The Washington times., 1930-10-16
IRISH ALSO
NUMEROUS
ON DRIVES
By GNO STNn

BY GINO SIM
This Is the fourth and last OF
d series of articles on botDlerS OF
foreign extraction In the DtstrtctJ
There was q time when bowl
ing was almost exclusively Ger
man pastime being associated
closely with the foaming stems
and the saengerbund clubs.
Slowly the Irish, as always.
squeezed their way in and forced
the Germans to share their fun
and pretzels, then the Jews, Ital-
dams and Greeks climbed onto
lthe wagon and the Germans had
Eall they could do to hold their
own.
Nevertheless in District bowl
lng circles the Tuetons hold the
commanding position and the ar
gument regarding the greatest
Exponent Of the small pin game
lrages around the prowesS Of
Harry Krauss, Glenn Wolsten-
sholme and Johnny .Vaeth, all Of
them German.
Outside of the Greeks, Itali-
ans and Hebrews, other nation
alities do not stand out. They
are not repEenished with newly
arrived immigrants or identi-
flying characteristics. They blend
more easily with the general
population.
Nevertheless the Germans bulk
nightly, for besides the three
immortals already named, there
are Lonnie Krauss, brother Of
Harry, Jack VOLS stenholme,
Glenn's kid brother, Dutch
Weidman, Norman Scroth, the
five Veihmeyers, Happy Burtner,
Andy Goddard, Carl and Dick
Heinzman, Charley Wetzel, Kris
Kroninbitter, AL Fischer, Frank
Mischou. Earle Stocking, George
Schweinhaut. o. Schnellen
doc" Shade and K. o. and A. H,
Sonniman, just to mention few.
George L. Isemann broke down
and confessed that he belonged
in this group, and Arville L.
Ebersole is suspected of being
one, too.
Against this formidable array
the Irish have skinny" Carroll,
Colorful pin-walloper of the past,
Howard Campbell, Bernie Frye,
Eddie Espey, Mag Wood, Tommy
Nolan, Carol DAILY, Red Morgan,
the two Harry McCarthys, tDoc'
Sullivan, Doc Farnaf1, Joe Millroe,
Larry Fitzgerald. Charley Barn
ard. Joe McGolrick, the New
mans, Brud Kessler, and Tad
Howard and possibly Al Works.
Pop HALEY is for the Irish,
but comes from English stock.
LOnnie KrauSS claims that
"POp" is really a CzechOsIa-
wax, and mentions the
fact that he was born In
five or more counties Of Vir-
ginia. Bill Wood is English.
German and John BIick an
ice-man.
The high cost Of bowling seems
to keep the Scotch quota low
for very few of this persuasion
are found on local drives. The
most outstanding, Red" Megaw,
is manager of the Temple, where
he doesn't have to pay for his
games. Earl McPhilomy, Bill
Fotsch, Pete McCambridge and
Ed McLarnih are Scotch.
The Frenchmen are also scarce
with only Joe Michaud, Jimmy
Jolliffe. Carl 'Fiozet and George
Rousseau and Henry Filliox Ito
carry on for La Belle France.
The Hollanders have one bright
star in Russell van SAINT, while
Estaban Calderon and Salvador
Marsal are Spanish, and Leo Wre-
sinski and Leon Stelski keep
Poland in evidence. .
The FilipinoS had a league at
the Lucky Strike for two years,
and conducted sweepstake dur
ing the 1929-30 season, which was
won by G.. r. Umali, who is highly
regarded in duckpin circles. He
bowls in the Federal and Masonic
leagues, carrying averages around
108. Eugene Paravano, M. Acan.
tilado and G. Caravajol are two
other capable performers.
The Chinese, too, flashed
for a while, and may again,
for, according to George Ise-
mann, they are contemplating
entering a team in the next
national tournament to be
held at Convention Hall here.
The Chinese entered a team in
the first N. D. B. C. at Baltimore
and did right well. Lee Fong,
manager of Lotus Cafe, and or
ganizer of the team, is bowler of
no mean ability, averaging around
the 110 mark. This team used to
roll regularly at Recreation alleys
up to a year ago. Sol Goldberg,
who is no Chinese, as his name de-
notes only too we'll, prevailed on
Fong to organize the team.
Close inquiry failed to bring out
bowlers of Belgian, CzechoSlovak.
Lithuanian or other nationalities,
but many men of races other than
those named must frequent local
alleys.