The Washington times., 1938-03-25
Virginia Governor Opens
National Pin TourneV
Fifty District
Teams Seek
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The eyes of the EaSt's duckpin
bowlers for the next four weeks
will be focused on Richmond,
Va, where tonight the eleventh
annual National Duckpin Bowling
Congress will open at Bill Haskins'
Health Center with Gov. James H.
Price of Virginia and Mayor Full
ner Bright honoring the occa-
sion.
Executive Secretary George L.
1semann announced that a total
of 102 teams will roll in the ma
tional championships. Off for the
tournament city today where he
will spend four busy weeks. Ise-
mann was highly elated over the
fact that 81 women's teams have
entered, establishing an all-time
record.
With 16 booster teams sched-
uled, the highlight of the opening
ceremonies will be a radio match |
between Astor Clarke and Ida Sim
mons, the king and queen of the
country's maple spillers. Station
WRVA will broadcast the match
at 8 o'clock.
D. C. TOPS ENTRIES
With a total of so teams, rep
resenting the metropolitan area,
Washington tops in entries. The
tournament city has made d fine
showing withA7 teams, while Con.
necticut is sending 46, its biggest
delegation ever to attend ma
tional event.
From Florida to Vermont,
bowlers for the next four week.
ends will strive to carry away the
coveted titles. Tomorrow, the
first big day of the tournament,
will witness pinsters from Norfolk
and Richmond firing away at the
naples. The following Saturday,
April 2, will be Baltimore and
Carolina Day. Washington bowlers
are carded for April 9, with Con.
necticut, Florida and Georgia on I
the last Saturday.
THIRD LARGEST
This years POI teams represent
the third largest entry. The 229
teams in the first tournament at
Baltimore in 1928 and the 206 in
the 1881 Washington meet are the
only two that have beat the cur.
rent entry. !
The Balfour Company girls, led
by Regina Jones, director of the
Ladies Chamber Of Commerce
League. and the mems National
Savings and Trust Company team,
with o. L. Varela captain, will !
form the vanguard for Capital
bowlers tomorrow. On the Bank
ers' League team will be Alex
FAINT, treasurer Of the national I
congress, H. H. Hooper, w. H.
Pardoe, N. L. Berkley and w. F. {
Price.
Eddie Keith, who carved out a
game of 1877 in 1882 at the Recrea- S
tion, is in the limelight again to- 6
day with an all-time District {
League record set Of 432. {
Putting forth one of his best
league efforts of the season, Astor
Clarke shared bowltng's busy
spotlight with Keith when he
forged to the front in the four
man battle for the individual
championship of the all-star cir
cult with an average of 1880 by
virtue of a 400 set at Convention t
Hall. The nations No. / Supplants
Perce Wolfe, a teammate, who
dropped to second place with an
average Of 123-41. His set was !
S45. Ed Blakney lost two pins,
with S67 to hold mark Of 1884, S
while Joe Freschi climbed to 1925
with 377.
Keith, rolling at Lucky Strike,
blazed away for games Of 157, 153 r
and 152 in the heaviest assault on
the NAPLES ever witnessed in the r
loops 32-year history. q
And fate would have it that =
Max Rosenberg, who recently
equaled his own 458 record Dis
trict League mark, established in
1888 when he starred in Occi.
1enatl Restaurants national three
game record of 2,065, was to watch
his Regal Neon Sign teammate
dash his record into the discardS.
The Royals. smearing Lucky
Strike, shot 701, the second high
est team game of the season, for t
their middle count. i
Occidental Restaurant main
tained its five-game lead over
Heurich Brewers by nicking Ar
cadia twice while the Brewers
were bagging two from Conven-
tion Hall. !
Banging the naples for a top /
game Of 173 in which he made
four strikes in row, Jack Tai
bert starred in Georgetown Reerea-
tons sweep over Tru.Blu at :
Georgetown with a three-game :
total Of ABS. The West Enders
fairly smothered the Takoma ,
Parkers with games of $50, 626
and sol.
Beverly Mays A. B. and w,
bowlers will roll in the National =
Duckpin Bowling Congress tourna-
ment at Richmond, Va. on