Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-07
D. T.. Pin Stars Shoot
Sunday in Regent
Sweepstakes
Gochenour Will Defend
Title; W. & L. Earns
Store Loop Lead

FOR Jl1e JnlfQ Time INlS season
Karl Godchenour will be defending
champion when a galaxy of Wash
ington boWlers tricks to Baltimore
Sunday to roll in the fourth annual
Regent Memorial Sweepstakes staged
in memory of two duckpin immortals
johnny Vaeth and Johnny Ruppel.
Gochenour, one of the Capitals
10 ranking pinmen, already has let
the Maryland State Open and the
South Atltntic Sweepstakes titles
slip from him.
Ed Blankeney. first winner OF the
6-game affair will be among the
more than Is District rollers COM
peting for the 500 top prize. Hokie
Smith. Tony Santini Paul Jarman
and Bill Krauss. besides Blankeney,
will give the crack District League
Cuff & Santini team full representa-
ton in the tournament that also will
include Aston Clarke, Perez Wolfe
and Joe Harrison of the Marlboro
Hotel team. Fred Murphy of Area
dia, last years runner-up, is a likely
contestant.
Utterback Sets Record.
Ray Utterback banged out a sea-
son record game of ITO to be the
hero as Woodward & Lothrop, de-
Tending champion, defeated the
runner-up Kann's, 2-1, to gain a
1-game lead in the Department
Store League pennant chase at the
New Recreation last night. Collab-
Grating in the crucial match was
Tom Scrivener. whose 155-388
counts helped the winners to top
counts of 634-1.762. Utterbacks
timely wallop cracked Bob Sprouts
season mark by pins. Irwin
Simon's 373 was high for the losers.
The third-place Raleigh Haber-
dasher team held third place with
a 81 win from Hahn Shoes as
Hecht Co., a game back, was taking
the odd one from Garfinckels, with
Cliff Borneman 1854 high. Mike
Shugrue's 379 and Irving Bowman
373 led the birthplace Lansburghs
81 win from Guy-Curran The
loop closes its season next week.
\. {. L. Flag at Stake.
The National Capital League flag
winner will be decided next Thurs
day night at the Lucky Strike, when
the leading Dome Oil team and the
champion Daily News outfit clash
on the final night Of the season
Although trailing by one game. the
News can retain its title on total
pins by winning two games.
Dome Oil missed its chance to
clinch the pennant last night when
Lamberts 1865 featured a 2-1 WASH
ington Beef & Provision victory
The News closed in with a 2-1 win
from the Benmacks. totallng top
scores of 624-1,769 Jalapes Restau-
rant, with Howard Parsons 354
high. nicked Red Circle Food Shop
twice.
Honors in the American Legion
fell to Right of Nash Post with l40
and Carrayai of G. P. O. with 371
Columbia maintained its tWo-game
lead with a 81 win from Costello.
Barely Misses Record.
Margaret Lynn sparkled in the
Ladies Federal League at Arcadia
with a 385 but missed tying the
seasons high set by one pin.
Hamilton Bank boWlers enhanced
their pennant chances in the Bank
erS' League with A 81 victory over
National Bank of Washington as
the pacesetting City Bank No. l
team had its lead cut TO two games
by losing three to Commerce &
Savings. Joe Keene's lat and Frank
Baroni's 1878 were tops.
Walter Mutzbaugh put on hot
hand in the Mount Rainier League
with a season record set of 426.
His best single was 146. Larry Fitz-
gerald. the suburban southpaW star,
counted 40l.