The Washington times., 1931-11-24
VETS STAGING
SUCCESSFUL
COMEBACK
BY GINO SINH

With one-third Of the duck
pin season gone into history,
District League bowlers are TAX
h ing q squint at the averages,
hitching up their belts, and pre-
pairing themselves for real work.
The list Of the first ten or
twelve high average men is a
queer tumble. Hokie Smith lead
ing with 124 average, was un-
known when Earl McPhilomy who
Is pr sSing him with 122 was
forced out of the game, due TO
illness four years ago. Earl started
his con- eback last year in the
Typothetae Leage, and is now
better than ever.
Ted Megaw, fiery topped pilot
and chief pin bangor Of the lead
ing Northeast Temple Crew, is
coming back after a lapse of two
years. Reds work has been better
than average during the past
two years, but the Scotch ace
wasn't keeping up among the
leaders as Of yore. Now he is
among the pace-setters.
Bob Temple, HyattSville sensa-
ton ) rolled only nine games
but .hose nine attempts slapped
q 1884 average to his credit on
the boards, and that is a. feat
which foreShadows much.
Only q Kid
He is only a youngster, just
breaking into the game, and its
hard to make predictions. He
Is carrying on around the 115
mark in the Md..Va. Suburban
loop and has about the same
average in the Prince Georges
Mems League, both checked full
OF fast company.
Brad Mandley, ranked No. /
In the United States three years
ago, unable to get up more than
a trot since, is galloping at a
hot pace, just few pins shy of
122.
sAstor Clarke's terrific pin-
shooting in the National Capital
League robS' his District League
performance of its glamour, but
ne is laying fifth at the present
time not many pins away from a
120, average.
Johnny Anderson, whose uncon-
ventional delivery adds consid-
cradle color to his bowling, is
Climbing up the ladder fast. A
recent 396 set showed him above
the 119 notch.
Ollie Pacini is holding his own,
while Ray Won Dreele and Ed
Blakeney, the two Baltimore re.
crl1ts, in the District League. are
staging real duel between them.
AT present Ray has a six-pin
edge.
a Work Surprises
Perhaps, the biggest surprise is
Al Works 1915 average. AL used
to waggle that left soup-bone of
his so well a decade ago that he
led his contemporaries. He has
done very little since he rolled a
208 game five years ago. With Nc
Philon1y, Megaw and Mandley
plucking the naples with eclat,
AL evidently figured that the time
had come for him to prove that
he still had plenty.
Chick Heltman's great pin-spill-
ing is keeping the Petworth bunch
up among the leaders, and is
another outstanding bit Of ex.
pert maple-mauling not listed in
the preseason dope book.
Tonight Northeast Temple with
three of its men Megaw, Pacini
and Blakeney. among the first J. !
in the District League. tangles
with the luckless lucky Strike
crew in the first big District
League latch of the second
series.
The Campbellites are looking
forward to climbing rapidly dur
ing the second round, and they
will be on their toes to begin the
campaign with victory over the
league-leaders. Megaw's gang is
leading the league by two games,
nine games ahead Of Lucky
Strike, which is resting next to
last. McPhilomy is the big shot
in the Lucky Strike lineup.