Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

greatly weakened in recent sets by the
shift of Carroll and Miller from day to
night work at the navy yard, both of the
stars being compelled to drop from the
team. Sherwood, the team which now
appears most dangerous In the league,
crept up to within three games last week,
winning their set, while the 1mperials
were dropping three, Emmanuel also fall
ing back within one game of the first
mentioned. The race for first place in
Costinett's organization will undoubtedly
be hummer in its final stages.
Washington was decisively beaten in
the Baltimore end of the intercity duckpin
match, completed last week, and while it
is not in accord with the strict ethics of
craftsmanship to cry luck" those sup
porters of the local team which accom-
panied their favorites over to the Monu-
mental city will attest that the tickle
goddess played an important part in de-
Gliding the match. AS in every other series
of games, there is one particular contest
that can be picked out as the crucial
point of the match. Washington had a
five-pin lead over their adversaries when
they We're called upon to roll in Baiti-
more, and it was the consensus of opin-
ion among local duckpin men generally
that very stiff battle would have to be
put up in order to gain a look-in for the
purse which had been hung up. The
Oyster Packers team overcame the small
lead in the first game. and increased that
lead in the next to forty-five pins. With
a case of now-or-never in front of them.
the locals were put to a severe test and
right royalty did they respond. John Eiker
was the star. He started the game with a
spare, piled on strike, spared on. the
strike, spared on top of this, and had So
splits cut his game somewhat. but he
finished with the grand score of 146.
Harry Krauss had 10. and Baum 1O7,
the team total being 561, which offset
Baltmore's 515 game by forty-six pins,
giving Washington a single pin advan-
tage.
The Oyster Packers We're apparently on
the run at this stage, and the first two
boxes We're unproductive of anything that
resembled a spare, although they had
opportunities for marks. 1t was at this
point that Washington got it's solar plex-
us. OF the fifty boxes in this contest it
is absolutely safe assertion that Wash
ington hit the head pin forty-two times
and that thirty of these hits resulted in
either cut-outs of two, three or four pins
or wide open two-pin splits. Again, st
this run of luck victory was almost an
impossdbility, and when the Baltimore
team got next to the fact that the luck
of the party which accompanied the
down to earth again. and they began
pulling their breaks, beating the locals
by over sixty pins. Washington still
had small chance to win against the
big handicap, and made a small bid in
the second frame of the last contest with
five spares in succession in the first and
second frames. but bad counts on all but
one made apparent the fact that the Sc
ries had been safely tucked away by Bal
timore. There was not single member
of the party whic accompanied the
Washington team but what was of the
opinion that the locals picked team is
Baltimore's superior. Washington missed
fewer spares than Baltimore-in fact, it
seemed as though Baltimore failed in
half of it's breaks-and If the locals had
been blessed with a little more luck in
the fourth game they would have been
returned easy winners.
In the party which went to Baltimore
with the team were Pop HALEY. Char
lie Long, Doc Watson. Tommy George,
Dutch" Kamm. Kieney, Filberg, Else
man. Rogers. Harry Sherwood, Henry
Shaffirt, Jim Watt Mcclure. Dwyer
Goldberg, Chaplin, Eddie Houser and Ro-
der A special car was chartered from
the electric line and the trip going ana
coming was very enjoyable. Some sing
and every one was in too good a humor
to harbor any sting as a result of the
defeat-that is, all but Skinny" Carroll.
He was in chastened frame of mimi.
which was not alleviated any when Big
nose produced two sandwiches made
from the fragrant lmburger, which he
proceeded to MUNICH enjoyably, to the
everlasting disgust of the peppery Skin
n.y."
The scores of the match follow: