Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26
owe Open RooH Tonight of Biggest Ducpn Tournament History
Survivors Of 1850
Contestants Shoot
For Many Prizes
Shining Lights Of D. c.
MopIewoys Strut in
Sturs YuIe Event

MopIewoys Strut in
Stor's YuIe Event
Heavy artillery in the scrap for
nearly $1,000 at stake in The Stars
twelfth yuletide duckpin tournament
will start booming tonight. A fourth
Of the 11,760 men and women who
took part in the qualification test
will be engaged in the ron-off of
the largest duckpin tournament ever
held. The top prize for each sex
will be 500 plus a gold medal; the
second, $50; the third, $50, and from
there down for many notches the
awards will be sufficient to warrant
the rolling of five games by men and
three by women who survived the
preliminary. Generous handicaps
make the prize winners unpre-
dictable.
The tournament will end next Sat-
urday night. Qualifiers are asked to
watch these columns for alley sched-
ules, which will be published day by
day. With few exceptions the names
of qualifiers have appeared. Those
who missed the lists, who think they
may have made the grade into the
rolloff should phone their alley man
ayers.
TOnight's Alley Schedule.
Tonight's program: Silver Spring.
women, 7:30; Northeast Temple,
men. 7:30 and $50; Columbia. men,
7 and 9; Arcadia, men and women,
7; Lucky Strike, men and women,
7:45; New Recreation, women, Sec
ond and third floors. 8; Hyattsville
Arcade, men and women, 7:30; Con-
vention Hall, women. 7:45; Chevy
Chase Ice Palace, men, 2 and 1880;
women, 7:30; University Park, men
and women, 1880; Brookland, 8;
Rosslyn, men, 7:30.
Big handicaps wiped out many
star bowlers. In the spotlight to-
night will be: Milton Walker, Ar
cadia. 1884 Star tournament WIN
ner: Clarence Purdy, Arcadia, who
holds a Washington City Duckpin
Association tournament record of
447: Harry Dixon, whose AS in
1926 stood for wears rs tops In
league bowling here: Harry Penfold,
Arcadia. who shot a whopper for
single game prize in The Star tour
nament preliminary several years
back: Perez Wolf, University Park,
one of the leading bowlers of the
season; Harry billiard, Hyattsville,
former Campbell Sweepstakes cham
pion; Harry Stricken, Columbia,
high scorer in several city tourna-
ments: Arthur Crown, Brookland.
top-average man in the Brookland
Merchants League; Gertrude Rasch,
New Recreation, a newcomer among
the fair stars; Isabel Riefenberg,
Convention Hall, leader in the G..
A. o. Mixed League; Earl McPhil-
omy, Lucky Strike, one of the best
duckpin performers ever; Fred Muir
ply, Lucky Strike, National Capital
and District League hot shot: Will
ham Henry Smith. Lucky Strike,
Navy Yard League, who collected
third money in the rolloff last year
and this time marked up 427 to lose
by three sticks to Jack Simmons in
the competition for high scratch set
prize in the qualification round;
Margaret Miltner Back.
More: Jack Gooding, Lucky Strike,
Judd & Detweiler star: Abe Po-
vich, Lucky Strike, among the best
in the Masonic League; Margaret
Miltner, Lucky Strike, consistent
coin collector in bowling tourna-
ments; Margaret O,Brien, Lucky
Strike, who shines in the Catholic
Ladies League; Edna Johnson,
Lucky Strike, Eastern Star top
notcher, who won third prize in The
Star tournament of 1894; Merceda
Isemann, Silver Spring, wife Of the
executive secretary of the National
Duckpin Bowling Congress and 1884
Star tournament winner; lucille
Young, Silver Spring, who in 1886
established an all-time national
nine-game record for women of
1859, to win the all-events title of
the N. D. B. c.: Dot Crawford, Sill
yer Spring, high average bowler of
the Silver Spring Ladies League
and its scorer; Alma Schultz, Silver
Spring, of the Silver Spring League,
who rates as a dark horse in The
Star tournament because ever so
often she rolls a powerful" set;
Gilmore Bark, Silver Spring, new
luminary of the District Ladies
League, who is helping to keep the
Chevy Chase Ice Palace team in the
pennant chase, and Francis Robert
son, Rosslyn, speedballer.