The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-05

Nick Tronoskf of New Britain was the outstanding figure of the two- day meet With Joe Gacek for partner in the opening match he sue ceeded in breaking the worlds rec ord for doubles with score Of 3l4, rolling against Blakeney and Lang of Baltimore. From this point on the New Britain boy was the attraction. He failed however to win the na- tional sweepstakes and the accom- paning prize of $1,000 losing by the narrow margin of seven pins after leading for IA games. Hard pressed in the evening session he failed to hit clean and rolled his poorest games of the two days. He missed a number of marks but the last one that he failed to negotiate cost nm the prize In the ninth box of the 18th string he missed q two pin spare which cost him eight pines but put up mark in the last box. on this one however he got q two iiIler where seven meant second prize and nine a tie for the major prize. The Washington sports loud in their praises of Tronoski laid 1t to the mental strain on the New Britain boy who saw Bradley Manley of Wash ington wipe out 90 pin dehclt Tn ms first three strings to pave the way for a victory over TronOSki by de- feating him for second place after Jack Whalen, a 22-year-old cham pion had beaten him for first DO sition. Whalen won his title in the last two boxes in just the manner bowlers like to win. He pulled dou- bIe strike in the ninth and tenth to pick up 2s extra pins and pull hlm- seld from seventh place to the tltlc and everything that went with It. Blll Tato handicapped himself Tn me morning by a poor start rolling J44 which placed him far down the list but hc did enough good rolling in the afternoon to get himself talked of as d possible. He managed to pick up so that he needed 624 set to equal the winning score. The best that he could do was to roll GO3 which lost him fifth prize by one pine. In the second and third ses- sions Tato rolled like champion and his afternoon set saw him equal Tronoski's GAS, made in the morn ing which proved to be the two best individual scores of the day. sam Sena's poor start may be attributed to the fact that his entry number was 13 or that he was being coach ed by Paul KamDner. In any case Sam was not up to form in his first five games but he rolled well in the next two sessions and finished with 1717
 Big Crowds.
 Those who were fortunate enough to wedge their way into the Water bury tournament held at Genlots last spring can appreciate the con- ditions at the Lucky Strike alleys. The management made every pos sible arrangement for the comfort of the spectators but it was impossible for every one to see the more i'm portant matches. Most of the specta- tors wanted to follow the doings of Jack White and Nick Tronoski against the Baltimore team of Blak eney and Lang, the quartette picked to figure in the prize awards. Tenn porary bleachers took care of a few hundred but hundreds more never even saw the score board much less the competitors. Washington takes its bowling seriously, judging by the attendance and enthusiasm display ed and the Connecticut bowlers were accorded q great reception. Every bowler of note seemed to want Ot roll Tronoski a series and he took them on one after the other and successfully. Bill Tato, too, had his share of challenges and also his share of wins
 Nice Victories.
 White and TronoSHi paired up against Howard Campbell and MaXie Rosenberg and defeated them three out of five. Bill Tato and Carl Frisk accepted the def of Paul Harrison and MaXic Rosenberg and trimmed them four out of five. Jack Wolsten holmc losing a three game pinfall series to Nick Tronoski 393 to 335. rallied in a second set to win 366 to 357. although the Connecticut boy won five out of six games rolled
 In addition to the sweepstakes the Blue Ribbons rolled half of their ten game series with the Lucky Strikes coming out ahead in the fivc-man and doubles but lacking Fl pins in the singles. The return half is to be rolled at the Charter Oak alleys in Hartford next Saturday afternoon and evening There are d number of special matches in the making but they will in all probability be rolled in Wat. .erbury the next day on ac- count of the Sunday law in Hartford,
 Here is record of Tronoski's bowling throughout the entire tour nament: 152 IA 125 129 136 128 94 135 12S 134 122 113 128 1l3 13S 112 115 137 146 l21 127 13G 134 1oG 93 114 1O9 1lS-Total 3G90. Average 127.
 rato: 12G 12O ll3 Ill l24 1oS 98 12l114 103 124 126 l45 121 l32 l20 117 12S 110 12S-Total 23S5 Aver age 1l9.
 Au~I/ ,rnnA1ncLI TAUrc