Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07

n Harry BURNER Will assume
wv the place of Jack Whelan
in the lineup Of the Wash
ington Stars when they
meet the Orpheums tomorrow night
in Brooklyn in the final block of the
intercity duckpin match will not be
decided until shortly before the local
squad gets on the drives.
1t was not learned until late last
night that Whelan positively would
not accompany the squad to the New
York borough for the conclusion of
the contest, although his teammates
were aware of his illness that had
kept him off the alleys for several
days. Whelan's indisposition has been
severe enough to send him to his bed
and it may be some days before he
will be able to resume his bowling
activities.
Final selection of the man to sup
plant Whelan will he up to Manager
AL Gardner He will be in charge Of
the squad that will leave tomorrow
morning for Brooklyn. Accompanying
the squad will he a host of rooters.
A special car has been chartered for
the trip.
While some few tiInid souls among
the local bowling fraternity are rather
doubtful of Washington's ultimate sue
cess in the intercity match. generally
the crowd here opines that the New
Workers. will be defeated more decisive
~ in the Brooklyn end of the contest
than they were here. Scarcely any
one figures that little Barney Spinella
will repeat the remarkable duckpin-
ming he flashed here. And it is the
opinion of the duckpin sharks here
that outside of Barney and his brother
Phil the Brooklyn bunch has no real
fluckpinners. The opposition is strong
at tenpins. but with the exception of
the famous Spinellas has little TO offer
in the way of shooters at the little
NAPLES. And duckpinning is duck
soup for the Washington crew, every
man Jack of it. The Washington
squad certainly is confident of sue
cess, although not overconfident. They
respect the Spinellas, especially Bar.
ney, since he rolled up that big count
here last week. But they feel they
have a decided edge over the Brook
iynites in the style of bowling so popu-
lar in the National Capital.
Bureau Of Plant Industry team, Gel.
lar champs of the Aggie League for
most of the season, staged "A winning
streak during December and by cop
up into a tie for third place. Celebrat
ing the event the board of directors OF
the league met before Christmas and
presented Capt. Jack Ferrall with q
large rubber horseshoe. The presenta
ton speech by Harry Nelson is said
by those who heard il to have been
The best thing since Lincoln's Gettys
burg address. In fact, Jim Locknane
insists that 1t was the same speech
III "a. Itch
Dhasize the fact that during mis- hall
century of connection with the game
E'errall has never once bet on bowl
ing match-eXcept, of course, in sell
defense"
After losing the first game. King
Pin girls rallied gamely and took the
next two 10.frame battles from Pet
worth in a. Ladies' District League
match. Edna Bailey led the King Pr
attack with scores of "a, 100 and 10;
for a set of 800.
Park Views took the measure Of
Saks in the Suburban League, win
ming all three games. The Park View
set totaled 1897. Rinaldi was high
bowler with 3o2.
OrrisOn Coal Go. swept it's match
with Hugh Reilly Co. in the Athletic
Club League, winning SOC. 543 and 52C
TO 494, Az and 4S2. Provost was the
star of the Orrison lineup.
Junior Al-Stars showed the way to
the Olive Cafes in the Northea 81
League in two of three games. The
All-StarS won the first game by p
pins and the second by /.
Government Printing Office gave
convention Hall a nice drubbing in
.