The Washington times., 1929-01-05
KILLS
BIC TEAM
MATCHES
Ry r. D. Thomas

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Convention Hall will clamp
q ban on long distance inter
city team matches following its
battles with Stamford, Conn,
and Brooklyn, N. Y, today
and tonight on foreign alleys.
This announcement was made by
Albert d. Gardner, Convention
Hall manager, before his team left
last night.
They've become too expensive"
he explained, and continued: 1T
cost us more to bring. the Stamford
team here than we took in at the
gate. The Brooklyn team drew
barely enough to pay expenses.
There was little interest in the
Brooklyn match this year, COM
pared with other. seasons. and there
is bound to be less next year. The
Stamfords made such q sorI.y show
ing here that we can't expect any
body to pay to see them again.
u So we've decided to pass up both
I Brooklyn and Stamford.
- It's possible, though. that we
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: doubles matches with Brooklyn
: and New England stars next
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g parisOn with team matches, and
8 j believe the bowling fans really
& like them better.
ss mo bowling events ever held in
Washington drew more fans than
the singles matches among our own
stars that were rolled several
seasons ago. i hope we can get
that sort Of thing started again.
"The Brooklyn affair got off to
q big start two years ago because
1t was something new. Barney
Spinella made himself a great
favorite and he was the drawing
card when Brooklyn came back last
I year. But he didn't do so we'll the
second time, and this year BROOKLYN
had little or nothing b offer the
fans
Bear in mind that Glenn VOL
stenl1olme isn't beaten yet for his
, intercity Individual championship
1t was agreed that total pins for
ten games would decide the winner
in his series with Barney and
Jack White Barney and White
merely, won a lead in Washington
I And | wouldn't be surprised even
a trifIe if Glenn came out on top
in the end.
1T figure Jock wolstenholme
and Jack Whalen to win the
doubles both in Stamford and
Brooklyn,
''We're rolling rubber-banded
pins in Brooklyn and this
makes 1t tough for our men.
There are rubber.banded pin
bOwIers who make fat averages
but can't do thing with the
hardwood pin. / look for the
Br0OkIyns to show us a lot
I more stuff than they did in
Washington and we don't feel
a bit safe with our 2O1-pin
RaarGin.
That can be wiped out in one
game if we go bad or Brooklyn
gets hot. The Convention Hall
bawlers depend lot on speed
and they say it's the slow ball
with a hook that does best in the
rubber-banded pin game
A different banded maple is used
In Brooklyn than that favored, in
s. a tIOIDCu VI LhC SoAuC,
George L. Isemann, secretary of
the National Duckpin Bowling Con-
Rress, gives the following dope:
lowing to the crack Convention
Hall team rolling rubber-banded pins
in Brooklyn it may be well for the
bowling public to know that they
are not shooting against the Pitts
burgh pin which is conducive to big
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with %-inch band, the Pittsburgh
band being X inches wide.
1.-THE narrow band makes less of
q handicap for Convention Hall be-
cause it puts a premium on ac-
curacy in spare shooting. The
Pittsburgh style is more of strike
game"
incidentally, Isemann cap
tanned a team that established
a world record at the style of
NAPLES to be used in Brooklyn
tonight. Eleven years ago the
Isemann All.Stars totalled 1907
for five games against Martins.
burg, w. Va, and the mark
still stands.
The high game was $40. to which
John L. Naeth contributed 204 pins.
mark achieved in the first string
of the set by Harry B. HALEY.
HALEY had seven headpin splits in
the big game and got only III
!. pins. Isemann scored .181, Harry
Stanford, 1863, and Andy Goddard.
145. Vaeth's general performance
was remarkable. He totalled $50,
an average of 174. Naeth helped
invent the rubber-banded maple.
The famous Goose Goslin team
of Pittsburgh holds the record for
the other style of banded pin-2, ,6S6
for three games and 946 for one.
The Evening Star singles tourna-
ment at the Lucky Strike will be
ended tonight. with more than
hundred bowlers taking their turns.
A perusal of the list reveals only
a few with a chance to beat the
high set for men--Clarence Taft,s
654. There is small likelihood of
. new leader in the girls section.
Competition in the Northeast
Temple tournament will continue