Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21

w YHILE practically all of the
n crack bowlers of the city
NV will participate in the
sweepstakes tournament
that will get under way
tomorrow night on the King Pin
drives, the winner of the affair will
get nothing more out of il than the
substantial stake that goes with first
place. In no sense will the winner
be the District champion duck
pinner.
The tournament has not been
sanctioned by the Washington City
Duclkpin Association, the recognized
governing organization of the duck
pin sport here. Without such a
sanction, the tournament lacks pres
tige, No doubt it will prove one of
the most interesting events of the
bowling season here, but it will be
merely a pot proposition.
Ii is unfortunate that the Wash
ington City Duckpin Association is
not back of the tournament for
Washington really needs an annual
affair to determine an individual
bowling champion. 1t would help the
game tremendously. Although there
are some who contend the winner OF
championship tournament is cham
pion of that tournament only, the
general public has a habit of recog-
nizing such winner as champion in
that particular line of endeavor.
And he goes down in the records as
champion with a capital c, too.
The various alley and privately ar
ranged Journeys, however. mean
nothing more to the general public
than interesting contests. Winners
of them get little more than passing
recognition. The records do not
carry them as champions.
The sanction of city-Wide gov
erning organization is necessary to
the making of champion. One can't
get away from that fact.
Far some time the star bowlers here
have contended that the w. {. ID. "A.
does not make it's tournaments worth
While TO them. The bowler, like the
hilliardist, makes no pretense of being
an amateur in his sports endeaVors
He wants substantial reward for ms
efforts on the drives, and the better
he is as a duckpinner the more he
NantS.
That's all very fine for the bowler
himself but it does seem the general
public and the game, too, are entitled
10 some consideration. The average
star bowler usually fares pretty well
in money way during the Winter,
with the several larger establishments
around town Offering opportunities to
shoot for stable stakes and the many
leagues giving cash prizes.
Tt would seem that at least once a
wear these money mad shooters could
hes real sportsmen and bowl mainly
for glory in a regularly organized
tournament.
After all. some dignity attaches TO
the term champion when applied to
the master duckpinner of a city that
patronizes the sport SO extensively as
does Washington.
StOrlS, captain and anchor man for
the Accounts quint of the Aggie Inter
bureau League, and who also shoots
~ anchor for the Aggies in the Fed
eraI circuit, has established something
Of a record in making good five sue
cessiye times when called on for a
mark in his final boxes TO win for his
leans He pulled the trick for the
fifth time recently in spelling Plant
Industl-v's winning streak in the In
terhureau circuit, registering IA spare
and a count of s in his final box to
win bv pins for his outfit A couple
of weeks ago he pulled the unusual
stunt of registering spare IN the
tenth with his team deadlocked and
then counting a single pin on it TO
win. Incidentally, Stork is carrying
the highest individual average ever
complied by an Aggie shooter, his
mark being a trifle over 112 for AZ
games.
King Pins took two from Meyer
Davis last night in the District
League and can thank Howard Camp
hell for dragging them out of the