Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-07
.3-P|N ADVANTAGE
FOR NEW ENGLAND
N. D. B. C. Is Forced to Make
Ratings According to
Alley Standards.
BY r. ID. THOMAS.

drives in New England, and
they're all different from the
ones here. Washington has
about $780, There are hundreds more
along the Atlantic seaboard, and how
to make 'em all alike, from Maine 10
Georgia, to standardize the game, Is
something to annoy George Isemann
and his National Duck Pin Bowling
Congress.
George has been certifying records
made here and there for the last year,
but he let it become known today that
records made in New England are not
as precious as those made here and in
other Central and South Atlantic ter
ritory
A painstaking investigation by Ise-
mann and other congress authorities
has revealed that an average of 119 in
Washington Is equal in merit to 1872 in
New England. The reason is q differ
ence in shape of cutters at the pit.
1t was thought that Bradley Mandley
established a record for average on a
held pace Of l19 in the District
League, but a New Highlander topped
this by 3 points. Jimmy Ross aver
aged 122, but was placed No. 4 in the
official national rankings and Mand-
ley No.. 1, the latter's brilliant triumph
in the Campbell Sweepstakes and other
feats giving him margin.
There's a Difference.
If Ross had made his average here,
undoubtedly he would have been placed
on top, but he was favored by equip
ment. In New England the cutters
are rounded, so that pins hitting the
side boards are scooped back onto the
| field of play to bring down other pins.
| The cutters here are square, and the
bowler is lucky If the sharp edge Of the
alley doesn't stop flyback.
In his investigation to determine
what this difference meant in pinfall
Isemann had the assistance of Paul
Pohler, Archie Walsh and other New
England experts, as well as alley man
ayers and proprietors who have had
All were quick to admit that the diff
ference was at least an average Of three
pins a game.
It being obviously unfair to compare
averages and records made on New
Englanr alleges with those in Central
and South Atlantic cities, the con-
gress, for the time being, has been
forced to classify them.
It has put its okay on Paul Har-
rison's recent TIA total for flve games
made at Hartford, but only as a record
| for New England, although it is the
highest ever rolled anywhere under
championship conditions.
. 1t has dealt likewise with game
of 1875 rolled by ]. H. Bergman OF
| Providence in a sweepstakes, which
topped by five pins the mark made b.
Howard Ryon of Washington, ana
which had been regarded as a national
record. In the New England class, too
has been placed a three-game league
set of 1889, rolled by Lowell agains,
Wakefield, in which the game scores
were 671, 644 and 624.
The 695-gan1e rolled the other night
by the Recreation Happy Five in Bal
timore has been certified and placed
in the Central and South Atlantic list.
although it is the highest ever rolled
anywhere.
Under the new classification ar
rangement 1t appears there can be no
official national record unless it be list
ed as a national record for round gut
tiers or a national record for square
cutters. There's a difference not to
be denied.
What, then, is to be done with the
10-game total rolled by Paul Harrison
in the Connecticut-GrandP Palace Valet
doubles? His score of 1,347 is the high
est on record. Five of the games were
The Big Problem.
When the National Duckpin Bowling
Congress was organized three years ago
one of it's prime purposes was to stan
dardize the game of hardwood duck
pins and drive out the sickly rubber
banded type, and from the beginning it
has bent effort in that direction. 1t
has accomplished much, but the con-
gress Is faced now with a herculean
task.
How to move the New Englanders
to change their 10000 drives to con-
form with those in Central Atlantic
cities and Dixie, or how to persuade the
latter to conform to the New England
standards is the problem and it is
fraught with complications, not the
least of which involves expense.
That 1t should be done for the gen.
eral welfare of the sport is unQuestion-
| able.
Howard Ryon's 100 game, made in
| the Masonic League, has been topped
twice by New Englanders. Bergman's
| 1876 was rolled last March. Recently
Nicholas Sanford, shooting with the
Central Franklin team against the
Paragons at WoonSocket in the New
England League, hooked up four spares
and two double-header strikes for
score of 1872.
The individual sets in Lowell teams
1889 set were: Hindle, 421; Gillette.
395: Kydd, 381; McQuade, 37l, and
McDermott, 371.
Twenty-four cities are represented in
the New England League, and the
longest distance between any two is
80 miles. The league was organized by
George Isemann. 1t has been marked
success.
Washington bowling fans look forward
eagerly to the Howard Campbell sweep
stakes, opening next Saturday night at
the Coliseum. Among the most formi-
dable of the new championship threats
is Bernie Frye of the King Pin team.
who counts it almost an of night II he
doesn't get 600 naples in five games.
Most closely watched, however, will
be Paul Harrison, the seasons sensa-
| ton.
A score of SOS. made by Charles
Helm, leads in the Baltimore Sunday
tournament, run under conditions sim
liar to the recent Washington Star
event, which was won by Tony De Elmo.