Evening star., 1932-01-25
TONY PROVES GAME .
PACKS BIG WALLOP.
Other Great Finishes Recalled
by 0ne-Pin Triumph in
Campbell Stakes.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

w WHETHER Tony Santini's
NV one-pin victory in the
v v Howard Campb ell
Sweepstakes was, as
many bowling folk today are con-
tending, the most sensational and
dramatic duckpin triumph seen
in the South Atlantic section, is
open to conjecture. Brilliant as
the feat was, that honor is doubt
full.
But none can deny its right to
q place among great finishes. II
was one of the most sensational
triumphs of a sensational spcrt,
One often hears bowling described as
an inanimate sort Of game-nothing to
it except knocking pins down and set
ting them up again. No color, no
chance for headwork.
If any one is warbling that tune to-
day it was too bad he was not among
the 1900 who watched Tony Santmi
add more proof that bowling packs
little of everything. Color? In large
splashes Saturday. Headwork? Santini
used it to combat the ShiverS and shakes
a wild bowling crowd can impart to a
bowler.
Santini made two spares in his last
two boxes to win; he arose from thirty
seventh to first in 10 games; he sal
vaged for Washington its most coveted
honor in noSing out the Baltmorean,
Ed Blakeney. Santini's first bowling
victory is one Of the games most
dramatic.
Bowling folk today are still atingle
with memories of Santini's squirt. And
many minds flash back to previous dra-
matte scenes.
ONLY last month Carroll DAILY won
~ The Star Tournament with last
box spare and Spin count. He
won with a yelling, nerve wracking
crowd surrounding him.
A little over year ago Jack Whalen
won the United States Sweepstakes
title on a pin wiggle. Bradley Mandley
needed a spare 10 win and it appeared
as though he was Gin" when he cracked
a bread-baSket break perfectly But
one Of the naples only wiggled. Whalen
won by three pins and Mandley lost
$500 in cash and the title.
Let's go back to 1928 for another
thriller. This happened in Richmond
in the National Duckpin Bowling Con-
gresS Tournament.
Jack Whalen had Just finished roll
ing a sensational 430 score in the sin
giles. 1t looked as though Whalen had
the United States singles crown locked
up. But Howard Campbell, then at his
peak, made gallant attempt. In his
last box he needed a spare and a. four
1,sv 70 II do h cFNlIs n
and on the roll-off cut out three sticks.
One however, few back, knocked over
another. and enabled Campbell to tie
Whalen.
Howard later won the roll-ofT.
CAMPBELL also figured in another
~ Of the games most dramatic fin
iShes. This was In Baltimore in
1927. 1t was the first N. D. B. c. tour
nament. Campbell won two national
titles with a single ball.
Campbell, captain and anchor Of the
King Pin team, saw his four teammates
fail to get the mark they needed for
the team title. Rolling on spare him
self, Campbell came up for the last box
and felled nine pins with his first ball.
A single stick, meaning the United
States team championship and the
United States all-events title (al-
though Howard wasn't aware the lat
ter crown was at stake) stood or fell
with that pin. The pin fell from
smack square on the nose.
Glenn WolStenholme, 1927 Campbell
Sweepstakes champion, furnished a
thriller in scoring his triumph. Glenn
trailed the leaders during the first two
sets and then in the final game Of the
final block, threw in one of those
double-header strikes for which he was
SO famous. The double-header ac-
counted for % extra sticks and his
margin of victory was 25 pins
THERE were many other equally
l. thrilling finishes. Back in 1916
Mrs. George Isemann won the At
lantic Coast Bowling Association sin
giles with 269, while Mrs. Louis Vogels-
berger and Miss Anna Eckhardt fin
ished with 26s and 267, respectively.
Last year Ollie Webb won the Mary
land-Virginia Suburban Sweepstakes
with a finish similar to Santinis. Webb
nosed out Astor Clarke by a single pin.
While lacking, or rather losing, the
dramatic angle because of the longev-
fly, a record probably unparalleled for
closeneSs was made last year in the
A. G. o. Women's League when Grace
Purdy was nosed out by Maude Lands
for high average, 949 to 94-o. Each
had rolled 81 games.