Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01
BATTLE THIS week
FOR LEAGUE LEAD
HyattsviIIe Ready to Grab
Prize as Others Duel.
Hiser Ambitious.

TT was David against Goliath
when the Hecht Co. team
dealt a stunning blow to the
Northeast Temple five IN the
District League the. other night
but it will be giant to giant with
no odds on the outcome when the
Templates, captained by the re-
doubtable Max Rosenberg, come
to grips with the champion King
Pins, their implacable foeman,
next Friday.
The Big Bowling Battle Of the Year
will be fought in the stronghold of the
King Pins, the Lucky Strike.
On the result may hinge the District
League championship. The King Pms,
who have won exactly tWo-thlroS OF
their games, are in the lead with a
half-gam margin over Rosenberg's coll
lection of experts who last season Tell
short in a brave effort to overtake the
King Pins, but pledged themselves a
triumph in the current campaign.
It has been touch and go between the
two crack teams all season, with the
King Pins slightly in the van most Oh
the way. Shortly after the Christmas
holidays the Temples forged to the
front and saw almost clear sailing
ahead, but nobody reckoned on sucn a
reef as the Hecht team proved to be.
The Templates loss of three games
70 the Hechts sent the King Pins back
into first place. and attempting to re-
main there next Friday night viii be
Glenn Weidman, Jack WolStenholme,
Bernie Frye, Glenn Wolstenholme and
Capt Howard Campbell.
Shooting against them will be Rosen-
berg. Red Megaw and Paul and Joe
Harrison, with the fifth man yet to be
decided upon.
WATCHING the struggle with espe-
w cial interest will be members OF
the HyattSville team. 1t may be
a case of two dogs battling over b.ne
with a third walking off with the prize.
Hvattsville is only two games behind
the King Pin quint and one and hall
games back of Northeast Temple.
But for the rivalry between the cham
pion and runner-up Hyattsville would
command a lions share Of attention in
the race. In the second series. which
ends with this weeks matches, the
MARYLAND team has won 10 out OF "a
games. Should it win the pennant 1t
would be the first triumph OF a sub
urban team in the leagues history.
To bowlers not particularly interested
In the King Pin-Temple feud, Henry
Hiser, the Hyattsville captain, is most
entertaining. Henry is heart-bent upon
establishing an aIl-time record for
seasons average, and he could have
chosen no tougher field TO do 1t than
the District League.
Howard Campbell. rolling all his
games on the Lucky Strike drives in
the National Capital League, created
the present mark of 12I-17 last season.
Shooting en- a circuit of alleys. Hiser
has maintained approximately the same
pace this season. If he held it to the
finish his record would outrank Camp
bells.
CTAR bowlers say that an average
- made on a circuit Of drives is equal
to one several points higher
achieved on a single set Of alleys. Yet
Hiser has Jared worse on his home
mapleways, at the Hyattsville Arcadia,
than elsewhere. He was averaging
around l24 until the schedule carried
the Hyattsville team home for long
stay. On the other hand, the team has
been at its best on its own drives.
The District League record is held by
Bradley Mandley, who several seasons
ago averaged 119 and heavy fraction.
He gathered only a few more sticks,
however, than had Jack Whalen the
previous year. Whalen took sporting
chance in an effort to put the figure at
100. To do this he needed 800 in his
final set. He was Ill but rolled anyway;
result. $40.