The Washington times., 1936-01-17

Besides, bowlers today are OBJ
sessed with the modern curse df
you want to call it that of get
ting things over and done with
quickly.
January Is Big Month
Especially is this true in Jand-
airy, one of bowling's three big
months. From the middle of De
cember to the middle of March
the center of the sport page is left
practically to duckpins. Football
becomes history with the first
week in December and major
league baseball begins to stir in
terest with the ides of March.
Basketball can never hope to gain
the popular interest of even bowl
ing, at least in cities where the
duckpin sport is prevalent.
Realizing this. the men and
women anxious to boost the sport
strive with might and main to
crowd every possible event OF ma
tional interest in the Is week-ends
that the kindly gods of sport have
allotted to them. Two of those
weeks are lost by Xmas holidays.
Certainly three others cannot be
lifted right out of the middle OF
this opportune period so that one
city can hold its classic event,
especially if that city supplies the
largest and most potent list OF
entries for any major event.
When duckpin bowling was
mostly confined to Washington
and Baltimore and the work of
George L. Isemann and his Ma
tional Duck Pin Bowling Congress
had yet to bear national fruit, a
purely local event, such as the
Howard Campbell Sweepstakes
classic could be rolled leiSurely
over three weekendS.
Too Many Attractions
Today, however, with a dozen
or more major duckpin events
open to all bowlerS of the coun-
try besides the games first really
effective major intercity circuit,
the Southern Intercity League,
any event limited exclusively to
residents of any one city must
necessarily suffer, if rolled over
a three-week period.
And so, tomorrow, when the
Howard Campbell Sweepstakes
gets under way for its tenth re-
newal at Lucky Strike alleys. man
aged by Howard Campbell, the
man who originated it, many a
bowler who would ordinarily be
among the contenders will be
missing.
The event that will claim about
six of the possible participants,
Aston Clarke, Russ Spillman.
Perez Wolfe, Bob Temple, Ollie
Pacini. and Gene Hargett is the
Virginia State ten-game open
event at Health Center, Rich
mond, tomorrow.
Tournaments Conflict
The washington Times Ladies
Dixie Sweepstakes can only inter
fere in matter of spectators and
interest. The Southern Inter-city
Leagues schedule only on the
final block.
Many bowlers anxious to bowl
in the Campbell suggested rolling
it on one day such as the Mems
Dixie and the U. S. stakes.
Still others offered the better
plan of rolling the first two
blocks on one Saturday afternoon
and night, and the next block the
following Saturday, but this idea,
too, was turned down.
Campbell and his co-promoters,
j. William Wood and Arville l..
Ebersole, are certain that they
will have at least Is entries.
Among those certain to roll are
Eddie Espey. Red" Megaw, Ed
Blakeney, Tony Santini. Irving
Billheimer, Joe Harrison, Dutch"
Newman, Brad Mandley, Johnny
Anderson, Howard Parsons, Paul
Jarman, Joe Freschi, Paul Harri-
son, Charlie Bernhardt, Ouncie
Harrison, Harry Aiken. Hugh
Crawley, Jack Talbert, Abe Beav-
ers, Bill KrauSs, Hokie Smith,