The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-01-28
LEVY
SUCCEEDS
GULL
By GNO SIM

BY GINO SINH
Now that Lorraine GULL is
gone, definitely If not perma-
nently severing her connections
with Washington regular bowl
ing circles, who will replace her.
Who ever climbs into her chair,
will she, too, be the unfortunate
victim Of the same views and
criticisms? Will there be feel.
ing Of resentment toward her
successor because of her undis-
puted superior proves over her
pin-toppling sisters?
Lorraine was a Snowman, or
rather Show-woman. She has that
fearless knack of making capital
of what a lesser person is bent on
rendering inconspicuous.
A clever, alert, intensely alive
girl who enjoys the game thor
oughly, she lives, breathes, eats
bowling. She has the ideal tenn
permanent for the task she is I'M
dertaking.
There are quite few girls
in the city whose duckpin
talents are little removed
from hers, but these lack her
color, her overwhelming per-
severance, her flair for the
unusual, her disregard of op-
pOnentS.
For instance there's Rena
Levy. Year after year the little
jewelers. help battled it out with
GULL for high averages in the
two outstanding Ladies Leagues
with plenty Of success. The year
GULL set the 1856 all-time mark
| for women averages Levy was
right behind her less than half
point away.
| But Rena, practically as com.
petent as Lorraine when it
comes down to the coramon pas
time of tipping over the ducks
day after day, lacks Lorraine'S
flashy brilliance, Lorraine'S Splen-
did indifference, Lorraine's ability
to thrill time after tins.
When CULTS achievements are
sifted it appears that she wasn't
so alfred invincible as the
impressions seem to have her.
Outside of her superlative wins
in the two Meyer Davis Sweep
stakes and her league ShoWingS
she has yet to win a National or,
as far as we can discover, a city
championship.
Neither at Baltimore nor at
Richmond did she do any
thing extraordinary. In the
/ alI-events, which is the true
test of bowling ability, she
didn't even place in any of
the money positions both
years. The same was true in
last years Washington WO-
men City Tournament.
These failures would have been
magnified with any one else, but
GULL has that something" about
her that makes you remember
only her triumphs, only the note
worthy feats of her career.
So she passes from local COM
petition to a wider sphere we're
she will sparkle in solitary glory.
Where her color, her ability to
make capital of her victories,
places her we'll above the aver.
age run.
Her first stop on her current
exhibition tour of the South was
Norfolk. Those who saw her
: leave remarked how strange it
seemed to see her go without the
usual teammates about her,
knowing she had definitely Sc
vered connections with the city
in which she had achieved her
. fame.
Rena Levy, is her successor.
Two who might have threaten
her reign are also gone indie
finitely. Marie Frere married
to Jack Whalen is in Atlanta.
where, it is evident from
newspapers, she is leading the
women bOwlers.
Marjorie Bradt, whose brilliant
/ performances set her name in the
! record books, is also married and
;; is now in Philadelphia. Marjorie
was the one who might have
succeeded to Lorraine'S mantle
in ShoWmanship. Her bowling
= featS were characterized by bril-.
lance and she had considerable
color.
Catherine Quigley looms formid-
ably on the horizon. She is the
biggest obstacle to Rena'S final
triumph, with Pauline Ford and
Lucille Preble lettering in the
background, within striking dis
lance. Lucy Owen is another
who threatens. =
p Wherewithal, Rena should
? finish ahead of these girls for
. the current season. The large in
/ flux Of girls who have taken to
S the game this year makes it hard
! to prophesiZe for next season.
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