Evening star., 1932-02-16
BETTERS PIN PACE
100 TO 115 IN YEAR
Exceptional Progress by
Youngster Due to Steady
Drill in Summer.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

tons non star bowling
~ masses of approximately
- 50,550 men and women Ca
figure personally compiled envies
and is awed by todays almost
undreamed-of averages held by
our constellation of maple stars.
but in little league which can
not boast of single star bowler
there is little-known young fell
low, who in many ways pales such
feats as the 124 averages of Max
Rosenberg, Astor Clarke and
others-and this chaps average
Is only 1857.
We refer to youngster who shoots
with the De Molay team of the Satur-
day Night League-Patches Hoist. who
couldn't go to the polls even if this
hanlet weren't voteless
Patches can't hold candle to our
blg-league bowling stars, but if our new
NO. l ranking Observation-Disclosures he
be Red Megaw, Max Rosenberg. Astor
Clarke or Ollie Pacini-is to be placed
on a pedestal for public admiration he
Is no more deserving than Patches
Hoist, who, 1t is believed, has negotiated
tne biggest jump in average over the
space OF six months by any bowler in
the Capital today-and the high cutters
aren't the cause.
"HEN the Saturday Night Leaguers
" put away their bowling shoes last
April Patches Hoist had an av-
To c1, III
work, Today, according to figures Just
released. Hoist is leading the league
with 1857, and almost single-handed-
~ has put the De Molay team which
finished way down the list last wear,
In second place, eight games behind a
team that averages over 81 more pins
per game.
The how and why of it? Simply de-
termination to improve and a little
practice. He spent about two hours
each week during the Summer prac-
ticing in prohibitive bowling weather
First he acquired sn Doth delivery then
stroVe - persplringly for accuracy.
When this season came around and the
average bowler, thanks to the raised
cutters, showed more than natural i'm
proVement, found. to his surprise, that
ne was averaging three more pins a
game, Hoist, not at all surprised, av-
eraged Is more sticks per string.
HOLST'S remarkable improvement is
i L no flash in the pan. He has rolled
So games to prove that he should
finish the season around his present
mark. Except for the high game, Ill,
he holds no league record, thereby
proving that his lis average was the
result of steady. consistent pin shooting.
The youngster has enabled a team.
Whlch, according to figures. has no
rlght to be there, to land in second
place temporarily. His highest t-aver-
aged teammate has only a clip of 1O3.
a MOTHER furry of sweepstakes will
"A hit local bowlers this week and
next, but they promise plenty of
keen competition
Locally, the most generally favored
OF them will be the first running of
the opportune George Washington
sweepstakes. which will be held next
Monday at Lucky Strike.
Prior to this, however, will come
Gene Raneys Cumberland Valley
Sweepstakes at Hagerstown, Md. on
Saturday. and the Times SouthpaW
sweepstakes, which will open Friday at
Northeast Temple
DANEY'S Cumberland Valley Stakes
IN which will draw many of Wash
ington's and Baltimore's foremost
stars, was originated to create interest
In hardwood duckpins in Hagerstown,
rubher-band pin town
Gene Raney, who owns the Hagers-
town Coliseum, which contains the
alleys formerly at the old Coliseum here,
DeIeVes that once the natives there get
a glimpse of the wooden pin experts
they will fall for the game hook, line
and sinker
Gene also is credited with having
pulled fast one on Washington when
he induced Nick TronSky and Bill Tato.
Connecticut'S famous doubles team. to
roll Ollie Pacini and Raw Barnes in
Hagerstown Friday The match. bring
ing together the two standouts of the
North against the two stars of the
South, will be completed in Baltimore
while the Capital is left holding the
bag"
A THOUGH open only to left
"A handlers, the Times Southpaw
Stakes. generally attracts much
interest. Gino SINH promoter. expects
in the neighborhood of 35 lefties to
plunk down the 81 entry fee. The first
block Of five games will be shot at
Temple Saturday and the final five at
Georgetown Recreation the following
Friday
Bill Wood expects around so entrants
In his George Washington Sweepstakes,
to be held on the birthday anniversary
Of the great patriot. The entry fee
will be SIS including the cost of games.
and the event will consist of three FIVE
game blocks, to be rolled at IL am. and