The Washington times., 1934-01-15
BY GINO SINH
Lorraine CULTS father did not
want her to bowl.

want her to bowl.
He considered 1t unladylike.
According to her, though her
dad, Vincent Gulli, managed
bowling alleys for a half dozen
years Just after the World War.
she has never bowled a game IN
his establishments.
In fact, after long and earnest
begging, her father condescended
to show her how to bowl, but
it was at the Recreation with
which he had nothing to do.
Now that she Is hailed every
where as the Queen OF duck
pindom, she has no more ardent
q rooter than her father, how
ever.
Incidently, Lorraine is not her
first name. It is RoSal1a.
She is not reluctant about the
date of her advent into the
world, nor the site of that mo-
mentous occurrence. She admits
that she was born on October
6, 1908, in Swampoodle, near
Fourth and Massachusetts Ave.
N. w.
Lorraine graduated from Busi-
ness High as a stenographer
and typist. Her first position
was with a patent attorney firm,
then she shifted to Public Health
Service, and a year later went
to the Veterans Bureau.
Quit Government
She quit the Government in
1929, to accept a position pro-
noting the duckpin game among
women for the National Duck
pin Bowling Congress. She
toured the Atlantic Coast from
Connecticut to Georgia, staging
exhibitions, giving instruction and
organizing women's leagues and
associations.
GULL continued in that work
for year and half and then
returned to the Government
with the Navy Department.
While at Hubbard School she
played forward on the basketball
team and it won the third divi-
sion championship.
Long before she ever saw the
inside of a bowling alley, she
had made a name for herself as
q tennis player. She often played
against Frances Krucoff, before
Krucoff became the leading net
woman of the city.
Lorraine won the Mt. Pleasant
tennis title around 1920.
When her father finally took
her to a bowling alley in 1921,
Gladys Lowd, captain of the
Bureau Of Engraving team, in
the Washington Ladies League,
who had watched her bowling,
asked her to bowl on her team.
Lorraine accepted Immediately,
though her father did not seem
to like the idea. That year she
finished sixth for high average.
Finished on Top
Thereafter she finished on top
every year she rolled and she
only missed one season. She did
not join the Ladies District
League until after it was two
years old. but she has led it
every season she bowled in it.
She rolled two seasons in the
Ladies Federal League and took
down average honors each year.
She has neen twice president
and twice secretary Of the Wash
ington Ladies Duckpin Associa-
ton.
She has won so many events
that her followers and rivals are
surprised when she fails to win
one. She has held the U. S.
Sweepstakes title, the Washing
ton Ladies Dixie crown, was
several times Meyer Davis Sweep
stakes champion. annexed the
W. G. D. A. all-events three
times, and has several 400" sets
to her credit.
At one time or another, her
name has graced the record books
under every heading
Today she holds more than half
Of all individual records and has
a monopoly on individual high
season average marks, which she
boosts several notches each year
One National Title
However, she has possessed only
one National Duckpin Bowling
Congress title, the all-events
championship in 1881, at Water.
bury. 1t gave her the biggest
thrill of her career.
Lorraine, true to her name, is
fond Of spaghetti.
81 can really go for them,"
she says.
She has no other hobby except
sport.
Her father was considered quite
q bowler up to a decade ago. He
managed the Arcade alleys for
Chick Gandil for a year or so and
then took over the Mt. Pleasant
establishment for several years
He was a member of the Arcad
ian team which won the w. c. D
A. team championship in 1914.
Lorraine will rule as a favorite
in the third annual Washington
Times Ladies Dixie Sweepstakes
which will be rolled next Satur
dav.