The Washington times., 1938-04-12
David, Bdrrister
BoWlers Battle for Fluq
LitChfieId Sets
Pace For High
Average
By GINO SINH


ing champion, King David or Bar
riSter?
With two sets to go, these two
teams are tied for the lead, with
81 wins and 80 losses and with a
nine-game margin on their near
est rivals. King David has an edge
on total pins.
If the Kings bow, the next-to-
last-place Takoma team will de-
serve no little credit, for last week
they managed to win one game to
throw the lead into tie.
Ten teams are in running for
third place and some startling
shuffling of standings are ex-
pected among them during the
next two weeks.
Whip" Litchfield continues to
set the high average pace with
1927, while IA pins behind him
is Sam Simon, which means that
this particular honor is also a
wide open race to be settled in
the stretch.
With Bub Geuthler's 379 and
Duke Doyle's 378 leading the way,
Pats Buffet twice upset the lead
ing Senators in the Temple Major
Duckpin League, but Dixie Pigs
swept Bright Star Liquor to take
over undisputed claim on second
place.
BY a scant three-pin margin
Ennis Samuels. of the Aztecs, to-
day is champion of the Procure
ment League, diSplacing Steve
Brodie, of the Moors, who had his
laurels snatched away from him
for the first time in three
seasons.
The Moors' anchorman entered
the final matches last night at
the Lucky Strike SO pins back and
picked up Sc pins when he shot
1886 against 279 for the Aztecs
champion.
The pennant scramble witnessed
the Tmperials finishing on top al
though the Romans came through
with a 81 win that gave them
fourth place. The runner-up
Georgians also suffered defeat in
their battle with the Tuscans who
won the first two games. The
Moors sweeping the TudorS gained
third place while the opposition
a pennant-contender all season
dropped to fifth place.
Flavia Hayes was the star as
the curtain fell On the What's In
a Name League flag race when
she smashed the naples for 1872.
$50 to aid the runnerup Mines
sweep over Aeronautics. Her top
scores hiked her average from
sixth to fourth place. with SO for
the season. WACS girls coaSted
in to their third straight pennant
as Ida Weinberg, their crack
bowler, again won the individual
championship with 101 average.
Averaging 1913 for his five
strings, Vernon Soper, Of the Dis
tribution Department, won the
annual Kilowatt League Sweep.
stakes last night at the Lucky
Strike with a score of 643. His
handicap was Is pins. He peck.
eted $25. Second place went to
John Gormley, of the champion
Old Timers, when he tackled 105
franked sticks to a SIT set for
622. His prize was $3.50. Bill
Behncke collected $3.50 when the
Transit No. 2 shooter shot 613
with a 80 handicap included. Five
bucks and fourth place went to
Ike Goad for his 30-612, while
George Giovannetti won 50 with
85-597 and Tony Weidman and
Perry Knapp shared last money
place with 500 to win 81 apiece
Ordnance, by a big margin of 16
games, walked in with the Navy
Department League flag last night
at the Arcadia. Naval Air Station
was the runner-up.
Sunnyfield moved five games
out in front of the A. & P. League
pennant chase by defeating Don
day two games, while the second
place Eight O'Clock team was
dropping the odd skirmish to May
fair.
Mrs.Abrdn