Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-08
BOWLERS EAGER TO HELP
N. ID. B. C.. CHAMPIONSHIPS
Entries Now Pouring i'm Fast With Tournament No,
Starting Until March l2--Washington Teams
Preparing to Support Contests.
DuCkpinnin. scrms tn he almost

Duckpinninc srrms To he almost
ideally suited for the type, So long
rs individuals or teams nre rather
evenly matched the games are certain
TO he interesting, and No matter how
! inexperienced a bowler is in the duck
| pin sport. he is pretty certain to
pull one or two hair.raisns shots In
any three game set he bowls
A survey of the score sheet OF a
! recent bush league match shows some
such interesting Sidclishts MS this
One bowler shoots a game of 100 even
/ with single spare; the teammate toll.
/ lowing him registers a strike and two
! spares for the same count with nc.
/ tlaliN better wood game since he
counted on each OF his spares md
4 on his strike'--a pickup Of p,is
on the three marks. The other bowler
made his spare in the tenth and count.
cd a strike on il.
In the same match n third bowler
I Sot only seven marks for the thee
! games, hut six of them were I'm stti
spare combinations mcauin: that I've
! had three S0pin boxes His opponent
hau seven marks also. but scattered,
! and his wood game was II pins heiier
! IMAM the strike spare howler. hut the
latter toia led % pins more IN his set
merely by reason Of high counts on
marks
Apropos high counts on marks |, is
= question whether the .ii>healtenins
experience OF cutting through The
| punch FOL o-pin count on marks is
NOT due 10 the fact that the bowler
puts on lust little more speed in his
eHoltS tn clear the pinS off aud go
straichtens out his hook, the han
! reaching the pins before il breaks and
thereby flushing side pin instead Of
slipping I'm the pocket
\ copy NJ a b0wler's guide for 1919.
20 contains a paragraph which will
interest present-day duckpin shooters
The paragraph. oil course. refers 10
tenpins. Bowling is not n spec
lators game. il says. and howlers
are proud if it. Very few peopl,
would go across the street to see n
public bowling contest
The writer of that nararranh wou,a
ne little surprised IL he could dram
into one of the local alleys some
evening when an important series of
matches is under way
Ihls startling change i'm conditions
from those that accompanied the
tenpln game would seem 10 he q
prophecy of what il 10 come In The
ouckpin sport: for duckpjns IL a
spectators came--interestin2t TO watch
with experts in action. and not un-
interesting even with tyros shooting
because even the rawest amateur is
APT 10 pun shots that astonish The
onlooker
And IT is also participants game
because IL ia one of the few games
that is interesting from the very
beginning, the bowiers in the bush
leagues getting perhaps even more
pleasure out of the shooting than
the experts. In fact it might alnos,
be said that every spectator at
DOWNING match is a bowler, too. a
condition unparalleled in any other
sport.
Secretary Awhile EbersoIe has an.
nounced that the ANIMAL meeting of
The Washington City Duckpln Assoc
ciaiion will he called some time this
month. Election nf officers will he
the most important business before
me ssefSion. President Isemann has
nefiared he will not be a candidate
t.a