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NORTH WASHINGTON CHURCH LEAGUE.
Team Standing.

Mount Pleasant pursued the even
tenor of its way concerning the pen.
nant race in the North Washington
Church Duckpin League last week by
winning its customary set with Pet
worth Methodists, TO /.
Columbia Heights battled Central to
a 2'to-l verdict. Emmanuel Baptist,
with. Fellows rolling set Of 3S5 and
game of 143, returned to winning
ways and took Wallace into camp,
2 to j.
1t remained for Emory to stage the
feature performance of the week,
when 1t scored the only shutout, Pet.
worth Baptist being the victim.
Hobbs, for Emory. was in partic.
ularly good form, but received splen.
did support from Hamm and Kluge.
Sets of BAG by Hobbs, 343 by Ashford.
1886 by Elicit, 334 by Petrie and 332
by Hamm were recorded.
Individual game Primers were
Hobbs, 1872; Ashford. 1885, Kluge, 1876;
Elicit, 1913, and w. Trivett, 100.
Perez Elicit jumped into the lead
as high man with an average of ia.
his teammate, Clampitt. is next with
1887, then follows Copenhaver with
1868 and Fellows 1868. Smith still
leads in spares with So: Copenhaver
i'm strikes with 90
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY CLERKS LEAGUE.

The leaders suffered quite a Jolt
last week in the Southern Railway
Clerks League by losing all three
games and the race now is much
closer than at any time since OPEN
ing night. Law was the first team
able 10 take the scalp of the fast
travelling Freight Auditors and now
Is within two games of the leaders
Traffic had a big night, shooting
a 625 game-highest ever rolled in
the league--and by taking all three
games from Auditors moved into
third place.
Operation did not shoot up 10 it's
past performances, but was able TO
take two from Construction.
Purchasing jumped on the lowly
Station Accounts and took the odd
game.
Disbursing. with the assistance of
Staub's good rolling, managed TO take
two from Passenger Accounts.
Watts had high game of 1876 and
Staub and Hummer high set of 1854.
while Traffic had high game of 625
and high set of 1854 last week.
No more games will be rolled in
the league until after the holidays.
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bans from a defeat at the hands of
the HilItoppers in the first tilt of that
postponed match Friday night. Flor
ence had that speed ball working
nicely and scored a timely 116 to
clinch the game for the champs, at
the same time adding a few pins to
her average with a neat 3O1 set.
Edna Raglan of the Hiltoppers car
ried off the honors for both high game
and set. however. when she toppled
the naples for nifty 127 in the
final clash and a three-game total of
311.
Lorraine GULL seems to be getting
into her stride finally, with the result
that her, average has jumped from 1O1
to just one pin under 104 in the short
space of two weeks. Two successive
sets of 335 and a 319 is evidence of
pretty acurate pinning.
Capt. Qualities and Bertha Greevy
did some effective work for the
Bronchos to take three straight from
the Climbers. The former shot 301.
with high game at ITO, while her
teammate averaged just 100 for the
set, with Ill as her best single count.
Cecilia Stansield Of the F'rankies
made a determined effort to put her
team in the running in their battle
with the Columbians, seeking the
naples for three nice counts of Ill,
SO and los. She garnered 312 string
to increase her average several
points. .e.t.-
Edna Bailey of the Nationals was
responsible for her teams triumph
over the Kumbacks. A count of 118
in. the second encounter gave her
team the edge over its opponents, and
it finally copied the odd game. Edna
scored 30l for the set.
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HARRIS AND RICE PLACED
i 1AMONC FIRST 20 PLAYERS
Veteran Stars Such Cobb and Collins Overlooked
in List of Present Day Lumnaries Named
by Big League Manager.

