Evening star., 1939-12-11
Preliminary Round
Will Be Contested
Through Week
Participants Cautioned
To See Thot Scores
Are TobuIuted

The biggest tournament in the
history of duckpins gets under way
tonight, with every league roller in
the Washington metropolitan area
entered in The Stars 18th annual
Yuletide competition.
Opening night will find approxi-
mately 1000 men and women in
nearly so leagues shooting their
qualification scores at 20 duckpin
establishments, and the preliminary
action will continue throughout the
week.
League substitutes and bowlers
not affiliated with leagues will roll
Saturday and Sunday.
With league rollers receiving two
thirds the difference between their
averages and the scratch figures of
lib for women and 1913 for men, the
giant tournament apparently is
more attractive than ever.
Is Per Cent Qualify.
Twenty-Five per cent of the bowl
ers at each establishment will
qualify for the roll-off, to be held
during Christmas week.
The prize fund of nearly $1,000
will be split SO ways. In addition
to the s100 top cash prize, the VIM
ner of each sex will receive a solid
gold medal Special prizes for high
scores will be awarded in the pre-
limlnary.
With thousands of scores to be
tabulated by the various alleys, each
bowler is requested to see that his
or her games and handicaps have
been placed on the report blank and
the latter turned in to those in
charge.
D. c. Bowlers in Payoff.
Four Washington bowlers placed
among the - prize winners of the
Maryland State Open last night at
Baltimore, but lean pickings was
theirs compared with the wholesale
raids made on the big coin in pre-
vious sweepstakes this season.
Ed Blakeney, Coiumbia's s District
League team captain, led the Capital
sharpshooters with 1929 to land
fourth money of $50. Bill Gartrell,
the Brookland Recreation roller of
2l0-game frame, tied with Earl
Campbell of Annapolis for sixth
place with 1926 to collect s13.75
and Perce Wolfe with 1924 won
eighth place and $3.50. Hokie
Smith won a S5 consolation block
prize with 661. His 183-string was
top single.
Baltimore pinmen won most of
the S295 fund as Ray Fiorentino
captured the fourth annual event
with 1854 to collect $1OO: Willie
Stitz pocketed second prize of $50
with 1889; Temple Keene with
1884 third place and $40, and
Everett Gardner with 1929 fifth
place money of $40
Scores of other District pinmen
who competed in a field of SO lead
ing Southern duckpinners we're:
Ray Parks. 1852; Joe Harrison, L.
23l; Howard Parsons. 1.276: Karl
Gochenour, 1,243: Andy Gleeson, L.
1874; Irwin Simon, 1855; Fred
Murphy, 1,134; Siggy Solem, 1,162,
and w. Humphries. 1.186
Fair Newcomers Shine.
Newcomers to the Ladies District
League this season, Jessie Sacrey,
Hart and Gilmore Bark of
the Chevy Chase Ice Palace team,
are three of the brightest stars in
the 'city's leading feminine circuit.
Miss Sacrey, whose 172 is the sec
ond highest game ever rolled in the
loop, is fifth high, with an average
of 110-26 for q games: Miss Hart
is sixth with 109-24 and Miss Bark
eleventh with 10619.
With Marie Spates hitting for
1923 and Lucille Young fourth high
in the league with 1929, the Ice
Palace maids have knocked down
284 more pins than the leading
Rosslyn team, which has won seven
more games. Season team records
of $40 and 1,742 belong to the Ice
Palace.
Blanche Wootton, Rosslyn's pep
perry lead-off roller, with 114-27,
is exceeded in average only by
Lorraine GULL, the perennial pace
setter of Lucky Strike, with 1870
and Lucy Rose, her teammate, with
1919. Miss Wootton's "a spares
top Miss Gulli's total by one while
Mabelle Herring of Arcade-P Pontiac
is giving the Lucky Strike ace a
battle for high strikes, being only
one behind with 81. Miss Herring.
singles champion, fast is
coming into her own as one of the
leagues best. She is averaging 108.
Youngbloods Set Records.
With season record team scores
of 662-1,760, Youngblood's Hare
ware swept Highs Ice Cream to
regain first place in the Takoma
Duckpin Association League. Los
ing two games to Takoma Funeral
Home, Dome Oil dropped to second
position. Johnny Burger with 119
tops Dutch Sherbahn by two points
for high average.
For his second 400 set last week,
Perce Wolfe banged out 1853, an all
time record for the College Park
League. Despite his games of 152,