Evening star., 1939-12-17
Arcadia Youngster
Caps Performance
With 170 Game
Meyer Davis Classic
For Women to Hold
Pin Stage Today
By ROD THOMAS,


Among the last to reach the firing
line, slender young Jack Simmons
of the Navy Department Mixed
League likely will be among the
first in the payoff of The Stars
18th annual Yuletide bowling tour
nament, Shooting yesterday at the
Arcadia. Simmons, former city
junior champion, blasted out score
of 430 to take the lead in COM
petition for s25 prize that goes
with top ~cratch set of the qualifl-
cation ICU.H
With uncounted thousands of men
and women having competed during
the last week for places in the roll
of slated for Christmas week with
nearly $1,000 at stake. the prelimi-
nary test will be finished tonight,
when league substitutes and nom
league bowlers take their turns on
Washington metropolitan area.
Twenty-Five per cent of the field at
each alley will move into the final
Overcomes Weak Start.
Away to an unpromising start
with a game of ITO, Simmons sud-
denly turned on the heat and kept
1t going, gathering $50 pins in his
second game and ITO in the third.
His final was one Of the best strings
of the tournament. A spin handi-
cap tilted Simmons total to 436.
In the scratch competition he
supplanted William H. Smith of the
Navy Yard League, who rolled 427
at Lucky Strike. but Smith remained
In front in the handicap scrap with
38-465.
Nobody last night threatened the
top game of 1873 shot by Everett L..
Hackley in the Sanico League at the
Hall. 1t figures to net him $40.
Also unchallenged was Lorraine
Gull's scratch 383 at the Lucky
Strike and Mary Browns 42-405
gross at the Georgetown Recreation,
each worth $25 if it stands up.
Remarkably few high games have
been rolled in the women's division.
The high strings at most of the
alleys have been so ordinary that
managers failed to take particular
note of them and careful check
must be made before the $40 prize
for top game among the fair con-
testants is awarded.
Alley directors will announce their
oualifers and roll-off dates within
day or two and all who took
part in the qualification test are
urged to watch these columns. Sur
prisihgly low scores made the grade
at some of the plants. At no cost
other than the ordinary price of
five games for men and three for
women, a qualifier stands to pick
up some worth while cash. The
champion in each division will re-
ceive 500 and gold medal with
second place worth $50; third. $40,
and a long list of awards strung
below these
Until the alley directors make
their reports it won't be known how
many have participated in the tour
nament, which is a cinch to set
an all-time record for duckpin en-
tries.
Davis Sweepstakes Takes Stage.
In the meantime, the bowling
spotlight switches today to the Lucky
Strike, where will be held the 18th
annual Meyer Davis Sweepstakes,
blue. ribbon event Of its kind for
Washington women. Defending
champion. as usual, will be Lor-
. raine GULL. About 80 of the city S
foremost fair boWlers are expected
to compete j. W. Wood, Lucky
Strike superintendent and origina-
tor of the tournament, donates the
drives. The entrants pay fee of
%. Three-game blocks will be rolled
at 2:30 and pm.
Another Wood creation, the horse
shoe pitchers bowling champion =
ship, will be contested at 2 o'clock,
with Tarzan Woodfield, promotional
director of the Washington-Subur
ban Horseshoe Pitchers Association
in charge and Walter Haley defend
ing the title.
Star tournament correction: The
fellow who shot 45-435 at. the
Queen Pin is named AL Spivey, not
Spicy, as reported.