The significance of these twenty Sc
leCtions is that they embrace hut four
players who may he considered as &C.
tually of the very younger generation
These are Waner. Thevenow. Manush
and Simmons. . Frisch. who came in
in 1919. and CIitZ. Wright and Bot
tomley are not AS experienced as some
OF the others. although Wright had a
fair minor league career before he
went To Pittsburgh. F'risch had mo
minor league service.
Other Pilots May Disagree.
Other managers may not he able to
"see" these selections. There is very
little argument between human beings
in regard to the qualities of athletes,
because there are no two pairs of eyes
quite alike nor set standard of
human appreciation. Still. it is fair
ly true that the cream of the ball play
ers is embraced in the score listed
above.
Significant in this naming of star
PLAYERS is the fact that so many clubs
have no player on the list Even the
veteran lack Wheat of Brooklyn Is
passed by, despite the fact that he has
been one of the hardest batters in all
the years of his service.
Greater significance lies in the fact
that so few players have been produce
ed in recent years who can be classl-
fed among the first twenty.
The most talked of player since the
war has been Babe Ruth, and within
the last five years there has been no
plaver produced who bids fair to be-
come a rival to Ruth. Good players
have materialized, but none who is
sensa tional, like Cobb.
One Star Year Is Limit.
1t was John J. McGraw who once
said that If star player were de-
veloped each year in each major
ague the season was a good one.
That seems to be deplorable mini
mum when there are sixteen clubs
seeking stars, but recent base ball
history seems to indicate that even
this mark has not been attained.
1t is quite evident that no Cohbs.
Speakers. Collinses and so on, are
among the younger players who are
coming up for the 1927 season, and
there are none in sight in the minor
leagues who are on the way to star
dom in 1928.
Cartwright 1920
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TyPOTHETAE LEAGUE.

High team game-National Capital Press.
6a6.
High team set--,Judd & Detweiler. 1891
High individual game-Verdi. Judd 4
Detweiler 159.
High individual set--McPhilomy Stan
ford Paper Co.. 400.
Most strikes--GoodalI, -. Morrison, ~
Most spares-Mischou. 10; Voorhees,. -
National Capital Press rose to the
occasion in its meeting with Judd
& Detweiler last week in the Ty-
pothetae League and tripped the lead
esr in two of three games.
The Natcaps not only outscored the
Big Print Shop boys, but also had
the satisfaction of knocking off their
high team record of 604, which had
stood unmolested since the second
week of the season. Now sos is high
team game.
Washington Monotype awaited them.
selves of Judd & Detweiler's weakness
and moved into tie for first place
by putting the skids under Stanford
Paper Co. in all three games.
HK Advertising Service faded out
of the picture for the time being by
dropping three straight to Washing
ton Printing CO.
Packwood Printing Co. remained in
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AGRICULTURAL INTERBUREAU
VFAGVTE

High team. sets-Ecoonom1icssss e 1913 So
c Hrb tes s"7 Assou1s 2se 5 So
licitors, 500: fnterbureaus and Plant In
Htgh Individual scts-Murphy (Solic
torsi 81 ara; Conklin .lInterbureaus), 371;
Dixon (Economicsll 36s Noo,or So
Kemsi. l.4o; stork and Terwissee fAc-
colHln6 sh Gain over handicap averaEe-Cross-
white Economics. ~ pins.
Accounts held it's margin over
Economics when. with his team three
pins behind in the third and deciding
game of the match with the Inter
bureau Five, Capt. Stork at anchor
dropped a single pin spare break and
counted on it. Stork's set of BAG
was the best performance of the
match. while Ready did the best work
for the Interbureaus.
After dropping the first game to
the SoKems. the Economics team
rallied and took the next two contests,
though they had to set a league
record of SIT to cop the second and
won the third by a margin of only
pins. Miller and Crosswhite, with sets
of 344 and 343, respectively, led the
Economics bowers, while Adams was
in the spotlight for the SoKems. He
started out with games of 112 and
The young Entomology outfit put
up a whale of a contest against the
veteran Plant Bureau five. and al
though the latter swept all three
games, it knew it had been in a bat
tie Every Plant bowler crossed the
800 mark for his set. the team total
being 1881, while De Glantz and
Menagh did the best work for
Entomology Plants victories were
featured by high counts in the final
boxes. German and LindStrom picked
up Is pins on two spares in their tenth
boxes in the second game, while in
the third. Coll, German and Lindstrom
counted 3, 8 and 8 pins on spares In
their last frames. 1t was the first
time this season that the Plant
Bureau team was able TO place It's
regular lineup on the alleys.
Property jolted the lawyers from
the Solicitors Office by taking all
three games, Donaldson and Nelson
doing the best shooting for the win
ners. Murphy's game of 1870 and set
of 81 represented the best plea for
the defense, but he did not receive
enough support to get the vote" OF
the jury. The feature of the match
was a sparkling finish by Matthias
of the Solicitors Matt registered
spare and strike in the last two boxes
and picked up Is pins, only to have
his team nosed out by margin OF o.
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DUCKPINNER'S HOT DOGS
MAKE HIM FORGET COUNT
Old Timer Acquires Bill Jones Reputation When
Various Remedies Suggested by Kid Fail TO
Make AiIing TOotsies Comfortable.

