Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-15


Despite this championship argu-
ment however, the Al w OK Earn Nc
Philomy match promises TO pe the
biggest baNe on the drives TINS WIZ
ter. Challenges may be hurled at the
winner and other matches follow, but,
come what may, this contest that
starts at the Coliseum tomorrow nlsht
will be the event of the present bowl
ing campaign.
As TO championship. that Is
another matter. The Work -McPhllomy
match is the result of a friendly
rivalry between Jack Blick and Harry
Stanford, who are the employers or
the principals in the contest. blck
long has boosted OF the proWess on
the drives of his Terminal Ice Co.
star. and Stanford for the past year
has thought that his Stanford Paper
Co. bowling leader Is about the pest
TO be found on Washington alleys.
And the match starting tomorrow
night ought To determine when OF
these two hackers is right, but II VIII
not determine any city hampton.
More than 10 games are needed 10 90
that \ champion Is not man VINO
shoots a spectacular game occasion
ally nor a man who bowls consistently
we'll with "A league that does ITS roiiins
on one set of alleys only.
This column believes that real city
champion would be man leading "a
league or leagues bowling on several
different drives during a lengthy cam
paign \ man who could amasS the
highest average in Il season extending
from late September to early April
while rolling on alleys OF varying
quality certainly would be better
qualified to be styled champion than
-. ~
some alley that ne found particularly
adapted to his brand of bowling.
Although no championship hinges
on the result. this Work Nc Philomy
match is going TO attract lot of peo-
pie. The rank and file of Washington
bowIers are "all het up" over the af-
fair and will flock TO the Coliseum to-
morrow night and To Convention Hail.
week later to see these stars in aC-
ton. There are apt to be bowling
fans from Baltimore among those pres
ent tomorrow. too
McPhilomy's splendid rolling for the
King Pin Al-Stars against Balti-
more team last week so impressed the
Marylanders who saw him in action
that they said at the time they would
travel here for his battle with Work.
heavy counts TO be bowled in the
match; therel have to be some
extraordinary bowling if counts recog
nized as District records are to be bet
tered. That 1873 games registered by
Tip ONeill while bowling for the
Treasury team of the Departmental
League several years ago will take a
deal of shooting TO overhaul. Work
though unofficially credited with a
game of POS, said to be the best ever
toppled here, would have to get ma ny
good breaks to reach that 1873 made
by O'Nein.
McPhilomy seems to be at the tor
of his game. He showed that in his
IT'S score amassed in his second effort
in the Washington-Baltim match
| last Saturday night. Then, Earl after
| g. starting S made q strike and
| spares, which was nifty bowling, II
say the least. But there's a greater
difference between IT'S and 183 thar
| the pins seem to indicate.
Breaking game records in duckpins
here appears to be a difficult task
O'Neill's 1873 has stood for six or sever
years, and the record it bettered had
| withstood the assaults of the pir
| smashers for nearly a decade. The frs,
| iSSobHiL uuShplll HI INV
District was set by Dave McCarty
who left the tenpin game fat on Its
back to take up the hardwood duck
pins when they We're first popularized
here.
McCarty rolled a count Of 1S2 on the
| old Palace alleys, that since nave beer
demolished. on October 8, 1910. Dave
| did his shooting for the Mount Vernon
| team against the Palace quint in the
National Capital League. His big score
| was made in the opening game Of the
inaugural set Of the league season.
For high-class bowling one turns to
the District League these days. Roll
ing against the Meyer Davis quint, the
Convention Hall team of Morgan, Ur
ban, Mulroe, Miller and Rosenbere
turned in a set of 1889 to take three
games and fatten the Convention Hall
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