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league is becoming more complicated

League is becoming more complicated
every day. Only recently 1t seemed
as though it would be a repetition
Of last seasons affair, with the Joseph
Phillips and Belmont teams furnish
ing the fireworks. Then, at the ex-
pense of the Phillips five. the Bel
monts shot we'll to the forefront, with
the King Pins creeping into second
place.
This season the sudden reversal
Of form by the Belmonts. who dropped
two to Auths, allowed the King Pins
to take the lead by winning three
from the Mount Peasants. But 1t ap-
pears as II the Phillips crew Is to be
considered. for while the King Pins
were taking but a pair from the Bel.
monts, to drop the latter into third
place, Dubois men came within a
game of the leaders by walloptng the
Linwoods three times. Their sue
cess Is attributed to the fine perform
ances of Earl McPhilomy.
The only upset Of last week came
when Jasper Naples set seasons
mark for high individual game with
172, to help the Mount Peasants win
three from the Cyclones.
BANKERS LEAGUE.
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High team set--La Fayette. 1.722.
n.1 aiF Zoo individual ses-Rosenoers. Com
II Ilxh- i individual same-Rosenberr. Com
Hish Individual averase-Rosenberg. Com
pers, 117-2l.
New Jerusalem bowlers, pennant
winners Of last season. have finally
struck their proper stride. having won
their last IL games, averaging sets OF
1900. This streak has brought them
into virtual tie for the runner-up
position.
Litzau Of Acacia performed the
unique feat of registering double
header strikes twice In the same set
his achievement being a. decided fac
tor In enabling his team to make a
clean sweep of its set last week.
Lewis Of Parker has been one Of the
consistent performers In the league
for several seasons. He hung UP
games OF lis, lit and 155. accounting
for a 2s7 set last week. and his score
in the final was just enough for his
team to win from Columbia, No. 285
by the slight margin of IL pins.
Whiting found Singleton tough op.
position, dropping two games to the
latter. Jimmy Boyd Of Singleton
counted three successive strikes in the
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EAST WASHINGTON CHURCH LEAGUE.

The race for the lead In thiS ieasue
is keen. Ninth 40. I and Douglas
are tied for first honors, but the tie
will be broken Tuesday night when
these two teams line up against each
other Neither team can AFFORD TO
alp very much because Ingram and
Eastern are right at their heels and
a poor set or two viii make big
change in the standing of the teams.
Ralph Andrews of Ninth No. l IL
leading In individual averagess with
no and pins, closely followed by
Al Souder OF Douglas. with 109 and 27
pins, and Harry Streiter of Eastern,
with 100 and - pins
Horner OF Ninth No. leads in
strikes, with 81. ~ Souder leads in
spares, with l18, and also has high
set of 800. Seaton Of Ingram has high
game. with 159.
Ninth No. ! has high game, with
sos, and also COPIED the high team
set, with 1904.
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BANKERS LEAGUE.

High individual sets-Scharf. 413: os-
High Individual kames-osborne. 1853:
womersley, 1877: Brown. 1871.
High team aames--W ashington Loan and
Trust No. 1. COL: Washington. 6e2: Mer-
High team sets-washington Loan end
Trust. No. I. LII: Washington. 1869;
Hibbs, 1.642.
Strikes-McCambridge. 90.
Sparee-Clark. liz.
In the Bankers Duckpin League
McCambridge has an undisputed strike
record with 20 and Clark has again
gone In the lead with spares with liz.
Bank Of Washington, by defeating
District three games, now has Al wins
against z losses.
Riggs still is in, second place. Hibbs.
although still in third place. lost
ground by dropping two Of three to
American Security and Trust Co. The
two Washington Loan and Trust Co.
teams are having red hot race. with
the No. / team holding slight edge.
Ted Miller's set Of 363 and Bruton' s
game of IA won the weekly prizes.
MASONIC LEAGUE.
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TRAPSHO0TERS END
TEAM EVENT In TIE

