Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04
COLUMBIA EXPERT
LISTED WEDNESDAY
Members of Crack King Pin
Team Will Take Turns
on Drives Tomorrow.
BY r. D. THOMAS.

JACK WHALEN Of the Co
lumbia, crowned last night
~ king of duckpin stake shoot
ers, will be the leading at
traction this week in the annual
Yuletide singles tournament,
sponsored by The Evening Star,
at the Coliseum. Whalen will
shoot Wednesday night, along
with a number of other crack per-
formers.
The tournament will be re-
sumed tomorrow night, and there
is an excellent chance that the
current top scores will be beaten.
AL Fischer is high in the mems
division with 614 for five games
and Billie Butler leads the girls
with a 3-game score of 336.
Prominent In the attack on Fischer's
mark will be members of the champion
King Pin team of the District League.
including Howard Campbell, Glenn Weld
man, Bernie Frye and Glenn and Jack
Wolstenholme. They will shoot with
the O'Clock squad.
The defending champion of the
women's division viii be in the same
squad, BeSs Ackman, firing away on
drives 5 and 8. Among other dangerous
ContenderS in this group will be Eva
GUIDE, Lucille Preble, Doris Goodall,
Frances Hell, Jennie Malcolm and
Florence Sabean.
bronson QUAITEs, president of
- the washington Ladies' League,
urges that next year the girls roll
I'VE instead Of three games.
Baltimore bowlers have raised the
question of whether it's a foul when
bowler's uplifted toe goes over the line
but doesn't come to rest until the ball
has reached the pins. The foul line
chief of The Star tournament, Mickey
Whalen, nationally recognized authority,
maintains that the delivery is legal I'M
less the foot actually touches the stripe.
But it's Q foul" says Whalen, ''if
any part Of the body or clothing touches
anything beyond the line until the ball
strikes"
with Celtic chivalry, Mickey observes
further that foul line judges AFFECT q
vacant stare when q swishing skirt
brushes q pillar or ball return.
:, Some Of the washington bowlers who
competed in the national sweepstakes
hope to get back their entrance fees
with q victory in the Yuletide tourna-
nent first prize being $50, plus
championship medal Among the ex-
perts yet to perform at the Coliseum
are Jack Wolstenholme. Jack Whalen,
Paul Harrison. Max Rosenberg, Bernie
Frye and Howard Campbell.
Rosenberg, one Of the favorites in the
classic stakes, may have created an
unenviable record yesterday. In his
second set he cut through the middle
in 10 consecutive boxes.
Bill Haskins, bowling moguI Of Rich
mond, came up for the national and
brought tidings of an old washington
favorite, Joe Boehling, who ever so
many years ago won Is straight games
bowling, but not as eflciently. as he
pitched.
- a TRIPLE strike means nothing"
"A grinned Archie Walsh of Bos-
ton last night, presenting a snap
shot Of three smiling 3-year-olds (two
girls and one boy), compared with
this"
Walsh is the daddy Of triplets.
ACHE Is the same friendly-eyed Irish
man who some years ago helped the
Miah Murray team deplete the ready
cash Of washington bowling stars. He
and Paul Pohler formed one Of the
strongest doubles teams the sport has
known.
The little pin game is having a strug-
gle in Boston, according to Walsh, who
says candlepins is still the regular diet
of Hub bowlers.
I've rolled about 10 games of duck
pins since the last National Duckpin
Bowling Congress tournament but I
like those sticks" says Archie
The duckpin has been making steady
headway everywhere in the East except
IN Boston, 1t seems, and the objection
there Is not TO the pin, but the ball.
In candlepins 434 -inch sphere is used
and the duckpin ball Is 5 inches in dia-
meter and more difncult to grip.
Mick TRONSKI, following his per-
Nformances of the past two DAYS. is
being hailed as the countrys greatest
duckpin shooter. He started as a pin