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Evening star., 1927-03-20
SOUTHERN RAILWAY CLERKS LEAGUE.

This week Freight Accounts Is
found sitting on top of the Southern
Railway Clerks League with as
game lead and with but IL more
to go. They appear about I'm
Freight Accounts made a clean
sweep of Disbursing. but only after
a hard fight and it was the closing
boxes that brought home the bacon
for Freight.
Construction took the odd game
very handily from Law. which has
been slipping badly recently. Otis
rolled well for Construction.
For the first time this year Pur-
chasing had to give a team the full
handicap and it certainly knows
what it means, as it just staggered
through with the odd game from
Passenger Accounts.
Even with the return Of Watts,
who has been away for some time,
Traffic had to step aside and watch
Station Accounts grab the odd game,
thanks to the 1877 game of Payne.
Operation had more than it could
handle in giving Auditors the full
handicap and had to be satisfied with
the last game won on roll-off q
Otto had high game of 144. and
high set of 353. while Freight Audi
tors had high team game of 562 and
high team set of 1,611.
Evening star., 1927-03-20
STEEL GOLF CLUBS
SEEN FOR ENGLAND

BY the Associated Press.
George Duncan, British golf 'pro, !"
worried over the question of golf
clubs. He is convinced that the sup
ply of good hickory for making shafts
is Inadequate, and that the ultimate
employment Of steel shafts Is in
evitAble.
the question is regarded as likely
problem for golf authorities In view
Of Whe enormous growth of the game
not tkonly in the United States, but in
ENGLAND and Germany. So far the
Royal and Ancient Club has declared
against the use of steel shafts.
Abe Mitchell is also of the opinion
that there is a shortage of well sea
soned hickory. but thinks 1t would be
a pity for golfers in England to be
forced to use steel-shafted clubs.
Evening star., 1927-03-20
DISTRICT LEAGUE.

High team EameN-King Pin. 667
High HEh iRdyiduaI " set-wolstenholme 'con-
High individual game-Newman tTemplel,
High individual average Msndley Curb
:, PSostponed setsm-Cn9rb T-s9I Csfss Ts G. p O.:
Davis; Meyer Davis vs.. Cornelfs Lunch.
District League bowling fans will
watch the results of this weeks
matches closely, as several tend to
have a direct bearing on the ultimate
winner of the 1926.i927 flag. Govern
ment Printing Office meets Petworth
Curb Cafe rolls Cornells Lunch, Con
vention Hall entertains Arcadia, Stan.
ford Paper Co. battles Temple and
King Pin faces Meyer Davis in regu-
lar scheduled games. In addition,
Government Printers win roll two
other matches, with Meyer Davis as
their opponents on Tuesday night and
Curb Cafe OH Saturday.
Indications are that the pennant
contenders should have little trouble
with the regular weeks schedule. but,
due to the many upsets the lower
bracket teams have been dropping
into the works of late, none feel sure
of victory.
The match between Curb Cafe and
the Printers should be whirlwind as
both are pennant contenders, While
Never Davis. in sixth place, is also
expected to give the Printers trouble.
Led by Harville and Burtner, the
King Pin team took three games from
CorneIl's Lunch and swept into the
lead when Curb Cafe and Temple post
poned their set. King Pins lead,
however, is merely total pin ad-
vantage, as Stanford Paper Co. pulled
into a tie with them for games won
and lost when the Petworth Club
failed to stop the Papermen in any
of the games.
Harville counted $50, and Burtner
scored $50 for king Pin. while Ward
counted 399 for Stanford Petworth's
best total was $50 by F'illius, while
Supplies 500 led Coi.nell's Lunch.
Convention Hall journeyed to the
Never Davis alleys, and finding them,
to their Hiking after the first game,
won two. with Whalen's 334 leading
the attack. This score, however. was
not high for the night, as Logan
counted 336 for Meyer. Davis. The
Musicians took the initial string with
a 1856 score, as Convention Hall could
count but 4f2.
Government Printers completed the
weeks schedule by taking q pair from
the Arcadians, rolling an even 600
score in the final. The Printers were
off to a slow start, and this enabled
the Arcadians to take the first game
when they rolled but 531. Barnard
and Bontz were the high men of the
night, each counting 356
Evening star., 1927-03-20
LADIES' DISTRICT LEAGUE.
Team Standing.

