Evening star., 1933-03-05
RIVAL
WILL SHOW HERE
New Holder of 5.Game Mark
to Shoot in Atlantic
Coast Doubles.
BY r. d. THOMAS.

w WASHINGTON duckpin
M fans will have an oppor-
Y Y tunity next Saturday to
view Baltimore's great
man Of the mapleways, Ray
Barnes, who will appear in the
final big money tournament Of the
season, the Atlantic Coast Dou-
bleS, along with a host of other
stars.
Barnes is far from q stranger here.
Ever so often he visits to help carry on
Baltimore's never-ending fued with the
Nations Capital and more often than
not with marked success.
But lately Barnes has become lead
ing attraction. The Oriole is by way
of challenging the great Tronsky Of
Connecticut for the No. l spot on any
bowling program one cares to present.
He placed the birdie deftly on the
United States sweepstakes champ re-
Gently at Atlanta in a 500 singles
match, and a few days later at Rich
mond surpassed the great five-game
record established on the same maple
ways this Winter by Tronsky.
IN our humble judgment there is little
i to choose between Barnes and
Tronsky, despite the superlatives en-
ployed up and down the Coast to de-
scribe the Willimantic wizard. Results
count, and Barnes is one Of the most
consistent members Of the paeof line
in the whole history Of the game. He
probably leads Tronsky and all the
other big-timers in purses collected IN
the last three years.
He, too, you'll remember, won a
United States Sweepstakes and like
Tronsky. set record in the process.
It was Barnes 15-game mark of ,967,
made in 1882, that TTonsky beat to
triumph this year with 2,10l. Yet, with
this sensational performance, Nick
went only four sticks up on Barnes
for three years of competition in the
national Stakes, Nick with an average
of 1926 and Ray with 1922 for 40
games.
WHEN Nick shot TAG in the opening
w set of the National Duckpin
Bowling Congress sweepstakes at
Richmond the news spread to nearly
every bowling center in the East be-
fore he launched upon the second
block. Such score under Champion
ship conditions was almost incredible.
"Thatu give the boys something to
shoot at for long time" said the
wiseacres, but for the time being all
lost sight Of Barnes The Baltimorean
many times had proved capable Of
shooting into the 700's, and like
Tronsky, of holding terrific pace over
a lengthy stretch. Barnes was the best
bet in the country to top Tronskys
record and it was worth a straight
wager eventually he'd do it.
THESE two great bowlers have one
i asset in common. Neither suffers
reaction from big game or SEN
sational set. Tronsky started his 10
game record with a string of l73, and
finished with identically the same. For
| some bowlers such start would not
have been the advantage it might ap-
pear Some athletes somehow give the
impression of being afraid OF big sue
cess, or is there such a thing as lim-
! tied capacity for victory?
| Had Tronsky and Barnes shot their
| records against each other. 1t would
have been a trial of determination for
Nick. At the end Of the second game
he would have been SO sticks behind.
! for in string No. 2, Barnes chalked up
an even zoo, and Tronsky, his poorest
count, 1l3. From there on it would
have been an even scrap until the last
game in which Nick shot 162
against 1873.
THE issue would have been settled in
| i the final box, which both rolled
| fiat, a fact remindful of a remarkable
feature of Tronsky's performance in
the National Stakes. In only one frame
out of $50 did Nick leave more than
two pins standing. This was in box
No 10 of his fifth game. where he took
a seven, which would have lost by one
pin to Barnes. Tronsky had II fiat
mines and seven eights. and altogether
lost only "a sticks trifie more than
two a game.
This in itself may be record.
Barnes hasn't announced his part
ner for the Atlantic Coast Doubles, an
event sponsored by the Times, but other
prospective entrants hope it won't be
Tronsky. Nick and Ray have done con-
siderable exhibition bowling together
lately