Evening star., 1938-12-30
Goes One Stick Ahead
With Score Of 607;
700 Is Mems Best
w. H. Smith Poce-Setter:
Five Former Champs
Fall by Woyside

Five Former Champs
Fall by Woyside
Lorraine GULL, queen of WASH
ington boWlers, and Ellen Veihmeyer,
many times prize winner in The
Evening Star Yuletide tournament,
heartily agreed today that the fe-
male of the species is flercer than
the male. Both from time to time
have gotten along fairly we'll in COM
petition with male duckpin shooters,
with no quarter asked, but last night
discovered each other extremely
difficult.
With the feathers settled, follow
ing battle at the Lucky Strike,
brought about by the vagaries of
schedule making. Miss GULL is
found in command of the women's
section of the finals of The Stars
11th annual tournament with score
of GOT and Mrs. Veihmeyer trailing
by one stick.
Miss GULL sensed her third cham
pionship in the tournament when
she shot lat in the fourth game to
so 81 sticks ahead of Mrs Veih-
meyer. A moderate score in the last
string would give the queen a total
almost assuring triumph.
Ahead by Stick.
A moderate count-l07-wa all
she got, but it was enough. Mrs.
Veihmeyer, who had thrown 1873
against Lorraine's 147, kept acomin'.
In the final box she spared. On it
she struck, which gave her a game
of 1877 and total, including handi-
cap. of COG. She finished rolling
first and Miss GULL came to the last
inning needing 8 sticks or better to
win the skirmish and not unlikely
honors for the entire tournament.
Grimly La GULL fired three balls and
the third picked off exactly enough
sticks to down one of the most stub
born opponents of her career.
Their scores:
Miss Gulli-
1l2 120 116 lat 1O7- 5-6O7
Mrs. Veihmeyer-
100 108 95 1873 137-33-6O6
Miss GULL won the womens cham
rionship of the tournament in 1881
and 1888 and twice has finished Sec
ond. Scores tonight and tomorrow
afternoon, rolled at various alleys,
will determine whether she is to COL
.ect a third time the top cash award
OF $50 and gold medal
Five former Star tournament
champions fell by the wayside last
night.
Clarence Taft, who won the first
event in 1923, rolled 43-577 at Sill
yer Spring and snapped consultations
with Georgia Hays, last years wom-
an winner, and Pauline Ford, who
triumphed in 1886 At Silver Spring
Mrs. Hays shot 587 from scratch
and Mrs. Ford rolled 1851. At
.3rookland Frank Xanten, mems
champion in 1884, marked up 4O-66l
and at Lucky Strike Clem Weld
man, 1890 winner, shot 48-564.
w. H. Smith Takes Lead.
William H. Smith of the Navy
Sard League, competing at the
Lucky Strike. moved to the front in
ene mems division last night with
600, having strings of 10, 142,
80, 122 and 1873. He displaced
Eddie Payne, Petworth entrant, who
rolled 30-681 the night before.
Payne dropped to second. Into third
place last night shot Jim Mcintyre
at RosSlyn with 3O-677 and the
fourth notch was taken by Ralph
Isates at Temple with 4O-676.
Bill krauss of the Cuff and Santini
team, District League leader. chalked
UP ITO at the Arcadia for high
scratch game of the roll-off so far.
his set was 648, sans handicap.
Joe Harrison, another Arcadia en-
trant who established a tourna-
ment record in the qualifying round
with scratch set of TOT, shot out of
Ghe money in the final with 3-632,
Clarence E. Purdy, president of the
FEDERAL Golfers Association. who
holds the all-time record of the
washington City Duckpin Associa-
tlon champion ps with a three
game score of Al, failed to place at
tne Arcadia, with 1885, as did
Mrs. Purdy, who rolled 48-5OO.
Lee Fleshman, horseshoe pitching
champion of Maryland. surprised
himself with a count at the L1ckv
Strike of 60-632, including a game
OF $50, and his cousin, Mac Flesh
man. the 1887 champion bowler
among metropolitan Washington
horseshoe pitchers, did all right.
with 63-598.
Howard Campbell the old maestro.
TOOK time out from a busy life a
manager of the new Brookland allevs
to shoot 45-605, which was tons for
his establishment.
Woman Golf Champ Stars.
Ora Emge, woman golf champion
OF Beaver Dam, rolled 48-590 at the
recreation for fourth place in the
current standing. Three Lucky
strike entrants precede her, with
Miss GULL first, Mrs. Veihmeyer sec
end and Ida Weinberg third, with
23-597. incidentally, while Miss
GULL was battling with Mrs, Vein
meyer, she kept an anxious eve on
MISS Weinberg, performing on a
nearby mapleway.
Irene Mischou, consistent collector
OF Star tournament coin, led the
Arcadla's fair contestants with
28-578.
Rosslyn, which led all but the ma
Jor alleys in producing entries with
3o2, placed six among the current
leaders, to-wit: Jim Mcintyre. 30
GIT, third; AL Teunis, 48-652. 18th:
Augustus Fiore. 40-645, 18th: Fred
Dietrich; 30-644, 18th; Lynn Eel
lows, 25-642, tied for 18th, and
Blanche Wootton, 1861, 18th.
Most Of the action tonight will
take place at Convention Hall. Co.
lumbia, Chevy Chase, Queen Pin and
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