Evening star., 1933-03-19
FIELD |S29 TEAMS
LARGER THAN IN g
Washington Second Only to
Host City of Hartford Pro-
ducing Entries.
BY r. d. THOMAS.

IF figures don't lie, the National
Duckpin Bowling Congress
i has licked the depression.
More teams will shoot in its
annual tournament, which opens
Tuesday at Hartford, Conn, than
fired a year ago at Norfolk.
In the Norfolk tournament SO mems
teams and 81 womens rolled. This
time there are LOG mems and 49
women's and there may be more. Sec
retary George Isemann is awaiting word
from number of prospects, but as the
figures stand last years entry tctal has
been topped by 20 teams.
With other national bowling events
showing big decreases over last years
fields, the gain of the N. D. B. c.
speaks we'll not ony for 1semann and
his organization but the game ltSelf.
pin classic, took a beating this season,
This was 81 per cent drop.
WASHINGTON, as usual contributed
w a great share of the N. D. B. c.
entry No other city. asioe from
Hartford, approached the Nations Cap
ital in supporting the event. Twenty
one mems teams and nine wcmens Will
represent this city.
Hartford contributed 80 mems and II
women'S teams.
Baltimore sends 10 teams and 8 Of
women.
The longest journey will be made by
the B.ick Bowling Center teams OF At
lanta, Ga.
Women bowlers have done much to
put over the tournament. Their field
of 40 teams is the largest in the seven
year history of the congress.
1t seems women have been better
spenders on the mapleways this season,
at least in major tournaments, than
men. The National Sweep takes for
men, held at Richmond. Va. fell of
from IS entries to 25, but the Dixie
Womens Sweepstakes, held here, an
event comparing with the other, went
up from 43 to 40.
FOLLOWING are the teams entered
i from the Washington metropolitan
area: Men-HyattsviLe Arcade, Blad-
ensburg Dixie Pig. Mount Rainier, Be-
thesda, Silver Spring, Georgetown Rec
reation Convention Hall, Columbia. g.
P o. q teams). Lucky Strike, King
Pin. Occidental. Recreation. knights Of
Columbus g teams). R. Harris, w. B.
Hibb:, Temple, District Government and
Meyer Davis
Women-King Pin, Rendezvous, George
c. Shaffer's Rosebuds, Columbia. Bill
Wood, Arcadia, Lucky Strike, Meyer
Davis, Georgetown Recreation.
WASHINGTON boWlers will defend two
championships. At Norfolk last year,
the Silver Spring team won the five
man event and Chester Bid and Ed
Blakeney won the doubles. For the first
time the Washington girls were shut
out in competition for titles.
TJNCLE WILLIE WOOD, the Lucky
- Strike and King Pin 1mpresario,
will turn over another Meyer Davis
enterprise, the Arabian Nights ball room.
to the bowlers next Friday night for a
hop, the proceeds OF which Will pay or
help erase expenses of the Lucky Strike
and King Pin teams at the national
tournament.
A similar affair was held recently In
the defunct billiard room of the Colum-
bia, and in spite of lack Of publicity
was quite a success. 1t has been decided
to make this an annual party, which
brings to mind that the bowling game
needs a stimulus in the direction OF
sociability. The sooner the boys and
girls forget the bucks and get back to
the spirit of recreation, the quicker will
be the recovery of MIR. Duckpin, now
seriously i'll.
We long for another party such as
Harry Carroll used to give. The late
proprietor Of the Recreation put out
for ho
given every year in honor of the Wash
ington Ladies' League, but he got back
quite a portion of it in business born
of good will; and not that Harry gave
this a serious thought. He was born
philanthropist, that man.
II like to see people have good
time" he used to say and he was all
the happier for other folks good time
being at his expense.