The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-16
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A bowler with a 126 average
will lead the world champion
King Pin team of Washington
into battle with Baltimore $
best on November 3>and II, IN
a series that will inaugurate
the season s intercity competl-
ton.
Howard Campbell. who made the
most important spare in all duck
pin history last spring. is the klng
Pin captain and a modest possessor
of the 126 average made in the
National Capital League.
His team win be the defend.
ing champion in the National
Duckpin Congress tournament
ut Richmond this season as well
as the Washington City Duckpln
Association affair.
Campbell won the national all
events title and gave his team d
winning margin by making tenth
box spare. 1t will never be forgot
ten SO long as bowlers care 10
record gritty performances. Camp
bell was plenty cool when ne
knocked over a single pin marker
that won two titles. He and his
team captured championships by
virtue of it, Campbell taking the
all-eYents title by a margin OF two
pins and his team finishing in front
In its event by the same margin.
The King Pin ace, who started
the season with 336 set and fol-
lowed with a 40 score, shot $50
last night to hold swift pace.
The King Pin team s. the first
to win a national and city title
In the same season, having
mapped up in the n. ID. b. c.
and the w. C. ID. A. champion
ships of 1928.
Campbell will be conspicuous
figure when the King Pins meet the
Convention Hall team, the District
League champion. next Wednesday
ct the King Pin.
Baltimore viii be shy one of its
great duckpfn shooters when the in
tercity battle is staged. And Wash
ington bowlers will learn with re-
greet. too, that Johnny Ruppel is out
of action for at least season. The
doctors have given him the tip-of
regarding a pair of ffnicky lungs.
His admirers here are many.
Baltimore viii have two new stars
I'm its line-up-BOb Myers and Ray
Barnes. Little about them is known
here, and for that reason they will
be watched closely. Washington
and Baltimore for many years have
been bitter duckpin rivals, and each
city CLUES attention on newcomers
to intercity line-ups. This sort of
competition is supposed to be the
acid test OF a bowler's stuff"
Campbell has yet to name his line
UP, but II is almost certain that
Dutch Weidman, George Friend and
Arthur Logan will roll with him.
The fifth man will take the
place of George Lang, who is q
Baltimorean. Lang has COM
muted to Washington weekly to
bowl with the King Pins. He
has baked at the business Of
shooting against his own village.
The King Pins, by the way, are
leading the pennant parade in the
District League, having won eight
games and lost one. A single game
behind them is the champion quint,
representing Convention Hall.
Three girls wadered into the Lucky
Strike Sunday, ignorant of the Sab
bath closing law. The front door
ished the drives. One of the gals
set EN- up while the other two
Knocked 'em down.
of,ttoa1ad unn OP
pinboys when Manager Campbell
appeared.
Jack Whalen. of Convention
Hall, who established a world
record last season with an aver.
age of 1870 and a fraction over
q circuit Of alleys in the Dis
trict League, is away to q prom
Using start. He has a mark of
122 for nine games. and il is
considered probable that he will
beat his previous record.
At that, he may have serious COM
petition. Perez Elicit. of Stanford
Paper Company, is tied with him
and several others are not far be-
hind.
Red Megaw, the Campbell Sweep
stakes champion, is making good
hand over fist as manager of the
Recreation Center in Richmond, ac-
carding to reports. Megaw hopes
to come home to defend his Sweep
stakes title. This would call for
four or five Saturday nights away
from the Richmond plant.
Megaw's boss. John S. Blick, is
IN Norfolk today to look over real
estate that may be converted into
a large bowling alley. The game
Is spreading like wildfire through
the South. Bill Wood is about TO
open q place in Charlotte, n. c., for
Never Davis.
Every member of the Pops team
in the Recreation League is over
so years of age. but the veterans
managed to finish in a tie for fourth
place last season, and are in the
championship fight now. II. p.
HALEY, of old Royal fame. is the
captain.
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