especially that little margin If eight
pins in my favor"
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust"
chanted the Kid. apparently TO him
self; Ibis head can't be iron or it
would rust"
Then he called to the manager. who
was nearby.
SAY, Lonnie." he said. take a
look at that score sheet and see for
yourself what this guy is trying to
put over on me. And he insists that
there is nothing wrong with the
sheet-the big ham,
Big ham. That's a Swift one"
said Lonnie. Then he looked at the
sheet. You sure are some statisti
clan. he told the Old Timer. What
did you get in the SIXTH"
Il got eight" shouted the Old Tim
err. "Ana the Kid knows darned we'll
that I did He
"AlI right. all right" comforted
Lonnie. But where do you get off
giving yourself Go in the sixth? You
had AZ in the fifth and you say you
got eight in the siXth--that figures
out as So, not 65.'
Gosh. that's right" admitted the
Old Timer, sheepishly. scratching out
the 65 and writing So over 1t. 81
guess l was thinking of something
else"
A Bill Jones Reputation.
That's the sort of thinking that
gives you lot of the big practice
sets you are always telling me about"
insisted the Kid. The first thing
you know. you'll have a Bill Jones
reputation
Bill Jones reputation" questioned
the Old Timer.
Yep" explained the Kid. when
l quit school / worked for a while
with a lawyer in a small town down
in West Virginia Bill Jones was a
great character down there; he was
known as the biggest liar in town"
The Kid paused and looked at the Old
Timer significa
Go on with the story" said thu
Old Timer. flushing.
well. Bill was arrested for some
small offense and taken before the 10
cal justice of peace. Judge Knox. Bills
friends had advised him TO plead
guilty and pay the small fine. So
when he came before the Judge he
said Well, Judge, / guess I'll have to
plead guilty to this charge TIE Judge
was somewhat astonished. You plead
guilty. he asked. Yep, I'm guilty,
all right said Bill Make the fine as
light as you can The Judge con-
sidered for a long time
Yes" said the Old Timer, not a bit
h interested.
II HE considered for a Ions time re-
peated the Kid, land then he looked
down at Bill Jones. Well. Bill he
said, doubtfully, you know what your
reputation is around these parts. You
say you are guilty, but I reckon I'll
have to have better evidence than
your word before l can pass sentence
on you"
'"Har, har. har." laughed the Old
| Timer, but it was forced effort.
''Thassa good one. And. believe me,
Kid" he added, trying to shift the
subject, that last shot of yours was a
good one. too. OF course, YOU picked
the spare. but the hit was plenty good
enough to make ,sevent out of ten"
1T certainly was" admitted the Kid,
| solemnly, Il think I'll have to have to
| give myself ten extra in this box"
| The Old Timer, going out to take his
! shot, pretended not to understand.
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ATHLETIC CLUB League.

High team collaboration 1877
HlEh team Eame-Natiunals 40
High individual set-Paecini fRecre atom
High individual game. wolstenholme
tArlingtonl 100.
High strikes-Sanders tSmithieldal 81
HIgn spares-Glark tArlington) no
High average Friend Recre atom
1874.
With Red Oberman leading the at
tack. the Nomads played havoc with
the subs OF the league leading
Smithfields last week, winning two
of three games. Oberman's scores of
l46 and 37S were high marks for the
week
Recreation lost its chance to pass
the Smithfields by losing a game
TO the Nationals. Mike Sweeney
rified several strikes in his 1856 game
to help subdue the on rush of the
aspiring G. streeters.
Hugh Reilly Company made
game fight against the Union Print
ers. but its efforts were OF no s..ail
After losing the first game, the Typos
struck their stride and took two.
With one game each tucked away
the Orrison Coal Company and
Ahepa teams carried their fight for
the last game TO the last man in
the final frame. Ahepa won. $50
tc $40.
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High team sets--Washington Centennial.
l.I1l: @. G. Whiting. 1.702.
pa HIGH n team games-Potomac. GAG; M NJ.
High individual sets-Urban Tia Fayettol
~; J. ulrich aPotomac) 800; Miller
High strikes--WatSOn Tia Fayette1 %
webb washington CentenniaD 25: Robb
ST Johns 80; Rosenberg IS. j. Com
High spares---Rosenberg IS. J. Gompers,
IL; Burtner Washington CentenniaD III /:
uFnan Tia Favette). 107.
High individual averages-Rosenherg IS
! S9mpersl. 1915, Watson Tia Fayettel .
Ii5-3d; Burtner Washington Centennian
ll11IrlH Urban ia Fayettel. 1916
nnonyl. l64; Dyre (Takoma) 1859; j. Ulrich
Washington Centennial continued
In the lead in the Masonic League
by taking three games last week.
Columbia No. 3 dropped another notch
by only getting four games of six.
while La Fayette copied it's set. Har-
mony, dark horse, is steadily climb.
ing and in a few weeks is apt to be
among the leaders.
The following good sets were rolled
during the week. Supplee, 375: Speer.
1888; Inge. 369; BURNER, 1855: Cross, $3.50.
Keller, $50; Miltner, 357: Lamar, 352;
Brazil. 1852: Crockett, 1853; Pratt, $50,
and Rosenberg, $50
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BANKERS LEAGUE.
Team Standing.

