Evening star., 1933-02-19
3 GAMES A WEEK
STAR'SALLOTMENT
But Earl CIings to Record
Pace in Strongest Loop.
Career Unique.
BY r. d. THOMAS.

TARL McPH1LOMY probably
(H is the country's most natu-
~ raj bowler as well as the
least ambitious.
Certainly none in this section
is to be compared with him in
pure talent, though some may
show higher averages. It's
cinch no duckpin shooter of note
tries less to distinguish himself.
A check-up on District League aver
ages yesterday by Scorer Ben McAlwee
revealed McPhilomy only eleven sticks
shy Of an average of 1913. For 81
games he had averaged 122-41, which
Is the fattest pile OF timber ever cut
by a District Lacquer at this stage of
a season.
The Lucky Strike ace should have
little trouble wiping out the record of
121 established two campaigns back by
John Henry Hiser.
PUT the remarkable fact is that Nc
~ Philomy rolls only three games a
week his lie que games-and
wouldn't shoot these If it weren't for
the urging Of his friend, Bill Wood. and
several old pals on the Lucky Strike
team.
Though perhaps the best bet to win
the Campbell Sweepstakes this Winter
and despite that his entry fee of S28
wcIld have been paid by friends, he
passed up the classic to watch some
out-of town friends perform at another
duckpin plant
McPhilomy's singular standing may
create problem for the Washington
City Duckpin Associations Ranking
Committee. Ordinarily a bowler with
a record average in the District League
would have almost the No / SPOT
cinched, but it so happens this season
Sever2l sharpShooters are achieving the
unprecedented and must be conGiderd.
0LLIE PACINI, ranked No. l last
~ seaccn, is carrying averages of
better than 120 in three leagues,
being only two points and a fraction
behind McPhilomy in the most i'm
pcrtant, the District, and this. coupled
with victory in The Eyening Star
tournament and excellent showings in
number of other events, entities him
to lot of attention.
Then there's Whip Litchfield Whip
is two points behind McPhilcmy in the
District League. is the mainstay of the
leading team, Convention Hall: winner
CT the Campbell Sweepstakes with a
record score and has shot mere 200
sets than any bowler in history in one
season. Nine times Whip has beaten
400 and in several other instances barely
has fallen short. He shot q game of
1876 in the National Capital League
to beat record which had stood for
20 years.
NOR can the committee overlook
~ Paul Harrison, with an average
of 126 in the Columbia Heights
League. the largest average ever rolled
by Washington bowler. It's "a moot
question whether Harrisons record.
made at one establishment, is as COM
mendable as McPhilomy's, rolled on
circuit
McPhilomy's career, generally spec
ing, is without parallel among the sts
Washington has had. Ten years ago +
won the District League championsh'
and for several seasons was a tcp-
notcher. Then illness took him frc~-
the game for three years. BY way c
making serious comeback he steppc'
out last season and won the Distrie
League crown second time. In tn
preceding campaign he confined his
bowling to the Typothetae League,
which he led in average
AS pointed out the other day in these
columns. only Harry Krauss has topped
the District League more than twice,
and the great Nose" did it three times
in succession. This was not nearly as
remarkable as will be McPhilomys
record if his third title comes a decade
after his first-and without apparently
serious effort.