Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
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Campbell Victor Must Fill
Sturdy Rollers Shoes on
Lucky Strike Team.
BY FRANCIS e. STAN.
STOR CLARKE, who won the

A STOR CLARKE, who won the
~ classic Campbell Sweep
\ stakes and averaged 121 in
a minor duckpin loop last
year, is in position many bowlers
consider unenviable. Clarke has
been signed to roll with the crack
Lucky Strike team in the District
League, replacing Bernie Frye,
who has moved to Akron, Ohio.
Clarke, long overdue, arrived" last
Winter. He was practically unknown
when he won the Howard Campbell
stakes. But there are those who, with
his triumph in Washington's blue rib
bon pin event and his 12l average in
mind, cannot appreciate the task the
Virginia maple-smasher' who is sup
planting a bowler who never won a
Campbell sweepstakes and who never
averaged 121, has before him.
Clarke opens the duckpin season roll
ing in the place of bowler who, over
a fair period of years, proved himself
one of the best team bowlers in the
city-a bowler whose average at the
start and end of the season always was
around 116 or lit.
The Lucky Strike team probably has
the largest following of any team in
the District League. Its followers have
depended on Frye to deliver his $50 or
thereabout set every week. Now Clarke,
less consistent possibly, but more bril-
liant, is expected to deliver weekly just
as Frye did.
THE recent appearance Of Billy
i Burke, the national open golf
champion, at Indian Spring
brought to this writer's mind the spec
tacle of Frye on bowling drive. Burke
looks like a dub beside the colorful
Won Elm, the sensational Jones and
other contemporaries. Frye used to
take three hesitant steps, give the i'm
preston of trying to fall on his left
ear. then release the ball.
He suffered by comparison with his
teammates. the colorful Glen Wolsten-
holme, Glenn's spare-specialist brother
Jack, the woodworking Glen Weld
man and the phlegmatic, machinelike
Howard Campbell.
Yet Bernie's score at the end of the
game usually played a prominent part
in victory for Lucky Strike.
CLARKE, with the Campbell Sweep
~ stakes crown on his brow and a
121 average in Nthe Washington
Gas Light League to maintain, in the
expectations Of many on the District
big pair of shoes I'd fill.
But an unknown, who, before the
final set Of an event like the Campbell
Stakes. defied superstition by telling a
flock of star bowlers that his name was
at the top and that it would remain
there-and then winning and breaking
record doing tt-can roll for lot of
folks cash.
l. to the bowling campaigns will be
the Washington Women's and Dis
trict Women's Leagues. which will open
Tuesday and wednesday, respectively.
A score or more of other circuits also
will swing into action bringing virtually
all Of the Districts pin loops into the
fold
The District Women's League race with
IL teams instead Of the usual 10,
promises to be hot one. The John
Blicks, champions for the last two years,
face a real task If they mean to re-
peat. The loss Of Elsie Fischer, who will
roll with the Columbia team, deprives
the Blicks of one Of their best bowlers.
logg.
The Rendezvous, King Pin, George
town Recreation, Columbia and Deals
Service teams appear to be the clubs
along with Blicks, which will be in the
pennant fight Rendezvous. runner-up
last year, will be intact except for the
addition Of Lucille Preble, who is ex-
pected to help Tad Towards girls no
little.
King Pin has a strong team, led by
Lorraine GULL. Marie Frere. Billie
init 7 RI 7 n
livan round out the five. Georgetown
Recreation, last year the Boulevard
team, has Bess Ackman. Reva Banks,
Gladys Lowd, Frances He'll and Jennie
Malcolm rolling.
Columbia, another new team, will
have Helena Kohler, Elsie Fischer,
| Doris Goodall, Pauline Ford and Helena
Myers, while Deals, also a newcomer,
will include such bowlers as Rena Levy,
Catherine Quigley, Irene Mischou,
Evelyn Ream and Anne Ford.
Takoma Park, Terminal Ice, Conven-
ton Hall, Lucky Strike, Meyer Davis
girls rolling with them, but they are
not figured strong enough to prove
serious threats.
Tor the first time In years. Wash
i ington Womens League will roll
on set Of alleys other than these
at the Coliseum, which was torn down
last Spring. This season the circuit
will hold forth at the Columbia.
Eight teams again will compete, in
GLIDING the champion Beeques. Column
bans, Hilltoppers, Shamrocks, Veterans
Bureau, University Park, Cardinals and
Kencs. The latter is new team.
The first weeks schedules follow:
District WOmen's League.
King Pin VS.. Takoma Park at Lucky
Strike.
Rendezvous vs.. Lucky Strike at
| Rendezvous.
John Blick VS.. Bill Wood at Arcadia.
Deal Service VS.. Columbia at Column
| bia.
Meyer Davis VS.. Recreation at King
Pin.
Georgetown Recreation vs.. Ccnven-
ton Hall at Georgetown.
Washington Women's League.
Hilltoppers VS.. Cardinals.
Beeques VS.. Columbians.
Shamrocks vs.. Kenos.
Veterans Bureau VS.. University Park.