Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
PHILLIPS CIT SET
PUTS HIM SECOND
His Score Features Closing
hight-Bess Ackman and
Billie Butler Tied.
BY r. D. THOMAS.

~HARLIE PHILLIPS, holder Of
the Washington record for q
league duckpin set. 4Se, today
was getting the glad mitt for
another distinction. Phillips hve-game
score of SGT put him in second place
and climaxed the wind-up Of The Eve
ming Stars third annual Yuletide bowl
ing tournament at the Coliseum.
| Glen Weidman of the King Pin team
won the championship of the mems di-
vision, with set Of 645. In the wom-
ems section Bess Ackman, the defend
ing champion, tied for first place. with
Billie Butler, each gathering 336 naples
in three games.
Weidman's victory will bring him $50
and championship medal. The wona-
en- leaders will split first and second
money, totaling $50, and viii shoot a
three-game match for the medal. Prizes
will be presented next Monday night
at the Coliseum at pm.
T C. ANDERSON of the Arcadia staff
j. gave Phillips a battle for honors
on closing night His score was
| 621, putting him in third place. Phil
| lips will collect $40 and Anderson $780,
Phillips rolled fairish duckpins for
four games and wasn't noticed rs
contender for a leading prize until his
final string, when he ran into a streak
of marks. He got Isl sticks in the last
| game.
Anderson started promisingly with
game of 1872. Splits bothered him in
the second, but things came his way in
the third. in which he got his top score
of lao. From there on he missed few
opportunities.
Besides eleventh prize in the tourna-
ment, Max Rosenberg, Northeast Tenn
pie captain. win receive a two-bit cigar
He shot 500. Make was given a set-up
| by a sports writer, who wagared he
wouldn't do better than $50.
Rosenberg's doubles partner, Paul
Harrison, got in the money with q set
| Of 588. A. Phillip made a brave try
| to land prize by shooting 1873 IN his
final, but his total of 572 was short.
JACK WHALEN, national sweepstakes
champion, was hot only in spots and
his 567 was worthless. Most of the
! spectators gathered behind Whalen,s
drives and pulled nightly for him. His
| top game was 1875. He might have done
better but for prolonged siege before
newspaper cameras. He and bradley
Mandley and Burt Parsons, money men
| In the national sweepstakes, were given
their checks by George Isemann, Sec
rotary of the National Duckpin Bowling
| Congress.
| Shortly after receiving his sweep
stakes coin Parsons hied himself to the
Arcadia, where he rolled a game Of
203 and a 5-game total of $50, prob
ably a national record for independent
competition. His games were 15S, lis,
$50, 144 and 203. Starting with the
| fifth box in the big string Parsons made
four consecutive strikes. He spared in
all the other frames except the second
in which he fiatted perfectly.
IMAURY FITZGERALD OF the Her
E1'1 aid. former golf champion Of
Washington sports writer's was
high man among his fellow scrihes in
special squad that rolled in the tour
nament yesterday afternoon. Maury
topped of a $40 set with q game az
l26. The metropolitan horseshoe
pitching champion, Harry Fraser Saufl-
ders,, scored 4sl, though a duckpin
neophyte
Harry B. HALEY, manager Of the
Coliseum and one of the five best duck
pin Pbwlers of all time, according to
George Isemann, fought on neuritis to
get set OF sol. His goal was 500.
Following are the prize winners: