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WASHINGTON LADIES' LEAGUE.
Team Standing

Trouncing the Kumbacks for three
straight last week in the Washington
Ladies' League, the Beeques followed
their great pinning Of the previous
week, when they smashed all records
for high game and set, by shooting a
534 game and totaling l,521 for the set.
Catherine Quigley again starred for
the Bronchos, and as though TO con-
vince the skeptics that her great work
OF tho previous week. when she
slammed tho naples for $50 set, was
not an accident, she came right back
with three splendid counts of ia. 119
and liz, totaling 345 for the string,
making a gam of points in her
average in just two weeks.
Bertha .Greevy her teammate, CON
trihuted three nice counts all over the
century mark to register a 313 set,
while Capt Bronson Quaites shot 100
for high game of the match in the
final tilt. Lorraine GULL made the
| best of bad breaks and registered 30G,
with high game ut 108,
Mae Hart rolled best for the Kun
backs, scoring 292 for high set. while
Frances He'll copied high game with
count Of 107.
Nan Coppage Is staging a comeback
with the Columbians, after being out
Of the game FOR two seasons, taking
Rena Leyy's place when the latter
was compelled to give up after rolling
one game. Nan helped to smother
Bethany with two consistent counts
of 104
Didine Franklin also rolled consist
emily for the Columbans, getting a
902 set, with 104 as her best single
effort, while her teammate Frances
Rembold Just garnered 800 with 107
as her best single
Hflltoppers grabbed two from the
Climbers, Edna Raglan anrSexing high
set with 294, while her teammate
Mary Campbell was second best with
q three game count of 2S2
Billie Miner and Cecilia Stansfeld
carried the F'rankies on TO take one
game from the Commercials, coping
the second clash. 481 to 466. wher
| Billie crashed through with double
/ header in the last two frames, total
4 ing 81 pins on the two marks, to
/ give her 108 for the game Cecilia
had the best single count of the
match with ia
/ Margaret Miltner scored high game
and set for Commercials, totaling 291
| for the string and 1903 in her final
effort to give the Commercials the
odd game.
| Thelma Lohnes and Edna Bailey
| teamed to put the Nationals over for
a neat 511 game in the final clash
/ with the Daughters of Isabella, MAX.
4 ing it three straight for the Mats and
sending them into deadlock with the
| Commercials for third place. Thelma
| and her teammate each scored ia
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Kids Spare Dictionaries Show
Nothing About Spare Bowling

with the dictionary. I'm glad you
bought one.
VI have two" said the Kid
Two" asked the Old Timer. Are
you starting collection. or do you
need one for each hand when you get
warmed up?"
"It was an accident" explained the
Kid. II bought the first from that
magazine agent who was working the
building"
Il remember him." interrupted the
Old Timer. He had a very mobile
countenance."
"Mobile?" repeated the Kid. Yes,
he said he was from Alabama. Well
when / got home / found my wife had
bought one just like it."
What do you know about that?
Tough luck, commented the Old
| Timer.
i've got one copy wrapped up on
my desk, and I'm going to make that
guy give me my $2.9S back just as
soon as spot him. said the Kid.
Means Much Bowling.
Under the circumstances, / think
he'll return the money" said the Old
Timer
Hell return it or he'll have to lick
Il l. -
would pay for lot OF bowling, espe-
| cially when I shoot with you and only
have to pay for game now and
| then"
Say" began the Old Timer, but
! the Kid cut him short.
BE ready at 4:30." he said.
| They drove over with Hank. Just
| as they got out in front of the alleys
| the Kid noticed the dictionary sales
| man driving up Ninth street, He call
| ed out to him, but the man did not APP.
| pear to hear him.
Say Hank, pleaded the Kid,
drive after that guy and tell him 1
! want TO see him, viii you?"
Sure, agreed Hank. climbing back
! into the car and starting after the
! other automobile.
! The Kid and Old Timer went into
the bowling establishment and grabbed
! an alley. II guess / can get into the
/ building and cop the book for him II
/ Hank catches him. said the Kid. "Oh,
you $2.9S"
They had bowled several boxes be-
/ fore Hank returned alone.
Didn't you catch him?" asked the
Kid, disappointed.
Sure" said Hank.
But he didn't come back with you I"
argued the Kid, the vision of the re-
turn OF the $2.9S growing dim.
He'll Know His Words.
He had an appointment for 5
! o'clock and couldn't" explained Hank
| Darn the lucki" cried the Kid.
| despondently
Whats the matter with your" de.
nanded Hank. ITS all right. He
knew what you wanted, and / bought
the dictionary for you and paid for It.
/ It's out in the car. L."
You bought another dictionary for
met gasped the Kid. You
| bought
Then he tainted In the arms OF the
! Old Timer.
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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS.

