Evening star., 1939-01-02

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United States sweepstakes at Con-
vention Hall next Saturday, Defend
ing Champion Astor Clarke will
bring his workouts to a peak at
the Chevy Chase alleys Friday night
when he clashes with Jack White,
the New Haven, Conn, duckpin-
ner, who all but shared Clarke's S
No. title last season.
Accompanied by Wally Pipp of
Hartford, Conn, the two New Eng
landers will be among the vanguard
OF more than so leading bowlers
of the East who will shoot in the
$4,000 classic. Both bowlers are
former champions of the rich stake
attractions White won at Atlanta
in 1885 and Pipp triumphed here
in 1886.
Doubles also will be rolled at the
new Connecticut avenue maple
plant with Joe Harrison and Jack
Talbert, teammates of Clarke's on
the crack. Marlboro Hotel team,
forming the opposition against
WAAte aIlu Tlpp.
Strain Tells on Clarke.
Physically not the bowler he was
a year ago when he smashed his
way to his second straight victory
in the United States event at Water
bury, Conn, Clarke as he primes
himself for the supreme effort of
his spectacular bowling career likely
will have his thoughts far removed
from a bowling alley.
Tomorrow his wife, who has
shared his victories and defeats,
goes to the hospital for an emer-
gency throat operation. Last year
Clarke spent the greater part of his
$1,000 winnings on a trip to Florida
for his better half in an effort to
snap sick spell.
Clarke this season has been no.
ticed to tire after three or four
games and although he'll deny his
health isn't at its best, it's plainly
evident that the strain of staying
on top for three years as the Ma
tons foremost duckpin shooter is
taking its toll.
Stars Yule Meet Items.
Notes on Evening Star Yuletide
tournament: The 1888 champion
isn't the first among the Singer clan
to win bowling championship ). .
Brother Dave, year or so younger
than the 21-year-old Evening Star
winner, annexed the Charley Olive
super-dub sweepstakes at Queen Pin
in 1887 :. Perce Wolfe, the runner
up. who led both the qualifying and
roll-off rounds at Silver Spring, was
top average shooter in the giant
tournament with 1886 for his 10
games from scratch his sets were
$50 and 696 =. but only by l6 pins
did he excel the rolling of the Con-
vention Hall winner Singers
scratch sets were 683 and 687
Wolfe was the only recognized star
to finish in the money.
Frank Xanten, the 1885 champion,
squeezed into the last-money place
with 40-661 Earl Anderson,
landing in fifth place with 53-685,
is staging battle with Reigelman
for the leadership of the Navy Yard
Minor League Ralph Bates of
Northeast Temple, winning eighth
place with 40-676, averaged l37 to
win the 1888 Charley Olive super
dub title . . His $50 is record
score for the 7-game affair
Women's Title Fight Keen.
Lorraine GULL, the new woman
champion, barely beat out Georgia
Hays, the defending title holder, for
high game in the finals. Mrs.
Hays rolled IA to lose the IS prize
by three sticks. Bill Krauss
was the only star bowler to roll
from scratch :. his all-time record
Columbia Heights League average
of 125 topped the city's bowlers last
season. Astor Clarke, almost
desperate for a mark after 10 splits
in his second game of the finals at
Chevy Chase, slid 9 and 10 for a
spare to start his third game.
Winning scores in the mems di-
vision were slightly under those of
last year =. Hokie Smiths 664 was
three pins better than the last
place money winner in the recent
tournament. However, the two
last pay-off places in the women S
section the last two years are ex-
actly the same Helen Wilson, s
572 and Dorothy Flack's ST. are
the scores which won 81 for Rosel-
Ia Robey and Annetta Matthew in
the 1897 classic.
Joe Harrison's TOT from scratch
established an all-time record for
the tournament. However, Billy
Stalcup's 703 in the 1887 tourna-
ment still remains the top scratch
score for the finals.
Lucky Strikers Mop Up.
Convention Hall, with five men
and one woman, topped all the
city's maple establishments in prize
winners. :. But Lucky Strike con-
testants will collect the most money
-. with Lorraine GULL, Ellen Vieh-
meyer and Ida Weinberg winning
the first three places in the wom-
ems division and Alberta Pollard
taking twelfth prize and William
H. Smith landing third in the
mems section. their total winnings
are S156 . with Miss GULL win
ming S. each for high game and
high scratch set in the roll-offs, the
Lucky Strike rollers will slice of
one-third of the $500 melon.
Bowlers whose averages do not
exceed 1l2 are invited to roll in the
Cooley Sweepstakes to be staged by
the r. F.. c. League at Rosslyn to-
night. Starting time will be 8
o'clock.
The novel 5-game tournament
the creation of Gait Davis. Ross
lyn's bowling mogul includes one
regular game, a 1-ball game, an
odd-pin game. a low-score game
and a game rolled with the wrong
hand Cright-handers roll with their
let's and southpaws with their
rights.