The Washington times., 1931-03-31
CLARKE, WEBB
CASH IN ON
ROLLING


Washington will crown its un-
disputed duckpin sharp-shooting
champion tonight, and the crown
ing will be done at Make Rosen-
berg's Temple alleys, between Z
and 10, where The Washington
Times single-pin tournament will
be concluded.
The boWlers will roll in four
shifts, the first taking the drives
at 7:15, the next at o'clock, the
third at and the fourth shortly
after 10 o'clock.
Just how much boWler's game
is improved by shooting at a series
. of single pins is apparent in the
performances of Ollie Webb and
AStor Clarke last Saturday night.
Webb won the rich Maryland
Virginia Suburban Sweepstakes,
the blue ribbon duckpin classic
of the suburbs, by one pin, pop
ping a last lingering maple full on
the nose with his third ball in the
last box of the final game.
Astor Clarke finished second,
being robbed of bis second major
title of the year by the accurate
fire of the southpaw, but jumping
ahead of Joe Freschi and Brud
KesSler.
Shot in Event
Both owe their particular effect
iveness to the practice they got
the night before at the Rendez,
vous shooting in the Times unique
event. Clarke took the lead IN
the single-pin test Friday with 81
and Webb handed in 80 aces.
Oscar HiSer who finished third
in the Sweepstakes, also bene-
fitted by this event, though in
directly, for he didn't bowl in
the tournament Friday night.
Friday afternoon he and PerCe
Wolfe shot practice round of
single pins at HyattSville, in
which Oscar tOppled 81 sticks
out of a hundred and Wolfe IS.
Young Noble Viers was another
who cashed in on his entry in
the tournament, when he came
through in the final frames of a
singles match with young Jacob
son, of Baltimore, pounding out
timely marks to tie him, after the
Baltimorean had lead on him.
Ollie Pacini found that the ex-
pertinent had been valuable when
he and Webb engaged in an in
formal five-game match, which
found the fork-handed Silver
Springer on the wrong end.
Pacini stated that after shooting
at the hundred single pins, out
of which he got 80, he felt certain
he could hit what he wanted to
and hit it just right.
The main benefit to be derived
from this test is self confidence
even more than accuracy. After
having made the greater portion
Of the solitary pins, the shooter
feels that he can hit at what he
aims.
All agree that shooting at
singles isn't as easy as it looks.
Many top-notchers, and, average
bowlers, too, discovered that they
were weak on certain pins. The
pins that are the toughest to most
are No. 6 and 7. Make Rosen-
berg found No. particularly
elusive, leaving it standing no
less than five times in 10 tries.
Proves Adage
With examples of the benefits
these chaps received overnight, the
good to be derived from shooting
at singles is obvious.
The adage that a bowler is as
good as his ability to make sin
giles receives big boost,
Clarke'S racking 81 pins out of
100 certainly proves that his
Campbell Sweepstakes win was
not an accident.
The news of this novel event
has trickled into New England
and, according to George L. Tse-
mann, N. D. B. C. secretary, who
just returned from there, they are
planning a similar tournament in
Boston and one in Lawrence,
Mass. It will be interesting to
see who wins them. Both cities
have nationally famous maple
shooters.
George is inclined to be particu-
larly cheerful regarding his bowl
ing prowess of late, for since he
won the Maryland Sweepstakes
two weeks ago, he has Socked in
several creditable performances
around Washington and up North.
Saturday he rolled 600 in the Sub
urban Sweepstakes. And in sew
eral matches in Boston he aver
aged over 1875.
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