The Washington times., 1930-01-09
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BY GTNO SIM

BY GINO SINH
1t was back in February, 1915
that the first real step to intro
duce the ladies to the small pins
took place.
In those days Mrs. Louis Vogels-
berger had achieved q then con
sidered phenominal high game
for women, lis, and a little later
Mrs. George Iseman, wife Of the
. current indefatigable secretary Of
the Nataional Bowling Congress,
had a Ill game with one strike
and two spares.
4, Mrs. VogelSberger's pet alley
was the Arcade, which she FIRE.
Quented regularly, while Mrs. Ise.
man could be found at the then
highly regarded and imposing
Grand Central alleys. Under
these circumstances a match be
tween these two outstanding fe
q male stars was natural.
Needless to say the match
came off in quick time. A
1O-game total pins contest
with q five.gatne block at each
one Of the girls home alleys
was arranged.
The first block took place at
the Grand Central on WedneS-
day, February %, 1915, and Mrs.
VogelSberger managed to top Mrs.
1seman by slim 13-pin margin,
. the first block scores being 429
to 416.
The Grand Central star held
her own up to the last game,
when the Arcadian amasSed the
highest game of the block, 90.
against SO, thus picking up eleven
precious pins. The scores were:
Mrs. Louis Vogelsberger, 81, 81,
IS, 73, 99-429; Mrs. George Ise-
man, 76, SO, Sc, 70, 8S-416.
In the second block at the
Arcade Friday, February Is, Mrs.
1seman made a gallant try to
overhaul her opponent. getting
"a and 101 in her first two
games against 80 and 86, but was
unable to maintain the pace,
the Arcade girl finally capturing
the second block, too, with a 42S
to another 416 for Mrs. George
ISeman.
There scores may not look so
great in the light of modern day
bowling piled up by the girls, but
when compared with the scores
of the men rolling on the same
alleys no where near as well kept
as today, they don't look so poor.
A 1OO-ganle was an achieve
ment in those days and often
} many q good man bowler
would fail to get one in an
evenings rolling.
The Shepherds team in the
Clarendon Commercial League
went into a record-breaking spree,
and Just about broke every league
record ever recorded on those
alleys in totaling an 1885 team
set. Their opponents, Boyer's
Pharmacy, couldn't win a game
though they bundled 1871 set,
. which was higher than the pre-
Vious set mark for the league.
Double-headers were spattered
all over the scene, Carlisle, Stelle,
and Goff having one apiece for
the losers, while Leo Rinaldi, of
intercity fame, Santini and Furr
contributed one each for the win
nerS.
A 4O3. set by Furr is a new
league record and he was con-
sistently backed up by his team
mates with Sam Benson, national
> all-event champion, being low
man with a good 338 set. Ben
sons 81 was the only game un-
der 100 rolled by either team.
Another remarkable achieve
ment was that every one of
the team games was over the
600 mark, being COS, SIS and
612.4 This has occurred but
once or twice before in local
bowling.
The Shepherds lineup is one
J of the most brilliant here around.
Every one of its members is ex-
nected to make a big Splurge in
the Howard Campbell sweepstakes.
leo Rinaldi is captain, with Ollie
Pacini, Tony Santini. Sam Ben
son and Fur, or regulars, and
such bowlers as Paulie Harrison
and Make Rosenberg as occa,
sional subs. They are leading
the league by four games.
Scores of last nights match fol-
low:
COMMERCIAL LEAGUE
Eoyers Pharmacy Shepherds
Handicap II IA "a Rinaldi.. 12S 127 ia
nsnter'n 1O6 ia 117 Pacini.. 1877 127 11S
HG,iier. 103 101 101 ISantini.. ia 1l4l2S
Carlisle. 13l 10 116 Benson. 81 11S l2S
StelIe, l12 1876 ia FUR. 143 134126
HnFf 1875 l4l