The Washington times., 1938-03-15
P. WOLFE GAINS.
|AVERAGELEAD IN.
DISTRICT LEAGUE

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bids to top no less than four Capt.
tai duckpin leagues. today held
the District League championship
well within his grasp.
Shooting for an average Of
12436 for go games, the Occiden-
tai Restaurant team star is riding
the crest after a season OF prob
ably the most consistent bowling
in the all-star circuit.
When Joe Freschi and AStor
Clarke, his two Occidental team
mates who had been battling dur
ing early season for the lead.
started to skid, the suburban
howitzer started his climb. Cur
rently Freschi is the runner-ur
with 1912, approximately "a
pins back. Clarke is three sticks
under Freschi with 1918.
In fourth place is Ed Blakeney
the Heurich Brewers captain, with
1912. Bill Krauss, team pal Of
Wolfe who established an all
time District League record mark
of 1854 last season, Is running
fifth with 122 13.
Hokie Smith, q Heurich stal
wart, after a slow start, has made
the greatest advance. From 11e
to 1926 in six weeks is his re-
markable feat. Two sets of 43O
and 423, which included a game Of
1872, helped to turn the trick.
Tony Santini, of Convention
Hall, has shrunk a mid-season
average of 125 to l21-41, to hold
off Joe Harrison, of Regal Neon
Sign, who also has slumped dur
ing the last series to 1913. Ninth
position is held by Ollie Pacini, of
the Tru-Blus, with 1918. Frank
Mischou for nearly a month was
top shooter for the Takoma Park
aggregation. His present average
is 120-56.
Chalking up his eighth 400 set
Of the year, Francis Robertson,
with 405, made up Of games of
1873, 127 and 140, led Mario Kid
wells Senators to a Shutout win
over Hugh Waldrop's Dixie Pigs,
to take a eight-game lead in the
Temple Major Duckpin League
and practically clinch the pen
nant.
Robertson has five 400 sets in
the Rosslyn Independent League,
where he is averaging nigh unto
100, and three in the Temple loop.
With a bit more luck Ernie
Hauser would have turned in high
game for the league last night but
a two-pin cut on q doubleheader
gave him a 1853, second high, and a
Alb set, as Rinaldi Tailors twice
upset Bright Star Liquor.
The pennant scramble in the
What's In a Name League was In
tensified last night at Lucky Strike
by virtue of the leading W. A. c. S,
losing two games to AggiesEx.
aminers while the runnerup Mines
was gaining a forfeit from Navy
Yard. No. 2. F. C. A. with Rebecca
Blackmans 313 tops, swept Stan
dardS. Navy Yard No. / twice
nicked Aeronautics. Agnes Thax.
ton Of the losers shot 306.
With Scorer Perry Nutwell
shooting 1873 high game for the
evening, he prevented the leading
Old Timers from sweeping Tran
sit No. 2 in the Kilowatt League
which witnessed District Depart
ment chalking up top team counts
Of 590-1,69S to whitewash Treas
ury. Ike Goad'S high set Of 35S
was the highlight in Transis No. l
swamping the second-place Meters.
The first Lillian Miller Sweep
stakes champion is Anna Daut, the
Northeast Temple girl bowler who
many predict is fast travelling
toward stardom. With a 676 total,
Anne topped a field Of % Wash
ington, Richmond and Baltimore
pinspillers at the Plaza Drives last
Sunday in Baltimore to gain her
recognition.
Frances Kreig and Helen Becko-
witz, two Oriole rollers, ran Sec
ond and third, with respective
scores Of 672 and 661. Fourth
place went to Marie Spates, of
Silver Spring. Md, with 624.
E Progress held to fourth place In
the Columbia Lodge No. 174
League by taking the odd-game
Skirmish from last, years cham
pion Radio team. Tom Nolan's
123-337 was tops for the winners.