many postponements were made
early in the season, and now another
mix-up has resulted, due to the failure of
the Post Office team to put an eligible
quint on the alleys. After three consecu-
tive sets have been forfeited the league
held a meeting Friday night, at which
time IL was decided TO declare void all
the sets rolled against Post Office. the
scores made in the sets against the de-
funct team being entirely eliminated from
the leagues books. The present align
ment shows Bureaus second and Commits
sioners third.
Pioneers continue TO set the pace in the
Colonial League. having Won eleven and
lost three with the knickerboc lers sec
ond and Continentals third. The Manhat-
tans, last years champions, have worked
their way up 10 fourth place.
Welsbach not only got a stronger hold
on first place by defeating the Y. NJ G. A.
team three straight Friday night, but
4.
unen ii totaled 1719 pins for the three
EaaGts. This is the best mark ever made
m the National Capital League. bettering
ty three pins the total made by the
casinos. Palace trimmed the Climbers
three on the same evening. and are now
three games behind Halley's quint with
the Association team two games in the
rear OF the + street aggregation.
y very close race continues in the
Southern Railway League, with Freight,
the present leader, closely pressed by Tie
and Timber and the Managers.
The Atiantics have completely out
classed the sest of the teams in the
Northeast League, losing only two of the
twenty-one games played this season. T..
T. keane is second and the Young Mems
Shop and Crescents are tied for the third
rung.
Greens lead the Westminster League by
W
two teams of this organization closely
punched.
Navy Yard, Bureaus and Commissioners
are battling for premier honors in the
Departmental Duckpin League with the
southeast boys the present leaders by a
slight margin. Pension is fourth and
numbers on its list the leagues individ-
ual average leader in the person of Par
ker. who has los for eleven games.
The Finance quint of the Post Office
League appears TO have things all It's
way, being eight games ahead OF its
nearest competitor. the Rural Mails, who
are tied with the City Post Office team
All of teams outside the leaders are with
N close range of each other.
Potomac Council League-one of the
Knights of Columbus outfits-has a close
race on its hands with the La Sales and
De Sotos the present contenders, the
nrst mentioned now leading by one game
Belmonts continue to head the District
League, while the Arcade League still
shows tight race, all of the teams seem
ingiy being more or less equally matched
Thanksgiving day will put temporary
stop To bowling activities as the alley
owners in nearly all cases request the
use of their alleys on that date to the
exclusion of the leagues. The games
the Evening Star team will be rolled Fri
day night instead. 1t is probable that
those leagues which overlooked Thanks
giving day when framing their schedules
will also postpone the sets falling on that
date.
Talk of intercity matches is again
heard. and active steps are being made
in at least one of them-that between The
Stars and the Baltimore printers Present
indications are that the banquet which
follows the games will be the best ever
given by the local newspaper men, anC
as they have staged some very classy af
fairs. this means hummer. The Palace
team would like to take on quint from
some nearby point, and captains of duck
pin outfits wishing to meet the loca
bOwlers can arrange match of this ma
ture by addressing the captain of thi:
team. care the Palace alleys.
The teams in the INSTRUMENTATION
League are assuming the places in tht
standing they were picked to occupy be