Evening star., 1933-03-12
SET MARK TILTED
THRICE AS OFTEN
Only Four Have Followed in
Footsteps of Dave Me-
Carly Since 1910.
BY r. d. THOMAS.

D1 ASs ~ 1hONAhcs
TIME bowling oracles have
given forth some first-class
guesSes in the last topsy-
4 turvy year, but all misf1red
on what sc med a set-up.
Eddie Keith's game of 1877 and
Joe Pricci's set of 497 still are Dis
trict records. Their days were
numbered at the start of the sea-
son by prophets who foreSaw
games of 200 and sets of 500 in
profusion with the general in
stallation of scoop cutters.
But there they are, those two rec
ords, shining big as ever with barely a
month of the season left.
4 ND at least one of those marks is
"A likely to stand for a considerable
spell longer If duckpin history con-
tinues to run steady course. It's a
fact that single-game records last lot
longer, as a rule, than top sets. Delv-
ing into the archives one finds the aver
age life of a one-game record to be
close to six years. For a record set
(three games rolled under champion
ship conditions) the average is about
two seasons.
Simple arithmetic is this. The first
two marks of which we have authentic
facts were made by the same man, none
other than our old teammate on the
Humdingers of The Evening Star
League, Dave McCarty. In 1910 Dave
shot set of 399 and game Of 1872 In
. National Capital League match.
In % years the record for a set has
been broken no less than dozen times,
but in nearly quarter century only
four names have followed McCarty's in
the list of single-game record smashers.
NFcCARTY, who electrified the duck
IVl pin world with his 399 and 1872
on October 3, 1910, at the famous
old Palace establishment, is the only
bowler who ever has held the game and
set records either simultaneously or at
different periods. His big set was tied
within a few weeks by w. Elliott, shoot
ing in the District League. but the game
stood up eight years. Even then 1t was
topped by only one stick with Tip o.
NeiIl of the Departmental League as
the sharpshooter.
Two pins were added to the record
nine years later by Freddy Moore, per-
forming in the first Howard Campbell
Sweepstakes, and the next Fall Howard
Ryon Of the Masonic League gained
widespread fame with game of 100.
Ryons wes the last record estab-
lished before the cutters were raised
and rounded.
The biggest tilt ever given the mark
was Keith's. In midseaSon last year
Eddie stuck seven pins to the record In
Recreation League performance on
the Recreation Health Center drives.
TEITH, by the way is chip of the
n old block His father. Edwin, was
the first to shoot a 400 set in this
city. which he did on January 27, 1919,
IN the Southwestern League. His score
was 402. And Eddie Junior would give
plenty to have gathered three more
naples to become the first to chalk
UP a 200 game in league play.
Several games have besn bowled out
side organized competition of 200 or
better. This reporter maintains the
most remarkable duckpin performance
of all time of any nature was the 240
game rolled several years ago by Sam
Del Vecchio. then cnly 16, In q poker"
game at the Queenpin.
Sam started that almost incredible
feat with seven consecutive strikes, in
itself thing to arouse skepticism IN
the minds of many bowlers. The
youngster paid little attention to the
foul line, but even so-well, 240 duck
pins In 10 frames is heap Of bowling,
no matter what the advantages.