Evening star., 1928-12-01
SPECIAL MATCHES
|. FILL DUCKP|N CARD
Washington, Baltimore Men
in Three Events-Women
in Sweepstakes.

n A ANY special bowling events held
Nh under the auspices of the
V numerous establishments de-
voted to the game about the
city will prime Washington's
duckpin enthusiasts for The Evening
Stars first annual individual champion
ship duckpin tournament to be held
on the Lucky Strike drives December
26-29 and January 2-5.
Four of these events are to be staged
tonight, three on local alleys. At Lucky
Strike, Glen Weideman and Howard,
Campbell will attempt to overcome the
27-pin lead established by Ray Won
Dreele and George Lang last week in
Baltimore, woman bowlers will compete
in the second block of the Meyer
Davis Ladies Sweepstakes, and Curb
Cafe of the District League will con-
clude its home -and-home match with
the Park Circles of Baltimore. All
these events will get under way at 8
o'clock.
Convention Halls stellar team invades
Baltimore drives tonight to start
home and home scrap with the Recrea-
ton All-Stars at the Recreation Cen
ter Convention Halls squad will in
clude the Wolstenholmes, Glenn and
jack Harry Burtner, Al Work and Jack
Whalen. For Baltimore, George Her.
schel. Bill Cleaver. Louis Porter. Her
man Kullick and George Eckhardt will
roll.
Five games will conclude the doubles
contest between the two high average
men of the District League and the out
standing pin shooters of Baltimore.
Three games will constitute the second
block of the women's event. Lorraine
GULL, with a count of 800, garnered at
King Pin No. 2 last Saturday will head
the field starting the second block. The
final block will be bowled on the King
Pin No. 1 alleys next Saturday night.
Curb Cafe will enter the last part of
its match with the Park Circles trailing
by few pins.
Interest in the impending tourna-
ment sponsored by The Star continues
to grow. Two leagues announced this
week they would send their entire
strength into the event and early next
week several big circuits of the city
have said they will fall in line. The
suburban loops are also manifeSt1ng
considerable interest in the affair and
they will be well represented. Within
few days, The Star will print the
names of the bowlers who already have
filed entries for the tourney and supple
mentary lists will follow until the book.
closes on December %.
Entries may be filed with the man
agement at Lucky Strike or the bowl
ing editor Of The Evening Star. In
each case. the tourney fee must ac-
company the entry. This fee is 81 for
men, who are to bowl five games, and
so cents for women, who are to bowl
three. 1t really Is not an entry fee,
for the sums cover only the actual cost
of bowling. The Star Is offering all the
many prizes that will be at stake.
/ Entry blanks may be procured at
bowling establishments throughout the
city and in the neighboring counties
of Maryland and Virginia.
A few bowlers around town have
tried to believe Al Work is slipping these
days in so far as his duckpinning is
concerned. Maybe he is, but a lot of
them would like to be slipping In the
same way after hearing of the set the
veteran Southpaw turned in last night
on the Arcadia drives. Bowling with
Convention Hall against Progressive
Printing Co. in the District League
contest all Al did was register a three
game count of 4ol: Some slipping, it
seems, by the old-timer who still holds
the record for the biggest game ever,
rolled on a drive here, 208 pot-game
effort.
Very likely the total of 766 amassed
by e. williams and A. Deuterman roll
ing as a doubles team on the Southeast
alleys is the highest three-game score
ever registered in the District by a. two.
man team, but as 1t was a pot match
the score cannot be accepted as an off,
cial record. The record still standing &
that made by Harry Burtner and How
ard Campbell when they teamed in til
Washington City Duckpin Associate
tournament in 1926. Burtner or
Campbell socked the naples on ~
Coliseum drives for a total of 1853.
In their pot match. Deuterman hit
the pins for 393 and Williams for 373.
Deuterman hit high game of 152.