Forest Glen won two from Trinidad
Christopher won two from Ovando.
Salvador two from Santa Maria.
Genoa two from Columbia and Bal
boa two from Pinta last week in the
knights of Columbus League.
The tie for first place is the fifteenth
in the Is weeks of rolling.
Christopher raieed it's high set to
1903.
DR. Sullivan (Ovando), with 1879 and
$50. tied DR.. Gorton (Genoa) for high
game and displaced Faunce (Columbia)
for high set. The former high set
was 365.
Other individual marks are Woods
(Columbia), 1877 for high average.
Faunce tColumbial 90 for high strikes
Lansdale Santa Maria). 1O7 for high
spares: Weeks CBalboa) SO for high
fiat game
Team marks are divided between
Santa Maria and Columbia. The for
mer has high average, 505-14. and
high spares, 3S4. The latter. high
strikes. u; high game, SIS, and high
set, 1857.
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punches. Wolgast today is on the
Pacific Coast in retirement.
Jack Johnson. probably the smart
est Of all heavyweights. fell upou
hard times because of private life DIFF
ficulties.
Today he is doing a little Of this
and that, boxing when the chance
offers, and an occasional sparring
turn on the stage.
Jess Willard, who conquered John
son and then took terrific beating
from Jack Dempsey, today is a Kan.
sas and California land holder.
Jack Britton, the one time weIter
champion. left the ring wealthy
man. Florida realty is his line now
Benny Leonard retired as unde-
feated champion of the lightweights.
Vaudeville has found Benny an in
teresting performer at odd times since.
Jim JeffTes long ruled the heavies.
but he lives now In the West. where
he has been engaged in various
activities.
Jack McAuliffe writes pieces for the
papers Carpenter. who once was
light heavyweight champion dabbles
in business and the movies. Two
spectacular champions OF late years
Pancho Villa of the little fellows, and
Harry Greb of the middleweights-
have died.
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NAUTICAL LEAGUE.

High team game--Potornac Boat SOC
HlEh team set--Drifters' Canoe ma
= high indIyidual game--A King (Drifters'
;. High Individual set--A King Critters
CANOE End Meany tPotqmae Boat. 394
= High Individual average--Whaley fBonza al
Greatest number of strikes-Compton
tWashington Stars. 80
Greatest number of spares--Meany (Poto-
The relative positions of the first
three teams in the Nautical League
was unchanged last week, each win
ming three games.
Washington Canoe lost ground by
dropping two games to Raccar Canoe.
Meany and Wetzel Of Potomacs con
tinued their scrap for the greatest
number of spares. the former regain
ing his lead with 1875, with the latter
on his heels with 122.
Anchor Canoe. that had previously
only won three games of 81, seems to
have taken a new lease on life and
has won eight of the last nine games
rolled
Although Bonzai Canoe was without
the services of Whaley, high indiv-
ldual average man of the league, it
refused to concede any more ground
to the pace-setting Drlfters, winning
all three games from the Washington
Stars.
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NATIONAL CAPITAL LEAGUE. (,
Team Standing

High team set--King Pin. 1855.
Hlgh team game--Areadia. CAD.
High individual set--Campbell king Pin)
High individual game--Logan meyer
High .average-Logan meyer Davisl,
1868 40 games).
Meyer Davis put crimp in King
Pins onward march to the 1927 cham.
pionship in the National Capital
League when. with Moore, Logan and
McGolrick travelling at a fast clip,
Il won two games from the present
league leaders. Campbell was the only
King Primer to roll in top form.
Joseph Phillips continued on its
threatening march when 1t met the
II. e Denham Co. and won all three
games, getting the first game on a roll
off after both teams had scored 551.
The next two games We're never in
doubt after the early frames.
Denham put two new players on the
alleys. Jack Wolstenholme and Joe
Harrison,
The three other matches of the cir
cult did not arouse much interest, az
practically all of the other teams are
counted out of the race. at least for
the present. Belmonts dropped a pair
to the Arcadias. Internal Revenue won
it's first game after 10 losses. Young s
Stars being its victims, and the Caseys
took three from Rosslyn
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huN AaeEMAAkKD Mz0uRzAMZAME Is AEcA

