The Washington times., 1931-04-07
DOPE UPSE7 |
BY OBSCURE
. BOWLERS
BY GINO SINH

WnaJ Whale OF a season!
Washington duckpin-pounders
make that exclamation in col
iective breath and with sigh Of
relief, as the greatest bowling
season in the history of the city
winds slowly to its end.
Whit with the Two most i'm
portant national events of the
year, the United States Sweep
stakes and the N. D. B. c. tourna-
ment, and with all manners and
sorts Of purely local sweepstakes,
tournaments and special matches,
duckut1 fans are staggering down
the final stretch with their
tongues out, yearning for rest.
Each event was checked full Of
drama and color. And each
served its purpose to the nth de-
gree by the unexpected results.
An unknown, Astor Clarke, blazed
to glory by winning the Howard
Campbell sweepstakes with
record breaking score.
Pennant Races Thrill
The pennant races added their
share of hair-raising anti-cllmaXes.
When it looked like everything
would be peacefully settled in the
District League, with King Pin
and Temple battling it out like
gentlemen, HyattSville popped
into the mess and started to Kick
over all kinds of established dope
buckets.
Then Rendezvous woke up
with detonat which
wrecked every expert opinion
and now King Pin is fighting
for the pennnt it had halfway
through the season considered
as already its own.
i It was Howard Campbell's pet
ambition to lead the King Pin
ners to another District League
pennant in its last year of exls-
tence. The King Pin team rep
resented the King Pin alleys
which in mid-season became the
property of John Blick, and were
renamed Columbia.
Next year this aggregation Will
be re-dubbed the Lucky Strike,
and while the lineup will be the
same, except in one or two IN
stances, the glamour will be gone.
The King Pin name often graces
the record-books with remarkable
performances of the past. Their
5-game mark of 3116, made nearly
five years ago, looks good for
many more years to come. 1t
has survived countless assaults,
without once being in danger Of
eclipse.
In the meantime an unheralded,
Nttle-considered aggregation OF
bowlers, flying the colors of Park
way Filling Station, qui y
slipped ahead in the National
Cal ital League and now is firmly
entrenched there, the virtual pen
nant winner.
SchrOth's Stars Fail
When Norman Schroth trotted
out his glittering Fountain Hams
combination, with such potent
names as Make Rosenberg. Red
Megaw, Brad Mandley, Paul Har-
rison, Hokie Smith, Kenny Thorpe,
the wise guys we're inclined to
consider the National Capital
race a family squabble between
the Hams and the King Pins,
who had the same high powered
mob as in the District League.
But the old war horses from
Parkway, the same being yclept
Rendezvous in the District, de-
cided that the wiSenheimerS
were a little previous and pro-
ceeded to prove it.
Worse of all are the names that
grace the headlines Of late. Names
who figured very little in last
years big type. Astor Clarke,
who was he last year? A pretty
good bowler out in Clarendon
nothing more.
Henry Hiser, leading the Dis
trict League with a 121 average
this season. Last year he was
dismissed with the crack, a pros
pective star until he got hurt IN
an auto accident. Jack Whalen
was in Atlanta, Bernie Frye a
good bowler, but not great. Red
Morgan fell down toward the END.
Now all of them shining in unre'
flected glory. That's your duck
pins. You don't know one year
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