Two teams of trapshooters failed to
come to a decision yesterday in the
50-bird race on the range of the
Washington Gun Club. The issue was
in doubt until the last shot had been
fired and then it was found that each
team had scored 457 breaks in a pos
sible $50.
Individual honors went to Horton
and Morgan of team. No. 1, each
cracking 48 birds in so. Horton Won
the trophy in the shoot-off. c. c..
Fawsett led team, No. >, with a score
of 49,
w. H. Constantine, high man in
singles last week, took first place in
the doubles with score of 81 in AS
Next Saturday the District shooters
go to Baltimore for the seasons first
match with the Oriole Gun Club.
Yesterdays results:
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final boxes OF the last game, giving
him a BAT set, his best Of the season.

final boxes Of the last game, giving
him 347 set. his best Of the season.
Led by Capt. Henry TAFT Rodier.
who was high man for his team in
each of the three games. his set total
being 333. Harmony made a desperate
attempt to gain ground on the flying
leaders. but was forced to take the
short end of the count on each occa-
sion. The first game was lost with a
574 score, a season record for losing
team in the Masonic League.
Red Megaw was the big noise in the
Lafayette.Harm set, the sorrel-
matched lead-oH man getting games
of 1856, 141 and 113. a set of 40, which
ties Karl Heinzman of Congress for
second high individual set houors.
Megaw boosted his average to well
above the III mark, and is now but a
few pins less than Max Rosenberg of
Gompers, the league leader in that
respect
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TENNIS WORLD AWAITING
MEETING OF CHAMPIONS
May Clash on Riviera and Possibly Not Until June.
French Girl Almost Certain to Be Choice
Over California Lass.
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fourth-place Terminal Ice Co. outnt
clash on the Convention Hall drives.
Rivalry between these teams is in
tense. The Icemen are eager to re-
gain their position as total pinfall
leaders that was wrested from them
by the Convention Hall crew, while
the latter would rather take a fall
out of Blick's frosty fellows than any
others in the circuit
Stanford and King Pin teams are
strengthening for the final battles
of the season in the District League.
The Stanfords have acquired Chick
Hoffman, who was anchor man for
Petworth, and Glenn Wolstenholme
has been released by Mount Pleasant
to Bill Woods team.
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BOXING VS.. COLLEGE
WORRYING STRIBLING
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, January 16.-The
problem of trying to get a college
education without giving up his box.
ing career is harassing Young Strib-
ling. now that his honeymoon in New
York Is at an end.
Before departing with his bride to-
day for Savannah on the steamship
City of Chattanooga Stribling ex-
pressed a desire to take up studies
at the University Of Georgia. but
added:
"Of course, I would want to keep
up my boxing, and 1 am afraid that
l would be dismissed If 1 cut classes
to fight. l am going to take up the
matter with the college authorities
and see what can be done about it.
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Loeff1er plans to open the new nine
holes at Rock Creek and incorporate
it in an 18-hole layout that will add
greatly to public golf facilities in the
northwest section of the city. The
entire course will be opened late in
March, weather permitting. Loeffler
plans also to build an addition to the
clubhouse and to make various i'm
provements on the course in the way
of widening fairways. bunkering, etc.
He plans to retain Dan Horgan, the
present professional, for the 1926 sea-
son. .
Loeff1er's contract at East Potomac
Park runs until 1929.
The Rock Creek Park course was
operated last year by the Government
welfare board.~ Loeff1er plans to issue
Interchangeable season tickets, good
at either East Potomac Park or Rock
Creek. Park.
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But that's not all. The th-place
Operation quint was leading at total
pinfall with 20.197, and the cellar En-
gineers were third with 20,190. Con-
struction, league leaders. was second
in this respect with 20,192.
Walter r. Megaw, better known
perhaps as Red, has been Slamming
the naples for a startling count with
IN the last eight days. A week ago
yesterday he hit 500 in five games
with the King Pin All-Stars against
the Baltimore bowlers. Rolling for
La Fayette in the Masonic Association
Monday night he totaled 40 in three
games. Tuesday night he shot for the
King Pins in the National Capital
League and knocked 1856 pins, and
Wednesday night ne toppled $50 for
the King Pins in the District League.
That gave him total of Its pins in
IA games on four successive bowling
nights, an average Of 1861 per
game. That sounds something like a
| record.
Jasper Naples went into the last
game of his National Capital League
| record making game last week with a
| chance to break the District mark of
| 1873 set by Tip O'Neill some years ago.
With lis total for seven boxes, the
| Count knocked a double header and
| toppled nine naples with his first roll
in the final box for IA IN the eighth.
His record chance was shot to pieces,
though. when he failed to get that
single pin for a spare, that, if fol
lowed by a roll-of strike, would have
netted 1874. But he was well pleased
with this score:
sp sp sp sp sp sp st st
| 10 81 45 81 70 90 IFS l44 1853 172
One OF the hottest matches of the
season in the District League is ex-
| pected Wednesday night, when the
leading Convention Hall team and the
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EASY FOR NAVY PLEBEs

