Evening star., 1932-02-21
RECORD FIELD SEEN
| IN NORFOLK EVENT
Five of Eight Titles Will Be
Defended by Rollers From
Washington.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

w YITH only the home
\H/ stretch pennant scram-
Y Y bles in league cam
paigns, a few assorted
sweepstakes and the Washington
City tournament left on the
Capitals 1882 bowling curriculum,
duckpin bowlers of the District,
along with others along the At
Iantic Seaboard from Maine to
Georgia, now are turning their
attention toward the final and
most important test Of the year
the fifth National Duckpin Con-
gress tournament to open March
% at Norfolk, Va.
Eight United States championships
four each to men and women, will be
at stake and officials of the National
Duckpin Congress are anticipating a
battle for those titles among 300 teams,
the largest entry ever recorded for the
tourney. The four-year total for entries
Is 764 teams to which the N. D. B. c.
proudly points as against the 292 teams
which participated in the first four
American Tenpin Bowling Congress
Journeys
Washington, with five Of the eight
championships to defend excluding the
mixed doubles, again is expected to
send the largest representation from
any single city. The Capitals cham
pions are Eddie Espey and Paul Harri-
son, in mems doubles; Jack Whalen in
mems singles; John Blick Girls In
women's team competition; Margaret
Miltner and Elsie Fischer in women's
doubles, and Pauline Ford in women's
all-events. Harrison and Mrs. Fischer
are the mixed doubles champions.
THIS impending national tournament
i marks the second time the big pin
carnival has been awarded to a
Virginia City. Possibly the duckpin
congress could have increased the
entries in previous tournaments had it
chosen to select larger cities, but there
is no denying that the tourney at Rich
mond, Va, opened the gateway to the
South for duckpins while the Water
bury, Conn, tournament had a similar
effect in the North.
NNE OF the first women'S booster
~ teams to be entered in the national
tournament has been entered by
Irving Schwartz. His Cascade Cafe
team will consist of Evelyn Ellis and
Merceda Isemann of the Women's Dis
trict League; Mildred Miskelly, four
teenth ranking honorary bowler in the
United States and present Virginia State
mixed doubles champion; Pauline Brad
burn, another Washington girl, and
Ruth Justice, North Carolina State
champion and tenth ranking honorary
bowler nationally.
EOUR sweepstakes, each different,
i will tend to make this week the
busiest of the season.
Tomorrow will be held the first an
nual George Washington Sweepstakes.
to comprise Is games in three blocks
at the Lucky Strike. The opener will
be rolled at II am. the second at 2:30
pm. and the wind-up at pm.
Between 40 and so entrants are ex-
pected by Promoter Bill Wood, who
believes that entry fee of SIS, lower
than that generally levied for major
stakes, will attract not only the star
pinmen but also the near-stars. Prizes
for the high game and set for each
block will be awarded to those who do
| not win one of the four major prizes.
CATURDAY is the date for the other
| - three events, the Potomac, Amer
lean Legion and Suburban Doubles
| Sweepstakes.
The Potomac Stakes, over five-
game route, Is expected to draw an
all-star field at Northeast Temple. At
o'clock the singles competition will
| be rolled, while Immediately following
will be staged the doubles.
The American Legion Stakes, which
is expected to attract around 125
World War veterans, will be held at
the Arcadia. 1t will consist of three
games.
Georgetown Recreation will be the
scene of the start Of the Suburban
Doubles Stakes which will wind up
March 5 at Alexandria.