High team .game-Convention Hall 542.
WORTH and Miltner (Temple), tied 1928.
- High indiyidual game--A. Burkhalter
High strikes-Frere Convention Halp. 15-
High spares-Frere Convention Hail.. 20.
no High average-Frere Convention HALL.
With Convention Hall safely in.
trenched in first place and King Pin
having a safe lead on the other clubs
for second place, the Arcadia and
Temple teams are waging a great
fight for third place in the Ladies
District League.
The Temple girls, who have held
third place practically all season, were
displaced the past week by the Ar
cadians when the quints met on the
latter's home drives. Captain Leda
Amidon proved herself a real leader
by featuring her teams 2-to-1 victory
with the high set of the week, 327.
one pin less than the league high
from the Temple lineup, but a
capable substitute, Miss Palmer, tied
the Arcadia's dandy captain for the
best game of the week 120.
King Pin had to step to make a
clean sweep of it's set with Petworth,
and incidentally turn in a set of 1,434,
high mark for the weeks play.
Millicent Russell led the King Pin
scoring, getting a game of 112 in her
second effort and finishing with 304
set. Helena kohler, teammate, shot
109 in her second try. Captain
Gervais with a game of lis was high
for Petworths.
Meyer Davis nosed Convention Hall
out in the second game of it's match
for its only win of the set CoriIle
Scarlet leading the scoring i'm the
lone victory with 1922 Marie Frere.
Convention Halls leading performer,
registered the best game with III.
while Jennie Malcolm rolled consist.
emily to gather the high set, 303.
Evening star., 1927-03-20

over Secretary, while Survey No.
took the odd game from Land.
Callahan of Survey No. 1 rolled
three consistent games that totaled
800, and Capt. Dotson of Secretary did
the same for his team with 317
total.
Capt. Phelps of the Land Office was
the big gun in his teams lone victory
with 129 game and a set of 327.
Pension took two from Indian No. l..
and Indian No. 2 grabbed the odd
from Parks.
Waller of the Parks team was the
star for the week with a 131 game
and 361 set.
A hot race is on for high individual
average, with Oberheim in the lead
and F'lanery, Callahan and BOteler
close on his heels.
Evening star., 1927-03-20
REALTORS LEAGUE.

Realtors League weekly matches
rolled last Wednesday night resulted
in the J. Dallas Grady team taking
two games from CafritZ, Douglass &
Phillips. two from the Jos. Shapiro
team; Hedges & Middleton, a pair
from Shannon & Luchs, and. the N.
l.. Sansbury couple from Boss &
Phelps. Charles Ruoff of Hedges &
Middleton rolled high individual game
for the evening, 1872. Shaffer of JOS.
Shapiro shot high individual set, 355.
Higb-team game and high-team set
were rolled by the J. Dallas Grady
quint. with scores of 537 and 1,515,
respectively.
With no possible chance for the
GRADY team TO be beaten to the pen
nant, competition is keen fer second
place. Twelve games remain to be
rolled during the next four weeks of
the season, and the close standing of
the six teams indicates battle worth
while for runner-up.
Evening star., 1927-03-20

