Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-05

PAST, UoWuuS dCtlVltleS Will De FeSuiieu
In all the leagues tomorrow night. and
| on every alley the crash Of mineralite
into maple will resound. which. blending
with the shouts of contestants and root
ers, will give indisputable evidence that
the bowlers are back in their element.
| The first of the new year always marks
| an important period in the bowling sea-
son. It usually takes several weeks after
| the season opens for the big and little pin
rollers to strike their stride. and when
the holidays are reached they are doing
their best work. About that time, also,
| the teams are beginning to show their
class and those quints which are going
to set the pace down to the homestretch,
with the championship honors as their
objective point, have become evident.
With the resumption of the schedules the
grind begins anew. The last drive down
to the wire usually takes place with the
inauguration of the third and last series.
but the teams that hope to come in ahead
look to the next five weeks rolling with a
view to gaining possible advantage over
their adversarieS. Every game won now
makes the final efforts easier, and when
! rivals for pennant honors hook up a now
or-never attitude is sure to prevail. The
close races in many Of the organizations
presage some exciting and classy matches.
Belmonts. Royals and Garrisons are
closely gripped in the District League.
the former team having three games lead
over last years winners with the Garri-
SON quint one game behind. Each of these
teams take on second division opponent
the coming week. Belmonts play the
Eurekas Wednesday, at the Diamond al
leys; Royals hook up with the Arlingtons
Tuesday. at the Royal, while the Saenger-
bunds entertain Hawkswortfls five tomor-
row evening on their home alleys. Dur
ing the following week the Royals meet
the Runners. Halley's team plays the
Saengers. while the Garrisons and Good
fellows will measure swords. Monday,
January 20. will witness the first struggle
in the new year between the leaders. On
that date the Belmonts tackle the Royals
on the formers alleys. and the fur should
fly. A three-game win by Belmonts, pro-
vided they hold their present lead, will
give then big advantage in the final bid
for the flag. while a setback at the hand
of the Royals will make it anybody's
race. The following Monday Royals and
Garrisons meet. these games to be played
on the New York avenue alleys. From
any angle the race presents interesting
possibilities.
The National Capital League however,
does not hold forth any such great
promises Rumor has it the Welsbachs
are several games in the lead-said rumor
being the only way the standing of the
as 1T has proved an impossibility to get
an official standing of the teams in this
organization. not to mention the aver
ages The only two teams which could
give the leaders a fight are the Palace
and Y. NJ G. A. outfits. Wednesday. Feb
ruary ), is the first date on which Wells
bachs meet either Of these. the Y. NJ. c.
A. entertaining Halley's five at the AS
ISOLATION alleys. The last time the Wells
DaChS shot a SET these 9I1QvS they
dropped two games the A. c. NJ Y.s
being the victors. To have a look-in at
all two games must be gathered in by
Whitfords quint. Even that result would
not make an appreciable gain on the
Welsbachs. though IL they should slump
then and also drop the set to the Palace
quint on the occasion of their set, Friday,
February %, they might find breakers
of the situation-that is. the bad feature
from a close race point of view-is that
Palace and the Y. NJ. c. A. teams must
meet each other in the intervening week.
and whichever way the cat jumps the
Welsbachs are bound to profit. 1t looks
as though the only way to get a contest
out of this league is for the Y. NJ. c. A.
to beat the Welsbachs, the Palace beat
the Y. NJ. G. A. and then trim the lead
ers. Yes. we'll have to fix 1t that way
differently. Ty Clayton and lynx" Nor
ton please write.
The Commercial League has got some
fight on its hands. At present The Star
and the Hahn teams are tied. the Wood
hind. while the Chaplin & Sacks outfit
trails Johnson's team, just three games
behind the leaders. And to bring mat
tiers quickly and decisively to a head, the
schedule calls for a meeting between The
Star and Hahn next Thursday night.
while the following evening Woodward &
Lothrop and Chaplin & Sacks will get to-
gether. General Baking Company will
meet the Ice Cream boys on Friday of the
next week, while the other three quints
the following week Hahn will be pitted
against Chaplin & Sacks, The Stars tackle
the General Baking team and Johnson
boys meet the Washington Tobaccos.
should have a lead Of at least three
games.
In the Arcade League the race is
covered in detail in the article accom-
panying the averages, to be found else
great one-in fact. without a parallel in
the city, unless the one in the CONNER
cial be excepted Since the figures in
the Mount Pleasant organization were
while the tailenders, Laborites, took a
three-time fall out OF Sherwood This
was a severe blow to the latters chances,
and unless the Sherwoods can administer
| the same dose to the Immanuels on the
o1st instant they may be eliminated from
| the pennant reckoning. Arcade Market
lost three to the Imperfals Friday night
and should never be serious pennant
contender again.
Out on the northeast alleys the At
lantics have outdistanced the field and
should come home under wraps. These
alleys, by the way, are staging some very
good contests, and during the holidays
prize competitions served to keep the pin
| boys busy all the time. Two of the
bowlers whose names are associated with
| the Northeast League-Crooks and Hagan
have got that holiday prize stunt down
| to a system. Manager Casewell offered
prizes for morning and evening endeavors
both Christmas and New Year day. On
| the former date Crooks was high In the
| forenoon, while Hagan brought home
| the bacon after the Christmas turkey was
consumed Then. just to show that they
| bore no i'll feeling one against the other.
| Hagan COPIED the prize before noon on
| the first day in the new year. while
| Crooks landed the prize in the afternoon.
Perfectly simple. is 1t not?