Evening star., 1939-01-19
Bennett Shoots Twin
Strike 10 Wind Up
Stirring Effort
May, Idle, Captures Lead
In Recreation League;
Clarke Fails Again

Clarke Fails Again
John Perry, top pin-spilling artist
Of the c. & P. Telephone League,
today is season record holder with
game of lit, but to gain this dis
tinction at the Lucky Strike last
night he had to outshoot Bill Ben
nett, who made gallant bid with
a sparkling I'll effort.
Perry had started the night off
with strings of 1874 and 102, while
Bennett had turned in 106 and 104.
Perry got the jump on Bennett
when he started his final string
with a strike. Then followed eight
straight spares and a 9th-frame
strike before he finished out with
fat 10 for his whopper.
Bennett, with a 19 in his second
frame, started to turn on the heat
when he spared In the third frame.
After a 4th-boX strike count he
rolled fiat 10 for his fifth frame.
Two spares and a doube-header
strike topped off his stirring chal-
lenge.
Perry's big wallop gave him a
season record set of 403, but 1t
failed to give his Government team
win. With Don Sonneman rolling
154 and Bill Humphries gathering
In l46 sticks, Commercial cracked
the third season record of the night,
posting COG against 597 to win the
odd game from Government. Ben
nett's Cleveland team won two from
Northern No. /.
The fourth-place Traffic rollers
provided added excitement when
they trimmed the league-leading
Accounts. 81.
May Takes Recreation Lead.
Henry May, absent last night as
a member of Joe Tuccis Plumbers,
today finds himself the top average
bowler in the Recreation League
with a mark of 124-34 for SO games.
Astor Clarke, the Nations No. l
duckpinner, turning in 324 set for
the third time this season, relin-
quished the leadership.
Brad Mandley, whom Clarke had
supplanted as the front runner,
moved into the runner-up spot with
124-2l when he banged the naples
for 428 and 344 Mandley, rolling
1T, top game of the evening at the
new Recreation, saved his Shah and
Shah club from being shutout by
Bell Clothes. while Johnny Ander-
sons 425 and George Blakes 1872
led the Bell team charge.
American Window Cleaning. al
though being bumped for two games
by the eighth-place Sammy's Liquor
Store, as Bill Krauss featured with
a 39l, held its 1l2-game lead over
University Shop, which dropped the
odd game to Allied Roofing. Carl
Gochenour's 1896 led the victors.
Bell Clothes garnered top team
counts with 680-1,835.
She's.a Happy Scorer.
Maude Fuschine, scorer for the
Lucky Strike Ladies League, today
had the pleasure OF posting beside
her name the season record set OF
355. Mrs. Fuschine's ITO, 129 and
116 led her Social Security No. !
team to a sweep over the Faazettes
and the capturing of first place from
Holmes Bakery, which dropped two
games to the second-place Com
merce when May McCarty's 126-33O
proved the winning edge.
First place will be the stake when
Lucky Strike and Rosslyn clash in
the Ladies District League next
Wednesday night at the Lucky
Strike. The hectic pennant chase
IN the women's all-star circuit last
night witnessed Rosslyn losing q
game to the third-place Chevy Chase
outfit while Lucky Strike postponed
with Rendezvous.
Lucy Rose led the Rosslyn 2-l
win with l34-362, while Ida Wein-
berg, ace bowler of the Connecticut
Avenue entry, topped the match
with 1863, rocketing her average to
Ill and fraction for the season
Georgetown Recreation was 81
winner from Arcadia as Mamie
Payne's 124 and Helen ODeas 32e
led in the victory.
Hazel Jarrett, rolling brilliantly
the last several weeks, came through
with scores of 140-336 to lead Red
Circle Food Shops 81 win from
Convention Hall.
Burton Leads in Victory.
David Burton's top counts of 1872
344 were instrumental in Capital
Cadillac's sweeping Pohanka Serv-
Ice IN the General Motors League
Truman Cones, sharing high game
with Burton and combining his ef-
forts with Furman Cones $40,
enabled Emerson & Orme Service
to sweep Emerson & Orme sales.
Two season records were estab-
hshed in the U. S. Engineers Office
League. Thompsons 14O and
Speaks 370 were the heaviest wal
lops when the Wharf Rats rolled
612 and 1896 for top counts.
The Walnuts monopolized the
high scoring in the Western Electric
League when Prugh's 159-379 top
ped off team scores of 564 and 1885
Bill Roeser of the Cosmos team
moving the NAPLES at Chevy Chase
for 139-387, featured the rolling in the
Bureau of Standards League. Office
walked off with top team counts o1
588-1,710. A few drives away Parce
Post pinmen were posting tor
counts Of 564-1,643 in the Letter
Carriers League as Thompson's 1877.
$50 led the charge.
Edna Norris Rolls High Set.
Edna Norris, whose GIL was toy
qualifying score in the women's di.
vision Of The Evening Star Yuletidt
tournament at the Lucky Strike
rolled high set of 302 to lead in thu