Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-22

IN the Internal Revenue League. a
couple OF teams appear to have
the race to themselves. They are
/ Personal Audit. which is leading
and Annex No. 1. The former
now holds an advantage of two games
over the runner-up. The third-place
Clearing Division team is four teams
back of Annex No. /.
Following these teams in the order
named are Miscellaneous, Solicitors,
Consolidated, Executives and Special
Adjustments.
RowIers strive for many prizes in
the Internal Revenue circuit. How
the shooting for these stakes has
progressed follows:
High averages-Leslie, 10s-20; Tar
ter, 1922; Mansuy, 1866; Kasson,
1063S: Davis. 1858; Speer, 1854.
High individual sets-Leslie, 81;
Lewis, 372.
High individual games-Shear. 14e;
Skeen. 145.
High spares-Leslie, 40; Allen, 1873.
High strikes-Tarter, SO; Boyer, 35.
High team consolidating Divi-
sion, 594; Personal Audit 1851; Mis-
cellaneous, 56S.
High team sets-Solicitors, ,646;
Personal Audit, 1,644; Miscellaneous,
1852.
Concerning. the matter of trying for
every pin, there is such a thing as
OVERRIDING it, a veteran bowler be-
lieves. He views bowling as primarily
an exercise and entertainment, not a
business, and considers that ordinarily
an intense concentration is perhaps
not worth while aside from the fact
that a person should ordinarily try to
do his best in everything he under
takes.
To let up in one direction is apt to
mean let.up in others: in other words,
the old copybook maxim, Whatever
is worth doing at all is worth doing
WELL" holds in duckpins as in other
things, the veteran contends.
However. he insists there is what
may be termed a phase of bowling
ethics often missed by the average
man, and that is, that while in prac.
tice games he may throw away a pin
or so whenever he sees fit, the mo-
ment he Joins a team he is honor
bound, out of loyalty to his team
mates, to try for every pin.
Comparatively few bowlers do, of
course, and that is why practically
every close game is followed by fits of
recall a pin left standing here and
there during the games that might
have been toppled with little more
care in going after it.
A check of the scores of one of the
CLOSED" leagues recently showed no
fewer than 81 games in four months
lost by margins of l or 2 pins each.
The wise captain emphasizes this
angle of the game to his team and this
often explains how some relatively
weak teams finish high in the league
standing year after year, often beat
ing out quints that rate considerably
stronger on the basis of the averages
of the men in the lineup.
Upsets continue In rapid succession
in the War Department League. The
teams now are so well punched that
1t is all but impossible to get a. good
line on any of them. Topos, though
winning but three Of their last nine
games, have managed to remain at
the top of the ladder, but only by vir-
tue of total pinfalls. They are tied in
winning percentage by Quartermas-
tiers. A game behind, Frankies and
Brandies are deadlocked in third posi-.
ton.
A game farther back are Barbettes,
Hobbies and Statistics in a fifth.place
tie. Only recently, Statistics was lead.
ing the circuit, but the team has lost
eight of is last nine games.
Medicos. Auditors and Engineers