Evening star., 1938-11-10
Astor Rolls 400-5et
To Fall Stick Shy
Of Teammate
Girls Winning Streak
Snaps at 20-Milons
Loses Leadership

One OF the seasons hardest fought
bowling battles today loomed be-
tween Astor Clarke and Joe Harrison
for supremacy in the Recreation
League.
The Nations No l duckpinner
hurled a challenge at Harrison last
night when he swept an even 400
naples off the Recreation drives to
fall only stick shy of tying for the
loops top average with 1876 Joe,
Clarke's Marlboro Hotel teammate
In the District League, held a 1-pin
lead by shooting 1888.
With Karl Gochenour, Brad
Mandley and Henry May wrecking
their fat marks with low sets, the
individual leadership resolved into
strictly a two-man fight between
probably the city's two best team
boWlers.
However. it was Paul Schlosser
who fired the biggest set last night
and a season record one. at that
With games of 1873, ISL and lat, he
cracked Harry Wolfe's mark of 426
with 431 total. The Shah &
Shah shooter zoomed his club into
second place by sweeping Tucci's
Plumbers.
Clarke's big set enabled the lead
Ing Herzog's to trip Bell Clothes
twice and hold first place by game
margin. Paul Jarman's 1894 paced
American Window Cleaning's 81
win from University Shop. Nick
Rlnaldls 1888 gave Sammys Liquor
the odd one from Marvin's Credit.
Long Streak Snapped.
The winning streak of the pace-
settlng and defending champion
Technical Staff team was snapped
at 20 games in the Commissioner
and Miscellaneous League when the
miscellaneous girls won the first
sklrmlsh last night at the Lucky
Strike. However, the Technical out
Mt came back to annex the final two
games. The individual star was Leila
Tamey, who shot 1885 to feature
General Counsel No. Is odd-game
decision over Accounts and Collec-
tions.
Keeling off games of 1856, 100 and
143 for a set one pin short of the
charmed 400 mark, Frank Donaldson
was the top shooter as the Odd
Fellows League opened it's season at
the new Brookland alleys. His
sparkling maple spilling enabled last
years winning Amity No.
team to cop two games from Eastern.
Earle Steele provided thrill with
last-frame triple-header strike, en-
abling his Mount Pleasant team to
salvage one game from Amity No.
by margin of five pins.
Accounting went four games in
front in the c. & P. Telephone
League by downing Northern No. 2
In the odd one while the second
place ClevelandS were losing two to
Georgia. Leroy Martin 1876 got the
pace-setters off to winning start.
His set was 359. Henry Collins, on
the losing side, shot top set of 372.
John Perry's high game of 149 pre-
vented Dial from sweeping Govern
ment. Francis Breen with 128-362
was high in the 2-1 win. The last
place Traffic teams sweep of Con-
struction No. was a surprising
upset.
Social Security No. 2 assumed the
leadership of the Lucky Strike
Ladies League by busting off the
erstwhile front-running Commerce.
Marine Inspection and Navigation
tied for second place by sweeping
) F. S. A. Pearl Watkins 122-323 led
Navy's 80 win from Faazettes.
Milans Team TumbleS.
Joseph H. Milans rollers lost first
place in the Eastern Star League by
dropping a skirmish to Mizpah while
Washington Centennial was receiv-
ing a forfeit from Treaty Oak to
gain the leadership. Vera Low of
the losing Mizpah team ratified the
Lucky Strike naples for top set of
1926 and shared high game of 118
with Helen Veihmeyer of the win
ming Milans. Unity deadlocked the
runner-up spot when Ruth Piatt led
a 81 win from Mount Pleasant
Kitty Doves 100000 was high in
Lebanon'S sweep over Acacia.
Miss CULTS dominence in the mems
Columbia Heights League came to an
end when the Chaconas team star
shot 345, shrinking her average to
q few pins under 1913, while Harry
Hilliard winged his way into the
leadership by shooting top set of 1894
for 15-game average of 1906. Bill
Clampitt rocked the naples for high
string of l52, the heaviest wallop in
Days Food Shops high team game
total of 626.
Rolling in the Lutheran League at
Arcadia was headlined by L. HAZEL
OF st. Johns with lat and Amos
Davis of st. Paul's with 385. In the
women's loop Rhoda Henning of
Trinity No. l turned in op counts
Of 1881.
Fats Morrison's Team Leads.
Fats Morrison and his Treasurer's
No. team are pace-setters in the
16-club Treasury Department
League. The rotund shooter is aver
aging 114-6, with Ed Zdrlo's 1873
second and Ron Reeley's 1925 third.
A flrst-place tie in the Petroleum
League was broken when Chapman
Fuel swamped Lehman's Service and
Colonial Fuel dropped a game to
Otis Service Station Weekly high
team counts of 576-1 ,628 and the
last-frame six-pin spare of Anchor
man Frank Maley were vital factors
in the Chapman win. Other matches
at Columbia resulted in Wayne Oil
Burners defeating Capitol Servi-
center two games, with ESQ Burn
ers scoring twice over Standard Oil.
Individual high sets were Brungers
and Phipps' 35ls, with Roy Otis
and Phipps sharing high game of
137.
Last years champion Winridge &
Handy team again is showing the
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