Evening star., 1939-04-25
Stellar Teams From
Columbia Heights
To See Action
BeoII Hits Top Tourney
Score as Eight New
Leaders Appear

With the crack Columbia Heights
League supplying the first of the
Glass A teams to roll and star
groups of the Southeast, Odd Eel
lows. Bethesda, Mount Rainier and
q sprinkling of other loops slated
to take their turns, wholesale raids
on the championships in the WASH
ington City Duckpin Association
tournament are anticipated at Co.
lumbia tonight.
OF interest also will be the roll
Ing of Lorraine GULL with the cham
pion Chaconas Market team of the
Columbia Heights circuit, the
tournament debut of Harry Collin,
a promising youngster and the per-
formance of Roy Whitford of The
Star, who since having a hand in
organizing the w. C. D. A. in 1910
has the distinction of being the only
bowler to compete in every tourna-
ment.
Eight New Leaders Appear.
Eight new leaders appeared in the
various classes as the 29th annual
spring classic turned into its Sec
ond week last night with st. Johns
team featuring Masonic League
night with top score of 1850 that
gained the lead in Glass c. Mai.
Robb with 375 and Gus Tompros'
372 were big factors, particularly
Tompros' triple e-header strike, the
third of the night, that netted him
l57 string and SIS.
Francis T. Smith of the Ballston
team. Arlington County League, hit
the first triple-header of the tour
ney when rolling 1856 to get his
team off to nifty start. A 1887
count gave the Virginia quint
fourth place in class c.
The second triple-header was
downed by Charley Beall, who
paced Bureau of Investigations
1888 top class B team count with
40. Beall, after a 361 singles set
ware in rare form with 126 and 135
for his first two team games be-
fore bringing his rolling to climax
with l59 effort that gave him the
highest three-game count rolled so
far in the tournament.
Ray Gordon produced some of the
finest rolling with a 1865 that gave
him first place in class c singles
before banging out 383, the heaviest
wallop, as West Gate moved into
the lead of class c with 1890. re-
placing Primary Control. Potomac
Lodge, led by w. Horning's 1856,
moved to second place in class C
with 1,737.
Andy Kramer of United States
Senate was top singles shooter of
the night with 1885, His games of
122, 127 and l4l gave him a grip
on first place in class B. Mike
Vitale of Arcadia showed they way
IN class A singles with first place
count of 387, supplanting his team
mate, Sig Solem, who had rolled
S81.
A 359 gave A. Kilbreth of the Ma
sonic and G. P. O. Leagues second
place in Glass C singles, while w. H.
Butler of Pentalpha Lodge gained
second place in Glass E with 800.
Frank Cullens 288 moved him to the
front in Glass F singles. with Ted
Barker, president of the Insurance
League, gaining tie for second with
R72.
Show Way in Glass B.
Two bowling pals of King David
Lodge, Charley Phillips and Harry
Dixon, banged out a combined count
OF 7l5 to take first place in Glass B
doubles as K. Beach and H. Neese
OF Y. M. c, A., pace-setting team in
the 20-club Rosslyn independent
League, moved to third place with
688.
Arthur Ball and Wally Reed of
the Petworth League gained third
place in Glass C doubles with 7O2.
with Dutch Newman and Dick
Glavin of Bureau of Investigation
In fourth place with an even 700.
Magnus Wood, once District
League luminary, turned in a 379
doubles set, but landed in sixth place
In Glass G with 698 when Teddy
Schekels, his partner, rolled only
319. Julius Frager and Mike Cohen,
another Masonic duo, shot to third