than upon the green, and often i'm
portant matches depend upon such
-~ays
1t is unanimously agreed that Wal
Ter Hagen has no peer at using the
puttsr in playing out of traps With
shallow sloping sides, in RUM ng the
ball UP TO the cup from behind banks
at the end of the green or in MAX
ing approach puts from the fairway
near the green,
A notable instance of Hagen's use
of putter out of trap was that
which occurred some years ago dur
Ing trip 10 England. He and Mac
donald Smith played four-ball match
against George Duncan and Jim
Barnes at Walton Heath. 1t was a
hot struggle right to the finish.
On one of the closing holes all -four
We're in bad on their second shots.
Smith and Barnes were unable to re-
cover on their third shots. putting the
hole up to Hagen and Duncan, both
Of whom were trapped off the side Of
the green.
Duncan took out his niblck and
tried an explosion shot, but didn't
take enough sand and failed. Hagen.
studying the bunkers, noticed that
the bank was sloping and that there
was no grass at the top.
II think TIL use my putter" he
said, and while the gallery looked on
amazed he ran his ball a foot from
afe cup He and Mac Smith won
the hole and, bit later, the match.
British Question the Play
Was Hagens use of the putter
golf?" the British experts queried in
next days papers.
The game is to hole the ball. was
Hagen's statement of his view. III
use putter out of a trap whenever
the opportunity offers"
In another match abroad Hagen
and Barnes played Abe Mitchell and
George Duncan
Mitchell aud Duncan got lead Of
three holes, and when Hagen found
himself trapped al the green's edge
on the next hole he felt things We're
hecoming desperate.
We'll he told Barnes, we've spot
ted these boys all the holes we can
afford to-
With that he took out his putter,
ran his bali up the bunker bank and
almost sank it. stopping TO or IL
inches beyond the cup.
The match frightened up, but in the
end the Britishers won.
Hagen's argument is that in the
matter of direction you can always
control the ball better with straight
faced club and that you should use
one il it is at all possible 10 get out
OF the trap.
A MasterfuI Approach Putt.
Hagen is deadly at running up long
approach puts off the edge of the
green
In the last Professional Golf Asso'
citation championship finals at Sails
bury, against Leo Diegel, Walter was
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and retained it's lead OF two games
over Washington Monotype Co. The
latter was handed three victories by
r. T. Andrews Paper Co.. by a for
felt, the first of tine season.
National Publishing Co. swamped
Packwood Printing Co with flock Of
spares and strikes in all three games
and gathered a three-time victory.
Seis of the Publishing quint contrib.
uted the highest scores, with game
of 13l and string of S73.
Stanford Paper Co. sprung the sur
prise of the week by grabbing two
games from Charles II. Potter Co
Columbian Printing Co. Thayer
Printcraft and Standard Engraving
20. all took the odd game from their
opponents, Ransdel. National Capital
Press and Washington Printing Co.
respectively.
National Publishing Co. s game Of
554 and set of 1617 were the best
scores turned in among the team
totals.
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PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY LEAGUE.
Taovy. E4audgu~

