Evening star., 1939-12-28
$50 SET Is Eight
Naples Under
j. ). Mark
Pearl Clarence Rolls
154 for High Game
Among Pinettes
By ROD THOMAS.

With one of the greatest duckpin
performances on record, Wayne
(Hokie) Smith of the District
League Columbia team today had
wilted the hopes of all rivals of
collecting top cash prize of $100 and
a gold medal in the mems division
of the annual Evening Star Yuletide
tournament.
Firing at the Lucky Strike, Smith
came within one pin of the Wash
ington f1ve-game record and eight
of the national with a score of 760.
He shot from scratch, conceding
handicaps to virtually all male sur
vivors OF the largest field that ever
went to post in a duckpin tourna-
ment anywhere, numbering 11,760
men and women.
Smiths games were 152, 158, 153.
al and 156.
Wolfe Holds Local Record.
Two years ago Perce Wolfe rolled
76l in the Howard Campbell Sweep
stakes at the Lucky Strike for the
all-time District high. In 1887,
John Tribble of Greensboro, N. c.,
shot 768 in the Southern Open
Sweepstakes on John Blick's drives
at Atlanta for the national mark.
Smiths score was tremendous but
not a true record of his brilliance
In So shots at the headpin, he hit
it so. In the five games he left only
10 pins standing. He drew II spare
breaks, made Is and picked the
other. His strikes totaled IS, two
coming In last-box double hearers,
accounting for the two extra filings
at the headpin, which he missed
only in the 33d and 48th frames.
The Columbia star opened with a
double-header and went on to be-
come one of the few duckpin bowlers
ever to streak three games of $50
or better. 1t may have been a rec
ord when he beat $50 four times in
a f1ve-game set. Hokie once aver
aged IA for II consecutive games,
teaming with Ed Blakeney in, an
impromptu doubles match against
Connecticut's famous Nick Tronsky
and Jack White. He won the East
ern Sweepstakes in 1887 and the
Dixie last year, both in competition
with the best in the country. This
season he took first place in Balti-
more's Won Dreele and Richmond's
Jett Sweepstakes, both from national
fields.
Winds Up With Flourish.
To win the Dixie a year ago Smith
finished with a game of 1s1 and
yesterday he put ON another hashy
windup. With one box to go, his
score was totaled and found to be
within a double header strike of the
national record. Hokie swept the
planks with his first ball and all but
did it with the second. One stick
remained wobbling as an errant pin
grazed it. Had it gone down he
would have needed an Spin hit to
equal Tribble's mark.
Smith qualified at the Lucky
Strike in a District League match
with 383, which did't help his aver
age. He leads the all-star circuit
with 130. Mems scratch for The
Star tournament is l28.
Lorraine GULL, defending cham
pion in the women's division,
rolled 372 at the Lucky Strike with a
2-pin handicap. She lost her title,
but many have landed in the prize
money with a 370 scratch, topped
only by Mrs. Merceda Isemann, Sill
yer Spring, who chung to the lead,
both in scratch and gross counts,
with 379-40-419.
-Four besides Smith moved into the
700 class among men. They we're: L.
Koontz, 63-721; Noble Veirs, ST.,
Takoma, 70-716; w. CLANCY, Mount
Rainier, 50-703, and James R.
Hayden, jr., Arcadia, 67-700.
Others With Hot Hands,"
Some other shining lights among
the men were: Leroy Henry, Mount
Rainier, 63-696; David E. Burton,
Chevy Chase, 77-696; John Oil
yer, Takoma, 90-693; Ollie Pacini.
Queen Pin, 1888; A. Zeller,
Mount Rainier, 80-691; Ray Bur-
CESS, jr, Bethesda, 90-689; D. Be-
lair, Rendezvous, 90-688; T. D.
johnson, Lucky Strike, 47-686;
George Boyer, Arcadia, 70-684;
Rees, Silver Spring, 60-683; Lyon,
Silver Spring, 68-682, and Buddy
(See BOWLING, Page C-2)