% HREE Washington profession
al golfers will leave the Cap
ital today to compete in the
III Southern open golf champion
shin to he played over the
course of the East Lake Country Club
at Atlanta, Ga, March %, "a, %
and rs.
Robert T. Barnett of Chevy Chase
Fred Mcleod of Columbia and Ralph
Beach of Burning Tree are to make
the trip. Mcleod plans to stay in the
South to take in the North and South
open championship at Pinehurst the
last week in March. The other two
probably will come back to Washing.
ton early next week.
Golf having progressed from a game
In which comparatively little cash was
held up to a big business proposition
for the leading pros the Atlanta
Junior Chamber of Commerce has
gone all the other open tournaments
one better and has hung up purse
of $12 900 for the paid players TO shoot
at. While an entry fee of s. is eX'
acted. 1t will hardly cover more than
q small slice of the prize money, even
with all the leading pros of the coun-
try entered in the tourney.
The event will be played over the
golf course which has seen the devel-
opment of Bobby Jones, open cham
pion of two nations, and will be the
first big open event played at East
Lake.
A meeting of golfers in the Govern.
ment employ to decide on dates for
championship tourney and to arrange
details of team matches for Uncle
Sans golfers will he held March 2s.
3 1aI
for March 16.
One of the best rounds of the year
to date was registered by Bob Barnett
at Chevy Chase last Wednesday.
Playing with Charles NJ. Mackall, the
Chevy Chase mentor was around in a
fiat 20, only one shot above the record
for the course. He reached every
green in par figures. Mackall was in
Washington for few days last week
before going back to the University
of Virginia, where he has starred in
athletics for the last four years. He
intends to locate in Bethlehem, Pa.
as an employe of the Bethlehem Steel
Co.
The eligibility committee of the Dis
trict Golf Association, appointed at the
annual meeting March T. has already
initiated correspondence looking into
the amateur standing of one golfer.
A meeting is to be held soon.
From London comes new golf
wriHkle that might be of value to
promoters in this country to favor
the golfing gentry who believe that
by practice alone are perfect golf
shots made. A bunkered expanse of
country in Kensington. near London,
has been laid out solely for golf prac-
tice where the devotee may go out
with a couple of hundred golf balls
and drive until his wrists tire out.
Evening star., 1927-03-20
HOME is NOTHING LIKE
SEEING BOWLING MATCH

Two men were standing together
looking on at the recent King Pin.
Baltimore match.
You seem to be getting out to
all of these matches this Winter"
remarked one of them. II didn't
know you could get away from
home SO easily. Isn't your wife en-
tertaining this Winter"
The reply of the second, man was
brief. but quite expressive. mot
very" he answered.
Evening star., 1927-03-20
TIA JUANA RESULTS

H.ss5 Ras1 1s a.s HS igss3}y
$40. $40 SEQ, second First PulIet. Iii Zap.
i'm $50, third: Time. :13sf Galloping
G sxtS Win BE- Ms
Brown Skin and silverstate also ran,
e EcoSD anS 20 RHcE Sss2d' ros s"d
grass S12. SIS so, SIS, 40. won: Tis. Seth.
I0s tPnttrichl $3.50; $3.50. second Jaeger.
R1nieigh. Alamour. Billy Gibson. Romuius.
Chick Bell. Marguerite Council; Jola Shot
THIRD RACE. 4,ysar-olds and up: f9g-
longs-Frsnk sumpter. 10 tDaltonl 5000
$3.6C, $3.50, second Art Zelier, los eDe.
a prsmsal 500 third. v,il Time, .. ss Mis- Sn,
snider Kidder. Supervisor and Coalescence
FoGRTE RACE. 4.year-olds and M: 2
Sbl3to; s56os $t49 @ won: LOUIS A.. 11s
Transplant. saw .Dsy jack Ledi Cabin Maid
Valley Article and Douglass J. Johnston
FIFTH RACE. 3.yesrolds: 51a f.rlongs,-z-
Architect ~ Fields, $40 50 $50 80
ss2so. IssssSHa.sstt second Star Bout, Io$ lDaiieS9
s. 90. third; Time. 1907. Twinklng The
Freshman. Trek Jour and somers Heir also
SIXTH RACE, 3-year:.elds and M; mile
81 40 So. won; Lady Choco. 100 McClainl
50. s3.2o: second; silen. King; l9s (Pe1der-
gfaSNt, $o.hu, Inlffl. 1lne. 40 ~ EiHg.
soldier Bird. Old Broadway. cordovan and
ssEvENTH" n RACE .-year.olds and up:
mile and 20 yards--snssta Negra 90 lPhli,
'Tenneri, PIs,i sl2.4o. 5000 second; High
/ 43 q Barn Dollar. Tonic, shasta shasta IRn9. Rock.
Merry Chase and AXr Captain also ran.
EIGHTH RACE. 3-year-olds and up: l
81 20. $500. s. wona Fuil . o Fun los los
Idea 100 tWilsonl. S340 third. Time
] 45. Tanson Conclusive, oio and Great
Finsher also ran.
NINTH RACE. 3.year-oIds aud mp; 81
81 20. Sc so. won; Tofmen.or 100 (Peter::
sonl 50 81 40. second Hong Kong, 81
lMcClaini 81. third Time. l:1oM
Frances Rock Common Gold. Miss Eantura.
shasta Graney. Shasta Grafton, Margie X.
TENTH RACE 4-year-oids and no: / L
miiea-Hands Up. I10 lPetersonl. S12,
"a so So 20. won; Pearl Boots. 100 De-
prema S3.30. $40 second: sbasta Donna.
1O6 fPhIpotl. SO. third Time AZ. Trap
net Workman. Fascis'e. Ponimoi and Railim
also ran.
('I,,h dues AFRO estimated IN cosf the
Evening star., 1927-03-20

