The Washington times., 1933-03-16
RECORD GAME
GETSL|TTLE
NOTICE
By GINO SINH


Charlie" Young can play the
role of President Roosevelt's
Forgotten Man" without benefit
Of prompters.
Charlie" is the chap who rolled
the highest duckpin game under
championship conditions on Dixie
drives, 201, and he pulled that
feat two years ago in Baltimore
on the old "ten.pin" type Of gut
ters.
In the excitement over the orgy
Of records which have been
broken since operators decided to
install duckpin cutters, Charles
remarkable performance has been
lost sight Of.
Young is a native Washington
ian. He played hockey" from
Capital schools like any other
normal youngster, and has been a
Staunch rooter for the Mr.. Grit
tith's ball club, 10, these many
years. Yet he is duckpin's For
gotten Man." His performance
Is seldom mentioned.
Truly a man is honored every
where but in his own bailiwick.
Perhaps it's his own fault, for
he travels under "nome-de.
naples" His name isn't Charlie
Young at all. It's Wilmer Bald
win Young.
Rolled in Mixed Doubles
Charles big game was rolled
in mixed doubles match on April
II, 1881 at Temple, in Baltimore,
now managed by Ray Barnes,
nationally famed Oriole wizard,
who recently chalked the highest
game next to Charles on record
in these parts, a 200 even.
Young was paired with Lucille
Preble, who is now Mrs. Young.
Their opponents were George
Lang, at the time manager of
Temple, and Billie Butler, No. 2
ranking U. S. woman bowler. All
but Lang are Washingtonians.
It wasn't much Of a match for
the first three games, and
Charles huge effort, the fourth
game, opened unimpressively. He
only had SO in his third box and
. spare in the fourth, when he
suddenly cut loose with a triple
header, got No. 5 "and q wiggle"
in the eighth which he socked
right on the. whiskers, and struck
IN the ninth and tenth, with
counts of 6 and 8, for 201. Three
spares and five strikes. He col.
lected 143 pins in his final six
frames.
"a Mrs. Young Rolls 118
With something extraordinary
happening, Mrs. Young, strug-
Cling through mediocre game,
up to the eighth frame, came
through with a spare. a strike
and a spare and eight in her
final three boxes for a 118 game,
which gave them combined
total Of 319, only 10 pins less
than the present two-men singles
record.
Charlie" couldn't carry over
into the fifth game the stuff"
he had on the ball, and finished
with only 10. The game just
prior to the 201 was exactly 100
pins less. His five game set was
654.
According to- experts the 319
mixed doubles record is likely to
remain on the books for several
generations, and Charles game
has already survived two years Of
unheard of record-smashing per-
formances.
Records 20. K"
Both records were rolled under
strict regulations, for George l..
Isemann, N. D. B. c. keeper of
the seals, placed his ok" on
them a few days later, and they
still grace his annual record
books. Jack Rodgers was on the
foul-line, while Bill Horse
feathers" Horschpaugh was the
scorekeeper.
Barnes 200 was rolled in a
: doubles match at Richmond two
weeks ago, and was the high
light of his TAT five-game world
record set,
The worlds individual game
marx, 202, is credited to Louie
Catel1i, of Providence, R. l., who
rolled it in October, 1881, which
means that for span of six
months, Charles game was a
worlds record.
Young rolls with Chaconas Mar
ket in the Columbia Heights
League in which he carries 115
average. He is a substitute on
the District League leading Con-
vention Hall team. Mrs. Young
= has been in the front ranks Of
District pinettes fof several years.