Evening star., 1939-01-16
Rolls Alb SET al Hall
To Tilt His AVERAGE
Close 10 127 Mark
Marlboro Streak of Big
Games Ends; Hebrew
Leaders Scrap

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Cuff & Santini team boasted top
average in the District League with
a record mark that hit only three
sticks short of 1877.
On Convention Hall drives, where
little more than month ago he
won the Dixie Sweepstakes, his
third stake triumph of the season,
with sensational 182-game finish,
Smith charged last night to regain
the leadership of the all-star cir
cult. which he had lost to Perce
Wolfe.
While Wolfe was having his trou-
bles over at the Georgetown Recrea-
ton. rolling 348 to slice his 127-14
average to 126-20, Smith, with Alb,
was pacing shutout victory for his
leading Cuff & Santini team over
Convention Hall to tilt his average
to 1868 for AZ games
The Santinis, posting games of
638, 623 and 698 for a 1859 set.
missed two season records by one
pin. Once before this superscoring
duckpin machine had counted 698
to miss its own record by one stick,
while its big set was its nearest
approach to the mark held by Marl-
boro Hotel
Marlboro Streak Ends.
The Marlboros after establishing
an all-time record of Is straight
600-games broke their streak with
a 528 at Georgetown. They came
back with 63l and 566 to take the
odd game from Georgetown, but the
loss of the first game dropped them
five games back of the front-running
Cuff and Santinis. Tack Talberts
356 was high for the Marlboros with
Ed Schlegels 377 and Joe Di Misa's
376 high for the winners.
A clicking Lucky Strike team
swept a stirring match with Dia-
mond Cab at the Lucky Strike. With
John Chaney's 428, Clarence Appler's
404 and Al Wright's 163 leading the
charge, the Luckies rolled 639, 624
and COB for 1916 set against 6l3,
622 and 606 for the Cabmen The
win and their second shut-ou victory
in row moved the Bill Wood entry
from seventh place to fifth.
Lou jenkins, still proving he is to
be one Of the seasons standout pin
men, rolled 150-412 for Diamond
Cab.
Arcadia turned in the third 1900
set OF the night when Fred Murphy's
163-429 and Jack Gooding's 422
topped off team total of 1888 to
nick Tom Jarrells Tru-Blus from
Takoma, Gene Hargett back in har-
ness after an illness, rolled 383 for
the losers.
With Englebrecht's 373 the top
scoring punch, Frederick's Old Mil
Waukee team defeated the WASH
ington Old Milwaukees by a l6-pin
margin at Takoma last night, 1888
to 1,572. The Capital representatives
will return the visit next Sunday.
Shoot for Georgetown Lead.
Stohlman Chevrolet, J. & j. Res
taurant and Jefferson Spring Co.
bowlers will shoot for undisputed
possession OF first place in the
Georgetown Commercial League to-
night. All three clubs failed to
break 3way tie for the top rung
with FL decisions last week.
Joe Di Misa, banging out a 800
set which included a 15S-game, in
creased his top average to 1887
for 48 games. His f1ashy pinspilling
was instrumental in Georgetown
Recreation's climbing to fifth place
by sweeping Chappell Billiards,
which dropped from fourth to sixth.
Jimmy Darr of Stohlmans is the
spare leader with 148, one more
than Tody Saylor has chalked up.
Lou Edlovitch with 81 strikes tops
Di Misa by one George Stevens
1853 and 444 are season marks.
Andy Gardiner was a pleased pin
buster the other night when his 1893
featured two season records in the
Odd Fellows League He led Amity
No. to marks of 603 and 1,726.
Sharing in the record smashing
which showed under Columbia No. 2
were Perce Elicit with 365 and the
three Donaldson boys, Wally with
359, Frank with 358 and Rhet with
BAL.
Columbia No. l increased its lead
TO two games by blanking Metropo-
lis, while the runner-up Brightwood
was taking a 81 win from Mount
Pleasant.
Abe Weinberg and Julie Singer,
teammates on Convention Halls
District League team, will battle
for the leadership of the Hebrew
League tomorrow night. Last week
Weinberg pulled up within four
pins of the leader when he rolled
weekly top counts of 162-4OS for a
season average Of 1922.
Although losing two games to
Bantam Press, Vista Club stretched
its lead to three games when the
second-place Cronies were white
washed by the last-place Wilson's
Mems Wear.
Cellarites Bunch Strikes.
The last-place Dodgers lifted
their heads high when they clicked
off six strikes in the first two frames
of their first game at Bethesda in
the Clyde Kelly League. With S
wins in s games rolled, the Lions
are away to l-game lead over the
Giants and Cards in the second
series. The Giants, nicking the
Dodgers twice, posted a season rec
ord game of SIS to erase the Bears
mark by one pin. E. Balls $50
enabled the Cards to trip the Pirates
twice.
AL Hunt, scorer for the G. A. o.
Mixed Lague, posted top set of 1868,
and aided by Corrine Hauser's 3l5,
enabled the champion White Sox to
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