Evening star., 1932-09-18
.0FF YEAR FEARED,
LEAGUES PROSPER
Game Undergoes Big
Changes-Round Cutters
Appear-BIick Out in Toto.
BY FRANCIS e. STAN.


w YASHINGTON'S most wide
M ly-played sport, INDUCED
Y Y in by approximately
$4,000 Capitalites and
suburbanites. offlcially gets under
way this week when a large ma
Jority of the duckpin bowling
leagues of Washington and en-
vironS open their seasons, most OF
which will last through next
March.
Vast changes will mark this 1928
maple-toppling campaign. John 8.
duckpin flgure, no longer Is actively
connected with the game here, the
three alleys formerly under his su-
pervision, Convection Hall, Columbia
and the Arcadia, passing to new hands
Scores of leagues have undergone more
than the usual changes. Rounded
cutters will be introduced In several
establishments.
THE well-known depression, which
i caused many promoters to view
the approach OF the new season
with misgivings, has yet, to make
itself felt generally as far as leagues
are concerned. Where one loop OF the
l70-odd circuits in Washington and
environs will show a shortage, four
or flve have increased their rosters
considerably.
THO 01 8 or 10 leagues to get under
L way last week will be joined by
scores OF others starting tomor-
row night. among them the Federal.
ation obis Meh ane Ha,eH,9 Wom@n KsoSe
Church, Dynamite, Bankers, Building
Contractors, Interstate Commerce Com
mission, jewelers.. Commerce Womens,
Income Tax, c. & P. Telephone, Agri-
culture, Petroleum. Quartermnster
Corps, Sanico. Merchants, Southern
Railway, Knights of Columbus. Com
mercial, Bureau of Engraving, Vet
erans Bureau. District, National Cap
ital and Prince Georges County
leagues
Among those which started last
week were District Government, War
Department. Eastern Star, Bureau of
Standards, Masonic, East Washington |
Church, Electrical, Kilowatt, Washing
ton Gas Light and Odd Fellows.
A LONG-AWAITED, much discussed
"A loop. TO include both District and
suburban teams. may be a reality |
this season. Under the leadership of
Tad Howard. president Of the newly
formed District of Columbia Inter
urban League, plans are going forward
for the organization of a 10-team
loop to include the Rendezvous, Pet
worth, Takoma Park, Boulevard, Ros-
slyn, Queen Pin, Rockville. Kensington
and two other alleys.
The new loop, which already has
mapped out primary details, will meet
again Wednesday at noon at Golfers
Inn. Harry Winningder of the Queen
Pin is vice president, Gene Raney of
Rockville secretary-treasurer and c. w
Carl of Takoma Park, official scorer.
District and National Capital League
bowlers are barred.
TWELVE teams will compete in the
L Mems Federal League. which opens
its 1928 season tomorrow at the
Arcadia. The opening night schedule
follows: Post once VS.. G. P. O., Com
merce vs. Navy Yard. Veterans Ad-
miniStration VS.. Internal Revenue. City
Post ONCE VS.. P. B. & P. P, Shipping
Board vs. Patent Once, Agriculture vs..
Bureau of Investigation.
The Building Contractors League will
start its season Friday. also on the
Arcadia drives. Four Of the 1931-32
teams have dropped out, but four new
ones will replace them. The new en-
A. Fuller Co. No. 2, Hugh Reilly and
Standard Engraving Three old teams,
Fuller Stone Plant. j. e. HeffronX and
Massaponax Sand & Gravel. have
changed their team names to Hechinger,
j. C. Flood and Biggs & Kircher, re-
spectively.
nLAY in the Prince Georges County
I Duckpin Association will open to-
morrow night on the Arcade drives
at Hyattsville. Six new teams are
entered in the league, Spiller's, Now
lands and the Mems Shop in section l,
and Bergmann's Laundry in section 2.
Here is the weeks schedule:
Section Tomorrow. Collegiates VS..
Dixie Pig: Wednesday. Spiller's vs. Blue
Birds; Thursday, Nowland's VS.. Amer
ican Legion; Friday, Chillum VS.. the
Mems Shop.
Section 2-Tomorrow, Clinton VS..
Dixie Pig No. 2; Tuesday, Huddleston's
Garage VS.. Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Co.; Wednesday. Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary District VS..
Venezky's Market; Thursday, THYME
Garage VS.. Bergmann's Laundry; Fri
day, Lanham VS.. Sligo.
A familiar figure will be missing when
the Washington Woman's League opens
September AZ at the Columbia.
Mickey Whalen, for eight years foul
line Judge of the woman's loop, Will
serve on the line in the jewelers.
League this season.
Convention Halls newly installed |
rounded cutters have made big hit
with at least one bowler in the Electrical
League. On opening night Brown OF
National Electric made four consecutive |
strikes and wound up with 164 string |
The season record last year was 164,
too. A starter?
THE opening nights schedule In the |
i Columbia Heights League Tuesday |
will find the teams opposing as fol-
lows: Chaconas Market vs.. Angelo
BARRIERS, Ford Electric VS.. Arcadia. Am
baSSadOr Laundry VS.. FellOw8htp Cfub.