The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-08

onu place IN the singles standings
Of the A. Il. G. tournament on thc
first squad today.
BY BERNARD HARMON
Another all-star program is on tap
Tor indianapolis bowling fans at the
American Bowling Congress tourna-
ment tonight. Indianapolis is to have
one of its outstanding quintets on
the drives when Charlie Cray leads
his Falls City Hi-Brus into action
on alleys Is and Is.
The BruS are composed of a color
ful lineup of pinsters, Cray being
the veteran of the fivesome. He will
be participating in his thirty third
A. B. G. tournament and followers of
the annual events know he is usually
among the high scorers. Carl q Hits
Emu Hardin, one of the city's most
colorful pin spillers, also is num-
bered as one OF the teams members.
Carl usually tells you how good he
is, and then goes out and proves it.
Hardin and Joe Fulton, another
Bru member, won the city doubles
championship in 1888. Fulton also
shared doubles honors in a recent
state tournament. Fred Mounts and
Ray Robertson, others on the teams
roster, are high grade scorers and
are expected to get their share of
the pins tonight.
Southern Pacifics on Deck
Crossing alleys with the Indianap-
oils aggregation will be the famous
Southern Pacific Mineralites of San
Francisco, pride of the West Coast.
Included in their lineup is ORG May
er, former Indianapolis athlete, who
was the A. B. c. all event champ
ion in the 1885 tournament.
Many of Mayors local acquaint-
ances are expected to ne on hand
when he takes his fling at the
naples. He is to double with Andy
Varipapa, the famed Italian pin
smacker, on the o'clock squad to-
morrow afternoon.
Boyle Motor Products is another
team that will bear watching. The
Windy City five, featuring Sykes
Thoma of the famous Thoma bowl
ing family, is slated for action on
alleys II and 10.
Champ ShOtwell Scheduled
Dominic De Vito, captain of the
team, is the former doubles partner
of Hank Marine. Larry Shotwell, the
Covington pinman, who holds the
all-time A. B. G. singles record, a
TIA, is to face the naples on alleys
8 and 10 at 1915 as a member of
the Goodyear Shoe Repair quintet
of Cincinnati.
LouiSville's ace bowler, Frank
(Shamrock) Mccarthy, is scheduled
to shoot with John G.. Epping's
one Of the Derby Citys ace quin-
tets. a host of followers are expected
to accompany the team from Louis
vile, as Mccarthy is tops in popu-
larity as we'll a. the pin game.
Another high~scoring combination
slated on the 8:15 squad is the Old
Forester team, another Louisville
aggregation. The Foresters have
been going big in league competition
and every member carries an aver
age in the 190s.
r. A. Conyes of Oakland, Cal, a
team carrying a 1000 league aver
age; Grand Prize Beer of Dallas,
Texas, featuring Nelson Burton, re-
cent conqueror of Otto Stein, and
Bates Grip of Brockton, Mass, the
lone Bay State entry, are other out
standing fives on the late shift.
Goldblumes Total 1850
Nearly $500 persons TANNED the
Coliseum last night to get a glimpse
of Jess Pritchett's Cooks Gold
blumes as they faced the tourney
naples. The team failed to click
and it was up to the youthful
Johnny Murphy to satisfy the Gus
toners. Through games of 100, 277
and 218, he totaled 685 in leading
the team to 1850. He had the crowd
on its feet in the second game
when he was seemingly headed for
perfect game with nine consecutive
strikes.
Schepp's Beer of Dallas, Tex,
was the only team to reach the
5000 mark during the evening.
Rolling on the 1918 squad the
Texans closed with a 1906 after
tossing openers of 978 and 981
and the 3025 total boosted them
into fifth place. Milo Clark with
a 654 and Walter Ford with GAS
were the individual stars. Wolfe's
Firestone Tire Service, last years
five-man winners, failed to show
championship form and wound up
with 2851.
Rolls 500 in Singles
Despite the fact that members of
the crack He'll Quality Products
team and other nationally renowned
stars were in action in the doubles
and singles events dur ing the day.
light sessions, only one change was
registered in the top ten of the
standings. AL Gaudreau of Saginaw.
Mich, welded games of 236, 241 and
222 for a 500 that sent him into
eighth place in the singles. Several
other nifty individual series were
posted, Bill Pfirman of Cincinnati
having ss2, George Rutty of Ard
more, Pa, a 673, James Bowman of
Canton, O., 672 and Pete Frohn-
auer of Columbus, O., a 662.
In the doubles competition, Don
Cashmere and George Guarnieri of
Conneaut, o., outscored all rivals
with a 1911 total, but the series
failed to land them in the
top ten. The former totaled GA in
his three games, while Guarnieri
finished with 657. Ned Day and Ell
mer Koch were the only He'll keg-
elers to pass the 1900 mark. They
totaled 1249.
Several local entrants were in ac-
ton on the various snllads the