Evening star., 1916-04-13
BIG CROWD WATCHES BOWLERS
OF MASONIC LEAGUE IN ACTION
Last Mig int Most Successful of the A. C.. B. A.
Tournament, Though No Bowling Marks
Fall-Commercial Men Roll Tonight.

I'VE did not get big scores on the
alleys, but we produced the best night
of the tournament" was the way one
of the men who rolled in the Atlantic
Coast Bowling Association event last
night expressed himself at the close
of play 1t was Masonic night the
twenty quints of that league were on
| the maple boards from 7:15 till after
midnight, and there undoubtedly was
| a larger representation in the stands
than has attended any previous part of
the schedule.
| Just before the start of the third
game of the first set, Harvey T. Rod
i gers, president of the local chapter of
the association, introduced William W.
Germane. grand master of the juris-
diction, who responded with a brief
address. Mr.. Germane said he was ex-
tremely glad to see such an exception
ally large representation present and
believed bowling was sport which
deserved support. He went even fur
| ther and made the statement that he
wanted to see bowling developed more
! largely among Masons, and that he
would certainly do all possible to FUR
/ ther such growth 1t was Mr.. Ger
resentation in bowling was only the
forerunner of period when there
would be a Masonic organization en-
bracing all the various branches of
clean sports.
W. F. GUIDE, president of the Atlantic
Coast Bowling Association, spoke brief
| ly on the splendid attendance: Illus
| trious Potentate L. Whiting Estes OF
the shrine talked for few minutes on
/ the success attained by the Masonic
| teams in bowling and expressed the
opinion that even greater attainments
awaited in the future.
I Not the least feature of the evening
| was the serving of refreshments. 1t
was the first time during the schedule
| that such thing has been done and
probably one of the few times in the
| history of such tournaments.
! The Grotto Band was or the job all
evening and there were few moments
! when 1t was not making things lively.
| From standpoint of attendance, gen
| eral entertainment and enjoyment MA
| sonic night was the best of the tour
| nament, and if any of the coming spe-
| cials surpass it considera BILE credit will
/ be forthcoming to the organization un
| der the auspices of which it is held.
This will be Commercial night" and
the teams of the Commercial League
are to roll their sets. The General
Baking Company. Southern Railway,
Woodward & Lothrop. Evening Star,
Judd & Detweiler. Barber & Ross.
| Christian Xander, Hecht & Co. and
Welsbachs will take the floor. Besides
, these, two teams from Rosedale are to
compete. Rosedales No. 1 and Rose
dales No. 2.
| The Southern Railway five won the
championship in the Commercial
League and there will be considerable
| rivalry tonight between the members
of that quint and the one representing
| The Evening Star. While the last
| mentioned aggregation lost out in the
league more than one player in the
| lineup figures the team stronger than
any other in the Commercial circuit
and do not hesitate to say so. >And
Moe Goldberg. captain of the Southern
/ five. is just as emphatic in his opinion
that no other club in the organization
is nearly as good as his.
Not much real bowling was done by
the teams last night. Not many sets of
more than 400 were registered, the
majority falling below that figure. The
National Lodge got the best set the
count being 1,452. The second mark
fell way below this, the runner-up
honor going to the Lafayette club,
with 1.4l7.
| Some good sores were made dur
! ing the play in the afternoon.
DIR. Shade went into third place in
the duckpin singles rolling for count
of 342. Roy Whtford and Bailey also
registered more than 800. The former
rolled exceptionally well in his first
and third games, but low count in
his second prevented him going higher
than 30S.
| In the duckpin doubles Manghum
i and Hughes went into second place
with a set of GA 1t probably was the
first instance Of the tourney in which
doubles have been rolled. and both
players got scores of at least 100 in
every game. Manghum rolled 102, us
and 1O3 for set of 800. while Hughes
knocked down 1D9 100 and 1U6.
The members of the Royal team of
the District League are scheduled to
roll this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Pop
HALEY and his players are expecting
10 get some good counts III the duckpln