Evening star., 1939-11-14
GuIIi and Other Aces
Give Fat Handicaps
In Giant Event
Limit Raised From II
To 18 Sticks a Come:
Mems Tipped, Too
BY ROD THOMAS.

Dy NoD xAOlASs
Those juicy, golden plums in The
Evening Star Yuletide bowling
tournament used to be easy pluck
ing for Lorraine GULL and half
dozen other fair stars, but no more.
They're going to find it just as tough
to collect in the twelfth annual
event, the qualifying set of which
will be rolled the week of Decem-
ber IL, as Astor Carke in the past.
The Nations ace bowler, oddly
enough, never has won major
prize in The Star tournament. In
fact, only few times has he reached
the roll-off, for which Is per cent
of the field qualities
Clarke, always at scratch, has
been forced to concede heavy handi-
caps, as he will be again-even
larger ones-for the mems scratch
has been tilted from 125 to 1873.
Moreover, two-thirds instead of one
half the difference between scratch
and bowler's average will be al
lowed, and the handicap limit has
been raised from Is pins game to
Is.
Franked Sticks Plentiful.
But this is minor matter COM
pared with the extra burden placed
upon Miss Gull. The Women's
scratch has been jumped from 112
to ll8 and the handicap limit from
II pins game to 18. This may
seem radical, but it will appear
logical to those who have noted the
constant repetition of names in the
list of prize winners and the small
representation of women in the
tournament compared with the
mems.
Making it still tougher for the
bowling queen is the fact that the
girls will roll only three games to
qualify and three in the roll-off.
It's much easier to pick up so sticks
in five games than 81 in three.
In the new plan of The Star tourna-
ment the first league set rolled by
a bowler during the week of Deem
Der II will constitute the qualifca-
tion test. The men will shoot five
games in the final.
Alley May Sweeten Kitty.
AS customary, there will be no
entry fee, but the qualifiers will pay
for the games in the roll-off, here
totore donated by the alley proprie-
tors. Instead of free rolling the
proprietors will kick in with a dollar
per drive toward the prize fund,
which, with The Stars usual $500
contribution, will give the tourna-
ment a fund approximately double
that of past years.
The first prizes will be SlOO each
instead of $50 and the list of coin
winners heightened.
With every league bowlers in the
metropolitan area a technical en-
trant, the tournament will create a
big clerical job, and for it to be
success close cooperation of official
scorers and alley employees will be
necessary. The scorers will be re-
quired to produce averages as of
December "a minimum of Is
games is necessary to obtain
handicap-and to the alley men will
fall the task of filing the scores.
For the latter special forms are be-
ing printed and will be available
shortly, along with mimeographed
copies of the rules and placards
presenting them.
Ebersole and Isemann Officiate.
Arville Ebersole, secretary of the
Washington City Duckpin Associa-
ton, has been named. treasurer
and prize chairman of the event
and the alley operators are re-
quested to turn over to him their
contributions to the prize fund.
George L. Isemann, executive Sec
retary of the National Duckpin
Bowling Congress, will be the ref
cree. In a tournament the size of
this, which will be the largest on
record, and which will be conducted
on a plan never before attempted.
even the man who had handled
more bowling problems than any
other may find his ingenuity taxed.
Some will remember that several
years ago Miss GULL rolled what
would have been the winning score,
but through a technical breach for
which an alley man was responsible
that it was thrown out. Swell sport
that she his, the maple queen with
out a whimper saw $50, gold
medal and title denied her. But
we're wondering now what La GULL
and some of the other perennial
prize winners in The Star tourna-
ment are going to say about those