Evening star., 1931-12-23
Big Night Tap for Girl Rollers Longest Mark of 6
FORTY TAKE TURNS
IN STARS TOURNEY
Woods Falls Short in Brave
Bid to Catch Leader-T"~ee
Top 600.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
TORTY girls and nearly 200
r. men tonight will unleash
i their heavy artillery on the
Lucky Strike drives in hopes
of bettering Elsie Romero's 325
and Paul Harrison's 646, high
scores thus far in The Stars Yule-
tide singles bowling tournament,
and the chances of new leaders
being installed are far from dim.
That Mrs. Romero's 325 will be beaten
tonight is almost a certainty, as in
Cluded in the tWo-Score girls to roll are
several of WaShingtons leading fem
lnlne boWlers, and 325 is no exceptional
score. Just as Billie Williams 316,
rolled on the opening night. was bet
tered last night, so is the 325 expected
to be paled tonight.
HarriSonS 646, which some $50 failed
to top last night, is not regarded as the
score likely to win the mems event, and
1t would not be surprising to see the
mark beaten tonight. the closing date
OF the pre-ChrlstmaS competition.
A SLIM youngster, Alvin Woods of
"A the B. Y. P. U. League, rose to
challenge Harrison's supremacy
last night, but the unheralded youth
fell just short. His 62l, however. gave
him third place He trails, in addition
to Harrison, Al Gleason, who shot 639
on the opening night.
Two other better -than-6OO sets were
rolled last night. Arthur Doying Of the
Bankers League shot 6l5 to take fourth
place, while Harry Leslie of the Internal
Revenue Personal Audit Revue League
finished with a GOT set, the sixth high
est Of the tourney so far
Mrs. Romero was the only girl to roll
above 300.
YOUNG Woods performance was a
l. shining example of what that bit
OF tournament experience offered
In The Star tournament at no cost may
amount to. Alvin competed in his first
tourney last year when he shot in The
Stars event. His total then was 539
Yesterday, with that bit of expert
ence tucked away, the youngster rolled
well deserved 62l set. We say well
deserved. because of the 10 marks he
made, only one was strike He
pulled no wild pitches" but shot good
duckpins all the way His strings were
122, l30, ll9, 1874 and ll6.
WI HAGERMAN, who rolled sos. has
w an average of ITO in the North
Washington Church League and
l01 in the Saturday Night League, and
can't account for the difference,
Hagerman started off last night as
though he was shooting at his best in
the Church League when he rolled
strings of 1872, 122 and 141. Then
he must have slipped back to the Sat-
urday Night League, for he ended with
SO and Ill.
The bowling for the first three nights
ends tonight, with the tourney to be
resumed Saturday. The Second-half
schedule will be published in The Star
tomorrow.
Elsie Romero was a victim of one of
the four line judges last night and it
hurt, too, because it came just as she
pulled spare. Had she not gone over
the line, Mrs. Romero would have given
the girls a higher set than 325 to
shoot at
THE boys were ready with some
l. spicy banter when Lou CHASER re-
ported this morning for duty |
at the Arcade Sunshine Laundry plant. !
The Sunshine boWlers by way of add
ing Zest to their participation in The |
the scores in putting on a party all
their own. Fifteen competed in this
manner and w. N. Snyder won with
567: r. H Whiting was second with
532, and John F. Malonev third with
63l. CHASER declined to take part.
His score was 597,
1t would have been worth II frog
skins
Snyder by the way, pulled a double
hpaHpr ctrikp in hn i,th ~ %ny,L1
boxes Of his final string to sew up vic
tory.
J. D. Mulligan started off in fine style
with 1913, l2l and 1l3. but his final
strings were only SO and 90. Total, f.
546.
Quite the opposite was E. S. Nc
Iarney. who started with SO, 90 and |
SO, and then wound up with l25 and
lis. His score was $50.
Plenty of bowlers had their troubles,
but it may be noted that nearly every .
body had one big game.
A contingent from Petworth was
much in evidence. Irving Billheimer
and E. Baxter led the Petworth boys
with 596 apiece.
anu v III dl SldSeu d llIJle tuSSle
of their own and what a tusSle it was
Going into the final game the latter
had one-pin lead. And they each
rolled SO. Their scores were sos and |
5O4
w. Callan shot only 470 but there
was not a more consistent bowler on
the drives. His games we're 81, 90. 80, !
81 and 80.
nROMINENT among the girls tonight
L will be Gladys Mills Mabel Harris,
ThPlma Lohnes, Winifred and |
Carolyn Hiser, Irene Scott, Annette
Matthews, Margaret Brunelle, Eva Guide .
and Frances Dobson.
Hokie Smith is sure to attract by
ISLANDERS tonight. He will be the Sec
ond ranking star to shoot in the big !
tourney
But Hokie can look for competition
from Sam Benson, Hen Bromley, Sam
Corcoran, Ed Slegle, Ed Cotter, Fred !
Phil Needle, Hap Welsh, Dave Bur- |
rows, Jack Talbert and J. and T. Kin
nihan of the many bowling KinnihanS. |
Chick" Heimer, John Moore and !
Frank Thornburg of the staff of the
Duckpin, local bowling sheet, will be
among those present.
yIIASHINGTON'S contingent of
w sports writer's were to shoot this |
afternoon. 1t is possible some |
body may reach 500
From the Post will come Shirley |
Povich, Walter Haight, Lewis Atchi-
son, Bob Considine and R. Stanislaus
Tennyson The Herald will be repre-
sented by Ben McAlWee, Sam Rubin
ton Dick O,Rrien AL CnStalln MallrV [