Evening star., 1931-12-24
BIC SCORES GALORE .
MARK YU[E EVENT.
Mrs. BruneI|e Sets New Fig
ure for Girls With 355.
Brocator Lucky.
BY FRANCIS f. STAN.

Ii HOUGH ABOUT tWO-tAlrdS
" CT the field of 1000 still is
4 4 to shoot in The Stars an
nual YulCtide singles tour
ramcnt at the Lucky Strike, there
Is little doubt that when the
smoke blows away on January 2,
the closing date, more duckpins
will have been felled than in
any previous pin tourney held il
Washington.
While the event, which will not be
resumed until Saturday. still has five
days to go, 1t was virtually assured last
night, that new plnfall record for a
local singles tournament would be eS-
tabllShed when almost score of bowl
erS, led BY Margaret Brunette and C,ar-
ence Kibbey, turned in powerful sets.
Mrs Brunelle of the Convention Hall
team OF the Women'S District League
established new Star Tournament rec
ORD for girls when she rolled 355. but
neither this mark, formidable as it ap-
pears. nor Paul Harrson'S 646, rolled On
the opening night is likely to bring
nome the biggest portion of the bacon
Mrs Brunelle's 355 is IL sticks better
than any previous Star Tournament
record for girls but the majority of
bowling, observers are of the opinion
that the 1881 girl champion has yet to
shoot.
The same is held true of Harrisons
646, despite the fact that it has with
stood attacks for three nights.
EOR time it appeared the night would
Il be conspicuous only by the absence
OF potential prize winning scores.
Then Mrs. Brunette blasted out games
OF III, 131 and l07. Carolyn Hiser fol-
lowed with a 335 set, good for second
place by rolling ia, ia and lot.
Hardly had these scores been noted
when Clarence Kibbev OF the Federal
League put together strings of 1874, 122.
l42, ll9 and 120 for the third highest
score of the tCurney-637.
In rapid succession, George Stevens
and Joe Callan of GEORGETOWN Rccre-
alton, and Chick Hoffman of Petworth,
all rolling on the same two alIevs
turned in totals of 629, 6O8 and 604
respectively.
When Margaret Brunclle rolled her
355 she became the third new womon's
leader in three successive days.
IVA GUIDE. another Convention Hall
- girl, started of like a houee a1rc
with $50. high g1mo Of the tour
ney so far for v"n'cn, bat she ended
with Criv pair Of eos f. a 3l7 set.
Annette Matthews of the same team
made strong comeback after games
OF 88 and 80 for $40 set
Joe Pricci. wearing en- his right foot
bowling shoc borrowed from Ollie
Clark end on his left his regular street
WI al. b - ice folded thereafter. His
s., WIS J53.
Hek.c Smith vas anothe~ last night
vA) failed to gct hOt. Ho,lie shot 594
J. William Wood won a box of cigars
from JOHN Blick when he rolled SIP
Bhcks total rolled on the opening
night, was SOC.
A ND speaking of cheroots, Telegra-
"A pher Joe Brocatnr CT the Western
Union was pulling away today on
some choice ones, paid COR BY his chief
Johnny Ayers. Ayers challenged Joe
to shot 80 and appeared to have a lock
on the bet when Brocator gathered only
rs sticks in nine boxes. But up there
on the Times, where Joa takes race
horse stuff over the wire, they call him
''Poison" because he's so lucky
And what did he do in that tenth
frame but knock out a double header
strike with an added count of eight
He had four sticks to spare.
Harold Thomas, with a score of 534
was high man among 80 Western Union
men. who fired away last night. Trail
ing him by one pin was a teammate in
the Western Union League John So
botka
Elaine Palmer rolled with the mems
squad and for a while showed 'em the
way Elaine started with a string of
119 and followed with 102 and 95 for
total of BIG that was top for the
Western Union girls
The Hisers of Hyattsville Hills were
well represented. Carolyn Hiser, sister
of the redoubtable Henry, rolled 1856 to
take second place among the women,
while Helen and Winifred, more sisters,
rolled 277 and 294, respectively.
L COSTELLO, prominent in fawn-
"A gray spats, pulled a surprise during
the afternoon and won the sports
writer's championship with 565 total.
Gino SINH was second with 548. AL had
to be assisted from the drives, SO
shocked was he from the surprise.
And just to make it big day all
around for Mr.. HearSt'S boys. Ben Nc
Alwee rolled 542 and finished third. 1t
marks the second straight time that
Herald key-pounder has won, Sam
Rubinton taking the bunting last year.
Kirk Miller was awarded the "booby''
prize when he walked awav after his
fourth game with score of 306. But
Skillet" quit happy. He got his annual