Hilltoppers contributed the out
standing upset of the season when
they trimmed Columbians. the final
count giving the former two games
to one for their opponents. The tri-
umph Of the Hilltoppers, however,
was due mainly to some very mediocre
rolling by the O'Brienites, particularly
In the second and third clashes when
they gave a fine exhibition of "hit.
ting en- where they amt"
Beeques grabbed the odd game from
the Mats. but had to fight every incn
of the way as the Mats put up their
Evening star., 1927-03-20

Drifters went ahead by game in
the Nautical League last week when
they broke their tie with Bonzai by
taking the latter to camp in two
games. Potomac Boat Club lost
couple tilts to Washington Stars, but
the former continues to hold third
place, just two games behind the
league leaders.
Whaley of Bonzai. who had been
leading for high individual average
all season. was passed last week bS
DAILY of Drifters, whose edge is IS pins
DAILY has won high individual honors
in the league the last Two seasons.
Potomac Canoe CSHh continues In
front Ia the hronzA- -nAA6lAs contest
Evening star., 1927-03-20
PLAYERS REINSTATED.

NEW YORK, March 10 R9.-Billy
Burch. captain. and Lionel Conacher.
star defense man of the New York
Americans, who were suspended re-
Gently for violating training rules.
have been reinstated so that they may
play tomorrow night in the fourth and
last match of the hockey season with
the New York Rangers at Madison
Square Garden.
Evening star., 1927-03-20
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT LEAGUE
Record Performances.

Record Performances.
High team set--Survey No. 1. 1890.
High team game-Suryey No. /. 5S4.
High individual set-Flanery. 3S2.
High individual game-Flanery, 149.
High individual average - Oberheinl.
10a-23
second high individual sverage-Flanery.
10S-11.
Third high individual aversge-Csllahan.
107-16.
Fourth high individual average-Boteler.
105-20.
Survey No. 1 continues to lead the
Interior Department League by one
game as a result of its two victories
Evening star., 1927-03-20

when Beavers, Recreation's star. bet.
tered it by sticks, shooting 410 for
the seasons record. Like McKitrick,
Beavers spared in the last box of his
final game, counting pins to create
the record. His games were lag, 1873
and 126. Recreation won two games
from Hugh Reilly, dropping the last
by 4 pins.
Evening star., 1927-03-20

HiEh team Esms-Pperpetnai; ou~ sos Eisss
as''s hss% s'x@ 'ff$ Es$:;, asS American q
,o Hisp indlydpal sStis Fape--MarK 152; Pol
ss slFs sha.Sy. i.S,y'assI sss ts Wood sss s OBJ
High sverage-sheehy. 114-15: Gheen
High spares-sheehy. 2iO.
National Bank of Washington Is
gradually increasing its lead in the
Bankers League and now holds
four and one.half-game margin over
American Security and Trust, while
Riggs and Washington Loan and
Trust, No. /, are close behind.
Bank Of Washington continued Its
winning streak by downing Federal
Reserve Board in three close games,
one of which was won by margin OF
one pin. San Fellipo and Sheehy
turned in some nifty bowling for the
Bank of Washington, the former hay"
ing 131 game and $50 set. while
Sheehy had game Of 1872 and 35l set.
v. OFT, Federal Reserve Boards clever
anchor man turned in a 1873 game and
344 set.
Hibbs & Co. took all three from
Commercial National. Abby Clarke,
WIN $40 set was lHe StdI VI Iiii~
match.
Second National had little trouble
taking three games from John l.. Ed
wards Co.
In hot match with District, Riggs
National took all three, two by a mar
gin of nine pins. Coe of Riggs. with
set of 352 was the outstanding per-
former of this match.
Federal American took two of three
games from Park Savings in very
close match. Wood, anchor man for
Park, with a $50 game and 379 set.
turned in the best bit of bowling for
the week
After easily downing Merchants for
the first two games of their match
Washington Loan and Trust, No. /,
had difficulty taking the third, which
it won by seven pins. Osborn, one of
the best pinspillers of the League
and anchor man of Washington Loan
and Trust, No. /, pulled this game
out of the fire with a spare in the
tenth box, and an Spin count.
Perpetual, noted for having once
trimmed the leaders was forced to
three-game defeat at the hands of
the tail.end. Metropolitan, team. In
cidentally, the Metropolitan team has
lost more games by less than 20 pins
than any other in the league, but it's
spirit is remarkable.
Weekly prizes for high game and
high set, were won by Cochran of
Second and Coe of the Riggs team,
the former with a 1875 game and the
latter with a set of 352.
Evening star., 1927-03-20
u. S. VETERANS BUREAU LEAGUE.


