Evening star., 1939-12-16
Has Chance for Two
Prizes With ass:
Dead|ine Near
Qualification Test Ends
Tomorrow; Weidmon
Back in Picture

DUCK III TICtuIe
A man with a plain name shot
fancy score last night at the Lucky
Strike to be the envy today of nearly
all the male bowlers in The Eve
ming Stars 18th annual yuletide
tournament, the qualification round
of which will be finished over the
week end.
William Henry Smith, member OF
the Navy Yard League, stands to
collect two of the three prizes at
stake in the mems division of the
preliminary With a handicap Of
38 he totaled 465, high gross score
of tournament which has brought
together virtually all of the or
ganized boWlers of the Washington
metropolitan area plus some who
don't compete in leagues. If the
465 stands up through this eve
ming and tomorrow, when non-
leaguers, and league substitutes will
take the qualification t@t, Smith
will collect $25.
He would be more gratified if his
427 topped giant field from
scratch. It's the highest score sans
handicap reported by a score of
duckpin plants where the tourna-
ment is being rolled With games
of 100. 155 and 142 Smith not only
put himself in a fair way to win
the $25 award for top scratch set
in The Star tournament, but hung
up a record for the Navy League.
May Gather More Green.
1t would be no new experience
for him to collect in the yuletide
tournament, which this year sets
national all-time high for duck
pin entries. A year ago Smith shot
an even 700 with a 53-handicap for
third prize of $50 in the roll-off.
His gross and scratch scores of
last night figure to win him $50.
During Christmas week, when the
roll-off will be held he may add
S145. Top set with handicap in
this competition, for which Is per
cent of the field at each alley in the
metropolitan area will be eligible,
will pay 500. Top scratch set will
be worth s25 and the high game,
$50. Identical prizes will be awarded
in the women's division.
Smiths performance was a pain
to Roy F'ltzWater of the Masonic
League of Convention Hall who
rolled 52-463, second high gross for
the qualification round. Unhappy,
too, was Everett L. Hackley of Con-
vention Halls Sanico League who,
was tops with 42458 when the eve
ning's firing began. But Hackley
was consoled by the fact his ace
game of 1873 probably will gain him a
prize of $40 for high single of the
qualification test. Only a few bowl
ers capable of beating Smiths set
scores and Hackley's 1873 have vet
to roll.
GULL Reaches for Coin,
1t appeared today that Lorraine
Gulll's 383 at Lucky Strike would
win the s25 award for high scratch
set in the women's division and put
her in the payof for the 10th time
in the 12-year history of the tourna-
ment. A similar prize appeared
destined for Mary Brown, who roll
ed the high gross set so far of the
prellmlnary-42-405-at Georgetown
Recreation. Tops among the women
last night was Catherine Crawlev
OF Mount Rainier with 48-393. which
put her in fourth place behind
Louise Miller, Boulevard, 43-399.
and Mabelle Herring, Arcadia, 2O-396.
Glen Weidman of the Navy Yard
League, who won The Star tourna-
ment IN 1880 along with many other
competitions of that period, bobbed
back into notice last night with So
418, which probably qualified him for
the rolloff at the Lucky Strike.
Keeping him company were Earl
McPhilomy, at one time probably
Washington's best bowler. and
Arthur Urban, who asked no quar-
ter from any maple shooter a decade
back. In the Country Club League
at the Lucky, McPhilomy rolled "a
407 for Manor and Urban, 32-401
for Indian Spring.
Ten members of the Masonic
League topped 400 last night. They
were: Roy Fitzwater, 52-463: Ed
ward O'Brien, $3.50: AL Overheim,
48-429; Franklin, 39-416: Charles
Phillips, 30-416; j. Shoull, 42-4O1:
Brown, 54-405; Ray 500, 54-4O5:
Julis Wondrack, 39-4O2; Harold
Leroy, 36-4O1.
H. A. Pammel Steps Out.
In the N. F. F. E. League at the
Hall, H. A. Pammel shot SAB and
Paul Christensen, 54-4O3. Top
scorers among women at the same
plant were: Dorothy Broadhurst, 50
81; Margaret Wilson, 34-371, and
zola Haller, 46-365.
The Boulevard reports: Men
Nema, SALT; Leckert, 39-4l5
with a 158-game) and Garner, "a
4l3; Women-Louise Miller, 43-399.
Mildred Gingell, 38-367, and M. N
Embry, 1880.
Mount Rainier: Catherine Craw-
ley, 1888; Elsie Sonnenberg, 48-
373; Alma Dorsey, 52-365.
High at the Arcadia last night
were: Men-McGibbons, SAT-: H.
Lewis, 3O-411; w. S. Gaeng, Sd
406; Ralph Gibeaux, 40-4O1: c..
Evans Brooke, 54-397; women
Mary Esten, 30-3S9; Ethel Donovan
50-365; Louise Maske, 4O-364:
Marien Bakersmith, 54-362: Mar
guerite Joyce, $780,
At Chevy Chase: Washington Gas
Light League-Nowlin, 23-433. G. =