Evening star., 1938-11-09
15-Game Tournament
Will Offer $1,000
In Cash Awards
Esther Boyer, Caroline
Hiser Set Records
In League Duel

In League Duel
Washington will witness its stand
out bowling attraction of the season
when the leading duckpin shooters
Of the East gather here Saturday,
November 26, to shoot it out in. the
Dixie Sweepstakes for approximately
$1,000 in cash prizes.
Directing the event will be George
l.. Isemann, executive secretary of
the National Duckpin Bowling Con-
gress, who said today the tourna-
ment promises to draw bowlers from
the length of the Atlantic seaboard.
A $25 check from Ray Won Dreele
received a week ago made the vet
eran Baltimore star the first entrant.
Yesterday Isemann received the paid
entry of Tommy De Lucco, manager
of the Capitol alleys in Hartford,
Conn.
The 15-game affair will be run off
In three 5-game blocks. Beryl Eng
lish's Columbia will be the starting
point with action shifting to Lucky
Strike for the middle round. The
final will be rolled at Convention
Hall.
Girls Match Records.
Esther Boyer and Caroline Hiser
hooked up in a record-breaking duel
In the Ladies' Suburban League at
Silver Spring last night, when the
former cracked the seasons record
game with 1852, enabling her Howard
club to win a game from R. E. A.
Cleaners, while Miss Hiser led the
defending champions victory with a
season record set of 370, with games
of 1l8, 11o and 1873. The new mark
also won Caroline a free entry in
the Baltimore Chesapeake sweep
stakes.
Merceda Isemann's 141 wallop and
Bronson Quaites' 128 poke were the
telling punches in Monument Elec-
tries 81 win from Talisman's.
John Di Mast was the start OF the
Georgia Avenue League rolling
when he swept 166 NAPLES of the
Silver Spring drives for a season
record game of 166. His 38l was
weekly high set.
Leading McKesson- Robbins 2-1
win from the front-running B'nai-
Birth team, Meyer Weinberg gar
nered top set in the Distributors
League with a 35l set at the Lucky
Strike.
Sadie Sheridan of Holy Comforter
E team is a season record holder in
the Ladies Catholic League with a
90 string. Jennie Egan, rolling week.
ly high counts of 1898, was the
star as st. Anthony trimmed L. A.
A. o. H. two games to break first
place deadlock. Nellie Schroth's
1l7-309 led st. Gabriels 80 win
from Holy Comforter B.
Shermans Set Record.
Sherman Clothiers are sporting
the season record team game of $50
for the Rosslyn Independent League.
Twice last night they topped the
old mark Of GA hung up by Quality
Shop when they shot 645 for final
game count, but missed the high
set work of 1,845 by II pins. Three
400 sets were pinned when Brad
Mandley, shot 418 to headline the
evenings individual play and lead
Cooke Press to a sweep over the
third-place Allied Roofers. Ben
Hare shot 406 to help his leading
Kingnan team advance with 81
win from McGlincy's Market. Lee
Hollidge also toppled 4O6 naples to
help the Senators spank Washing
ton Canoe Club twice Other note
worthy sets were Billy Stalcup's 1893,
Bill Hart's 387, Al Jankins' 387 and
George Honey's 1886.
Ed Cleary, who rifles a bowling
ball with even greater speed than
Joe Twoomey, once the fastest of
them all, is giving Irvine Billhimer
a battle for the top-average spot in
the Masonic League, according to the
latest figures turned in by Scorer
Ray Cross. Billhimer, with an even
118, is only a pin to the good. Tom
Courtney, who runs the Almas Tenn
pie alleys, is the leading sparemaker
with IA. Winning 18 of their "a
games, the Whiting pinmen lead the
pennant chase, trailed by Barrister
with 13 and and st. Johns with
II and7.
Scorer Brown Has Big Night.
Harry Brown not only is a splendid