ANNAPOLIS. Md, January 10
The Navy demonstrated again today
that it has the best flrst-year basket
ball team 1t has had for many sea
sons when 1t defeated Baltimore
Poly. 81 to 20. Reserves worked for
the Navy during most Of the second
and final quarters.
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WASHINGTON LADIES' LEAGUE.

Columbians and HilltopperS ex-
changed places again, the former tax
ing the lead by grabbing three games
from Interstate Commerce, while the
Hilltoppers were having "a fight 10
stave Off the fast-going Beeques, the
match ending to in favor Of the
Hilltoppers. But the loss OF that one
game was enough to drop them back
into second place.
Lorraine GULL certainly gave the
bowlers a mark to shoot at when sne
crashed the naples for that 155 game
and 395 set. Her performance ap-
pears as brilliant piece Of duckpin-
ming when it is noted that she regis
tered only one strike in the three
games. Getting IA spares in a set is
some achievement in itself and is a
very good indication Of the wonderful
control she exhibited in piling up that
record score.
Kitty Klein Of the Columbians
stepped out and garnered high set
for the week on her team with the
nice threeg game string of SIC. Irene
Myers of the Commercials registered
splendid single game count OF 12s
In her third effort, giving her the sea
sons record for high game on the
team.
Mabel Jenkins, captain Of Bethany,
has visions of her team climbing out
of the cellar position and is squirting
1t to greater efforts each week, with
the result that 1t turned in it's best
brand of pin spilling for the season
Tuesday night, though 1t dropped all
three games. Cumi Mitchell shot high
game with a count Of 10S. while Capt.
Jenkins carried off the honors for high
set with 296.
Those who won theater tickets for
high scores were Irene Myers, Lor-
raine GULL. Marie Frere, Stella Turek
and Kitty Klein.
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it has done since its organization in
1910, even though 1t realizes 1t has
made some mistakes, does not see why
II should defer to what it terms an in
surgent organization that SO readily
admits it has nothing else to accom-
plish.
That's how the matter stands now
and that's what probably will be dis
cussed Tuesday night. Everything
else has been threshed out, it seems
1t has come to a question of whether
either or both of the associations shall
survive. 1t seems certain at this time
that neither faction will give any
more ground.
What is to be must be decided by
the bowlers themselves.
Harry Carroll, manager of the
Recreation chain of drives, has an.
nounced that the individual tourna-
ment he has planned will be held in
March instead of February. The high
average man of each team of the
leagues that bowl on alleys of the
Recreation chain will be eligible to
compete, and Carroll wants TO give
all the bowlers a chance to boost
their scores before the qualifying date
to be set arrives. Circular letters
oio ~ oC oCill ps SdI W Ut
secretaries this week. The secretaries
are to be notified as to the date the
averages are to be ascertained, and will
| be expected to nominate eligibles for
the tournament. The tourney will be
| a total pinfall contest with elimina-
ton rounds.
For oddly i'm team standings the
Southern Railway League gets the
. dol L.
ing of the eight-team circuit showed
the second team to be but one game
below the leader. and each of the
following teams but game behind
its immediate predecessor in the list.
Here's how they lined up:
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CONSIDERED STRONGEST
EVER TO INVADE BRITAIN
Also Is Most Youthful Combination to Strive for
Honors-One of Members Appears Likely
to Bring Back English Title.
RY RAY MCCARTHY.

