Evening star., 1933-02-12
1T STRING
CAME SANSEFF0RT
Thinks II Won't Stand Long.
Tronsky Called Lucky.
Won DreeIe Popular.
BY r. ID. THOMAS.

nC URE, I got kick out Of It,"
says Rena Levy, speak
- ing of the all-time record
duckpin game of 1T she
rolled recently in the Ladies' Dis
trict League, "but not near the
thrill you'd expect.
Honestly, it seemed to me it
was the easiest thing I'd ever done
on a bowling alley! Somehow the
fact that it was a record score
didn't register with me.
'I couldn't understand why Il wasn't
a simple matter to do 1t again and
again"
IN Miss Levy's opinion her record won't
i stand long.
"The girls are bowling much bet
ter than they did even season ago."
capable Of beating 1T when in Q
streak"
Girls averages have been helped more
by shallow cutters this season than
mems, according to some of the official
scorers, but Miss Levy holds that much
OF the Improvement IN the two major
leagues, the Washington Ladies' and
District Ladies Is due to keener inter-
est In the competition.
There was time, says Rena, when
frequently girl would toss away the
second and third balls 4 the irst
any more. The girls are taking the
game more seriously than ever before
that can remember"
Last season there were only nine
girls In the washington Ladies League
who averaged better than 100; now, at
the end OF the second series, there are
20. In the District Ladies' League a
year ago, 102 was fifth; today it Is If
teenth!
.ONE Of Washington's very best bowlen
~ the other day proved himself far
less of an intellect than an athlete.
He made bold to ascribe much Of Nick
Tronsky's success to luck.
II Tronsky on an occasion or two had
chalked up exceptional scores he might
be open to such rating. But the Con-
necticut youth this season alone has es-
tablished more records than any other
duckpin bowler, past or present, In an
entire career. J6-3
Tronsky has visited Washington four
times On each invasion he has estab-
hshed at least one record.
No Washington bowler has ever rolled
700-set under championship condi-
tions on q Washington alley, but Paul
Harrison, Eddie Espey and Astor Clarke
have achieved such q score on New
England drives, where they come easier.
Yet 1t seems hardly q week passes that
Tronsky doesn't top TOO and he's not
particular about drives.
MOT Tronsky for consistency, but
IN one of the fiashiest duckpin
shooters Of all time will appear
Thursday and Saturday at Henry Hiser's
Bethesda plant. Ray Won Dreele Of
Baltimore Is the lad. A few years back
he was quite as much Of q sensation 90
the New Highlander.
Won Dreele and Ray Barnes win shoot
doubles against Hiser and Tony Sam
tint Thursday, and Saturday the Be-
thesda and Recreation Happy Five
teams viii finish a home -and-home
series begun in Baltimore. Hiser and
Santini have 17-pin margin In dou-
bles and the Baltimoreans have O 142-
pin edge In the team event.
Won Dreele Is one Of the few true
stars Of the mapleways whose love Of
the sport for sports sake has never
been tempered by the desire to make
it a means to an end
Among Washingtonians, he Is Balti-
more's best-liked bowler.
HUGH CRAwLEY, iead-of man Of
i J. the Judd & Detwieler team Of
the National Capital League,
showed up the other night with q
severely cut finger tip He, rolled 101
in the first game, against Lucky Strike,
and 90 In the second.
Il guess this fingers got me licked"
moaned Hugh, who asked for q salbsti-
tute for the final game.
His mates, however, urged him 10
carry on. And did hel g.
In the third string, Hugh shot $50.
It was a highlight Of the second largest
team set ever rolled here ,962-topped
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