Evening star., 1937-01-05
BOWLER, 70, BEATS
RIVAL, "A, 6D0-541|
Pins Fly at Mount Rainier
as CraW|ey Tops Fenton
in "Match of Ages"
BY BILL DISMER, JR.

BY BILL DISMER, JR.
A 74-YEAR-OLD BOWLER aver
~ aged 108 for five games last
~ night and lost . head-to-
head match-to . contempt.
rary four years youngster who aver.
aged 100!
Calmly rolling q straight ball down
the center Of the alley at the Mount
Rainier plant which he has main.
tanned for a number Of years, Hugh
F. (Pop) Crawley, 10 last month,
shot an even 600 set In an hour and
a half to take lead Of 50 pins on
John w. Fenton in the first block Of
l0-game match.
In addition to the fact that both
finished with averages of which any
OF their nine grandchildren could feel
Justly proud, glance at the game
by-game figures reveals the remark
able fact that neither bowled under
LOO In any Of the five games. Fem
tons lowest scores were two of 104;
Crawley did not dip under ISL
All Games to Crawley.
CRAWLEY won every one Of the
five games, rallying after the
sixth box to grab two Of them and
leading from the start in the other
three. Fenton, whose quick nip of
the wrist sent the ball down the
mapleways with all the speed Of one
oo years younger, staged counter
rallies In the second and last games,
only to be met by an undeniable
hghter who gave what 1t took.
And the large crowd, which turned
out more from curiosity than from
expectancy of the bang-up battle
which it turned out to be, remained
fascinated throughout the set to
watch the patriarchs in action. They,
and many more it appeared today,
will be on hand at Almas Temple next
Saturday night when the match is
concluded on Fenton's home drives.
George Isemann, executive secre-
tary Of the National Duckpin Bowling
Congress, acting as master Of cere-
monies, gave the setting . real big
league atmosphere when he intro
duced the contestants with all the
pomp OF world championship match.
Fenton became John (Bull) Fenton,
the f1ghtin' wildcat Of the old Masonic
League" Crawley he termed For
height, weight and tight, the toughest
hombre in Mount Rainier" At the
end Of the second game, however,
which found Fenton trailing by %
sticks, Isemann facetiously asked.
Where Is that 'Fenton' of youth?"
Rallies to Trim Fent0n.
MORE like two kids in their teens
than men who had been born
in Civil War days. the be-spectacled
rivals started out like q couple Astor
Clarkes, Crawley marking in the fifth,
sixth. seventh and eighth frames, to
catch Fenton, whose two marks in his
first three rolls had put him IA pins
ahead Of his box in the opening game.
Crawley, who seemingly always had
a strike or a spare in his arm when
he needed it, spared, struck, spared
and struck again in rapid succession
near the close Of the game. to finish
with Q 1872 and an 18-pin lead.
Fenton. is pins behind at the seventh
box Of the second game, spared on q
strike to finish with Ill, apparently
enough to beat his rival. who had s6
in the ninth. But Crawley came
through with spare snd counted g.
for lis, another 4-stick gain. Again
in the third game Fenton had a 91-37
edge in the eighth frame, only to see
his host spare in the last two boxes to
outcount him 123-108. Both were
proving remarkably accurate, Fenton
not having one box under 9 and
Crawley's two 8 boxes being his worst.
Wind Up Match Saturday.
A SPARE in the seventh box en-
- abled Fenton to catch Crawley
in the fourth game after the latter had
capitalized on . secondbox spare to
lead him throughout. But again. Pop
retaliated with spares in the ninth and
tenth to pick up another II. Crawley's
three spares in the first six boxes Of
the last game found him with 15-pln
margin by the eighth frame, and at the
end of the game he was ahead, 115-104.
Although the strikes throughout tn,
evening were almost evenly divided,
Crawley getting three to Fenton's two,
the former had an advantage Of six In
the spares, getting 16 in the three
games to Fenton's 10.