AUGUSTINE January l6The selected this by
International Walker Cup matches in Great Britain
abroad
the British cham
the cab of the likely that
personnel Robert T. Jones Atlanta; George Won
Gulford,
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ENGLAND AND WALES TIE
IN ANNUAL RUGBY GAME

CARDIFF, Wales, January Is Up.
England and Wales played to a tie,
3 to 8, in their thirty-eighth interna-
tional rugby match today.
OF previous matches England has
won 10, Wales 16, while two have
been drawn.
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THOMAS new HEAD
OF FIELD TRIAL CLUB

Maj. Robert S. Thomas was named
president Of the National Capital
Field Trial Club at the annual cleo
ton of officers held recently at the
clubhouse at Bradley Hills.
He succeeds DR.. J. N. Paine, who
headed the body during the past year.
Frank Burrows was chosen first
vice president to replace Thomas P.
Baldwin, and r. w. Farmer was
named, for the Office of second vice
president, succeeding C. A. Clements.
Matthew Trimble. jr., of Kensing-
ton, Md, takes the place Of James D.
Foley as the clubs secretary
treasurer.
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With the BOwlers

FFICERS of the Washington City Duckp
Capital City Bowling Association with group
- bowling writers The Star Tuesday night 730
tons.
how could is
the
be brought With
have nothing do argument factions
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JOUR- CLUB CHAMPIONS
Co1urnbia-Miller B. STEVENSON.

Note---This is the first of a series
of sketches. concerning the cham
pions of the golf clubs about
WashinDtons 1critten by w. III. Nc
CdIlum, Golf Editor of The Star.
Others 1ciH folIoU.
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ROCK CREEK PARK LINKS
TO BE RUN BY LOEFFLER

n oCK CREEK PARK golf will during
+ of G.
golf links concession basis for the last five years.
the
the office Maj u S.
of buildings
drawn and will be signed morning.
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NICE. France, January Is @.-
Miss Helen Wills, the American won1-
an lawn tennis champion, arrived here
f~o~S, Pc ria
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Mock Trial to Be
Presented by Legion
Thursday Night

Unusual developments are prom
Used in the mock tri3l which is to
be staged Thursday evening by the
benjamin f. Smith Post, No. 4.
American Legion. when George H.
Smith of the Hillside Press will go
on trial to defend himself against
charges of Islander. libel and sever
al other things" brought by Mrs.
Christine Newbert, a member of the
Post. Mr.. Smith will defend him.
self, and rumor has it that his plea
will be that of temporary or per-
manent insanity.
With Attorney Clyde L. Gray as
counsel for the plaintiff however the
Legionaires are doubtful if Mr..
Smith will escape, but of course the
decision remains with the presiding
justice. who will be Judge Harold
E. Cook. Both parties have secur-
ed a promising array of witnesses
who will do their best to futher the
case of their respective friends,
whether by fair means or foul.
Neither Mr.. Gray nor Mr.. Smith
have been in evidence great deal
of late. and it is presumed that they
ae pouring over their legal briefs,
and marshalling their arguments so
as to present them to the best ad-
vantage.
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Board of Trade BANQUET

The Worster was the scene last
night of a very interesting affair.
The newly organized Board of Trade
met there for the first of its monthly
banquets. About 40 were present.
The gathering was representative
one and included men of differing
Tibbetts, president of the Board of
Trade, presided and introduced the
speakers. The banquet was a deli
cious one, served in the Worster's
fine style.
The speakers at this first banquet
were all local men, and the general
topic was the interests of the city.
John M. Clancy. who was superin-
tendent of the Marston & Brooks
factory, and who is to occupy the
same position If the Herman Com
pany brings it's business to Hallowell,
eplained to the gathering the plan
of the company and the immunity
from taxation which they ask of the
city.
Other speakers were Frank S.
Wingate of the Realty Company,
Judge Beane, and Judge Stafford.
There was in interesting informal
discussion of matters of general in
terest to the business men of the
city. 1t Is the plan of the sponsors
of these monthly banquets that they
serve much the same civic purpose
that the Rotary club banquets do in
some cities. 1t is hoped to make the
board of~trade a real force in the
city's life.
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Latest Gardiner
Storm Cripples
All Trolley Service