Henderson, bowling with Account
ing No. l, for the first time this
season, broke the Veterans Bureau
League record for high set with
gamesRof 141, 123 and 14S for total
of 412, helping Accounting No. l to
a ] ,602 total, but as Supplies was
also on rampage Accounting No. 1
could win only one game. Compton
of Supplies got set of 1863 and
game of 142, while the team was
registering 1863, including 59S
game.
Accounting No. also bowled a set
against Chief Clerks, winning all
three games by good margins. Hem
derson again stepped out with a
total of 356 and received consider
able help from kelsey, who toppIed
the naples for $50 count.
Supplies also made 1t a double
header by losing vah three games to
Section No. s. every game within
the handicap margin. Thompson was
high for the winners with 309, while
Jenkins and Rosenblatt of Supplies
bowled 322 and 321, respectively.
Claims won the odd game from
Construction Division, Benny Taylor
stepping out with a set of 347. How
der was high man for the losers with
$50. y
Accounting No. 2 took a forfeit
match from Awards Division. Arlie
Webb rolling a game of 141 and set
Of 367.
Evening star., 1927-03-20
CARR BOSWELL PlNMEN
DEFEAT BANK BOWLERS

EVANSVILLE. Md, March -
Carl Brothers & Boswell bowlers de-
feated First National Bank of Hyatts
vile BY 120 pins in match on the
Arcade drives here last night. Winning
all three games the victors totaled
ATS pins to 1853 for the Bankers.
The scores:
Evening star., 1927-03-20
KNIGHTS or CoLUMBUs LEAGUE.

High Team averaEe-SSanta NISraIa' oVe-fo'
RI High team spares--Santa Maria. $50.
High team game--Chris stopher, B32.
High team set--Columbia. n, I,6J7.
High individual ayerage-Suilivan t0van.
High individual strikes--Grady Balboa, ,
:. High Individual spsres-Lansdaie tsanta
: Hist Hish lsa lfSsaaividual same-Hurley Chris
High individual -set-sullivan (ovando),
High individual fiat game-weeks tBsl-
Salvador took two games from
Santa Maria, Balboa two from Genoa,
Pinta two from Ovando, and Chris
topher two from Trinidad in last
weeks knights. of Columbus League
rolling. The Columbia Forest Glen
set-to was postpOped.s The Salvador
Santa. Maria match provided the ex-
citement OF the evening, particularly
as the teams were tied for first place.
Salvador won the first game, 534 to
SIT; and the second 535 to 495; but
dropped the third, 469 to $50. The
decisions were reached without the aid
of the handicap system, false
whiskers, or other artificial aids
Coyle Of the Christophers made a
gallant attempt at high game, but
faltered toward the close and wound
up with 140, six pins below the present
mark. The Christopher team con-
tinued its good work of the last month
and turned I'm a. 1,542 set.
Evening star., 1927-03-20
NAUTICAL LEAGUE.
(Team Standing.)

High team game--Potoplac Boat Club. 5g6.
High team set-Drifters Canoe, l,713.
Highest individual average--Daly. Drifters'
Canoe I1O-34 whaley BanZai Canoe 110-l6,
High individual game--McCaley. DrifIers
Canoe. 1877.
High individual set---Kine. Potomac Boat
Club 3g4: Meany Drifters' Club. 394
Greatest number of strikes--McCalley,
Drifters' Club A 49,,
Greatest number OF spares-Meany,
Potomac Boat Club. 1874.
Evening star., 1927-03-20
BY BENNY LEONARD.

