Evening star., 1932-12-15
START NEXT WEEK
IN YULET|DE EVENT
Bethesda, HyattsviI|e Show
Pep, Given Permission
to Go Ahead.
BY r. d. THOMAS.

IOHN HENRY HISER, restless
manager of the Bethesda
~ and Hyattsville bowling es-
tablishments, will beat the
gun on The Stars fifth annual
Yuletide tournament, entries for
which close a week from today.
Hiser. who looks after the Bethesda
place, and Oscar, his brother. who di-
rects the Hyattsville plant, today were
granted permission by the tournament
directors to hold their house tourna-
ments next week, both opening on
Tuesday.
LIENRY and Oscar, who know virtu-
j i ally all their customers personally,
have a great majority of them
already in line for the tournament and
can see no reason to delay action. Ex-
cepting Monday, their plants will be
devoid of league matches next week
and the drives for several nights at
least will be turned over to the tourna-
ment shooters.
The same privilege accorded the
Hisers, If it is privilege, will be grant
ed any other alley manager provided
he can convince the tournament di-
rectorS he has reached practically a
maximum of entries for his place. If
he hasn't it is to his advantage to wait.
No tournament will be held at
Bethesda or Hyattsville while other es-
tablishments are staging preliminaries
in The Stars event: Firing on nearly
all fronts will open December 26.
MANAGER DAVIS of the Rosslyn
lVl alley sent in call today for more
entry blanks.
Everybody over here" to quote him.
lis getting steamed up over the tourna-
ment It's the best thing that's ever
come the bowler's way"
And down at Alexandria, where Bet
Lynn recently resumed charge Of bowl
ing activities, interest has begun to
boom after a slow start.
The same is true of Clarendon.
Lynn has called meeting of Alex
andria bowlers for tonight to talk tour
nament.
CEORGE ISEMANN, secretary of the
VI National Duckpin Bowling Con-
gress, has discussed The Stars new
tournament scheme with bowling lead
ers throughout the East, end, according
to George. all think well of it. Complete
details of the Yuletide affair will be
found elsewhere on this page.
A letter frcm congress headquarters
came today Here it is: The National
Duckpin Bowling Congress would like
to congratulate The Evening Star on
the individual tournament that is again
being sponsored by your publication.
The congress gives your tournament
its moral support and Endorsement. We
feel that an event of this kind offers
-f,,1 ttr- for Nov 20
test their skill under fire and help pre-
pare them for the crucial test Of aspir-
ing for the title of champion duckpin
bowler Of the United States which title
will be bestowed in the National Duck
pin Bowling Congress tournament to be
held at Hartford, Conn, next March.
Tournament play is the essence Of
life in the bowling game, and in con-
sideration Of what The Evening Star
has done and is now doing. we feel that
every devotee of the game should not
only avail himself of the opportunity
to take part in the tournament, but
should feel duty bound from an appre-
ciative standpoint to participate. BY
helping to make the tournament q great
success, he helps promote generally the
welfare of his own sport The Stars
annual tournament has come to be a
powerful influence in the advancemnt
of duckpins."
TNTERCITY matchs have been few
this season. compared with others,
but the coming week likely will bring
a pickup in this form Of competition.
Several big matches are in the making.
One will be held next Saturday night
at the Arcadia. This will bring to-
gether the Cools Drinks team of the
Columbia Heights League and the Credit
Service Station quint of Baltimore.
Shooting for Cool's will BE- Ed Epey,
Reds Rhodes, Ouncie Harrison, Charley
Barnhardt and Paul Harrison; for the
Baltimoreans, Wesley A.skey. Ray Barnes,
Ned Horn, Ed Leonard, John Scherer,
Les Ashley and OTIS Clagett.
They're all sharpshooters.