Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07

strikes would mean a perfect score
of 800, and though In this instance
they were divided between two games
and therefore did not count for 800.
the fact that they came in succession
Is sufficient to make the performance
one OF the most sensational ever re.
corded with the bowlers anywhere in
the small-pin sport.
The player to achieve that feat
was Smiling Smith Of the Casey
Stars team of the Original Pastime
League" the Pittsburgh paper re-
ports. Rolling against the Sorosis
outfit, four games being bowled to
a match in this league. Smith finished
his first game with nine strikes in
row, giving him score of 257 for
the game. The world record is 2s5,
Starting his second game he made
three more strikes in succession, Civ
ing him IL straight
In his four games he totaled 79s
pins, not only smashing all records
for all time in his own league, but
also hanging up one Of the best marks
ever made anywhere in any league.
"A total Of 1913 pins for four games
means that Smith came within .
pins of getting an average of 200 a
game for four games, which prob.
ably Is the best ever made in this
vicinity, at least for four games of
match play in regulation league com.
petition"
What do You suppose Smiling"
Smith could-do to the hardwoods
here? And what do you suppose our
topnotchers could do to the rubber.
banded pins in Pittsburgh after sew
eral weeks Of practice against them?
Entries for the annual Masonic As.
m hn
start on the Convention Hall drives a
week from tomorrow, are pouring in
so rapidly that Arville Ebersole, who
Is receiving them. believes the
tourney will have a record number
Of competitors this year.
Tuesday nights bowling in the
Washington Ladies' League at the
Coliseum not only will complete the
second lap In the race for titular
laurels, but also will bring into op-
position the four leaders, with the
possibility of a decided shift of posi-.
ton among the first division teams
when the smoke of battle has cleared
away. :
The leading Columbians will clash
with the Hilltoppers, now tied with
the Commercials and Washingtons
three games behind the pace settlers,
while the other parties Of the second
place deadlock are fighting 1t out on
the drives. The Beeques. in fifth
position and four games behind the
leaders. will encounter the Daughters
Of Isabella, a second division team
that has not been bowling SO Well
Anna Williams Of the Delhis, in
the Washington Ladies League, is a
good example of the bowler who
proves her worth to her team, be.
cause she always is trying to accom-
plish something. While she has no
record.breaking scores to her credit,
ment in her game and no doubt will
see her name registered among the
high scores more than once before
the season ends.
Public Debt League girls now are
striving for a prize offered by a
prominent Washington jeweler to the
one that bowls the highest league
game between February l and April
IS: Edna Parker at present leads
with 112, but scoring in the circuit
is improving so fast that undoubtedly
greater total than that will be
needed to get the trophy.
Capt. Barber Of Economics, In the
Agriculture Interbureau League, did
some unusual counting on marks
while bowling against Plant Bureau.
He made six marks. On the first
three he counted two pins each and
on the other three nine pins each.
In each case he hit the head pin,
but the first three shots landed too
accurately on the nose. The other
three shots hit the button.
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