Retired Lightweight Champion of the World,
n YEW YORK, March IA week
or so ago Tex Rickard created
VI a furoTe in boxing circles by
4 publicly announcing that he
had received word from Jack
Dempsey advising him that the eX-
champion was ready to fight any
contender Rickard might choose and
that ii made little difference to him
who that contender might be- Tex
was elated at the news and imme-
diately set To work laying plans for
matches which would have the most
colorful figure the fight game ever
knew as a principal.
But before the fans got steamed up
another report. this time not from
Dempsey himself. trickled East say
ing that Jack was suffering from an
injured spine, sustained six years ago,
and that he would have to undergo
an operation in order TO purge his
system of the poisonous effects and
remove the cause of the various i'll
nesses that have afflicted him of late.
To me all this means that Jack
Dempsey never will fight in the ring
again. In some quarters when this
report of Dempsey's long-standing
ailment became public it was seized
upon as an excuse for his defeat at
the hands of Gene Tunney In the
Sesqui Stadium in Philadelphia last
September. Perhaps this was the
reason that Dempsey made such
terrible showing as compared with
the great champion we all remem-
bered, the Toledo Slasher, the Tiger
of Beyle's Thirty Acres, the Holocaust
of the Polo Grounds.
Burned the Wild Bull
had to go to the dictionary for
that last one, because L wanted to
find a word that would describe what
Dempsey was against FirpO. He GER
tainly burned the Wild Bull to a Gin
der that night.
Dempsey tried hard and faithfully
to get into condition for that battle
with Tunney. He got as good as he
could get. | don't think he'll ever be
able to get any better now. And Jack
himself certainly knows that he'd have
to be much better than he was that
night to beat any of the leading three
heavyweights today.
If the doctors are right and an oper-
alton will put Dempsey back TO any
where near his old-time form, then, in
deed, will Dempsey be a formidable
opponent in the heavyweight ranks.
/ remember saying before the Demp-
sey and Tunney fight that Jack needed
to be only half the man he was at
Toledo in order to retain his title. But
Jack wasn't half the Toledo Dempsey.
Surely, Gene Tunney was generally
underrated. Gene was unfortunate in
that few people gave him credit for
being as good as he actually is. I'm
not undertaking our heavyweight
champion. Like everybody else.
know that he is real champion. But
I do want to bring out how far back
Dempsey had gone.
Helped the Boxing Game
To me, the most fortunate thing
that happened to the boxing game in
the year 1926 was the preventing of
the, Dempsey-Wills battle, which had
been ballyhooed and discussed prac-
Evening star., 1927-03-20

Ingram frightened Its hold, on first
place last week by taking three from
lexington, while Centennial. the run
ner-up, was losing two To Epworth.
Ninth No. / still has the old hoodoo
sign on Keller. and took the set from
the latter team. At the same time the
Waugh boys were casting the old spell
over Ninth No. .. and winning three
from their ancient rivals.
Douglas No. ] took two from Doug
las No. ., and Gorsuch moved up two
places in the standing by winning two
from Fifteenth Street.
Frank Donaldson Of Gorsuch step
ped out this week and rolled l52 for
high game and 375 for high set
Evening star., 1927-03-20

Club dues are estimated TO cost the
golf players in the United States be
tween $5o,ooo.ooo and Sac, 100000 q
year. --s-A..
Evening star., 1927-03-20
EAST WASHINGTON CHURCH LEAGUE.
fTeay, gfaneainr
High individual averase-Corden

ms.
High individual game--Mitchell. 1s6.
High individual set--PrIce, 3SS.
High individual sDares-t ordeTl. l16,
High individual strikes--Forney. 30.
High team game-Waugh 59S.
Hlgh team sef--Ninth. No. j. .6S3.
Evening star., 1927-03-20

HorsewomeA In Paris are forming a
pnlo federation.
Evening star., 1927-03-20

Retired LiEhtweight Champion OF The World.
n TEW YORK. March ia week
N or so ago Tex Rickard created
| VI a furore in boxing circles by
L publicly announcing that he
had received word from lack