Evening star., 1931-11-29
$500 PRIZE MONEY
|FOR HIGH SCORERS
lnnuaI YuIetide Pin Meet
Starts December Fl on
Lucky Strike Drives.

NIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS in
r cash and two championship
4 medals at stake, the fourth
annual Yuletide bowling
tournament sponsored by The
star will be held at Lucky Strike,
Eourteenth and Riggs streets
northwest, opening December 81.
Final arrangements for the giant
singles event, which drew 1,400
entries last year, were made last
night
Back to its original home goes the
most generally favored tournament of
iS kind held in Washington each sea-
son The first was staged in 1928,
when the Lucky Strike was a new pin
emporium, and 1t, like the tournament,
has prospsred with the years It will
be dolled up anew for the Yuletide.
Every man, woman and youngSter in
the Metropolitan District is invited to
take part at no cost whatever except
tie tax Of 20 cents a game paid for
ordinary bowling us cents for after
1oon St1ings).
Five games will be rolled by each
mall participant and three by each
fair entrant, the high 20 among the
trpussred brigade and the leading
dozen among the skirted to receive
pEizes. all gwen by The Star, Fifty
dollars and a gold medal will be pre-
santed the champion in each division
Any prize winner SO desiring may re-
cgvo the amount of his award in
plate.
rThe prize list fellows;
Mems Division.
-First-S5O and gold medal
zSecond-$40.
aThird-$30.
Next seven places-Sl2 each.
Next ten places-$10 each.
Women's Glass.
sFirst-$5O and medal
Second-S40
Third-$30.
Next six places-$1O each.
Tenth-S9.
E,eventh-S5.
sTwelith-S3.
Eight bowling dates have been ar
ranged as follows: Monday, December
2G Tuesday. December %: Wednesday,
December %. Saturday, December 26;
Monday, December %; Tuesday, De-
cernber %; Wednesday, December 80,
and Saturday, January 2.
Dates specified by the entrants will
be- awarded wherever possible.
Entry blanks will be available at all
bowling establishments in the city and
suburbs within the next week and
they may be turned in to alley managers
or sent to the bowling editor of The
Star. The fees fer games must be
handed in with them.
The Washington City Duckpin ASSo-
citation. OF which Harry z. Greer is pres
ident and Arvilie EbeTsole secretary, has
given the tournament its indor5o4nant
and its officials will have a leading part
in its ranag gement, particularly Sec
retary EberSole, handspring in all Of
Washingtons major bowling affairs.
A General Tournament Committee
will be named shortly. Prominent among
its members will be John William Wood,
head man at the Lucky Strike and
several other Meyer Davis enterprises.
Other duckpin mogulS have promised
their cooperation in making this the
biggest Yuletide event ever. They have
given it every consideration in the past,
with all proclaiming the tournament a
great influence in the general develop
n1ent of the sport.
The veriest buffers and many boys
and girls in their early teens have COM
peted side by side with the brightest
stars, holding that IF we can't win
anything, we get cur moneys worth in
bowling, plus tournament experience
II is one bowling party in which the
ouffer is not scared of by the expert,
and, strangely enough, only once has a
recognized star won in the mems divi-
sion. This was last year, when Clem
Weidman got hot for night In 1929
Tony De Fino, rated as mediocre on
the average, took first place and in %
an unknown. Clarence Taft, triumphed.
Taft'S 654 still is tournament record.
In the face Of prohibitive odds, Bess
Ackman won the womens champion
ship last year for the second time in
succession. 3he 1923 winner was Mar
Faret Miltner