Collegiates increased their lead in
the Prince Georges County Duckpin
Association race last week when thew
swept their set with Arcades who.
with other high-ranking teams. fall
tered. A margin Of seven games now
separates Collegiates and the second
place st. Jerome's combination.
stephen A. G., the only other quint
10 register a three game triumph,
downed the last-place Indian Creek
Laundry outfit.
!, st. Jerome's took pair of tits
from Company r., American Legion
bagged q couple from Cara Con-
stantine Co. Independents twice
scored over Ross All-Stars, Chillums
trimmed PIGGY Wiggly two games.
Service Laundry copied brace from
Junior a.. c.. and Mount Rainier
dropped the odd game to Gretta
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By the Associated Press.
~ HICAGO. January 29.-Where
do they go. the champions?
Yesterday they had their
~ pictures in the papers-spe-
cial editions-names on every
tongue-what they wore, what they
ate, what they thought about art, lit
erature, flappers, prohibition, foreign
debts
Today? unwept, unhonored, I'M
sung and. many times, broke.
Remember Kid Lavigne? The Sagi-
nav Kid. they called him. after his
home town in Michigan Old timers
among sports writer's say Lavigne
was clever, fast as bantam,
puncher, courageous, willing Kid
Layigne today works in a Detroit au-
tomobile factory and he doesn't make
much money.
Then there is Johnny Coulon. once
bantamweight champion of the world,
to whom fame, praise and recognition
were never unwelcome. His ring
days are over, Johnny toured the va
rieties with a novel lifting act. To
day he lis a Chicago fight promoter.
AID Wolgast. the Cadillac Wildcat"
was q lightweight champion, whose
lack of fiuesse was counterbalanced
by his ability to take and give
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High team sets---W ashlngton tehtehniai'
High team sames-Potomac. GAG; M. M
' Hsh Individual averages Rosenherg. 8.
il3.51 Watson, La Fsyette. 1880: BURNER
Gsnsern sna.asaah hsid Columbia
NO 3 400 Urban, La Fayette, 41O ulrich'
ls4; Chaeonas, King solomon. 1914; pyre'
we} Els Washington Centennial, 81: Urban
=" High Urban La Fs3yette VII l45:
in ef Centennial. 1873: Ulrich Potomac.
la Favette increased its lead to two
games by making q clean sweep OF its
games with Acacia while Centennial
was losing one to Whiting last week
in the Masonic Association
Schmidt of Columbia No. came
within two pins Of tying Make Rosen-
berg's set of 422 shot last year. His
400 set puts him in the lead for high
individual set for the season.
The next two weeks may see many
changes In the standings, for the eight
leading quints viii be battling it out
among themselves.
King David elected Solem captain
Thursday night, and both team and
the new captain proceeded TO cele-
brate. Solem getting 3G4 and the team
shooting over 1000 for the first time
this season.
The following shot $50 or better for
tho week. Schmidt. 420; Supplee, 3S2;
Lewis. 1856: Webb. $50; WiltberGer,
$50: Smithson $50; Price, Sof; Hunter,
$50. and NJ. Ulrich. $50.
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checked up McPhilony's All mark
was just pins behind
Government Printing Office retained
the league leadership by the narrow
margin of 1871 pins when it was un-
fortunate enough to lose one game TO
Temple, while the Stanford Paper
boys, who are tied with G.. +. o. IN
wins and losses, took three from Cor
0ell's Lunch on the Grand Central
drives.
In the G.. r. O..Temple match Barn
ard led the G.. Z. O. attack with 354
The best work done by u Temple
bowler was Myers 34I.
King Pin moved into second place
showing the Curb five behind when 1t
tackled the latter on the King Pin
drives and took two games.
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ELLETT BOWLS TO LEAD
IN SWEEPSTAKES EVENT

fifth in the standing. Walter Megaw,
by bowling 637, high set of the night,
hoped from twelfth to sixth place,
AZ pins behind the leader.
Freddie Moore, who startled the
alley fans with his 1875 game in the
first block, did not find the going so
good in the second block and fell from
a third place tie to seventh position.
Claude Cowles. Government Printing
Once roller, was the Moore of last
nights shooting getting the high
game Of the block with $50 and a set
of GA that lifted him from twenty
first to eleventh place.
Jack Whalen and Max Rosenberg
expected to cut quite figure IN the
tournament, improved their standings
Both Of them broke into the first ten
Whalen now is eighth in the list and
Rosenberg leaped from fifteenth to
ninth place.
Tourney statistics, including last
nights game scores, follow:
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YOU. The green begins at the top of
the bank and slopes down to the cup,
which IS set near the bank. You can't
chip over, because your ball is bound
to run far past the cup.
Walter plays these shots firmly,
but with just enough power TO carry
the ball past the place where the
bank meets the green. The down.
wa~d slope of the green does the rest.
His bali tiickles close to the cup.
Some times 1T goes in
Facing such d bank with its side
clothed in long grass. Walter has been
known to take his putter and drive
his ball through with q swing vary.
ing from one-half to three-quarters
On one occasion he holed three
quarter bank shot on the eighteen h
green and won an important match
Copyright 1927
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GEoRGETowN CHURCH LEAGUE.

High team set-Peck No. L. 1870
High team game-Christ $50
High Individual ayerage-De Lashmutt
Christ. 103-18
.. High individual set-De Lashmutt, Christ,
142.
The first three teams in the George
town Church League are fighting
tooth and nail to retain their re-
spective positions, Peck No. /. that
was leading by one game, managed to
increase that lead to two games by
taking the set from Grace while Christ
Church was taking one of three from
West Washington Baptist, the second
place team.
Arlington took three from the tail
end Covenant team, and Calvary
took two from Peck No. by small
margins.
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. ATHLETIC CLUB LEAGUE.
Team STANDING

High team set--Recreation ST.
High team Rafl1e--Ng tionals, 652
800.
High individual game. woIstenholme
(Arlingtonl. 100.
High strikes-Tompros (Ahepa). 2S.
High spares-clark tArlington) lilo
117-30.
Mike Sweeney, Nationals speed
ball artist, came close to breaking
two individual marks in the Athletic
Club League last week. He bowled
game of 1853, just two pins short
of the season record and a set of
800, nine sticks short of the high
mark.
His team grabbed two games from
the Hugh Reilly Co.
Earl Steers Nomads, after losing
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PUBLIC DEBT GIRLS, LEAGUE.

