The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-12


previous shift.
Yesterday was the busiest day OF
the event, which opened Monday
night and is to continue daily until
April IA. Four complete squads of
Be- teams each were in action and
j. was long after midnight before
The rumble of the speeding bowling
balls had ceased. The initial out
of-town quintets performed on the
$50 squad, two teams from Misha
wska, two from Shelbyville and one
each from Redkey, Bedford and
Rushville being in action.
The first matinee session OF the
tourney found 80 teams represent
ing the Indianapolis Hotel Associ-
alton in action. They faced the
pins on the 345 shift yesterday
afternoon. Practically all of the
teams were made up of local grade
school, high school and college stu
dents, who as guests of the hotels,
were competing for experience. and
were ineligible for prizes.
Youngsters Please Crowd
Amid round of applause from
several hundred persons who as
sembled for the tea-time pinfest,
Lawrence Bennett, lead off man
for the Claypool Hotel No. /,
marchd at the head of 1855 future
greats" as they filed to their re-
spective alleys.
The Claypool Hotel No. los line
up included pair of the youngest
FASTENERS ever to take part in the
indoor classic. Jack Colvin Jr.
end Neil King Jr., whose fathers are
highly regarded in local pin cir
Giles, and who are but II years of
age, along with Fred Tegeler Jr.,
10; Charles Bass, IA, and Chester
Plank, 16, comprised the team. The
youths did a fair job of pin top
pling and their initial strike tossed
by young Colvin, was greeted with
round of applause.
Mayor Kern Cheers Team
The $50 squad included eight
City Hall teams and several aggre-
cations entered by local utilities.
They were rendered a warm round
of applause as they filed to their
respective alleys. Mayor Kern was
on hand to cheer 'his teams" and
shouted words of encouragement to
the members of the Mayors Office"
as they opened their assault on the
naples. They responded to their
chiefs plaudits with 1869, the top
total OF the first evening shift. The
series gave them temporary possess
sion of third place in the team
standings Harry Fox of the Fox OPP
tical quintet turned in the best indi-
vidual series of the squad, a 242
start sending him to a $40 total.
Municipal Judges Roll
Nearly 1000 persons were on hand
as the 80 teams of the $50 squad
put in their appearance. The squad
was under the banners of the Penn
sylvania Railroad and Courthouse
Boosters. One of the Courthouse
teams included Municipal judges
Dan v. White and Wilfred Brad
shaw and Probate Judge Smiley N.
Chambers. Frank Mckinney, county
treasurer, was in action with his
McKinney's Boosters, along with
Tony Hinkle, athletics director at
Butler University. and Stanley
FEEBLE, well-known Big Ten basket
ball official.
The Pennzip quintet of Bedford,
paced by Pitman's 571, the top solo
series of the squad, took first place
in the team standings through a
1868, but they were showed into
second at the conclusion of the
1890 shift, when the Fendrich
Restaurant team collected its TOP
count. Teams representing the
Medical Society, along with the en-
tire Polk Sanitary Milk League OF
eight teams, formed the bulk of the
closing squad. Geo. Ley featured the
Restaurant teams climb to the top
He totaled $50.
Doubles and singles will find a
spot on today's program, the initial
squad of minor events entrants be-
ing scheduled for this afternoon
Five-men aggregations will again
take over the alleys on the follow
ing shifts. Another 80 teams spons-