Evening star., 1938-11-27
Arbaugh and Stocking
Lay Il on Thick in
Praise Of Event
YuIetide Maple Porty
Opens Tomorrow at
All Pin Plants
BY ROD THOMAS.

BY ROD THOMAS.
Here we go, ladies end gents, for
another whopping Evening Star
handicap bowling jamboree.
You pays no money but takes
your choice!
Which is to say there is no entry
fee ara bowler may shoot on
drives of his or her choosing.
Unlike any other duckpin tourna-
ment in the country, scores all count
alike in The Stars event, no matter
where rolled, a condition made prac-
ticable by the generally high grade
and uniformity of Metropolitan
Washington mapleways.
Under Way Tomorrow.
Starting tomorrow, bowlers may
shoot the five-game qualifying set
at any time up to December 26, when
the roll-off will begin, with most of
the $500 in cash awards at stake,
with the winning man and woman
receiving $50 and gold medal each.
Twenty-Five per cent of the bowlers
at each establishment will qualify
to shoot for lengthy lists of prizes
for both sexes.
The roll-off will be held during
the week of December 26, with each
alley setting its own date.
To shoot the qualifying set an
entrant merely will report to any
alley manager, fill out an entry blank
and be assigned to drives.
With this as the 18th annual Eve
ming Star tournament, most of the
city's bowlers are familiar with the
set-up. For newcomers may accept
the word of the Washington City
Duckpin Association officials and
those of the Washington Women's
Duckpin Association that it is the
most attractive event of its kind Of
fered the citys duckpin shooters.
Heartily agreeing with them are the
alley operators.
Arbaugh and Stocking Speak.
Hear what Hugh Arbaugh, pro-
prietor at Silver Spring, and his
manager, Earle D. Stocking, say
about it in a circular being sent to
all patrons of their flourishing
plant:
why You Should Enter The Eve
ming Star Yuletide Bowling Tour
nament," the circular is headed, and
goes on: First: For years The Eve
ming Star has been the staunch-
est supporter of bowling, and today
devotes more space to bowling than
eny other paper in Washington.
Second: Prize fund and medals
are donated by The Star.
Third: The only expense to the
entrant is 81, which covers the cost
of his preliminary bowling and the
finals. If you qualify you get 10
games of bowling for 81.
Fourth: It is the only city-wide
tournament where the beginner and
the star bowler practically are on
an even footing (due to the handi-
cap SYSTEM and the list of prize
winners shows that in almost every
instance the prizes have gone to
the lower or medium average bowl
srs. 1t gives all bowlers an oppor-
tunity for competitive bowling,
which is the true test, and often
brings out spectacular scores of un-
known bowlers at practically the
same cost as practice bowling.
Fifth: 1t is small gesture to
show your appreciation to this great
newspaper, one of the country's best,
for the space and interest it gives
to your league, your records and the
sport in general"
Handicaps Generous.
The handicap scale of the last
tournament will prevail again, with
contestants receiving half the diff
ference between their league aver
ages and scratch. The mems scratch
Is 125 and the womens '112. The
handicaps will be based on the bowl
ers high average of last season, or
If he or she participated in no league
last season, on this years figures
provided the entrant has rolled 80
games or more in league. A man
may receive as high as rs franked
sticks and woman as many as so.
The handicap given in the pre-
hminary will carry through the roll
off.
Entry blanks are being distributed
and within the next day or two will
be available at all alleys.
BY signing one, a bowler assumes
no obligation whatever-except to
himself, i.e., to gain that rarity in
this whacky old world, something
for nothing!