The most Gripping storm to local
traffic and trolley lines was the one
which gave Gardiner and vicinity an
additional ten inches of snow Sunday
night. The A. q X. gave irregular
service to Augusta in the morning,
but it was not until 100 that Lew
iston car got through. In the after
noon both local and lewiston Wat
Vile cars were on schedule time. The
MI Central trains We're somewhat
behind time, the morning train be-
ing about half an hour late, while the
4.22 express was about three quarters
of an hour late.
The city proper was inconveni-
enced but slightly by the snow due
to the work of Street Commissioner
Jose and his equipment of plows and
efficient personnel. The work of dig
ging out after yesterdays storm
could not have been possible. how
ever had in not been for the fore
sight in disposing of the previous
snowfalls and this same foresight is
the cause of Gardeners cleared side
walks and roads. In the opinion of
the Representatives of snow removal
equipments who have travelled all
over the New England states and OBJ
s"~---I conditions Gardiner rates
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Many Guests Attend
Banquet for Mothers
And DAUGHTERS

The Mothers and Daughters BAN
quet, held by the ladies' bible class
of the Free Baptist churh at the
community house proved most sue
cessful, 1870 members and guests be-
ing present. The table was very at
tractive and delicious meal was
served. Toasts were given during
the evening by different members of
the class. The program Of the even
ing was as follows: Solo. when the
Lilies of the Valley Whisper Home
Sweet Home to Me-" Virginia Blynn;
piano duet. Mrs. Ruth Rines and Mrs.
Alta Walters; solo, Mother" Doro-
thy Deckwith; reading, Mrs. Ruth
Rines; talk to daughters, Mrs. Nor
gan Baker; reading, Mrs. Perley Ba-
ker. A gold pencil was presented to
Mrs. G. L. Chapman, who had served
the class as president for two years,
Mrs. Mrs. Ella Ring, president of the
class.
The program closed with a hearty
song service, and prayer by the pres
ident, Much credit is due the COM
mittees in charge of the banquet.
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EpWorth League

The members of the Hallowell Ep-
worth League have been invited to
attend a get-together banquet and
social to be held Friday evening OF
this week at the Green Street Meth
odist church, Augusta. A federation
or circuit league will probably be
formed at this meeting. to include
Augusta. Hallowell. Gardiner. Rich
mond. Bowdoinham and Winthrop.
There was at one time very sue
cessful South Kennebec Federation
of Epworth Leagues, which the
Hallowell society was instrumental
in founding. 1t worked very well in
stimulating an interest In general
league work. 1t is hoped that this
city will send an excellent delegation
to the Augusta meeting. Notice of
the exact hour and of the car to be
taken will be given later.
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FARMINGDALE

A very enjoyable occasion TOOK
place at the Burns school on Friday
afternoon, when a huge Valentine
box was opened by the teacher, Miss
Reynolds with Justine Noyes, Ella
Carter, Elmer Carter carriers OF
tokens. Each and every pupil re-.
ceiving a valentine from their tea
cher. and many from pupils as wen.
Miss Reynolds received some pretty
Valentines from her pupils, as wen
as from parents and friends OF me
school, an appreciation Of the ngn
esteem in which she is held by all. +
A box social is to be held In the
near future which will be a fittn!
close for a very successful term OF
school.
Mrs. Achsa Beane visited tns
Burns school on Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Achsa Beane and Mrs. Evelyn
WEIGH were dinner guests OF VI.
and Mrs. Harry Crockett one Gay
the first of the week. a.
Lewis Orrs, who is employed WIN
Lord and Seeley. passed the week
end with his family in Bath.
Mrs. George Seeley received woIo
today from her cousin. Mrs. EAs
Cook, of Gardiner, that her protns..
Elbridge Seeley. is critically VI U
hospital in Lowell, Mass. Mrs. Cooa
left for that city a few days as0
and will remain there for an IN
definite time.