The Washington times., 1933-03-21
ARCADIA STAR
SEEKSMATCH
PLAY TITLE
BY GINO SINH

BY GlNO SINH
Believe it or regard it Skepti-
cally, this is Paul Harrison's first
year in singles competition on the
duckpin drives.
Paul, you may recall, is the
long, lean Irish lad who took the
measure of Nick Tronsky, Con.
necticut'S sensational walloper OF
the naples, heretofore considered
well-nigh invincible on the polished
wooden lanes. The Arcadia young
ster not only administered one
drubbing to him, but did it twice
to make sure that it took, and
each time it was by wide mar
gin.
Yet when Paul faced Nick on
the Convention Hall drives last
Friday, that was only the third
time in his career that he had
taken part in a head-tohead
match.
Even now, despite the fact that
he has been catapulted spectac-
ularly into prominence as per
former in man-toman competi-
tion, he has only met two men,
Tronsky and Won Dreele. But
he has acquitted himself so bril-
hantly against them that his rep
utation stands high.
In his three matches with
Tronsky he has outpinned the
New Britain flash. He lost his
first encounter by one pin, when
he cut 3 and on final box
mark. He piled up an 85-pin
edge in Fridays match and added
Is more Saturday.
Ends with 143
Won Dreele, Baltimore's veteran
shooter. who also holds decision
over Tronsky, beat Paulie by %
pins, but the elongated local ace
showed his mettle when he fin
tshed with a blazing 143 game.
Tomorrow night Paul will take
another step forward in his
march toward firmly establishing
himself as one of the nations
le..ding "head-to-head" per-
formers.
He clashes with Sam Corcoran,
Georgetown flash, in the quarter
final round of an elimination
series to develop a challenger
for Ollie Pacini, No. ranking
bowler of the United States and
recognized as the Dixie match
champion. The match is sched-
uled for Convention Hall at 1890
o'clock. Corcoran will be stiff
test for Paul. The Georgetowner
is not hitting duckpins as he has
in past years, but he is an ex-
perienced maple-spiller in all
types of competition.
OF course, Harrison rules a
strong favorite. Ed Schlegel md
Sam Benson are the other, two
semifinaliSts, and the semifinals
will be rolled in Georgetown
later this week. with the finals
scheduled early next week.
A similar tournament is being
conducted in Baltimore. The
finalist of the local round will
engage the survivor of Baltimore
in the sectional finals for the
right to wrest Pacini's title away
from him.
A. b. C. Idea
The idea of a match champion
has been borrowed by the Ma
tional Duckpin Bowling Congress
from it's brother association, the
American Bowling Congress. Each
year the A. B. c. elimination
tournament to provide a chal-
lenger for the match champion
keeps the stars of all the big ten
pin cities such as Chicago, Cleve-
land, Detroit. st. Louis. Gin
cinnati, Buffalo. New York,
Brooklyn, Jersey City and Phila-
delphia busy for a month.
The survivors of cities series
clash for the sectional title. There
is an Eastern and Western dlv1-
sion in tenpins.
Barney Spinella, who has taken
q couple of successful filings at
duckpins, once holding the S, 10,
and is records at duckpins, par
ticipates in the eliminations each
year. Joe Falcaro, diminutive
italian, has successfully defended
his crown for three years. AS
match champion he is in wide de-
mand and tours the popular ten
pin centers for exhibitions.