The Washington times., 1922-01-06

Johnny must have q terrible amount
of faith In mankind. He must be an
optimist Of optimists. He must be IN
high standing in Baltimore. Other
wise he would never have had the
nerve to personally chaperone such an
aggregation into his own home town,
and practically vouch for them as
persons of probity and Righteousness
who might be trusted not to carry OH
any Of the statuary which Is strewed
plenteously about the streets OF the
town.
Johnny Accepted Risk.
He must have been aware OF the
terrible risks he ran of conveying Into
ne native lair of the bootlegger some
If the bottle SCARED veterans who
formed the fringe of his retinue. Yet
Johnny imperturbably accepted these
and other risks of more personal ana
financial nature merely to further ana
stimulate interest in the game OF
luckpins.
Ostensibly. the occasion was the
olling of the first half OF a series
six games between the Bureau girls
owing team of Washington and a
vked team Of fair bowlers oil Baiu-
more, representing the Regent aneys'
If that city. In reality what resulted,
other than the display of heroism on
Johnny's part, was an exhibition OF I'M
cuualed and whole-hearted hospitality
IN the part of Manager Sapp, or the
Regent alleys land also of every other
Raltimorean who had any part what:
socver in the doings). a whole iot o,
40 called singing on the trip TO ana
fro: various stunts by Sarge warren
borne with extreme patience by the
audience; the spectacle OF FRANK Bray
lor IA delicate young thing oil leet :.
constructed for light derrick work
rather than Diapers model. being
called a Washington cake-eater by
Deeyed Baltimore rooter; ana some Oh
he worst bowling ever perpetrated on
IN alley. In fact, some OF II was not
done en- the alley.
Stage Fright Set In.
The Baltimore team Is a new ag'
r,repation. and has yet TO estaoNsh
n self in records which might provide
an index to it's abilities. But even as
green team, rolling on It's nome
alleys with the support OF mon OIL
ra bid rooters, II is reasonable 10 u-
duce from the scores that they were
bit upset by the magnitude OF the
occasion and were not dong them-
selves Justice. They showed flashes
of form which convinced the onlooker
that they knew the game.
The Bureau team, individually ana
collectively, was way below par.
True, this was the first time the
Washington outfit had been matched
n an intercity contest and had jour
neyed far from home to perform on
strange alleys before hostile crowd.
But the team Is a veteran one. has
rolled together for a whole season,
and had the experience Of par
ticipation i'm the Washington City
Duckpin Tournament last spring.
Face 44.Pin Handicap.
Washington made a clean sweep OF
all the events, teams, singles. and
doubles. AS result the Baltimore
girls face a handicap Of a pins when
they journey to Washington to roll
the final half of the match. The
Bureau team started by picking up
twenty eight pins in the fiSt game,
adding fifteen more In the second and
one in the final
Lorraine GULL was the best Wash
ington performer, getting ITO for
high game, while "Broncho" Zorbach
was the outstanding star of the
! Regent team. Miss Zorbach was
pitted against the redoubtable Gladys
Lowd, captain of the Bureau team,
and took cap" into camp rather
I handsomely in the team contest.
However. Cap came back strong in