Evening star., 1939-12-27
Mrs. |semann,
34Victor,o on
Top Again
Rolls 40-419 to Set
Women's S Pace; 163
BY Eckstine High

Andrew j. Kramer of the United
States Senate team in the Federal
League, which rolls at the Arcadia,
today was in fair way of collecting
500 and a gold medal in the 18th
annual Evening Star yuletide duck
pin tournament.
Ditto Mrs. George Isemann, wife
of the executive secretary of the
National DuckDin Bowling Congress,
who shoots with the Occidental team
in the Maryland-D. C. Ladies
League at Silver Spring.
Kramer, with a handicap of 81
pins rolled 704 for five games to
lead the first nights field in the
final of the largest duckpin tourna-
ment ever held, in which II ,760 men
and women started.
Won Tourney in 1894.
Mrs. Isemann, who won in the
women's division in 1884, moved to
the front last night with 40-419 for
three games.
Kramer marked up games of $50,
100, 120, 1O9 and 148 and Mrs.
Isemanns strings were 1874, 112 and
1873. Giving her battle on the
Silver Spring drives was Mrs Evelyn
Sebastian with 44-4O6, including a
high game of 1875.
Last spring at the Columbia
Kramer won the Class B singles
championship of the Washington
City Duckpin Association with a set
of 1896.
Best scratch performer in the
mems division last night was Francis
Robertson of the Rosslyn Independ-
ent League, rolling at Rosslyn. With
high game of 1876 he totaled 655.
He crossed 681 with a handicap of
26. If his 655 stands up through the
week it will be worth s25. The roll
off will end Saturday night.
Kramer's CAT was second best from
scratch and Perce Wolfe, who rolled
at the University alley, College Park,
Md, was third with $40. In last years
Star tournement Wolfe finished sec
ond to Julius Singer of Convention
Hall in the final with Sol and won
the scratch prizes in both pre-
liminary and rollof with $50 and 696.
Woman Champ Rolls Tonight.
Second to Wolfe in scratch stand
ing last year in prelim and final was
Singer, who rolled 683 and 687. He
will take his turn in the current
tournaments rolloff Friday night at
Convention Hall. The defending
woman champion, Lorraine GULL
will roll tonight at the Lucky Strike.
With a long list of prizes on the
line, C. G. Harrell of the Building
Association League, Chevy Chase Ice
Palace, figures to collect one with
8O-7OO. second best mems gross score
of the evening.
John J. Eckstine of the Methodist
Church League, Brookland, fired the
best single of the night, 163, which
gave him a look-in on the $40 prize
that goes with top game of the roll
off. His set was 1866. Brookland's
opening field was led, counting
handicaps, by A. P. Melcher, Brook
land Merchants League, with 1852.
At the Lucky Strike Harold S.
Ronning, Soil Conservation League,
marked up 1856 for third high
gross of the night. Ronning was
runnerup to the famous Clayton
Henson for the Metropolitan WASH
ington horseshoe championship this
year and is planning world record
sailplane flight.
Youngsters Shine at Columbia.
Hokie Smith, the Columbia ace,
took an eyeful of young William
Quigley, son of the noted Bill and
Catherine, husband-and-Wife duo OF
the mapleways. The lad rolled 81
678 and was tagged by Hokie as a
second Earl McPhilomy in the max
ing. Another Columbia younster,
Martin Rhodes of the Roosevelt
team of the Inter-High School
League, clicked with 84-687.
Almost sure to land in the women's
payoff we're Edna Johnson, Lucky
Strike, with 38-402; Catherine
Lewis, Silver Spring, 44-396, and
Isabel Riefenberg, Convention Hall,
34-389
Other exceptional scorers were
(women: Irene Gochenour, Lucky
Strike, 4O-382; Eva Owens, New
Recreation, 54-381; Caroline Hiser,
Hyattsville, 14-372; Gunilda A.
Churchill, Lucky Strike, 54-372; H.
Poole, 4O-368; Dorothy Swanson,
Arcadia, 54-376; Ann Meca, 48-
374; Dorothy Rice, Arcadia, 54-355;
Gertrude Kluge, 54-352; men), E.
Ey, Chevy Chase, 63-695; Maurice
Pond, Rosslyn, 66-694; w. R. Walter,
Chevy Chase, 43-688; John Sulli-
van, Arcadia, 57-686; George Witt,
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