Evening star., 1938-09-12
Macy Grid Outlook Dub but Har,vick Still Hopes for Speed
Biggest Bowling Season Euer
Promised As Vanguard of DC.
Rollers Opens Fire This Week

King Duckpin boldly steps into the
sports picture this week, and before
another fortnight passes some 5000
of his followers who constitute about
one-fifth Of the league rollers here
will have taken to the mapleways in
Washingtons start on the 1889
season.
The turn of October will find the
Nations Capital well into what prom
tses to be the greatest year ever for
organized bowling.
Tonight the 20-club Procurement
League under the direction Of Jacques
Abadie will start things humming at
the Lucky Strike. Bowlers OF the
Herald-Times swing into action to-
morrow night, followed on Thursday
afternoon by the 16-team mixed Coast
and Geodetic Survey loop.
Yard Commandant Fires First.
With Rear Admiral George Pettin-
gill, commandant OF the Navy Yard,
heaving the first ball, competition
among the 81 teams OF the Columbia
Lodge No. 174. I. A. M. League will
start Friday night at the Lucky Strike.
AS prelude to the opening Of the
venerable Masonic League Friday
night with "a teams at Convention
Hall, Manager Charlie Bell will have
his drives swarming with rollers Tues
day afternoon when the l8-team
mixed General Accounting ONCE and
Soil Conservation loops fire away at
the naples. Tuesday evening the
Blue and Gray Sightseers League opens
fire.
Upper Fourteenth street will hear
the duckpin thunder in no uncertain
tones when league play starts at the
Arcadia, Columbia and Rendezvous.
Rumblings started last Saturday night
when the 18-clpb Christian Endeavor
loop opened at Columbia to be fol-
lowed tomorrow night by the En-
ployers Compensation League. Wed
nesday the Bureau OF Standards
League will take up the firing. The
big clash is due to strike Friday at
Beryl English's pin plant when rollers
from the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing literally jam the establish
ment. The mems league shows an
increase from l6 teams to 20 while
the women's league has jumped to
IL teams, an increase OF four.
Arcadia Sicked Up.
Over at Arcadia, Manager Fraser
has everything ready for tonight for
the Navy Department rollers who
have tilted their membership tc
l6 teams. The w. p A. pinmen will
have their opener a few alleys away
More OF Uncle Sans workers will
hit the trail Thursday night when
the 16-club War Department League
and the Ladies' Federal start. The
Ladies' Independent League, headed by
Mary Fox, will bring the first weeks
activity to q close at the Arcadia Fri
day night.
At the Queen Pin where Howard
Campbell, one OF the city's all-time
duckpin greats Is the new manager
bowlers of the 1s-team Navy Yard
Minor League will usher in their sea-
son tonight with Ray Mcconnell
handling the scoring Arthur (Dutch)
Shaffer, once . leading basket ball
figure and now dyed-in-wool
bowling enthusiast, will head the
Southeast Business Mems League into
action Wednesday night.
Tonight Kenny Beck, Georgetown's
bowling live-wire and an assistant
to Arville Ebersole in conducting
many tournaments coming under the
direction of the Washington City
Duckpin Association, will send the
l q club Georgetown Commercial
League into action. Business at Ed
SchlegeIs West End plant will pick
up Wednesday as the Chestnut Farms
and Chevy Chase Dairy loop gets
underway. The Maritime Ladies
League is scheduled for q Thursday
opener.
The Northeast Temple Minor League
increased to l6 teams. will start Wed.
nesday evening. Friday night Ollie
Pacini will have his Temple drives
shining for the opening of the Treas
ury Interbureau League of 16 teams
Suburban duckpinners face a busy
week for over in Rosslyn Gait Davis
Will get his 20-club Rosslyn Inde-
pendent League going Tuesday, while
on successive nights the l4-club Ar