Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-01


don't
And duckpins seems to be about the
only game in which the rank outsider
has a chance of licking the star. A
man averaging around 100 might take
on the District League leader, for ex-
ample, and hand him a licking in a
game or a set. He might do 1t, you
understand. and it has been done,
though it is a possibility rather than
probability--ify you get what | mean.
anyway it is probably TINS IDEA
that misleads the average tournament
ORGANIZER and makes the usual free
for-all tournament something of
Joke from the standpoint of the man
bowling 100 or less. Suppose we
hold a tournament, say. and receive
500 entries You can be pretty safe
in estimating that $50 of these will
fall i'm class B averaging from 81 to
1903, inclusive). $50 in class c taverag-
ing 90 and less) and but 100 in class
A 1C4 and overl.
1T is quite possible that a member
of the class c group might win the
first prize: but it is quite probable
that he will not. and that 10 per cent
of the prizes would go to the 100
class A bowlers if no handicap or
classification is i'm effect. In other
words, without a handicap or classifi
cation we may count on 20 per cent
of the prize money being carried off
by a 90 per cent group of the bowlers
"Since bOwlers Sc and under" Fer
rail- continues. roll for pleasure and
exercise chiefly and are not particu-
larly interested in cash prizes, as they
have never been close enough to them
to acquire the taste. a small cash prize
fund and fairly numerous inexpensive
trophies probably would meet their
needs best The 97-103 group is large
enough TO form its own prize fund
on the basis of the usual dollar en-
trance fee for each event bowled. And
Class A could provide a prize fund
to meet its desires by leaving the dol
lar fee per man for team entrants,
hut fixing the entrance fees for sin
gle or doubles at So or So. or even
more if they feel that way. Thus
every tub would stand on its own
bottom,
''If the alley prOprietors are anxious
to cater to the middle classes rather
than the aristocracy, they might con-
slider a tournament for closed league
bowlers The closed league, as
use the term. covers all teams whose
membership is restricted to actual en-
ployes of the office or institution rep
resented by the team. The tourna-
ment could be divided into Sections A
and B. the former made up of the
first division teams of all these
closed leagues. the latter of the sec
ond division outfits.
This applies to team matches only.
I'm convinced that individual events
should be on handicap basis only.
Capt. Nelson of the Property FIVE
while his team was temporarily Oc'
cupying first place in the Agriculture
Interbureau League Ia condition
which. alas. no longer exists. since
his outfit was nosed out last week.,
suggested a series of team matches
between closed league teams on the
basis of league standing-first place
teams rolling each other, second place
teams ditto, etc. What do the howl
ers and alley managers think of it?''
Harry McQuinn, out with the Plant
Bureau team of the Agriculture In
terbureau League after an absence of
some nine years. counted 81. SO and
80 in his three efforts. If he can keen
up this rate of progress for the rest
of the season he should he battling
with McPhilomy and Wolstenholme
in May. Harry will be remembered
by the base ball, basket ball and
bowling fans of Is years ago. He was
one of the outfield trio of John p.
Evans famous kid base hall team,
the Aggies, of the old independence
League.
Harry's case. incidentally. may offer
hint to certain bowlers who have
quit the game after marriage. When
the fever struck him again he wasted
no time devising alibis. but took his
wife out to the alleys with him and
now she is as enthusiast site over the
game as he is, is a leading mem
Der of one of the local women's teams,
and is plenty good enough to outroll
her husband every now and them
This keeps her in good humor and
properly chastens him. The case sug.
gests very good slogan for the alley
proprietors of the city: And then
thew took up bowling-and lived hap
pily ever afterwardr'
Emily Nell, lead-Oif bowler for the
Columbians of the Washington La.
dies League and one of the most de-
pendable pinspillers of the circuit, may
be out of the game for some time be-
cause of illness. Lacking the service
of their second best bowler at this
stage of the campaign Is a blow to
the Columbians. but Capt. May
O'Brien has procured capable sub
stitute in Edna Parker, leading
bowler of the Public Debt Girls
League.