Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-06
RICH NEW EVENT
SETTLED FOR 1881
Washington City Association
Will Hear Details at
Sunday Meeting.
BY r. ID. THOMAS.

TX THEN 81 Washington bowl
M ers put up $25 apiece to
v Y shoot in the Campbell
sweepstakes this Winter
they were piking, or so it seemed
today, when plans for national
tournament in this city a year
hence became known.
Every bowler who takes part
will toss so bucks into the kitty.
Arville Ebersole. secretary OF the
washington City Duckpin Association,
will give the lowdown on the classic
sweepstakes when the association holds
its annual meeting and election Sunday
at 3 pm. in the oak room of the Raleigh
Hotel.
Success Is Assured.
Ebersole and George L. Isemann,
secretary of the National Duckp1n
Congress, aided by Howard Campbell,
have been working quietly for weeks
on the project and are ready to an
nounce assured success. Isemann terlta-
lively has lined up the out-of-town pros
poets. Ebersole and Campbell say they
can count on 10 or Is entries here and
Isemann looks for 80 from other cities.
With As entries the prize fund would be
$2,250, to be split at least five ways.
AS in the Campbell Sweepstakes, Is
games will be rolled at three different
establishments, but all on one day in
stead of five each on successive Satur-
days. There will be morning, after
noon and evening round.
Complete arrangements Tor tne
tournament will be announced year
in advance, thus giving the bowlers
plenty of time to shape finances.
The national sweepstakes will be one
Of several important matters put be-
fore Sundays meeting, to which every
league has been requested to send a
representative. All bowlers will be well
come.
EbersOIe a Livewire.
A new constitution will be submitted
and its adoption Is assured. Under us
provisions the autonomy of the associa-
ton over organized competition would
be strengthened.
New duties would be heaped upon
the secretary, who, incidentally, has
been the most active official this Sea-
son the association has ever had.
Ebersole has made work for himself.
He has had an industrious hand in
every major tournament of the season
and some of minor Importance. He
proposes now to take Upon himself the
lob of keeper of the archives.
Ebersole and many others have been
dissatisfied with the associations
handling of records A year or two ago
a committee was named to investigate
outstanding performances of the past
and establish their true worth by as
certaining the conditions under which
high scores were made. The committee
never made serious attempt.
1t is a foregone conclusion Ebersole
will be retained along with the other
officers-Harry z. Greer, president;
Perez Elicit, vice president, and w. H.
Miltner, treasurer. These men have
proved their value time and again.
Dates for the annual city tourna-
ment, which will be held at the big
King Pin or Lucky Strike, it being Bill
Woods turn to stage it, will be set at
the meeting. Last year the tournament
drew ISL teams, LOOT singles, and about
500 doubles, paling all previous records.
Al HUNT of Petworth, put himself in
line for a match with Eddie Espey of
Gonzaga, by defeating Noble Viers, jr..
of Silver Spring, $40 to 500. Espey has
been acclaimed the king of junior duck
Primers, numbering viers among his
victims.