'~~]A'
High team game-Hibbs SOL
serve, 391 w.
3 High individual game-Pollock. National
Savings. ISL.
High strikes-Gheen. American Security.
High spares-Sheehy. no.
Hlgh average man--Sheehy, 114-20.
American Security moved into first
place in the Bankers League last
week by keeping up it's steady and
consistent drive. This team has not
lost game in it's last seven sets.
whereas Washington, displaced from
the lead. has lost one in each of the
last five sets. Gheen, Souder and Mil
Ter are the stars of the American Sc
curity Trust team.
Washington Loan, No. ], frightened
It's hold on third place by taking three
games from Edwards
Hibbs was forced down one notch in
the race when 1t lost three games to
Federal Reserve Board.
American Security Branches took
all three games from Metropolitan,
and Perpetual won three from District
National.
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WASHINGTON LADIES' LEAGUE.
Team Standing

Rolling a postponement set with the
Hilltoppers Friday night, the Column
bans scored their second clean sweep
for the week and are now within one
game of the leading Beeques. The
latter held the Climbers safe and
grabbed three games to keep ahead
of the speeding champs.
Rena Levy, the Columbians sterl-
ing southpaw, is proving a triple
threat" to opposing teams Rolling
against F'rankies the Columbians
scored shutout over their opponents
mainly through the timely shooting
of Rena. who registered excellent
counts of ia, 1872 and 1O9. The 355
total is the second highest set of the
season, being topped only by her own
mark of 37s.
Florence Rembold saved the Column.
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ingly as the Old Timer
limped about the alley.
IL why the charleyhoss
promenade" he asked. Are
you trying to alibi that 27U set you
rolled the other night?"
mo. it's just corns." groaned the
Old Timer. Il should have known
what would happen when / let you
razz me into coming out to bowl the
other day. when l was breaking in
new pair of Lighthouses"
why don't you do something for
them?" demanded the Kid, referring
to the corns and not the shoes.
DO something repeated the Old
Timer, indignantly. Say. I've eaten
II cans of corn strip already and it
didn't do one bit of good"
MOP" said the Kid. sympatheti-
cally. "Why don't you try corn
flakes for breakfast; they might help.
For that matter, l could probably
get you little corn juice that, while
it might not cure the cOrns. would
certainly make you forget EN-"
We'll" said the Old Timer, may
be can timber up the old CANNES by
handing you a couple Of lickings; it'll
cheer me up, anyway"
They bowled In comparative silence
for a time, the Old Timer apparently
being in no humor for conversation.
Finally the Kid got up and looked
intently at the score sheet after the
Old Timer had chalked up his count.
Figures Don't Lie, But
Figures don't lie he remarked,
significantly, but some liars sure do
figure"
We'll, where's the blueprint that
goes with that remark" demanded
the Old Timer.
Don't you see anything wrong
with that, score sheet?" asked the
Kid
The Old Timer looked it over care
fully.
ut looks all right to me- he said.
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the running by taking a pair from
Thayer Printcraft. while Columbian
Printing grabbed the odd game from
r. r. Andrews Paper Co. Ransdell
took Standard Engraving over the
jumps in two of their three contests.
Several good counts were turned In
during the evening. those of Goodall.
with game of 143 and set of 1893. and
Spencer's game Of ia7 and set of 36S
being best among the individuals.
while National Capitals game of sos
and set of 1,644 stood out in the team
totals
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KING PINS SETTING
DISTRICT LOOP PACE

After II weeks of brisk campaign
the District League duckpin teams
will recess until after the holidays
with the King Pin club topping the
renowned Government Printing Office
Ave by a margin of 10S pins. both
teams having won and lost the same
number of games.
This is the first time that the
Printers have been ousted from the
lead and the King Pins are thankful
for their ] ST. record set for putting
them on top after a bad start that
saw them fioundering around in sixth
and seventh places.
League figures follow:
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NAUTICAL LEAGUE.
Team Standing.

