Evening star., 1935-11-07
TAKES FRANCHISE
IN DISTRICT LOOP
Parsons Sets Commercial
League Records With III
Game, ass Set.

~HARLIE BELL today is scout
4 ing for the best bowlers OBJ
tainable to represent Conven-
ton Hall, which replaces
Temple as Washington's only big
time circuit. the District League.
swings into it's second series.
At a late hour last night the Con-
vention Hall boss assured the league
he would have a team, pretty fair
one, too, at Lucky Strike to battle the
strong Grand Central Valet. which
has added to its lineup Joe Freschi,
who rolled sensational 725 set In
Baltimore three days ago.
First place will be at stake when
the league leading Arcadia team tam
giles with the second-place Heurich
Brewers at Arcadia. Only one game
separates the two clubs. Make Rosen-
berg will plug the hole left by Charlie
Watson in the Arcadia lineup. The
match will bring together the two
high-average rollers in the star
studded circuit. Ed Blakney, Heurich
captain, is topping the circuit with
1855, while Paul Harrison. the lanky
Arcadian, is a point behind with
1854.
Lucky Strike invades Convention
Hall for a tuSSle with the champion
Occidental Restaurant. The Fred
Buchholz crew will find vastly boil
stored team in the Luckies since the
champs swamped them on the open
ing night of the. season. In the II
games rolled. Capt. Dutch Newman
has led the Occidental attack with an
average of 1913. Astor Clarke and Joe
Harrison trail with 121 each. Billy
La Billie is the top shooter OF the
Luckies, with 1913. with which he also
is leading the 3O-club Sanico League
at Convention Hall.
\ FTER giving one of the most bril-
liant bowling exhibitions of the
season, at Convention Hall last night,
Howard Parsons today finds himself
the holder of three notable records.
Rolling with the Continental Baking
team Parsons established two all-time
marks for the Commercial League
with a string of 1T and set Of ASS.
His three game total is record for
league competition this season. His
other two games were las and 1888.
Parsons 1T bettered by six pins the
mark rolled by Paul Jarman last sea-
son. while his set record sent into the
discard a mark of 429 made by Bill
Cox during the 1867 season. The
Continental star, but for picking
two-pin break in his sixth box, would
have made 10 straight marks. In
cidentally, he cut a deuce on a spare
in the tenth frame. His last game
whopper saved his team from shut
out, as a 500 count nosed out Dia-
mond Service.
Leo Rinaldi was the feature roller
in the Civics Club League at Arcadia.
with a 1862 set, while his Lido team
piled up 1903 sticks for set honors.
HEURICHS BREWERY bowlers Will
roll their first intercity match OF
the year Saturday night. when they
take on the Annapolis Buick five Of
Baltimore in the first five games of a
l0-game match at the Georgetown
Recreation. starting at 8 o'clock.
The concluding games will be shot
in Baltimore a week from Saturday.
Capt Ed Blakeney will use his regu-
lar lineup of Reds" Megaw, Tony
Santini. Whip" Litchfield and Bill
Camplitt, while Annapolis will start
Fish" Campbell. Ed Easterday, 2.
Seible, Ray Phipps and Capt. Bill
Arnold.
A l50-pin handicap will be given The
Chestnut Farms Chevy Chase girls
team which meets the Jefferson
Springs mems five at Georgetown Sat-
urday night at pm. Capt. Jim Bote-
ler of Jefferson Springs expects
tough match from Thelma Cohee.
Pearl Haislip. Margaret Croft. Marie
Harrington and Laura Boteler, blu.
hopes to combat them successfully
with Horse" Kreamer, "Bucko' Fa-
hey, "Baldy" Stanton. "Fatso' Beck
and himself.