Evening star., 1915-02-06
PICKED FNES PLAY
At CASINO TONIGHT
BowIers From Reclamation
and Geological Circuits
Meet in Big Match.
SEVERAL CLEAN SWEEPS
MADE IN GOOD LEAGUES
Velvet Kind. Parks. Y. M. C. A. and
Land Win All Their
Contests.

What is apt to be one of the most
| warmly contested bowling matches of the
year is to take place tonight between
picked teams from the Reclamation Serv-
ice League and the Geological Survey
circuit The games will be rolled on the
Casino alleys. Three contests will be
played tonight and three at a date not
yet settled upon.
For quite while there has been great
rivalry between these two branches of the
government service, and it was only after
quite number of challenges had been
hurled back and forth that arrangements
were finally agreed upon for the match, to
be rolled in two series of three games
each. If all the talking done by the back
ers of the two quints is a criterion, one
of the most enthusiastic audiences that
has ever watched a match game in Wash
ngton will be present this evening when
the first balls are sent down the alleys.
header last night, being anchor man for
the -Gandils in the Arcade League, and
for the Velvet Kind five in the National
Capital circuit. Baum did not get less
than 100 pins in either of his contests
with the Velvet Kind. but made his best
marks with the Gandils-122, 10 and
10T, for Il set of S39.
The two matches rolled In the
Arcade League resulted in victories for
the Gandils and Velvet Kind. The
former took two out of three from
the Hess five, and the latter made a
clean sweep over the Mount Peasants.
Salb of the Hess team and Meany
of the " quint were the stars Of the
match. Meany got mark of 80 in
his first contest and then registered
13s in each of his other two. His
total was 355. Salb's set counted him
342. for which he rolled 11S, 121 and
81.
Two matches took place in the Ma
tional Capital League also. The VEL
vet Kind outfit won three times from
the Potomacs and the Casinos got two
games out of three from the Bruins
wicks. The Casinos incidentally OBJ
tanned the only set of more than 1900,
and they exceeded that mark by only
five pins.
Goldberg was high man for the Vel
vets and Cullin led the Casinos. Both
scores were la. 100 and III. while
Cullin obtained counts of 40, 130 and
Ill Bontz of the CASINOS and Wat
son of the Brunswicks did some good
work. each knocking down more than
100 pins in every game.
The Land team made a clean sweep
over the Commissioners in the Depart
mental League. winning rather easily.
Pratt of the winning quint was the
best bowler of the match, with scores
of 106, 113 and 1872. Pratt's set was
351.
The Parks won from the Decaturs by
very close scores in all three contests.
The first game was taken by a margin
of seven pins and the last by only
three. Imric of the Parks was high
man and Holmes led the Decaturs
Imric's marks were 114. 121 and I0s
Holmes slashed into the naples for a
count of 124 in his first game, but fell
off to 112 in his second and to 1O1 in
his third.
The Stansbury Lodge made a clean
sweep over the Columbia In the Ma
sonic League. The clean sweep was
gotten by the narrowest margin pos
sible, though, as the second game
found the Columbias making a total Of
469 against Stansbury's 49,
The Kearneys took two out of three
from the Schoenemans and the Espeys
won from the Burdettes by the same
margin in the Arguers' League The
Espeys had only two pins on the Bur
dettes. however. in that last period