Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-12


District, which is to be inaugurated Mon
day. February 10. should. and probably
WILL prove the most successful both in
point of the number of entries and in
terest taken in the event of any affair
ever given under the auspices of the
City Association. There are several rea-
sons assigned as the cause of this re-
newed interest in the big pin tourney.
the most important. perhaps, being the
intercity character of the event and the
fact that the star bowlers from both
Baltimore and Richmond are to be pitted
against the local men. Added to this is
the evident determination of the tenpin
knights to for all times bury the
Ratchet" as far as past disagreements
are concerned. and work hard and har-
moniously toward the re-establishment of
the game on the plane ii once occupied
here. change from the date originally
decided upon for the commencement of
the tourney was made last week, When
II became evident that record entry
list was to be had and the desire of the
committee in charge of the schedules to
have sufficient time in which to properly
perform its duties to the satisfaction OF
all the bowlers who desire to participate.
1t was thought that the time decided on
at the first meeting would not allow OF
and the change noted was made. Great
neadway was made during the past week
by the officers of the tournament and
opening night will undoubtedly find every
arrangement detail worked out perfectly.
Entry blanks will be issued next week.
Evening Star again assumed the leader
ship in the Commercial League. winning
all three games from the Hahn team
Thursday night, in the first two of which
the result was never seriously in doubt.
AS was expected, the match was Wit
messed by one of the largest crowds
which ever watched a match set IN TINS
league, and the caliber of rolling-by the
winning team, at ieast-was exceptionally
good. Dave McCarty. Guy Champion and
Roy Whitford We're the bright lights OF
the set. the former getting BOB and win
ming the last game for his team with i5l,
while Champion had 1913 set. with Whit
ford totaling 32S. The latter bowler also
had high game. 135. Hollidge C322). and
Vogelsberger 1910. did the best work FOR
Hahn The team total of the Star for
the set was 1850. In the last game-the
only one of the three which was close
the Shoe Dealers were off in the lead and
i'm the third box were thirty-seven pins
to the good. This was cut down by the
stars. and down to Hollidge in the tenth
frame the newspaper quint was eight pins
ahead. Hahn's anchor man pulled the
spare which gave his team chance Tor
the game, but counted only seven pins,
of one. The Star team now has lead
of three full games over Hahn.
Harwood of the Pilgrims in the
Colonial League set new set record for
that organization Thursday night, when
he had $50 for his three games. with
scores of 20. 256 and 2o4. An odd fea-
ture of the set was that in the game in
which he had his best total-the second
his quint lost by over a hundred pins
brakes 234 count was the best for the
Iroquois team.
Tom George of the Kendall team In the
Interdenomina tional League also broke
into the nmelight in startling fashion
Tuesday night, and came within two pins
OF tying the record duckpin set. when he
mad 90 for his three games. His scores
were 1O7, 126 and 1872. which creates. as
we'll as high set, new mark for in
dvidual game in any league this season.
Kendall was pitted against the Fifth Bap-
list quint, the leaders in the Church
League. Ellett's 1876 count carried his
team to an easy victory in the first. but
George started in on his record breaking
stunt in this contest. when he turned in a
1875 game. Kendall winning easily. With
spare in the first box of the last game,
George piled a strike In the next frame,
and then doubled On his first ball in
the fourth box he got nine pins and d
''wiggle." on hit which looked good
for strike. He pulled the spare and
united nine. He also got that mark. but
missed the single pin On his first ball
in the next frame he again eNt nine. only
10 miss the spare. lie repeated this stunt
In the ninth, but counted nineteen on a
spare In the final frame. Fifth still leads
the league by one game.
Glass" is the middle name of the Ma
tonai capital League as a duckpin or
sanitation. The averages of the bowl
ers as shown by the official figures re-
fleet great credit on their prowess, and
places 1t unouestionably at the head OF
all other little pin organizations in this
city and. we may safely venture to say,
IN any other city in the country.
One OF the reasons assigned for the
boom in bowling which has taken place
locally in the last two years Is the in
creased publicity given the sport by the
newspapers That the games popularity
was on the upgrade. OF course goes