The Washington times., 1928-11-09

bowling career was cut short last
season by physical breakdown,
was high man in the King Pins re-
narkabIe performance. His score
was IT'S. The low man, name for
gotten, gathered 128 naples. The
team was composed of McPhiIomy,
Howard Campbell. Glenn Wolsten-
holme, Red Megaw and Max Rosen-
berg.
For q time the Waverly team OF
the Athletic Club League held the
record with 668. The Waverlys beat
the previous high mark, held by the
National Capital League Rathskel-
lers. by two pins.
Al Work, the foremost of modern
day southpaw duckpinners, contem-
plates the Joseph Phillips Company
i mark with anything but satisfaction.
In the first six boxes Work. not
thinking of a record, and with the
victory easily assured, half clowned
and experimental with curve ball.
When record hove in sight AL
gave everything he had, but he ID lost
his stride. He made several well
nigh perfect headpin hits, at that,
which brought splits. The proper
stuff wasn't there.
The Phillips team scored a
clean sweep and retained its lead
I'm the pennant race. The Ar.
lngtOns, i'm second place, took
three games by fOrfeia this week
from the tail-enders, the Webb
Pressmen, maki..g the standing
Is and 3 for the PhilIipsmen and
16 and 5 for the ArlingtOns.
q L..
TO0-game will be rolled eventually
1t has been in the offing several
times. But always at least one
bowler has had the i'll luck to run
into splits. One of these times fate
will decree that five stars step out
together.
Washington has had an untold
number of teams. every member of
which has rolled a number of scores
far exceeding lao. Yet an average
of lao would produce 700 game
The other night the Wolstenholme
brothers, Glen and Jack, rolled
game in the District Doubles League
of 301, Glenn shooting 162 and his
kid brother, 139. Had they been roll
ing with a five.man team the other
three members would have needed
an average of 1913 TO achieve the
coveted Eoal.
II the five highest scores ever
made in league play had come
together, the team total would
have been in excess Of 800.
Thirteen AIDES i'm a bridge hand
may be a far easier possibility.
Anyway, the 13 spades have
been held. The other freak is
yet fo ne recorded
The five greatest individual games
ever rolled here in local champion.
chip play were 1870, by Howard Ryan.
of the Masonic League; 1856. by
Freddie Moore. in the Howard Camp
bell Sweepstakes; 1873. by an O'Neill,
OF the Departmental League; 1872, by
Dave Mccarthy, of the National
Capital League, and 176. by Al
Work, Of the District League. These
figures are not indisputable. There
may have been bowler or two who
beat Works 176. But the games
mentioned total 916.
Several times in the history of
hardwood duckpins a single bowler
has accomplished what no team of
fiVe men has done, that Is to say,
knock over 700 pins or more in
five individual strings. Barney
Spinella. of Brooklyn. shot 708
against Convention Hall two sea
sons ago on the Convention Hall
alleys. This established a record
for Washington.
Spinella's performance probably
never will be forgotten. but 1t was
paied by a Baltimore bowler. Ray
Won Dreele, in a Baltimore doubles
league, electrified the bowling bugs
by totaling 721. Won Dreele will
be an attraction when the Bowling
Center Stars meet the King Pins
here November IL.
. These are records made in
championship competition. In
independent, or practice games,
even higher totals for five
games probably have been made.
Rerce Elicit, of the Stanford
Paper Company team, District
League, rolled Ill i'm a workout
ut the Coliseum three years ago.
IOnnie krauss, the Coliseum
manager. saw that performance
and recorded 1t for pOsterity.
Elicit is cursed with a ball that
must b altered 70 suit nearly every