Evening star., 1939-02-27
Connecticut Marion
Bowls Mark After
Averaging Only "a
Her 1904 Total Corners
Small Prize in Event
Ida Simmons Wins

1T beat anything ever saw on a
bowling alleys" said Lonnie Krauss,
one of Washingtons duckpin sages,
today as he recounted the phenom-
email shooting of Mrs. Frances Lar
row of Hartford. Conn, who last
night brought the Lorraine Gulli
Sweepstakes to a spectacular finish
at Convention Hall with a game of
1877. highest ever rolled by woman
bowler. This came after she had
averaged only "a for her first nine
games.
Those four strikes in row were
beauties, but it took real shooting
in her next four frames to achieve
her astounding feat. When she
made No. 10 pin for a spare in her
seventh frame and No. 7 in her
eighth-frame spare, she was in rare
trim
That 1-3-4-7-9 break in the tenth
frame, made on the outside, called
for a perfect hit. Maybe the same
hit the next time wouldn't get it.
They tell me it takes a power
ball to sweep off the pins in f1ocks
these days. but Mrs. LarroW throws
anything but speed ball. Id say
she rolls more the type of ball like
Brad Mandley. and I notice he's
still up there with the best of en-
Ida Simmons Easy Victor.
Mrs Larrow. who had rolled only
46O for her first five games and
had not improved on these scores
to any extent in the first four
strings of her second block. was the
acme of perfection in her final
effort.
Some 400 breathless fans and con-
testants as we'll watched this white
haired 45-year -old. bowler steal the
show from Ida Simmons, duckpin's S
No. girl bowler, who breezed home
the winner of the sixth annual
tournament named for Washington S
ace girl maple spiller
The Norfolk blond pressed by
Catherine Wick of her home town
in the first block. forged to the
front with SIS for her first five
strings Mrs. Wick held second place
with GA at that point. Ruth Zentz
cf Baltimore was third at the half
way mark with an even 600.
1t was a question only of how
many pins Ida would win by after she
had shot 137 and l45 to start the
second block. Finishing with 6O8.
she won by a margin of 70 over
Naomi Zimmerman of Baltimore
with 10-game score of 1888. Miss
Simmons CTS and 10-game totals
were all-time records for the GULL
classic.
Miss Zimmerman. tacking a 632 to
her first total of 579 for 1,211, fin
ished in front of Miss Zentz, new
conner to the ranks of Baltimore's
star girl rollers. who totaled 1902.
Miss ZentZs final set was 6O2.
Catherine Wick Is Fourth.
A final game of SO marred an
otherwise brilliant effort of Mrs.
Wick and dropped her from second
place to fourth. Sets of 644 and 553
gave her a total of 1897. Blanche
Wootton. crack Rosslyn team roller
with sets of 587-598, was fifth with
1,185.
1he final money place went to
Caroline Hiser, Hyattsville star, who
turned in 576-597 for a sixth place
score of 1.173.
Besides the top prize of $50. Miss
Simmons received the Lorraine GULL
Trophy. Other prizes were: Second.
$40; third, s25; fourth, SIS; fifth, $40,
and sixth. IS.
Consolation winners besides Mrs.
Larrow, who collected S. for her
sensational 1877 string, were Jean
White of Baltimore, high set first
block, 585: p Molt. Baltimore. high
game first block, 14O. and Phyliss
Wills, Richmond, high set, second
block. 633.
The event attracted al of the
East's leading woman bowlers.