Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02
TRIPLE-HEADER strike by Luz
ellie Preble of the Commercials
was the highlight of the weeks
nlay in the washington Ladies'

was the nlgnuShC OF Lne week
play in the Washington Ladies
League. She struck in the third
fourth and fifth frames, counted nine
in the sixth and struck again in the
seventh. She shot 140 without spare
Both teams were thoroughly on their
mettle when the ColumbianS and Bee
cues met in the Washington Ladies
League, the pennant fight having mar
rowed to these. The Columbians won
two and regained the lead. The Bee
cues need all three games of post
poned set to tie for first place. The
two leaders will meet once more and
this skirmish likely will settle the fuss.
Margaret Leaman was the star OF the
CoIumbiAns' important victory with a
set of 336.
Henry HiSer came back to the Dis
trict League after q two months abb
Sence to put n crimp in Northeast
Temples attempt to overtake the lead
ing King Pins. Henry's ringing strike
on tenth-box spare gave Hyattsville
the first game. Rosenberg won the
second for Temple with a last-frame
mark and his team took the final with
a score of $50. But the game HiSer
won was sorely needed by Temple,
which is three games behind and not
many weeks left to pick EN- up.
Dutch Weidman of King Pin shot
37s to pick up on his District League
average and is close to 100. If Dutch
holds this pace he will establish an all
time District League record.
Willie Carroll came through with a
spare in the last box to win q game for
Stanford Paper Co. from Convention
Hall, which took two and strengthened
its hold on third place.
Cornell Lunch will hold a three-ball
tournament tomorrow and Tuesday at
the Coliseum to raise the wherewithal
to compete in the National Duckpin
Bowling Congress tournament There
viii be nifty bucks in prizes, with feS
OF two bits game. Competition will
start at noon tomorrow.
Ray Bohlayer of the Times-Herald in
the Commercial League has an average
of only 104, but is among the leading
strike bowlers Of the city. In 81 games
he has made 40, which is only four or
flve short of the number with which
Jack Wolstenholme topped the District
League last season and Jack rolled 81
games.
Bohlayer's teammate, Mickey john
son, averaged l08 in the first series
but has taken a surprising flop. His
high game in the last nine was 95!
Smith of the C. and p. Telephone
team, prospective champion OF the
Commercial League, Is District League
material. A recent set of 3S4 boosted
his average to ia.
Bub Geuthler of the Mark Blum
team shot 1872 when the Blums won
three from Lenders Shore in the
Southeast League and with counts of
SOS and 1,674 missed two seasons rec
ords by few sticks.
After suffering on the bench while
his team lost two to the QueenpinS, Cap
Phalen yanked Bill Lewis and took up
the anchor post himself. He was an
anchor in more than one way, as indi-
Gated by his score of 81.
Dartmouth has a one-game lead over
Maryland, runnerup in the Intercolle-
gate Alumni League, with two sets to
go, the last between themselves. Hot
diggity!
story of Dartmouth leads the league
in average with l04-22, but the boys
are predicting he'll be overtaken by
Lewis of Navy, who has 1898 and
for the last IL games has travelled at
a pace of lis.
Dartmouth hung up the high set last
week with 1883 and Cornell the high
game, 571.
With Harry Watts 373 set the big
punch, Traf1c scored the only clean
sweep of the season over the leading
Auditors of the Southern Railway Clerks
League. Operations lost chance to tie
the Auditors by dropping three to Pur-
chasing No. l. Only five games sep
arate the FIRST seven teams. Construc-
ton Is second and with a postponed
set to roll with TRAFFIC has a chance
to deadlock for first place.
Maude Youmans. secretary Of the
Eastern Star League, issues a speed
'em-up" call to team captains in con-
nection. with the leagues sweepstakes
to be held shortly at the Lucky Strike
Won't the captains please get be-
hind their teams and see II we can't
make this event a success?" Is her plea
There may be a case or two OF
nervous prostrAtion before the Eastern
Star pennant is decided. Trophies will
be awarded for the first four places
and only 10 games separate first place
from seventh with Washington Gen.
tennial on top. Capt Lucy Owen OF
Centennial has the individual cham
pionship sewed up with an average OF
1Ol.
Riggs National dropped six games,