Evening star., 1939-12-30
Scratch Count Of 399
Lands Her in Fifth
Place Deadlock
Julius Singer Shoots
23-733 in Brave Try
To Retuin Crown
By ROD THOMAS.

10 NetOI0 NIOWU
BY ROD THOMAS.
Hokie Smith and Mrs. Juanita
Pollock, sensational leaders in the
final of The Star Yuletide Bowling
Tournament, were easy in mind to-
day following an evening in which
the last of the big squads rolled. A
scattering of qualifiers for the roll
off will take their turns tonight but
only a few rate even an outside
chance of beating Smiths 760 In
the mems division and Mrs. Pol
locks AL in the women's.
Both Smith, a member of the Co.
lumbia team in the District League,
and Mrs. Pollock, of the Construc-
tive Service quint in the Veterans
Administration circuit. figure to COL
lect more than one prize. Smiths
760 looks good for 500 and gold
medal as high gross set and $25 for
being the top scratch total.
Mrs. Pollock Drops One Prize.
1t appeared for while that Mrs.
Pollock made a grand slam with
high gross of al, including a handi-
cap of 54 pins; high scratch of 387
and top game of 155 but last night
along came graceful Mrs. Lucy
Rose at Rosslyn with 399 that not
only assured her the $25 prize for
high scratch set but established q
tournament record. In 1881 Lor-
raine GULL rolled the previous rec
ord of 1886. After that season the
3-game roll-off for women was
abandoned in favor of five strings
but was resumed this year.
Mrs. Rose Of the Rossyln team In
the Ladies District League, whose
smooth delivery has carried her to
many honors-(she teaches bowling
at Gait Davis Rosslyn plant)-
tackled on six pins handicap for a
gross of 405 which gave her a fifth
place tie with Pearl Clarence of the
Procurement team of the Treasury
League, a patron of the Columbia
alley.
Mrs. Roses games were 1873, 146
and 12O.
Singer Dies Hard as Champ.
No man ever has won The Star
tournament twice but Julius Singer
of Convention Hall made a brave
try last night.
To win last year Singer rolled
703 with handicap of 16 pins. Last
night he totaled 1888 with % free
sticks to place second to Smith not
only in gross score but scratch.
The tall Convention Hall youngster.
who disregards one of the cardinal
rulse Of duckpin form by delivering
the ball off his right foot, opened
with a game of I'll which was one
pin short of the current tournament
record rolled by Joe Briles at Ross
lyn. Singer followed with strings of
lat, 120, 148 and 1874.
In the final game the defending
champion needed 152 to beat Smith.
For four disheartening frames he
failed to mark. Then he found the
range again but too late. In the
last six boxes he marked four times.
Although Singer lost his title, he
stands to collect more cash than
his 1888 triumph brought him. First
cash prize last year was $50. This
time it's 500, with second place
worth $50 and second high from
scratch, SIS.
A teammate of Singer, on the
leading Wardman Park Market
qulnt OF the District Grocery Stores
League, also rolling at the Hall,
moved into a tie for eighth place
with 80-704. He equalled the score
OF Andy Kramer of the Federal
League, who participated at the Ar
cadia. 90
Some Other Stars,
Other high scorers among the
men last night were r. G.
Reeley, Treasury Department
League; rolling at Brookland, As
694; Irwin Roudabush, Lutheran
church League, Arcadia, 60-682:
Ernest Norwig, Patent ONCE
League, Rendezvous, 1882; F.
Skinner, University Park, 1880:
w. Scott, Convention Hall, TO
686, and w. Taylor, B. Y. P. U.
League, Arcadia, 83-685.
Trailing Mrs. Rose for the high
score among the women last night
were Louise Miller, Boulevard, 40
1888; Mabelle Herring, Arcade-Pon-
tlac team of the Ladies' District
League, Arcadia, 20-386; Mildred
Miskelly, Miss Hering's teammate,
Arcadia, 28-385; Isabel Weimer,
Childs' Restaurant League, New
Recreation, 54-384: Cecilia Kartzi-
mel, assistant secretary of the
Washington Women's Duckpin As
sociation, New Recreation, 1854;
Mildred Gingell, Montgomery Coun-
ty Ladies League, Boulevard, 40
379, and L. Dove, University Park,
54-381.
AStOr Pushes HOkie Around.
Among the admiring but panied
when Hokie Smith shot his great
760 was Astor Clarke, official king
of the Nations duckpin shooters,
who failed to qualify for the roll-off.
But last night Astor picked on
Hokie. In a District League match
at Rosslyn, Clarke rolled 470 with
the Rosslyn team for a season rec
ord in the league of aces while
Smith was gathering 1872 sticks for
Columbia, and took the league lead
in average from Hokie. Both have
averages of 100 plus. Moreover,
Clarke set a season league mark
with a game of 1876.
RosSlua with a ton Qanne of 703