The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-21
By KIRK c. MILLER.

! Although the schedules of the MYRIAD
| duckpins for the next two weeks are
! absolutely blank as far as the league
! rolling is concerned, this cond ton does
| not indicate that the bowlers will be
! IDLE. No-not by any stretch of the
! imagination. In fact, the coming two
weeks will be one of the busiest for
the alley manager and pin boys as IT
is at this very time of the year. that
the league bowlers, released from their
| scheGUles-run wild on the alleys
This very period is set aside for
! open" rolling by the league rollers.
| New STYLES of delivery are tried out.
and, If effective, adopted when the New
Year begins. Also. the holiday period
| is filled with tournaments OF varied ma
| ture. No less than FIVE tournaments
are now being conducted on the local
| alleys, and this vacation time is going
| to see the bulk of the competition in
! these special tournaments brought out
! At the Palace alleys, the Do, tour
nament is attracting most Of the up,
/ town bowlers, although the Royal
, two-man tournament and the CONNER
/ cial alley turkey tournament are draw
I ing their shares.
| Down southeast Pete Malone has hung
up substantial cash prizes for a dot
I bowlers of that section into his alleys
In Georgetown, Manager Ar nssrong
! has augurated a down-and-out tour
nament, and the patrons of the Poto-
mac elleys are all taking a fling at
! this Attractive and novel competition.
The Royal two-man tourney started
today and Will run until New Year
Day.
Where this tournament differs from
the average tourney is that. two bowl
ers give in their names as a team along
with 80 cents as an entrance zee, either
or both members OF the team can bowl
as many or as few games as they wish,
Just so the combined team has ten tlO
high games to their credit for qualify
The team finishing with the greatest
total for the ten games. gets he gross
amount of entrance fees. Five teams
are TO qualify COR the roll-oT which
takes place Saturday. January ?. pm.
so going to the team finishing first, SO
to team finishing second; IS TO team
finishing third. A tournament OF this
the Royal alleys and proved very sue
cessful
When the Columbus met the CARR
sons, trs. in the Fourteenth street
League, all records were broken. High
team game Of 524 and high team set Of
l,is9 were hung up by Column as. Also
high game by G. II. ROwdybush OF lSi
and high set of SO were es.a blished.
The Columbus have won eleven out Of
the last twelve games and have come
from bad last place to within striking
I distance of the leaders. After the first
J Of the year two new teams viii be with
our league and We will start with clean
sheet
/ District the Federal League leaders,
we're going at fast pace Tuesday
night. tax ng three straight from Ma
tioual Capitol BY spilling J3l pins u
the last game, they established e new
nigh game record.
Donch and Moore each had three
games over the century mark Now
don't jump 70 the Bankers League
Franklin National grabbed two out OF
! three from National Savings and Trust
r DAY night. an led the Franklin7
with scores Of - ili, while .Illmer
did the best woTl 90. National Savings,
getting marks Of 10, lie, %.
Captain Dcvcreaux. of the National
Savings and Trust, has strengthened his
team by signing Shock" BOteier, who
was Central High School $ winning
pitcher few years ago.
: Chapline. with a 326 set and Pollock,
with 3l3 members OF the Frank team.
have qualified for the big prize tourna-
mcut, which will be held at the Com
merrial alleys or b""-mbHr %.
The Feds, according 70 a Iong-stand-
ng custom among local bowIers. will
. stag" no games during the holidays.
Muuscv Trust and Franklin National
"ili lash January > for the first game
or 1915