Evening star., 1938-12-08
High-Grade Ho|Iering
And Body English
Mark Their Play
Many Entering Stor's
Tourney Regardless
Of Chance to Win
By WALTER McCALLJJM.


They may have their moments of
repression on the golf course, when
a putt hangs on the lip of the cup,
but the golfing women now in the
thick of a tight little scrap for the
bowling championship of seven
country clubs around Washington
toss inihibitions to the wind when
they sight a duckpin ball down a
glistening alley toward neatly
grouped bunch of pins.
If you want to see some first-class
body English" and some high
grade vocal persuasion, drop in on
Hugh Arbaugh's Silver Spring drives
any Tuesday morning and watch
the golfing gals double in brass as
bowlers where nearly 100 OF the
women who play in the little links
affairs staged throughout the sea-
son by the feminine golf association
forget the inhibitions that golf
places on them and exercise their
lungs in an outburst of Grade-A
yelling.
It's All Trudie's DOin's.
Mrs. ALT "Trudie" Paul started it
all a couple of years ago. why
shouldn't we-the women-have a
bowling league like the men," she
thought. To "Trudie" thought is
action. Today she is the president
of the Womens Bowling League and
one of the top pin-spillers, sporting
an average up near the century
mark.
AS you might expect, the golfing
gals, as boWlerS, are good golfers.
Only one woman has an average of
more than 100 She is Pauline Ford
of the Congressional Country Club,
member of team which currently
is well down the list in the team
standings. But quite few of the
girl friends do a respectable piece of
woodworking. You would expect
such athletic gals as Mrs. Walter r.
Stokes, Mrs. Charlotte S. Stern,
Helen Bland and Mrs. H. M. Brund-
age to be up there around the top
of the averages But you also might
expect such fine golfers as Betty
Meckley, Marion Brown and Helen
Dettweiler to be pretty good bowlers,
having in mind that all good athletes
have that indef1nable something
called ball sense" and usually are
accomplished at anything that has
to do with a ball. and We don't
mean a highbal. But Mrs. Meckley
and Helen and Marion don't bowl, at
least on the teams that do or die
and yell and scream for dear old
Mashie Hollow every Tuesday morn
ting.
Beats Golf as Reducer.
To hear the gals talk about 1t,
this bowling thing is even better
for hip-reducing than picking golf
balls out of a cup. But my opinion
IS that as an inhibition reducer and
as a lung developer it has any
game stopped. The gals may drop
their little cuss words when a putt
fails to go down, but they really
turn loose the vocal pyrotechnics on
q single pin split. All lady-like, of
course.
Once in while Ida Simmons, the
blond queen of bowling, comes
around to give them little lesson
In spilling pins-all on the cuff. She
did the other day. Ida, in case
you didn't know, has an average
around 125. She could lick 95 per
cent of the crack male boWlers of
the land-and does. Ida would make
a swell golfer. She has that some
thing it takes to play any game,
free, smooth swing, and whale OF
q fast ball. Where many of the
other gals just drop the ball on the
alleys and watch it move down in
q halting, namby- -pamby sort or
way, Ida winds up and spins that
ball down the alleys with all the
speed of q tee shot hit by Monro
Hunter. And that used to be pretty
fast. She knocks those pins in a
wild arc, scattering the pin boys all
over the backstop.
Mrs. Ford a Champion.
BY comparison most of the other
gals are puff balls, in the athletic
sense. But few of them have that
masculine wallop. Girls like Vir-
ginia Stokes, Pauline Ford, Charlotte
Stern, Helen Bland and "Trudie"
Paul don't pull their punches. Mrs.
Ford has won The Evening Star
tournament, among other note
worthy achievements.
Quite few of the golfing gals,
according to Alley Manager Earle
Stocking, are going to turn out for
The Star tournament, which will
wind up Christmas week. We're
doing all we can to get them out
for this affair."" says Earle, land al
ready about 20 of them have told me
B they'll roll. OF course there will be
more than that. These girls go for
bowling in a big way. Golf must be
that way, too. They're absolutists,
In a way. When they go after any
athletic sport they go after it strong
The Star tournament. OF course,
is a handicap affair. Any woman
who rolls in it has chance against
the best, and inhibitions don't 60.
But watch those gal bowlers when
the competitive golf season opens
up next spring. They'll be in the
best of shape, hips all gone, and
oil that