The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-05
Agriculture Team Puts Over
High Team Set of Evening.
Nabobs" Fail as Bowlers.
GRIFFMEN ROLLDUCKPINS

Local tenpin knights jumped into the
limelight last night at Camp Emery when
the Washington City Tenpin League,
along with Ffetcher's "Nabobs." COM
posed Of the directors Of the local tour
nament company, spilled the big naples
with the 1s-pound ball.
The Agriculture team led the tenpin
field for the night with a team set Of
ASS. while the Royals. No. 2. followed
with a set Of $50, two pins ahead Of
Acme
Peyton FIetehsr's 'Nabobs," in their
evening clothes, proved to be better Beau
Brummels than spillers OF the big ma
pie pins, as in their efforts against the
wood they gathered a set OF only Las.
Ray Morgan and his band OF Nationals
were present. rolling duckpins, and kept
the large crowd in the graE1stand con-
stantly cheering with their accurate
bowling. "OId Fox" Grifith demon
strated that he can handle a mineralte
curve as well as the horsehide, while
Capt George Mcbride, Eddie Foster and
Rippy Williams helped to swell the total
gathered by the Grirmen. which was
1857 pins.
The Government Printing once team
gathered the highest team set in the
duckpin class by splitting ,f72 pins. Ray
Morgan, with set OF 800. put across the
highest Individual set in duckpins, while
Ryerson. Of the Acmes, led the field in
tenpin, with the high individual set of
SOL
The officials Of the tournament yester-
day decided to allow the ladies during
the rest Of the matches free admission.
and as ladies' night had been agreed
upon as April 10. It Is expected that the
interest from the "fairer sex will in
crease greatly. The night set aside for
the lady bOwlers of Washington promises
the three weeks of rolling. as Ave teams
have already entered. The idea OF the
tournament is to set the entrance fee for
this event at $3.50 Is cents OF this
amount going toward the prize money.
This Is a feature which thus far has been
hanging fire. and in deciding thusly no
doubt the teams will soon get in line.
Owing to the cold weather which has
been prevailing in Washington for the
past few days, it was found necessary to
arrange for the heating of the hall, and
tonight the hall will be heated to its
proper temperature.
Mai. Robb, Of the Pioneer tenpin team.
was the first bowler on the new alleys
to connect with a double-he strike
in his first game and helped consider
ably in holding up his teams total
through these marks.
Low Scores in Doubles.
1.-THE doubles in the afternoon failed to
md any OF the pairs breaking records.
} W. Crenshaw, paired with c. E. Car
ter. jr., in this class knocked down the
liuIe- naples for a SIS set, the best of
the daN. but this is far below the aver
aEe double set.
The highest game during the doubles
and singles of yesterday went to Carter,
OF the Crensha w-Carter team. this bowler
knocking down lis in his second game.
The sets in the doubles were not up to
the standard Of the local bowlers These
handiCaps are mostly due to the fact
that the alleys on which the games are
rolled are. ,.bTsnd-new. aud, besides, the
majority OF the men who are scheduled
10 roll during the first week are suffer
ing a hit from stage fright
Following are the scores in the doubles:
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