Evening star., 1939-12-04
Carries Only Crown
To Escape Nations
Duckpin Queens
Ida Has Won Is Moior
Titles, Lorraine About
A Third as Many

Winners Of all other duckpin
championships, Ida Simmons and
Lorraine GULL No. l and No. 2 girl
bowlers Of the country, respectively,
will be cunning for their first VIC
torres in the Old Dominion Classic
Saturday when the fourth annual
l0-game event is staged at Bill
Haskin's Richmond Health Center
A victory in the Old Dominion
would give Miss Simmons her 25th
major sweepstakes title, all won
dring the five consecutive years she
has been the queen of the maple
ways. Miss GULL. whom she sue
ceeded on the throne, has won about
a third as man,.
Inaugurated in 1896, the Old Do
mlnion has been more or less a
jinx tournament to both. Miss GULL
was the first block leader with 606,
but finished third when Audrey
Mullaney of Baltimore carried home
the first championship. Miss Sim
mons best efforts earned her a
consolation prize for high set in
the first block.
The following year Catherine Wick
of Norfolk, nationally ranked No. 3,
shot a 1880 record to win hands
down. Ida finished third back of
Lucy Rose. Rosslyn's leading femi-
nine maple spiller, with Lorraine
taking fourth money.
Ida Leader for One Block.
After two unsuccessful efforts last
year Ida shot to the front in the
first block with GA and turned in
SOB for her second round, but she
failed to reckon with the brilliant
rolling of Frances Roth, a compare
lively obscure Richmond bowler who
crashed through as the winner with
sets of 634 and 636.
Lorraine, after poor start,
splurged in the final block with 658,
top set of the 1888 affair. Her
1926 count again found her trailing
Ida in third place.
Defending champion already this
season in three events of national
Importance, Miss Simmons has re-
tanned her laurels in two, besides
adding a new title, the Southern
Sweepstages at Atlanta.
After finishing back of Helen
Randlett of Richmond, ranked No.
S, and Lorraine in her attempt to
retain her Southeastern title at
Charlotte, the Blond Bomber tri-
umphed for the fourth straight
time in the Mary Akers Oriole at
Baltimore and only recently
chalked up her fifth consecutive win
in Baltimores Chesapeake event
Gay after capturing the Southern
at Atlanta
Will Defend Title Here.
Besides these notable conquests,
Ida has won the womens Dixie four
times and next month will defend
the title here. Lorraine marred an
otherwise perfect 5-year slate for
her queenly successor by winning
in 1886 for her second victory in
the 8-year-old classic.
Miss Simmons, now resident of
Baltimore, also will be the defending
champion in the GULL Sweepstakes
here in February.
Miss GULL has a decided edge in
national rolling. Twice she has cap
tanned Lucky Strike teams to titles.
The Luckies first won in 1894 with a
record count of 1,752. Never a CO.
holder of the doubles championship,
Lorraine annexed the singles here at
the Arcadia in 1885 with a record
tournament score of 423 and in 1880,
1894, 1885 and 1898 was the all
events champion.
Miss Simmons shared the doubles
in 1896 with Mary Stapleton, won
the singles in 1887 and the all
events in 1887 and 1899.
Annually one of the South's big
gest bowling attractions, the Old
Dominion promises to draw a field
of more than IS. In fact, Bill Has,
kin, Richmond bowling magnate,
hopes to crack the Sweepstakes
record for entries - 81 - recently
established in the Chesapeake.
Washington is expected to have
more than 20 entrants.