Evening star., 1938-11-27
Dixie Sweepstakes
Nabbed by Smith
In Blazing Finish
D. c. Star Marks in Lost
10 Boxes, TotoIs ! ,969
For $500 Pin Prize

stake, Hokie Smith, top bowler Of
the District League, reeled of 10
consecutive marks in the final game
to win the Dixie Sweepstakes last
night at Convention Hall from one
of the greatest fields of duckpin
rollers ever assembled.
Entering the 18th and last string
~ sticks behind the renowned
Nick Tronsky Of Connecticut, Smith
put on perhaps the most sensa-
tional finish in the history of big
time bowling in Washington. With
three spares and two strikes, Smith
caught Tronsky, who eventually
landed fourth, in the middle of the
game and spared out to triumph by
80 pins. His last score was 1872, Civ
ing him total of 1869 for the three
flve-game sets, the first of which
was rolled at the Columbia, the Sec
ond at the Lucky Strike with the
wind-up at Convention Hall.
Connecticut Bowler Second.
Finishing second in a field of 50
which included virtually every noted
duckpin bowler on the Atlantic
Coast was Steve Witkowski of Mid
dletown, Conn, with a count of
1887. Others who finished in the
money. sharing a purse of $1,470,
were:
Gordon Scible of Annapolis, third,
with 1927; Tronsky, fourth, with
1925; Ted Weinberger, Baltimore,
fifth, 1917; Art Carter, Norfolk,
sixth, 1913; Billy Gauer, Norfolk,
seventh, 1910; Wally Pipp, Hart
ford, Conn, eighth, 1903, and Ollie
Pacipi, Washington, ninth, 1901.
Second prize was $3.50, third, $50;
fourth, 500; fifth. 500; sixth, SIS;
seventh, SOS; eighth, $50, and ninth,
$40.
Pacini, the defending champion,
held the lead through the seventh
and eighth games, but was over
taken by Smith before the second
set was finished. At the end of
the 10th game Smith, ace of the
Gun and Santini team, held the
top spot with total of 1852 and
a margin OF three pins over Wit
kowski.
In the first four games of the
final block Smith appeared to
have lost his stuff and gathered
only 435 pins. Then, with a game
to 60, he began making bowling
history.
He swept of a Spin break to
start the string of marks, which
in order thereafter included a
spare, strike, spare, strike and five
spares. two of them monkeys"
Third Triumph for Smith.
Except for the triumph of Smith,
aide to Proprietor Beryl English
of the Columbia, Washington
bowlers made a sorry showing,
only the new champion and the
old one, Pacini, finishing in the
payon.
Smiths sets were 658, 694 and
GIT. His final game tied the tour
nament record established last year
by Nova Hamilton of Baltimore.
Astor Clarke of Washington, No.
/ ranking duckpinner of the coun-
try, opened the tournament with a
game of 169, which won him a con-
ISOLATION prize of SIS, but aside from
that he was just another contestant.
The same went for Ed Blakney Of
the Cuff and Santini team, who
shot 661 for the first block. Other
consolation awards went to Doc
Pickus of Baltimore with 666 and
Nova Hamilton with 178 in the Sec
ond block and Harry Hilliard of
Hyattsville with 662 and Bill Arnold
of Annapolis with 172 in the final.
Last nights was Smiths third
sweepstakes victory of the season.
He took first coin of 500 In the Pop
Wolfe Memorial, $500 in the New
Recreation.
Today, along with many of the
field shot competed last night, he
will try for another fat purse in the
Ray Won Dreele sweepstakes in
Baltimore.