The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-21
buffers Shine in Opening
Sally Of Duckpin Tourney
Dividends Team
Looms Class f
Champs

With scores that ring with
championship class, duffer bowl
ers were off winging as the TWEEN
ty-eighth annual washington City
Duckpin Association tournament
opened last night at Convention
Hall.
Today the Dividends team, o.
the Comptroller of Currency
League, looms as the Class E title
holders with a 1896 score, while
st. Peters No. 2 club, chalking ur
1851 in Class F., eyes the team
laurelS in that division. Chick
Heimer's Progressive Printin
Company came through with tor
set of the night, 1920, in Class C.
Mike Vitale, of the Columbia
Heights League, shot 374 for the
high singles total in Class B, but
his score in that near-star class
won't mean as much to him in the
final payoff as the $40 rolled by
]. H. Robinson, which gained the
leadership of Class E for the Pro
curement League bowler.
IN PAY LINE
Francis Flanagan, Comptroller
of Currency League shooter, is top
ping Glass F with a nifty 344 that
should put him in the pay line.
One of the best efforts of the
night was turned in by Charley
Heleker, of the Soil Conservation
Service League, who shot 372 in
Class D singles.
George F. LivingS who coupled
some brilliant rolling with Archie
Sartwell to establish an all-time
record doubles game Of 312 in last
years spring classic at the Lucky
Strike, is the Class C singles lead
er, with $50.
George Hardin, president of the
84club Holy Name Society League,
was on hand to cheer the St.
Peters club into the lead and
later rolled doubles with E. Nc.
Larney in Class D. Harbin's part
in 656 total was a $50 set.
CLARKE LEADS WOLFE
District League match will aug.
ment the second night of the
tournament when the champion
Occidental Restaurant team and
the second-place Heurich Brewers
bring the 1878 campaign to a
finish. With the Occidentals
home with the bunting for the
second straight year, interest will
center around the individual
championship which finds Astor
Clarke leading his Occidental
teammate. Perez Wolfe, by a
margin of IS pins.
With Tru-Blu meeting Lucky
Strike at Takoma Park, George,
town Recreation clashing with
Arcadia at Georgetown, and Regal
Neon Sign tackling Convention
Hall at Lucky Strike, the schedule
of the all-Star circuit will be COM
pleted.
Among the most conspicuous
tournament bowlers of the night
will be the Naval Air Station
crew, runner-up in the Navy De
partment League, and the Pay
masters, Of the Southern Railway
League, who collected second
money in Class E last year.
Joe Harrison today is sporting
an all-time record average of
124-44 which he achieved in win
ming the championship of the
crack Recreation League. A
hectic pennant chase ended last
night at the Rec, with Bregman' S
Wildcats the winner by a two
game margin over University
Shop. The Wildcats sweeping
Herzog's, capped the season by
winning Is games in row. Sam
Simon's 1872 led the final winning
charge. Top honors, however.
went to Ed Edinger who featured
Allied Roofing's 201 win from
Marlboro Hotel with a 424 set.
Washington Centennial forged
to the front as the Eastern Star
League champion as the curtain
fell on the pennant race last night
at the Lucky Strike. Tied with
Bethany, at the start of hostilities
the Centennials swept Treaty Oak
while the Bethany quint dropped
to second place by losing a game
to Acacia. Frances Dobson, of the
third-place Unity team was the
star of the night with 123-334, as
her club won two games from last
years champion Mizpah Club.
Three all-time Bankers League
records stand to the credit of Al
Wright today by virtue of his
seasons brilliant rolling which
witnessed the star of the third
place American Security No.
team chalking up an average Of
1894 and the leader with 70
strikes and a 446 set. City Bank
No. / is the pennant winner with
Riggs National Bank finishing sec
ond. Wright capped his season
with the weekly high game of 1854
Bill Krauss, although failing in
his effort to smash all existing
CITY high average marks. finished