500. O'0'""o 0o"s Oi'o
High team. set---Drifters Canoe 1913
ersl ISL.
High individual set-Meany CPotomacl
High individual average-Daly CDriftersl
(Driftersl "a
Greatest number Of spares--Meany (Po-
tomac1 05.
Washington Canoe Club routed It's
ola rival, Potomac Boat Club, out of
second place by virtue of winning
three games from the pace.setting
Drifters. while Potomacs were drop-
ping three games to Bonzai.
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NATIONAL CAPITAL LEAGUE.
Team Standing.
Records TO Date

Records to Date.
Individual set-+Campbell king PM. 434
High individual game-Logan Meyer
DavisC. 172.
High team set--King Pin ] 1856
High team game-Meyer Davis. 637.
High ayerage-Seltzer Arcadia, IT'S.
Phillips was in winning mood
last week in the National Capital
League and stepped out to take three
games from the Internal Revenue
team, an unusual accomplishment for
the Phillips boys this season. Jack
Whalen, leading off for the victors,
was high scorer with 3S7.
Jerry Wolf, captain, manager,
owner and director of Jerry's Stars,
is about TO ask waivers on many Of
his erstwhile bowlers as the result
of Arcadia's clean sweep, which stop
ped Jerry's efforts to overtake the
five-game lead of King Pins.
The old saying that the last shall
be first and the first shall be last"
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Base Balls en Best Corn Sup No Aid to Caloused Borvlr


To annex the last two. Crutchley
and Fox showed to good advantage
for Arlington. VIII Donaldson. sub
stitutifig for his brother Ed, produced
the winnig punch that helped Amity
emerge on top in the odd game. count
ing a strike and spare in the last
two boxes. enabling his team to win
by 5 pins.
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BY GEORGE CHADWICK.
Y WHO are the ten leading base
"A 1 hall lnlaNerS tndaN2

q Y v YHO are the ten leadlng pase
A ball players today?
NN At a time when All-Ameri-
ca foot ball teams are being
IS picked by the score, 1t
!. seems nertinent to give base ball
Something of a look.in and provide
more fodder for stove league argu-
ments.
Il A ma Tor league mana ger. who has
won his championships, was asked by
the writer if he would name the ten
beading base ball players. He prompt
3x countered by STIMULATING that if he
did so his name should not he men,
toned, because of professional cour-
tesy'
Here are the ten:
Ruth. New York Americans.
he Simons, Philadelphia Americans.
~ Traynor. Pittsburgh.
~ Cuyler. Pittsburgh.
~ Wright. Pittsburgh.
Hornsby, St. Louis Nationals.
Thevenow. ST. Louis Nationals.
Manush. Detroit.
y Heilman. Detroit.
Goslin. Washington.
Thus Ty Cobb, Eddie Collins and
Iris Speaker were eliminated. but
Cobb and Collins have retired as man.
ayers and Speaker was displaced in
favor of Manush. No pitchers were
10 be included in the list.
The promotion of Thevenow to such
: prominence was unexpected, and the
major league manager was asked why
the young st. Louis shortstop was so
elevated.
Because his reputation is estab-
lished." was the immediate reply. He
made a championship team out of st.
Louis and made st. Louis world
championship team"
Ten Next Best Players.
Then the manager asked the privi-
lege of naming the next ten PLAYERS
of superior attainments, and he select
ed these:
Waner, Pittsburgh.
Frisch, New York Nationals.
Speaker. Cleveland.
Mostil, Chicago Americans.
Sisler, ST Louis Americans.
Bottomley. st. Louis Nationals.
Critz, Cincinnati.
Roush, Cincinnati.
Stanley Harris. Washington.
Rice. Washington.
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was very much in evidence in the
final game between King Pin and
Rosslyn steel and Cement Co. The
steel Men. victors on but two other
occasions in IS games, began hearing
down in the final boxes after holding
the King Pins within reach through
ont the game, and won by 20 pins.