The Washington herald., 1913-02-09

The Interdenominational League jump
| ed into the nmelight Tuesday night
| when Fifth broke the high game anC
high set record for that league, rollini
| 1.64 pins for a total. and getting 6l9 II
| the last game, which is just I pin
below the District record. made by tht
Belmonts. of the District League. Bill
| Parker had the chance Ito make hi
| team famous, but blew a single piI
spare in the eighth box and a two-pir
spare in the tenth. Fifth made twenty
FIVE marks. which is going some" fol
any team.
Jim EIlet was high man. getting 81
for his three games.
Westminster is still on top with a two
game lead.
The weIsbachs lost two games t.
the Y. NJ. c. A. on Wednesday night
while the Palace team won all thret
of its games.
While the welsbachs still have a
good lead, they have not been shooting
the duckpins Of late of which the team
Is capable.
Two scouts 90 q hfke
Took a ride On q bike.
Fun they had a-plenty
Now they out twenty.
Hereafter thc5 will stick To the pike.
From the RuhSiyat Of ''Lonney'' krzHS
Representative fNtNDuTH Oi We" lOEh
is an enthusiastic duckpin bowler. and
when his officiaI duties do not call him
| to the Capitol one may often see him
in his shirt sleeves at the Chevy Chase
Club or the Royal Bowling Alleys fight.
ing the little ducks" and he bowls well
too.
In the Down-and-out Tournament now
on at the Royal Goodman and STAN
ford have a flying start on the rest OF
the bunch, but don't forget Pop" HALEY
has got one 15o game to work on. Pop
came in the last one late, and stayed
late.
Through the perseverance OF its board
OF directors, and after overcoming tre-
mendous odds in the matter OF placing
its full strength in the 'field, owing 10
the fact that every member OF the
league must be a clerk in the depart
ment from which his team is repre-
sented, the Departmental Duckpin
league has established itself upon a
firm footing and bids fair to- be one OF
the strongest leagues in the city.
A spirit of good-fellowship prevails
throughout this league, no matter how
close or fierce the battle may be. and
the interest and pride shown by the re-
speetive departments in their teams Is
intense Already there have been enough
applications for next season to make mp
two leagues.
A glance a. the batting order of the
various teams will show the class Of the
league, many of the crack bowlers in
the city being upon its roster. Brosnan
ard Curtiss of the Commissioners; Nor
ris. of the Treasury: Helmerichs and
Jones, Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing; Parker and Riffel, Pension ONCE.
and Mccormick and Yost, of Navy Yard.
are a few.
All in all. this league deserves great
credit considering that all other leagues
are allowed to draw from the crack
bowlers everywhere
That recent tempest in tea pot
at Dayton, Ohio, relative TO the Dodo
ball, a futile rally started in behalf OF
the undesirable loaded sphere by one or
two disgruntled members OF the bowling
fraternity who like to play any kind of
a game with an ACE In the hole rather
than by fair means. has only tended to
give the Dodo a still blacker eye. The
loaded or trick ball must go. and its
demise will be made a matter Of history
at the meeting OF the American Bowling
Congress in Toledo this month. The feel
ing is general among those with the good
of the game at heart that bowler has
no more right to use loaded ball
which simply suggests loaded olce useo
by a crooked gambler-than Christy
Mathewson. Ed Walsh, Walter johnson,
or Joe Wood would have to use loaded
baseball when pitching to the big bat
ters of the National and American
Leagues.
Just why the alleged champions OF the
trick ball, in the face Of so much ad-
verse criticism, continue to fight for its
retention is a matter difficult to fathom.
but one thing Is certain-the Dodo is
doomed and will see its finish as herein
predicted. when the time comes for its
official execution at Toledo.