Evening star., 1939-01-17
Perce Elicit, Prexy
OF ". {. D. A., First
To Pay Entry
Baltimore, Hoeerstown
To Make Strong Bids
In l0-Gume Event

III lV-0OVNe EVENT
Impetus was given the fourth an
nual Virginia State Open Sweep
stakes to be held at Rosslyn next
Saturday when Perce Elicit, presi-
dent of the Washington City Duck
pin Association, today plunked down
$3.50 as the first paid entry.
With the Capitals chief executive
Of bowling taking the lead, vir-
tually every ace duckpinner of the
city likely will give his support to
the 10-game affair to be staged by
Gait Davis, Rosslyn's genial and
popular bowling promoter.
With every pin center in the
South sure to be represented, all
records for the event promise to be
broken. Sixty-eight rolled last year
at Richmond, when Paul Jerman,
listed among the Districts first 10,
crashed through the winner. More
than rs are expected to roll in the
forthcoming attraction.
Gene Raney of HagerstoWn is
sending five of his topnotchers to
represent his Coliseum alleys. The
brilliant Angelo Pallidino, Cody
Black, H;ndebrandt, Bradley and
Cerfoss are threats in any sort
of competition, according to Raney.
Van Dreele to Compete.
Besides his own entry, Ray Won
Dreele, the veteran Baltimore star,
has assured Davis of at least a
dozen more. The Orioles to see &C
ton are Paul Lohr, Buck Harvey,
Earl Campbell, Wilmer Robey, Bud
Fisher, Andy Cook, Charlie Loskam
and Lee Seim, to name a few.
That renowned father-and-son
duo. Cletus Pannell. senior and
junior, are coming from Waynesboro,
Va.
Jack Zimmerman of Winchester,
who rolled the 200 string when the
Winchester Health Center five es-
tablished national team game
mark of 744 last year, is another
Old Dominion contestant.
Davis expecting an overhoWing
field will get the tournament under
way at l pm. The second squad
will roll at 3 and third squad
at 4:45, if necessary.
Amelia Cerceo of P. w. A. Ad-
ministrative turned in some nifty
pin spilling in the I. D. R. A.
Ladies League. with 139-329, as
P. w. A. Engineering maids were
chalking up top game of 447 at the
Lucky Strike.
Pinfall Decides as Teams Tie.
Pointers were the winners of the
first half of the Mount Vernon
Place Church League pennant chase.
nosing out the Challengers by IA
sticks in pinfall. Each team won
20 games out of 80 rolled. The Sec
ond-round starter at the Lucky
Strike witnessed two of the citys
leading bowlers coping high scoring
honors, when Bill Miller rolled 142
std Ray Ward totaled 1855.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Eckstine, COM
bining a score of 701, were the
winners of a mixed doubles tourna-
ment in which % couples partici-
pated.
Two season records were cracked
In the Sanico League at Convention
Fall last night, when Sanico Bakery,
holding fourth place, trimmed the
leading Green Bag Coffee quint two
games, with counts of 620-1,720
Dan Mattison's 148 was a big factor
Mason of Jumbo Bread was tops
with 374.
Only rarely have the duckpins
been blasted here for five strikes
in row, but Floyd Dixie Davis,
an inveterate tenpin bowler, who
halls from that big-pin city of Mil
waukee, turned the trick the other
night at the Lucky Strike in friendly
competition. His game was 1873.
Davis and Jimmy Moore, the Lucky
Strike assistant manager, have made
every effort to form tenpin league
without success.
Mayme Fleharty Rolls 344.
Mayme Fleharty's 124-344 counts
were the individual high lights in
the What's in Name League when
the Aggies- swept F. c.
A. No. /, but for steady team plug
eing the Mines quint shared the
limelight by nicking the leading
Wacs twice despite the 533-1,5 SIG
posted by the pacesetterS. Florence
Slayton's 325 and Ruth Johns 300
we're important factors in the Mines
81 win. Ida Weinberg rolled 1886
for the Wacs.
Johnny Compton, who patrols the
highways of Washington and a
member of the National Capital
Parks team, cleaned off the naples
ut the Arcadia last night for sea-
son record game of ITO in the Fed
eral League. His 1894 also was tops
for the night. G. P. o. ran up high
team scores of 621-1,727.
The front-running Monument
Electric was trimmed twice in the
Georgia Avenue League at Silver
Spring when Charlie Mehler's 155-
3b8 led National Electric Machines
to 2-l victory.
Hartung Has 154 Game.
Johnny Hartung experienced his
biggest thrill of the season when he
moved the naples for top string
OF l54 in the Graphic Arts League
at the Lucky Strike. Bill Houston
shared scoring honors when he
garnered 373 for high set. National
Lithographers bagged team laurels
with 608-1,613 to blank Ransdell
and gain tie for second place with
T.. A. Merkle, Inc, and Judd g. Det-
weller. The latter club lost three
games to National Capital Press.
Forging to the front with a five
game lead as result of sweep
over the Marcellinos, Smiths Tav-
ern looms as the team to beat for
the Mount Rainier League cham
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