Evening star., 1939-12-24
loss In More Than
Asked for Stars
Christmas Fund
Dates for Final Round
Of Mammoth YuIetide
Tournament Listed
By ROD THOMAS.

BY ROD THOMAS.
A wrinkle of financial worry faded
from the brow of old ST. Nick last
night when the city's bowling alley
proprietors heaped $l94 into his
eager hands.
The prince of good cheer expected
q call from the men who promote
Washington's most expansive sport,
but was surprised by the size of
their offering. Virtually unani-
mously they oversubscribed when it
was suggested they toss into The
Star Christmas Heart Fund a nickel
for each person who rolled in the
final of The Star Yuletide tourna-
ment, to be held this week at the
city's 20 public alleys.
Nearly 10000 men and women,
constituting by far the largest field
In duckpin history, competed in the
preliminary and a fourth of these
qualified for the rolloff in which the
bulk of 1000 prize fund will be
distributed. The heavy firing will
open Tuesday and continue through
the week.
Mount Rainier Generous.
The Mount Rainier alley produced
the largest contribution to the
Christmas fund. Some of the phil
anthropic greepbacks of the Hugh
Crawley family, which runs the pop
ular suburban plant, were matched
by their customers to make a grand
total of $25.
When the nickel-a-person plan
was broached, contributions shot in
on that basis. but later, with the
Christmas spirit mounting, the alley
men. hsregarded quotas. So, in
looking over the accompanying list,
regard it as contribution as a
whole from the businessmen of the
mapleways. Some in the lineup
gladly would have kicked in with
more but for the understanding that
all would have quotas based on
number of participants in the roll
off Here are the returns of a game
in which the spirit truly counted as
much as the score: Arcadia. SIG;
Bethesda, S.; Brookland, $40; Chevy
Chase Ice Palace, $40; Convention
Hall (already generous in the dona-
ton of its drives for a Christmas
fund show, S8.75; Georgetown Rec
reation, S5; Hyattsville Arcade, IS;
lucky Strike. $40: Mount Rainier,
$25; New Recreation. SIS; Petworth,
IS: Queenpin. Temple and Takoma,
$40 combined; Rendezvous. $3.50;
Rosslyn. IS; Silver Spring, SIS, and
University (at College Park, S..
The alley men also contributed to
The Star tournament prize fund and
counting this and the sweetening Of
the Christmas Heart kitty they're
kicked in with approximately $688
toward the city's enjoyment of the
Yuletide.
Roll-Off Dates Announced.
Dates for the roll-offs at the
various alleys follow:
Silver Spring-Tuesday (women)
7:30 pm; Wednesday (men), 7:30
and $780,
Petworth-Thursday (men and
women), 7:30.
Northeast Temple-Tuesday, 7::30
and $50: Thursday, 1880.
Georgetown Recreation-All par
ticipants notified by postcard of roll
of times.
Columbia-Tuesday men). 7 and
D; Wednesday (women), and 9.
Queen Pin-Thursday, 7.
Arcadia-Tuesday Cmen and wom-
en-, 7; Wednesday (men and wom-
en-. 7; Thursday (men and women) i,
Z; Friday (men and women), 7.
Takoma-Wednesd 7:30.
Lucky Strike-Tuesday (men and
women, 7:45 Wednesday (men
and women, 7:45; Thursday men
and women, 7:45.
New Recreation-Tuesday (wom-
en-, second and third floors, g.;
Friday (women), second floor, g.;
wednesday (men), second and
third floors, 8: Thursday (men) d,
second and third floors, 8; FRI
day (women), third floor, 8.
:: Hyattsville Arcade - Tuesday,
: Wednesday and Thursday, 7:3O.
Convention Hall-Tuesday (wom-
, en-, 7:45; Wednesday Cmen), 7:45;
Thursday (men), 7:45; Friday
(men), 7:45. Those scheduled in aft
ernoons may roll on any day from
Tuesday through Saturday.
Chevy Chase Ice Palace-Tuesday
fmen), 2 and 7:30; Tuesday (wom-
en-, 7:30; Wednesday (men), 7:30;
Thursday (men), 7:30.
University-Tuesday and Wednes-
day, 7:30.
Brookland-Tuesday. 8; Wednes-
day, 9 and 10; Thursday, 8; Fri
day, 8; Saturday, g.
Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, 8.
Bethesda-Wednesday, 7::3O.
Boulevard-Wednesday, 7:30.
Rosslyn-Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday, 7:30 women bow Friday
Mount Rainier-Wednesday, 7.