Evening star., 1933-02-28
HELD B[AME[ESS
IN TOURNEY FUSS
EbersoIe Needs Help to Put
Over This Years Event
in a Big Way.
BY r. d. THOMAS.

F any serious diScord results
from the verbal scrap at the
Washington City Duckpin
Associations recent meeting
it may be difficult to fix blame.
Certainly, the associations officers
did all in their power to give
everybody concerned a fair deal
in the disposition of the city
tournament, the bone of conten-
ton.
For the first time since old Grand
Central days there was fuss over the
tournament. The long peace was ef-
fected by the resolution of 1925, which
put the event on circuit, but for q
while during the debate it seemed this
bit of legislation might be repealed.
Luckily for the association 1t wasn't
That resolution made a promise and the
integrity of the w. c. D. A. was on
trial. Had the association acted other
than it did, in giving the tournament
this season to the Lucky Strike and
next seasons to Convention Hall, un-
doubtedly some critics would have
judged it breach of faith.
ON the other hand, Joe Morgan, the
~ Arcadia chief, has a complaint
that commands consideration.
The Arcadia is the only establishment
qualified to stage the tournament which
has never been given this choice slice
OF business
It was within the power Of John
Blick to designate the Arcadia last year
for the event, but he chose instead
Convention Hall. Morgan contends that
Blick had no authority to include this
establishment in the "Blick interests"
designated in the resolution. Morgan,
1t seems, is a victim of circumstances.
In sense the whole thing was much
ado about little, for vast majority
of boWlers care not which establish
ment stages the tournament SO long as
it is properly equipped
CECRETARY EBERSOLE can use q
- lot Of help promoting this seasons
tournament. Heretofore the job has
been left almost entirely to him. 1t
would mean much to the prestige Of the
game if an increase in the entry could
be effected in such an off-year for all
things costing money.
Ebersole has been the secretary Tor
seven years and has never failed to
show growth in the tournament each
season. He would need more than 410
teams to turn the trick this time, and
1t might be done, too, if all the aSSo-
cations officers turned on full steam.
This would be asking much. After
all, promoting big bowling tournament
Is work and in this instance toll with
out compensation. Ebersole is the only
paid officer of the association and his
$400 a year is plenty earned.
One of these times Harry Krauss' plan
will be effected, and the tournament
will be not only much larger, but re-
quire less labor Harry would have a
leagues entry in the tournament ar
ranged for before the season opened.
4 8 time goes on the late Len Collins
IA is more and more missed in the
bowling game. He was invaluable
For half minute at Sundays meeting
Of the Washington City Duckpin As
sociation, the boWlers stood in silence
in honor of the memory of Len. It was
the only such tribute ever paid by the
association and it couldn't have been
more warranted. For what he gave
the sport Len Collins got precious little
from 1t. His reward for the countless
hours Of painstaking labor spent on the
Duckpin Record Book, the most valu-
able Work OF Its kind ever given to
the game, was debt. It was a pro-
duction beyond the capabilities of any
except a conscientious, industrious. de-
ternined man. Len thought nothing
of spending an entire evening search
ing newspaper files for single fact
Most of the information contained in
this compact volume of 176 pages he
gathered from the files of The Star
It wasn't incumbent upon him to give
credit and Collins on that account
dedicated his book to this newspaper
Len went through life that way, CIV
ing much, taking little He died COM
planning his mother made too much
Of q fuss over him.