Evening star., 1929-12-13
AL WORK FAVORED
IN CLASSIC FIELD
Nearly All viii Compete in
Stars Event-Kid Gets
: 1875 Pins in Five Boxes.
BY r. d. THOMAS.

-ORTY of the city's leading south
nav bowlers will 80 TO post
tonight at the Northeast Temple
In the opening set Of the hrst
syeepstakes for forkhanderS ever
held here. Gino Simi, who has charge
of the event, has lined up all the best
rive games will be rolled starting at
a o'clock. Another five will be shot
Dscernbsr 20 at the Coliseum and total
pins for the 10 games will determine
the winners of stable cash prizes
Each participant has paid an entry Zee
Conspicuous in the field is Al Work,
who long has been regarded as WASH
tngton'S foremost lettnanoeo power: s ne te
is a favorite but far from clnch 10
win. Perhaps his most formidable rival
is Phil Goodall, an exceptional tourna.
ment performer. Not the least respected
in the field are two alley managers.
A, Herman KrausS of the Coliseum ana
Earle Stocking of Convention Hall.
Virtually all the entrants IN the
southpaw stakes will compete also In
The washington Stars second annual
individual tournament, opening Decem-
ber 26 at Convention Hail. with entries
closing a week from tomorrow.
One of the youngest entrants In The
Star tournament and lad to be reck-
oned with is Leonard Handbook OF 1883
Monroe street northwest, who has no
league aff1liation.
leonard, who is II. half made the
Grade the other day at the Arcadia in
an attempt to set world record. He
had a score of 12G in the fifth frame.
Could he have done as well IN the last
fve boxes his score would have been
252. AS it vas, he finished with 1853,
getting into trouble in the late frames.
He started the game with four consecu-
tive strikes.
Young Handbook totaled 31e for two
games, the l69 being preceded by $50.
He shot the games in practice for a
special match to be contested at the
Arcadia soon by the Arcadia Midgets
end a picked team from the Central
High School League.
Eandcock's 169 may win him the
weekly prize of a ton Of coal given for
high score each week at ths Arcao!a.
The chap who won II last week. Doying
OF the Bankers League, is an apartment
dweller and became a Temporary Goa!
merchant.
A seaeon's record made nearly two
months ego has Just cons 10 light. A
set of 442, the third highest ever rolled
here, IVES shot by Harold Hodges at the
Lucky Strike in the Baptist Young Pen
pies Unicn League. Charlis Phillips,
with ass IN the Masonic League, and
Harry Dixon, with t45 in the Agricul-
tural Intsrbureau League. are the on!J
others to beat $40. Hodges string
was ISL. l47 and 144. The national
record is 461. achieved by A. Monta-
gano at Providence, r. l., last season.
indications are that many more 400"
sets will be rolled this season than in
any Of the past. One IS recorded al
most daily. Latest to join the sel3ct |
class Is Needle of the Takoma team in
the Masonic League, with score of 4o4, |
made with games of 132, 122 and $50.
Needle could hare used these strings
to excellent advantage in The Star
tournament to be rolled on the same
alleys. ~... -. -,.
Red Morgan, who is averaging better
than 120 in the District League and
is out to set a record for that circuit
picked UP on his average when his
team, Convention Hall, whitewashed
Stanford Paper Co. Reds total was 377.
1t was an unusual match Every
individual game was 100 or better. Nc
Philomy and Smith of Stanford came
near spelling the score sheet when in
100 sticks.
The crack Veterans Bureau team in
the Ladies Federal League had to use
dummy when Navy was met. and the
handicap was too much. Navy won the
first two games, and only a squirt by
Peggy Babcock and Lorraine GULL saved
the flnal.
What promises to be one of the best
rolled girls matches of the season is
that scheduled for tonight at the Recre-
alton with the Recreations of the Dis
trict Ladies' League meeting the Bal
timore Regents. The Recreations are
champions of their league, and the Re-
gents are said to be the strongest team
of girls yet to represent the Monumental
City. Rena Levy, Catherine Quigley,
Billie Williams, Pauline Bradburn and
Anna Mccormack will shoot for the
Recreation. The match, which was an
nounced enormously for the Coliseum,
will start at 8 o'clock.
Another intercity battle will be
fought at the Queen Pin tonight by
Baltimore and Washington bowlers
This will bring together the leading
Elks pin shooters of the two cities, with
Charles Manley, Joseph Haggerty,
Perry, Baum and Chris Sproesser
representing this city. 1t will be the
opening match Of the Tri-State Elks
League, in which Washington, Balti- |
more, Annapolis, Cumberland. Fred |
erick, Hagerstown and Delaware will
have teams. Charles A. Fischer is the
local manager.
The Grifith Consumers and Wash
williams Coal Co. bowlers will clash
tonight at the Lucky Strike in q spe-
cial match. In a previous skirmish the
Grifnth Consumers won.
ON THE ATJFYS