Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-07

| loop has been challenged by a plckeu
team from the Odd Fellows League,
and arrangements are in process OF
completion for q 10-game match be-
| tween those two fraternal organiza-
| lions. total pins to decide. 1t Is
| contemplated that five of the games
will be rolled at Convention Hall and
! the remaining five contests staged at
| King Pin, No. 2, alleys on successive
Saturday evenings, probably com
mencing at the latter alleys on March
| 10. The team which Is well in the
| van in the Masonic organization ana
endeavoring to record It's flfth cnam-
! pionship, is composed of such well
known pinspillers as Red Megaw,
| CAPT. Malcolm Watson, Harry Arm
| iger, Arthur Urban and Glenn VOL
stenholme, with additional help, If
needed, to be supplied from such
/ lesser lights as John p. Evans, Jack
| Williams and Henry Hansford. The
Odd Fellows are counting on drawing
| from such sterling talent as Perez
| Elicit. Howard Campbell, Arthur
Logan and John Harville, with
| Thurmond r.. Cordell as the likely
| fifth man of the quint.
| Trinity of the Masonic organization,
with the silent John S. Blick i'll the
lineup. aided and abetted by Larry
Gardner, who claims bowling distinc-
| ton because of his having emerged
victor over Kid EberSole in midnight
! bowling engagement, made good It's
all-season threat to down the leading
La Fayette five when those two teams
met Dropping the first game when
! the league leaders produced an ava
lanche of spares in the final boxes,
Trinity walked away with the re-
manning games of the set. The sec
| ond game was won 500 to $50, the
latter figures setting a new season
| mark for a losing team. Gardner
added insult to injury by leading Pop
| Evans in total pins as we'll as in
games won. John Silent BliCk was
not so fortunate. being pitted against
| Henry HanSford, who had a pin-top-
ping mood upon him, the latter get
ting games of 1874, 1913 and 125, for a
set of ST., while the irresistible Blick
was constantly battling with splits.
| Prosperity has its penalties. John
J Blick is getting talked about so much
| in connection with the Convention
! Hall alleys and his proposed super
sports palace for Washington, that
duckpin fans are forgetting he once
made his mark in the bowling game
on the alleys instead of in the business
I OIllCe. lie IS one OIL IDe rev DOWlefS
| taking down two first place gold
medals in a single tournament He
did this back in 1914, in the Washing
| ton City Duckpin Association's tourna-
ment, when he won the class c sin
giles and copied the doubles with
Lowering as a partner. Ten years
later, at the Capital City Association s
inaugural tournament, he and Thomas
set the nifty mark of 40 in the class
A doubles.
The recent banquet given at La
Paradis by Manager Bill Wood to the
King Pin teams of the District and
National Capital Leagues and to the
members of his record-making King
| Pin A1l-Stars was not only most salts
| Tying to the inner man, as can be at
| tested to by the bowlers, scribes and
other guests present, who enjoyed to
| the fullest the order of the evening,
but furnished much food for thought
to those interested in personal or ap.
| propriate vocations
| Happy Burtner has been best
| known as a bowler and pen pusher of
no small ability, but the happenings
at the banquet developed that he mis-.
| took his proper vocation. Happy
! proved to be a combination of toast
master, prirna donna and a capable
exponent of the terpsichorean art
| specializing in the Charleston.
! Earl McPhilomy Is a right-hand