Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
HANGS Up RECORD
| WITH 1878 SCORE
Laughs Off Tourney Jinxes In
Sweeping Triumph. VOL
StenhoIme Second.
By r. d. THOMAS.
<DUT me on top"

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And the fellow who
looked the Campbell
Sweepstakes jinx square,
ly in the eye cowed it.
Aston Clarke won.
AS Arville Ebersole, secretary of
the Washington City Duckpin As
ISOLATION marked up the names
for the final set at the Lucky
Strike last night, the leaders in
Washington's classic bowling
tournament sought the bottom
places on the score sheets.
Marked up first, you don't win," was
the tradition.
stay" ~ =
"Okay," grinned Ebersole.
For many times a day in the previous
week 1t had been called .emphatically
to thea ttention of the debonair youth
with a mustache) that only once in
the history of the battle Of bowling
bambinoS had the leader at the finish
OF the first ten games carried on to
victory.
i've already spent first place money"
laughed the what-a-man of duckpins,
and he may have meant 1t. He shot
627 and 628 for an average of 1855 in
OF 40 experts, and predicted he'd do
quite as well in the final, tradition and
superstition Notwithstanding.
Guessed Right.
He did. His score last night was 623
hir I fnr fHo ctr
sticks better than the previous record,
established in 1927 by Glenn Wolsten-
holme.
An unknown at the start, Aston
Clarke wound up the most sensational,
and probably the most confident COM
petitor in the history Of bigtime duck
pin shooting.
Suicide ST." were 120, 127, 118, ITO
and 148. The spoils of victory were
$3.50 in cash and diamond studded
medal worth STAT.
Clarke was SO pins ahead of his
nearest rival, young Jack Wolstenholme
Of the National Pale Dry team, who
was flve sticks behind the leader at the
end of the second set. Wolstenholme,
it appeared, had faded from the
championship picture after rolling 104
and 102 in his opening games last night,
but he made a brave comeback with
games Of lit, 1913 and 100 for set of
SIC.
Pacini Comes mp.
Ollie Pacini rolled into third place
with a grand total of 1921. His 644
was second high for last night, the
special prize of $25 for top set going to
Red Morgan with CAT. Max Rosenberg,
the defending champion, got back his
entrance fee of SIS by shooting high
game for the evening of 156. He put
on fouriShing finish of $50 for q grand
score of 1902 that was out Of the
money.
Tony Santini was fourth with 1926
and collected the last major prize
Eddie Espey was fifth with 1,814, .
slump In the third and fourth strings
running his chance for the title.
Clarke rolled consistently wei
through the Is games. His loves,
count was los and his best, 148. HI
missed few opportunities. In las,
nights five strings he blew one singl
pin break and picked a two-pinner
third game, he spared in the ninth
and tenth boxes and counted eight
and nine to climb to a score of 118
The two Italians among the leaders,
Pacini and Santini, proved their met
tie late In the going. Pacini shot 1877
In the last game when Sizeable score
was necessary to put him in the pay
on and Santini almost caught him with
q game Of $50.
Bradley Mandley, who won the tour
two years ago and was q IA
vorite to triumph this time after getting
OF to 662 start, gathered only 528
naples last night, his best game being
125. His grand total of 1,721 put him
far down the list. The national sweep
stakes champion, Jack Whalen, finished
with 615, but totaled only 1,724.
The cash prizes were, first, $3.50: sec
ond, $500; third, $3.50, and fourth, SIS.
The high game and high set of each
block was worth SIS.
Previous winners of the tournament
and their totals were Glen Wolsten-
holme, 1874; Red Megaw, 1924; Brad
ley Mandley, 1905, and Max Rosen-
berg, 1884.