The Washington times., 1926-11-25
TITLE PLAY
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By r. D. Thomas

BY r. D. Thomas
Frank sherman, the old pocket
billiard king. long since has been
absent from this world. but nor
until now has a serious effort been
made to replace him as Washing
toms representative against the
world in the popular cue and ivory
game.
To determine a city champion
primarily but also to help aevelop
a player capable of carrying on
where Sherman left off, big lotr
nament will be held in January
and February at the Kingrin es-
tablishment in Mt. Pleasant.
The biIIi4rd annex of the kim
pin is nearing completion, and
the title tournament will be the
first big event of its kind staged
there. The tournament will be
open to all amateur players in
the city.
Excepting Joe Concannon, .low
manager Of the Arcadia billiard
room, who is a Washingtonian by
adoption, the Capital has had no
really high class pocket billiard
performer since Sherman, who
twice won the world champion hip.
Concannon, however. has passed
up all national tournaments since
coming here. combining his play to
local exhibitions, In which he has
won a wide following. If menol J
serves, Concannon several years
ago made a consecutive run of "a
balls which tied a Washington rec
ord that long had been held by
Tom Moore.
AT that, it is doubtful that
. COncannOn could have matched
the wizardy of old Sherman, who.
to win his first title in 1901 at
Boston, defeated such masters as
Alfred De Orc. Jerome KeOgh,
William Clearwater, Thomas
Houston, Charles Weston and
others that some Of the veterans
will recall. Sherman's day Of
superiority was long. He came
back and won the title again in
1908 at Chicago.
His last championship appearance
waas at Philadelphia in 1912 when
he finished fourth behind Edward |
Ralph. James Mature and Alfred
De Orc. Sherman won four of his
seven matches. Failing health at
that time already was affecting his
game.
Bill Wood, the Kingpin manager.
expects at least dozen promising
stars to compete in his tourna-
ment. With such q large field it,
would be necessary to hold a quail
flying round with the eight leaders
to be eligible for the title play.
A gold medal, emblematic of the
District championship, win be
suitable prizes for those finishing
second, third and fourth.
The bOwIers are having a big
inning today. From noon until
closing time late tonight they will
be competing for special prizes at
all Of the big establishments.
Hourly awards OF ice cream or
boxes of candy viii be made for
high scores.
Those Veihmeyer and Donaldson
brothers started something with
their unique series at Convention
Hall. Other trick lineuDs are being
organized. For instance, some Of
the aging patrons of. the Kingpin
have formed q team that averages
SIS years of age and they are cast
ing about for opponents.
The Kingpin Methuselahs are:
Jake Scharf, Edwin Yewell, Nick
Eckhardt and Charles A. Vanderlip
In their challenge they stipulate
that any enemy shall have no
player who has been around fewer
than fifty seasons.
Anybody who may account these
veteran pin shooters as set-ups are
warned here and now They are
all team bowlers. Together they
would easily average better than
500 a team game.
One of the most unusual team
games of the season is in the Va
sonic League records today. The
NJ. NJ. Parker Lodge bowlers, carry
ing a dummy Of SIS and rolling out a
forfeit set, shot score of 628. VIII
liam A. Lewis contributed 141; Wiz
liam FaIk, 1877: Vernon Gingell. 139,
and John Papas, 1876.
All of the four got hot" at the
same time. It was the final game.
In the other two the Parkers got
scores of 483 and 468. Their big
game Is a seasons record for the
league.
In the District League the crack
Stanford Paper Company and Curb
Cafe teams had tight battle.
Stanford Paper Company won Two
games, one by a margin of three
pins and the other by four pins.
Curb took the final by six naples.
The StanfOrds had a set OF 1895
and Curb Cafe got one pin less.
The Stanfords made "a spares and
strikes and the Cafemen made
80 spares and 10 strikes. Elicit, OF
Stanford. had the high set of 500,
10 pins better than Toomey's total
for Cub. Yes. 1t was close all down
the line.
BY shooting 397. McKetrick. Of the
Union Printers, hung up a new mark
for the season in the Athletic = ub
League. Mandley and Mckay had
been tied for the top set with 1916
each.
WILLIAM LEWIS
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