Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22


" memory for Bradley Mandley.
bowler. The least colorful of
l. all the leading stars, as some
view him, but the greatest OF
them all in point of effectiveness was
Mandley in this dying year.
To have established an all-time rec
ord for average in the District League
with 119 and fraction would have
been bounteous glory for most stars,
but Mandley anti-climaxed this achieve
ment with a triumph in the Howard
Campbell sweepstakes, the games blue
ribbon event.
He was voted almost unanimously the
No. ranking Of the Washington City
Duckpin Association, and the National
Duckpin Bowling Congress placed him
at the head of its list for the season
of 1928-29. So far this season Mand-
ley has been a star, but has been well
short of the pace he maintained through
the last campaign.
Lorraine GULL retained her crown as
duckpin queen, her outstanding per-
cluded Meyer Davis sweepstakes, in
which she totaled 1929 for a nine-game
national record.
The leading team of the year was
Convention Hall, which won the Dis
trict League pennant for the fourth
straight time and then reorganized for
the current race.
In the first half of the 1929-3O sea-
son Red Morgan Of Convention Halls
new lineup Is without q rival for SUI
premacy. He has held a pace of 1913
in the District League and better than
100 in the National Capital, and likely
will carry on to new record for the
District loop
Perhaps the outstanding surprise of
the year was Clarence w. Taft's VIC
tory in the first annual individual tour
nament sponsored by The Washington
Star, held at the Lucky Strike. Taft,
an unknown, beat field that included
roughly 900, and among them were all
the citys experts. His five-game score
was 654. Taft is about to defend his
honors. The second tournament, at
Convention Hall, will open next Thurs
day night.
Washington bcwIers almost scored a
clean sweep IN the National Duckpin
Bowling Congress tournament held at
Richmond, taking first place in the
mems doubles, singles and all events,
and the women's teams, doubles, single
and all events. The Recreation Center
five of Baltimore won the only cham
pionship denied the Capital.
Roll-ons were necessary to decide two
OF the titles, and only Washington bowl
ers were concerned. Howard Campbell
and Jack Whalen shot 430 to tie for
frSt place in the singles, and Campbell
won the roll-off. Marjorie Bradt
lSmith) and Margaret Miltner tied for
the all events title with CTS, and Miss
Bradt won the roll-off.
The Washington bowlers also shared
heavily in the secondary money at
Richmond. The most consistent Of the
leaders was Sam Benson of the George
town Recreation, who captured the ALL
events with total of 1,141,
Many exceptional scores were rolled.
but no all-time record broken. The
best individual performance was Har-
old Hodges 442 set, rolled early this
season in the B. Y. p. u. League.
A record field competed in the WASH
ington City Duckpin Association tour
nament at the Coliseum. There were
S5l teams and proportionate number
OF doubles and singles, the prize money
totaling $500. Paul Harrison, now q
member of the Northeast Temple team,
was the individual star with an all
events total of 1923
Mandley's victory In the Campbell
sweepstakes was decisive. He totaled
!,8O5 for the Is games, against LIT
Tor Glenn Weidman in second place and
Howard Campbell's 1859 for third
Weidman and Campbell came forward
with rush in the last set to share the
tat purse. Both represented the King
Pin, and 1t was the second time each
had finished in the money.
The year saw the departure for an
other cline of two famous stars, Glenn