High individual set--Scarlett tAuditl $50
High individual ganle-~-Limerick tSurren-
dersj 1871
High team set--Resular Accounts .3s7
High team gaine--4kudt, ass.
The handicap system adopted
nationally for the second half OF
the season seems TO be working well
in the Public Debt Girls League, as
all - teams have to divide five places
between them, three being tied for
first place, three for fourth and four
for seventh
Caville Scarlet of the Audit team
hung ND a seasons record last week
when she totaled $40 with games of
116, los and 1909
Lucille Preble of the Registers team
also turned in a pretty set, with
games of SO, 102 ana 129 for a 324
total.
Not one of the ~ teams won all
three games last week.
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ODD FELLOWS LEAGUE.
Team Standing.

Canton, No. I, has taken the place
and standing of Federal City and will
roll all games remaining on the SEIZED.
ule listed for Federal City in the Odd
Fellows League.
Eastern and Harmony staged quite
battle last week. the former coming
out on top in two contests. Murphy
Of Eastern rolled 1874 in his first game,
this mark putting his team across for
margin of Is pins. Eastern also
copied the second contest by pins,
but Harmony came to life and took
the last game by a small margin.
Mossburg's 316 was the best total on
either side.
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the first game to the Union Printers,
came back to take the next two.
Smithfield A. G. again proved its
superiority over the Arlington club
men, winning two games. Smith
field turned in the highest for the
week, 1,736.
Pete Metrakos led the Ahepa team
with 1877 game and 332 set in scor-
ing a double victory over the George
towners.
Recreation stayed close to the
leaders in winning from the Orrison
Coal Co.
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WALTER USES ODD CLUB
TO SCALE SLOPINC BANKS
May Be UnorthOdox as British Claim. But American
Star Maintains That Holng Ball Is Object
of Collects Startling Results

70 feet short of the cup on his second
shot on one hole, while Leo was about
20 feet beyond. The match at this
stage was close and he couldn't af.
ford to lose the hole. But he would
have to make a humdinger of an APP
proach or he would take a 5, while
Leo was practically certain of his 4.
Hagen studied the situation care.
fully. 1t would do him no good to
play past the cup and lay Leo a sty-
mie, because he couldn't prevent him
from making his 4. His whole
strategy must he based on not losing
the hole by making a ) himself.
If he played past the cup. Leo
might then stymie him. Also, if he
was too short, Leo might stymie him.
There was only one way for him to
avert disaster. That was to approach
to a spot less than foot from the
hole. The chances against his holing
a s were 600 TO L.
Walters 75-foot putt from fairway
grass ended just inches from the
cup. The hole was halved and Diegel
was stopped from then on.
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DISTRICT LEAGUE,
T,...arn G4nn.lfnm

High team set--King Pin. 1877.
High team game--Stanfor1 Paper Co.
High individual Wolsttnholme Con
vention HAM. 40.
High individual game-McPhlomy (stan-
fordl l73.
High average Mandley Curb cafe)
I17~40 az gamesl.
Glenn Wolstenholme furnished the
material for comment in the District
League last week when he selected
the Petworth drives as the site for
breaking the league season record for
high individual set with 419, while
performing with Convention Hall,
that, incidentally, took all three games
from Olsens Suburbanites Glenn
opened with las. then fell back to the
normal score of 119. AS the final
game got under way he began to bear
down and when the final figures were
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INTERNAL REVENUE LEAGUE.

High Individual average--I4esIle. IUy-3H.
High individual gane--Shear. LAB
High individual set--Leslie. 81
Hiah sDares--Leslie. 1876.
High stril1es--Tarter 30
High team game~-Clearing Division. 5D4.
High team set-Soictors. 1646.
Several new records were estab-
lished in last weeks games in the In
ternaI Revenue League. Solicitors, in
taking two games from the leading
Personal Audit team, set a new high
set mark of $40
Clearing Division counted 594 in
it's first game with Consolidated for
the best team game of the season
Leslie, with total Of 377, took the
lead for the indiyidual-set prize. and
incidentally increased his average to
109-39.
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WILL SPEAK ON BOXING

1.-THE Legion and the Manly Art"
will be the subject of Representative
Royal c. Johnson of South Dakota,
member OF the American Legion and
overseas veteran. before Il meeting of
the Vincent r. Costello Post of the
Legion Tuesday night in the board
room of the District Building.