Evening star., 1932-03-02
HANDICAP TOURNEY
ON TAP FOR GIRLS
GuIIi Lone Scratch Roller
Average Limit of 107 Is
Set for Men.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

Y JOUR duckpin dub, who
v really is the cause of
i those prosperous : looking
pauncheS On alley owners,
will emerge from obscurity this
month, and, starting Saturday,
will bask in the sweepstakes spot
light, which most of the season
has been focused on the expert.
Those boys and girls who are
satisfied with missing a spare
break by a whisker, will, after
watching the stars battle all sea-
son in sweepstakes after sweep
stakes, finally get a chance to gain
glory and gold themselves when
two of the few remaining stakes
on the bowling calendar are run
off each week end of this month.
One of these, Bill Woods Dub
Sweepstakes, is an established event,
catering to he masculine duffer, but
the other. the Greater Washington
Women's Handicap Stakes, will af-
ford feminine rollers, out of the star
class, their only chance Of the season
to compete in a house" sweepstakes.
Since its inception trouSered dubs
have taken kindly to Bill Woods
Stakes, and while the Greater Wash
ington Handicap is the first stakes
catering to the feminine beginners, it
also is expected to be well favored.
John S. BLICK, who is promoting
the Greater Washington, which
opens Saturday afternoon at Con-
vention Hall, attempted to design the
event in such a manner as to give the
less expert girl as even a chance as
possible with the brightest star. All
girls with league averages OF less than
ITO (and that takes in every girl in
the city with the exception OF Lorraine
GullD will receive two-thirdS the diff
ference between her mark and ITO. al
though a limit of IL pins per game is
made.
Thus a girl with an average of SO or
less will receive IL sticks a game or
180 for the 15-game test. Those above
98 will get lesser handicap, of course
The second set of five games will be
rolled at the Arcadia with the wind
up on March 19 at the Columbia.
DILL WOODS Dub Sweepstakes is
ID not handicap affair, but the 107-
average limit serves TO keep the
experts out. 1t is one of the most
popular of all stakes and is expected
to draw around 200 entries.
Wood made it doubly attractive this
year by giving the bowlers choice of
two dates in each of the three weeks
Friday, March II, and Saturday, March
II, will be the dates of the opening
block 1t will continue the following
Friday and Saturday and wind up on
March 81 and %.
1t seems likely that at least $50
Washington bowlers will make the trip
to Norfolk, Va, for the national
tournament.
representative of the Norfolk
Washington Steamboat Co last night
said that $50 reservations already have
been made for April 2, which is Wash
ington day" And he is certain of
100 more
John Blick alone is sending 10
bowlers.
A week ago the Columbian girls of
the Washington Women's League looked
like world beaters when they shot
record game of GOT. Last night the
lowly University Park team won two
games from the Columbians, while the
Beeques and Shamrocks swept their
sets.
AS a result, for the first time this
season, the Columbians are out of first
place.
THE well-known fireworks are due to
Il non t0nipht in the Wor,ep's Diu
trict League, in the throes of a
snappy pennant fight.
Headlining the usual program of six
matches will be a clash between the
leading Rendezvous girls and the run