Evening star., 1938-12-07
Arbaugh and Stocking
Winqing for Record
Af5uburban Plant
Is Clubs of Merchants
Loop Are Signed to
Shoot at Hall

tains, who are attempting to bring
500 bowlers into the 18th annual
Evening Star Yuletide handicap
tournament, will get 100 per cent
backing from the Silver Spring
Ladies League tomorrow night.
This 12-club loop will represent
more than 10 per cent of the number
the two enterprising suburban bowl
ing moguls have set as their goal
the largest representation in proper
ton to number of alleys in the his
tory of the tournament.
But this is only one of the loops
at this flourishing plant that will
roll in body. Proprietor Arbaugh
and Manager Stocking have just
about signed up every league to its
full membership.
Charley Bell, the Convention Hall
general, digging for entries turned
up a whole league last night-the
Merchants. Next Monday night this
16-club circuit will swell the field
that promises to give the Hall its
biggest enCry ever.
Ruth Rothgeb Sets Record.
Ruth Rothgeb, one of Silver
Springs leading girl bowlers, today
boasts an all-time Ladies Suburban
League record set Of 1856.
Pins were dropped by the cord at
Silver Spring when Mrs. Rothgeb
led with games of 159. 121 and 106
in Grotto Grill's 2-1 win from How
ards Beauty Shop.
Georgia Hays, the loops top
roller, sparkled with games of 1873,
122 and 103 as Shaffers Flower
Shop gained first place on total pins
by sweeping Monument Electric.
Last years champion, r. E. A.
Cleaners, lost two games to National
Ale to drop into a tie for the top
rung despite the 118, 1l8 and 1l9
turned in by Caroline Hiser.
Alma Schultz also played a lead
ing role in the scoring spree to pace
the TalismanS sweep over Custom
Interiors with 1873, 127 and 100
Ray Ward joined in the maple
spilling orgy with 399 for Shepherd
Park Restaurant. 1t was the third
time this season Ray missed 400 by
single pin. His strings were Ill,
128 and 100.
Hyattsville Ahead.
Bethesda's leading boWlers will
have to show a complete reversal of
form if they hope to square matters
In the final block of their match with
the Prince Georges County All-Stars
at Hyattsvilel tonight.
With Howard Ritchie's 405 and
Chet Lilley's 388 showing the way,
the Oscar Hiser gang from Hyatts-
vile sWamped Brother John Henry's
combination in the first clash at Be-
thesda last Sunday night by a mar
gin of 125 pins. The team totals
we're: Hyattsville, 1876; Bethesda,
1881.
The Bethesda duo of Nick Rinaldi
and Frank Riley topped Paul Her
shey and Ritchie, 7O4 to 670, in the
doubles, but Irving Billhimer gave
the Prince Georges outfit the edge
when he swamped Chester Lind
strom in singles, 366 to 327.
Sunday Bethesda and Hyattsville
will stage doubles and singles
matches with HagerstoWn. The in
vaders will roll at Bethesda at 2:30
pm. and at Hyattsville at 7:30.
Another bowling achievement is
listed to Ann Ford, the 1885 w. w.
D. A. Glass D all-events and singles
champion, who last night rolled 149
for an all-time record in the Ladies
Catholic League at Lucky Strike. Gil
making a 342-set with her brilliant
effort, Ann enabled her second-place
Holy Comforter C team to total
weekly high game of 528 and take the
odd game from All Saints.
Sharing the spotlight the leading
st. Anthony team cracked its own
season record with 1,476, sweeping
st. Joseph's to increase its lead to
four games. A third season record
went when Mary flanagan hiked the
high fiat game mark to SO as her
St. Gabrie's team won two from
Holy Comforter E.
Belvin Weakley Strong Again.
Back in harness after two-month
Illness, Capt. Belvin Weakley
smashed out 383-set to supply the
wallop that gave his league leading
Kingans 80 win from A. L. Kelly
in the Rosslyn Independent.
Arlington Trust and McGlincy's
Market deadlocked for the runner
up position with Cooke Press by
sweeping Washington Canoe Club
and Quality Shop, respectively.
Evelyn Ellis was top shooter for the
bankers with 373. Francis Robert
son shot 381 for the losing Quality
Shop which has dropped from
second place to 14th by losing Is
out of the last 18 games rolled.
Allied Roofing fell twice before the
onslaught of Mario Kidwells Sen
ators. Grist of the winners and Dan
Wheeler of the losers each totaled
383 Bill Woody was the star of
Arlington Motors 80 win from
Sherman Clothiers with BIT.
With BITS each Lynn Fellows led
81 G. & c. Restaurant win from
Clarendon Decorators and Kelly
Beach aided in a 81 Y. M. C. A. win
from last years champion Manning
Service.
Mamie Landsman, scorer for the
Distributors League, featured the
District teams 81 win from the
front-running Bnai Birth with top
game of 1873. Meyer Weinberg's 342
was high set.
Steamrolling their way to another
championship in the What's In a
Name League, the Wacs smothered
F. c. A. No. when Ida Weinberg's s
335, Alberta Pollard's 338 and Mary
Bryants 325 topped off high team
set q 1,549. Catherine Edmunston
led the second-place F. c. A. No. 2s
odd-game win from Transportation
with 12l-320. Aggies Examiners
held third place by trimming Mines
two games as Wilda Dixon featured