Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-06
With the BowLers

T T is the unexpected that always
happens, says, the old proverb;
but usually it doesn't. In the
i duckpin game, however, it usual
~ does, a veteran follower of
the sport observes. And to this fact
he attributes the strong hold the sport
has on its followers.
According to his argument. one may
shoot at the ducks for years and still
find each game presenting new posi-
bilities. Not only does each game
present a wide range of possibilities,
each Of the 10 frames of every game
is fraught with Importance. and may
easily prove a deciding factor in any
match. 1t Is not often that duckpin
game is actually decided until the last
pin falls.
Probably there is not a veteran
bowler in the city who cannot recall
some game lost by single carelessly
rolled frame, the duckpin follower
contends. He backs up this conten.
ton with the following stories:
Recently a bowler in a closed"
league match. shooting third in the
lineup, went into the tenth box with
his team apparently hopelessly out of
II. His first ball gave him three
pin break, but he made no particular
effort to get 1t and totaled only seven
pins for the box. Imagine his dismay
when the two men that followed him
spared and counted heavily, while
their opponents dropped a few pins,
and the final audit showed his team
a loser by twopin margin.
, On an adjoining alley another
team went into the last two boxes
trailing by IS pins, only to have
the fourth and fifth bowlers spare
and count nine pins each to win by
, a margin of three pins.
In still another recent game an
anchor man faced the necessity of
making a spare in his tenth box of
the decisive contest. He made the
| spare, but let the ball slip on his
| extra shot and just managed to pick
off one pin. That single pin was
| exactly the margin by which his
! team won.
Why is the duckpin game. popular?
| Because 1t can not help it.
| They tell us that the stone which
| the builders rejected afterward, be-
Icame the capstone of the corner.
! Public Buildings and Public Parks
bowlers in the Federal League are
! being given a continuous illustra =
! ton Of the truth of this statement.
! One Of their members, Adams,
managed the base ball team last
| Summer In the deciding game of
| the season. all of his pitchers fail
| ing him, he essayed the twirling job
| himself. And that. despite an old
arm pretty well splintered as the re-
suit of a. 22-inning battle of his
high school days. He got by for a
| few innings, but the opposing bat
, tiers finally sized him up and--well,
1t simply was a massacre, though
Adams still insists that the first lot
| runs were Que to errors.
Here is where the plot thickens.
Adams, who had not BOWED for
two years or more. happened TO be
watching the preliminary workout
Of the. r. r. and p. =. 5owlers before
one of their Federal League matches
some time ago, the team being
scheduled to shco. against an out .
fit that had in Its .line-up three of
the men who had hammered his
pitching last Summer As fate would
hays st one r. r. and p. p. bowler
4 failed 10 show mp aud. Adams was
lpersHaded ito fill. iu.- I a's.s.sa
IA lf7he did was shoot for an average
Of txifas better than ITO for his three