The Washington herald., 1917-05-06
|ONE RECORD IS BROKEN
IN DUCKPIN TOURNEY
Barber and Hansford. of Lafayette
Team, Turn Slips in for 700 Pins.

The first lap of the District Duckpin
Association tournament. which Is being
held at the Grand Central Palace, was
reached Friday night. Although only
one District record has been hung UP dur
ing the past week, the shooting of the
players has equaled expectations. Two
more weeks OF spilling the little pins on
the maple pathways is still scheduled, and
from the form displayed during the past
week, followers of the great indoor pas
time are confident that some record
breaking scores will be tabulated in the
books of the association.
The feature of the past weeks rolling
was the work OF P. L. Gowen, Of the
Chemistry team, In the Agriculture In
terbureau League. Through the efforts
of this Individual. the Chemistry team
grabbed of second honors in the class Il
team standing. while his work in the
singles and doubles placed him in a good
position to grab OF the title in all-events
Gowen did his shooting on opening
night when he registered 35S pins, with his
team, and spilled 2S in the doubles His
set of 36S in the class B singles still re-
mains as the high mark while his grand
total for all events of 1913 should make
many of the bowlers hustle to reach this
mark Gowen's highest game while hang
ing up this big total was 49, which he
obtained in his second attack on the
naples.
Dick Barber and Harry Hansford. OF
the Lafayette team in the Masonic
League, put through the District record
with a total of 700 pins on Thursday
night, in the class A doubles. Barber
hung up a set Of S6l. while his partner
toppled 800 of the ducks. Each bowler
rolled well at all times and on a num-
Der OF occasions pulled difficult spares,
while they succeeded in sweeping the
boards on a great many of the bad
breaks which they obtained
On Thursday night. when Barber and
Hansford were shooting for their high
set in Class A, Kimbel and Coldren
hung up the high mark in the Glass B
doubles, by spilling 81 pins. Kimbel was
the big contributor to this mark when
he crashed the pins for 347 while Coldren
grabbed of 324 in his attack on the
naples.
The high individual set for the Class
A singles was hung up Thursday night.
The veteran, Eddie Crowley, of the Gar
rison Club, hit the old maple trail for
a 3S5 total. Crowley got away to a bad
start as an even century was all he
registered but in his second attempt
he knocked down IA pins and came back
in the final game with a mark OF 14l.
Crowley was hard pressed to stay out
In front when Al Works. shooting on
class. Works started with 104 and fol-
lowed this with games of I32 and 14O
while T. Shanks on the same evening
grabbed off third honors in Class A by
recording a set of $50.
The Stansbury team number one is
leading the Glass A field with a total
Of 1877 pins. while Agriculture auint. of
the Departmental League, tops the Class
crowd with the next highest total of
l.615. These are the only teams that have
to date registered a set over the 600
mark, but many totals above this are
being looked for before the final whistle
Is sounded.
The tournament this season Is the larg-
est in the history of the organization,
but this does not appear to be any handi-
cap to the officers In charge, as on each
evening they run the events off without
any delay. On several occasions the
starting of the rolling has been held up
by the captains of the teams competing
because Of their inability of not reporting
to the secretary on time, and Secretary
Goldberg requests that all members of
the teams rolling during the next week
report fifteen minutes before scheduled
time.
One Of the big features of this week. s
rolling will be held on Tuesday night,
which Is to be known as ladies' night,
when three teams will take the alleys,
while on the following Saturday eight
doubles and twenty singles will be shot
in this class.
President George Isemann. of the Asso-
citation. made possible this feature which
will be one of the biggest nights OF the
tourney. A great deal OF the success of
the tournament to date is coming to the
officers of the association. who have han
died things in tiptop shape