Evening star., 1938-12-12
Special Prizes Add Pep Competition Evening Star Bowling Tourney
High Games and Sets
From Scratch Will
Be Worth s. Each
Hogerstowners Crack
Two County Records;
Clarke LuckIess

Fourteen days remain for bowler,
to roll their qualifying sets in the
18th annual Evening Star Yuletide
Handicap Tournament and to the
hundreds of newcomers shooting ir
1t for the first time it is reminded
that extra cash can be won.
Besides the 10 major prizes that
range from $50 to So for the mer
and the Is major prizes for the
women from $50 to 81, cash awards
Tor high game and high set from
scratch in both the preliminaries
and finals in each division will be
worth SIS apiece. The champion
man or woman bowler may be for
tunate enough to pick up either OF
these prizes in addition to the $50
and gold medal that go with a title
The Star tournament is acclaimed
the best bowling bargain in the city
One pays no entry fee, the only
cost being for the five games rolled
in the qualifying test. 1t costs
nothing to roll the last five if one is
among the Is per cent who qualify
at each alley.
With the Merchants League roll
Ing en- masse and the Takoma
Ladies League following suit the
tournament opens its third week
tonight with a new flow of entries
that promises to swell above last
years record 1926 total before the
qualifying deadline falls Christmas
Day.
Clarke Second in Baltimore.
Tacking together 5-game sets of
63S and 685, Lynwood CTick) Thumm
of Norfolk won the third annual
Maryland State Open Sweepstakes
at the Charles Bowling Center in
Baltimore last night. His victory
over II other leading bowlers of
the South was worth S10O.
Posting a score of 1928, Thumm,
In winning his first major bowling
title, nipped Astor Clarke of Wash
ington and Eli Doc) Pickus of
Baltimore at the wire. Pickus.
leader at the end of the ninth game
by 8 pins over Thumm and 10 over
Clarke, seemed to fold. Clarke, al
though running into six splits in his
final, rolled 121, but it wasn't enough
to top the charging Norfolk sharp
shooter, who had been knocking at
the door of fame for several years.
Clarke finished second with 1903.
His 5-game totals were 666 and
642. Pickus' counts were 67O-633-
1903.
Tony Santini of Washington, who
ran third in the event last year,
missed duplicating this feat by one
pin with 616-6S6-1, 1902.
Two other Washington bowlers
finished in the money when Paul
Jarman, Santini's District League
teammate, tied for fifth with 1878,
and Karl Gochenour. the defending
champion, was eighth with 1858.
Gochenour, after placing second in
the first block with 689, charged to
the front at the end of the seventh
game, but faltered in the stretch.
Buck Shane, the Frank Jett
Sweepstakes winner at Richmond
who more recently had rolled
phenomenal 5-game pot" score of
796 at the Baltimore Plaza, was the
first block leader with 697. Other
prize winners were Earl Campbell,
Annapolis, tied for fifth with 1878;
Charles Bannon, 1,276; Ray Haines,
1885, and George HUM, 1885, all
Baltimore bowlers.
Diamond Cab Gains.
The fourth-place Diamond Cab
gained ground in the District League
by trimming the crack third-place
Marlboro Hotel two games at Queen
Pin. Lou jenkins led the victors
with 419 set. Bill Miller, member
of the 1884 pennant winning
King Pins, who topped an almost
unbeatable Occidental Restaurant
team at the time, featured with a
421 set for the losers. 1t was Bills
first set Of the season in the all
star circuit. The Cabmen shot
games of 628, 639 and 500 for a set
of 1886. The Marlboro scores were
615, GLIB and 631 for 1859.
Three Hagerstown, Md, pinmen
visited Bethesda and Hyattsville
yesterday and two of them estab-
lished all-time three-game records
for county bowling. Charles Black
hung up Montgomery County
mark of 463 when he defeated
Chester Lindstrom with 155, 157 and
ISL at Bethesda. Lindstrom shot
367. In doubles match at Hyatts-
vile, Angelo Pallidino went Black
three sticks better with games of
139, 1865 and 1852 to register a Prince
Georges County record He and
Robert Hildebrand with 808 showed
under Howard Ritchie and Irving
Billhimer by 161 pins.