Evening star., 1937-01-19
EXCITING FINISHES
MARK BIG TOURNEY
WoIstenhoIme, Clarke Call
Turn on Own Wins-11th
Event at Hand.
BY ROD THOMAS.

mind as one contemplates the
eleventh annual Howard Camp
~ bell Sweepstakes, to open next
Saturday at the Georgetown Recrea-
tion.
The defending champion of the
tournament, which will be continued
the following Saturday at the Lucky
Strike and wind up a week later at
Convention Hall, will be the only
rank outsider ever to win the blue
ribbon event of Washington boWlers,
Harry Hilliard of Hyattsville.
First on the line with his S28
entry fee is Hokie Smith of the Co
lumbia alley staff, who finished third
in the recent United States Sweep
stakes.
1t was in the Campbell Sweepstakes
that Astor Clarke sprang to fame,
both as a bowler and prophet. Be-
cause it came from an unknown. or
at the most an untried bowler, nobody
paid serious attention when, on a
Saturday night in 1881, Clarke an
nounced himself the Campbell Sweep
stakes winner before firing ball. He
tempered his pronouncement with
the later remark: Nobody will catch
me if get out front"
WolStenholme a Prophet, Too.
LIE GOT there in the second set
- and one week later the name of
Astor Clarke, Campbell Sweepstakes
champion, was placed high in the
;of ly>in CT m
come increasingly brighter until the
present time when he reigns as the
No, / ranker of the country and as
the United States Sweepstakes ruler,
the first ever to win the national
classic twice.
But Clarke only tied the record OF
Glenn Wolstenholme as a prophet.
Before the start of the first Campbell
tournament, held in 1928, Wolsten-
holme called his approximate stand
ing in each of the three blocks.
After the first" he said, "I'll lay
about eighth. After the second I'll be
about fourth, but within easy sailing
of the leader. After the final, they'll
pay me-"
1t came out just that way, but not
until the final string did Wolsten-
holme settle the issue. 1t seemed that
Clem Weidman, who charged upward
in the last five-game block, would
land on top Spare after spare Weld
man marked up in that fifteenth
string. at Convention Hall, with VOL
stenholme, on a nearby drive. doing
only moderately we'll.
Glenn Uses q Broom.
THEN it came.
crash" A Wolstenholme
strike. The man o. war of duckpins,
the most spectacular bowler perhaps
in the history Of the game, was bear
ing down at the critical moment.
Only q few frames Of the tournament
remained.
Weidman glanced at the strike on
wolstenholme sheet. Nobody ever
had a right to accuse the Dutchman
Of q lack Of fight in a bowling battle
but that strike plainly had an ad-
verse psychological affect upon him.
His spare streak came to an end.
Then:
crash"
Another Wolstenholme strickland
the mighty Glenn was home with the
patatoes, winner Of the first big
money bowling tournament held in
this city and the granddaddy of all
similar events now staged in this and
some other cities.
ITO me-" says Arville Ebersole, Sc
retary of the Washington City Duck
pin Association, "the most dramatic
incident in the history Of the Camp
bell Stakes was Max Rosenberg's vic
tory In 1890"
Several days before the last set.
rolled at the King Pin (now Colum-
bia), Rosenberg slipped on an icy
pavement and painfully injured q
leg. A surgeon attempted to rule him
out Of the tournament, but Make
couldn't resist shot at the fat wad
and diamond-studded medal that go
with victory in the Campbell. Later
they helped lot to ease the pain in
Rosenberg's leg.
MandIey Explodes.
N1HEN the final skirmish arrived
w in the tournament won by
Make, Bradley Mandley, noted for
consistency, seemingly had all but a
lock on first prize Come the very
last string and Brad was as good as
In, he thought. But to the amaze
ment Of all, the brilliant, even-tem-
pered Mandley blew up completely.
He chalked up q lone mark in the
last game and a score of 81, one of
the poorest he ever rolled in any
sort of competition.
And George Friend, Rosenberg's
pal and teammate, swept past Brad
into second place and Dutch New
man ahead Of him into third.
The tightest finish was that Of
1892, when Tony Santini charged in
the stretch, at the Lucky Strike, to
nip Ed Blakeney by one stick for the
top coin. Tony picked up SO pins on
Blakeney in the third block to tri-
umph, 1871 to 1870.
In another stirring wind-up, in
1884. Sam Simon caught the leader,
Hokie Smith, in the very last string.
at the Lucky Strike. Smith was on
top all the way until, weakened by
Illness, he faded at the finish.
Fortune seemed unkind to Hokie
last year, too. Second coin for the
Columbia star appeared a cinch until
the incompatible Astor Clarke
charged. With q finishing set of 672.