Evening star., 1939-11-01
Enthusiasm High!.as Il
Teams Start Action
AT Silver Spring
Doerer PIons Tourney
This Month for Fair
Public Links Stors

This Month for Fair
Public Links Stors
BY WALTER McCALLUM.
"Yes," said Ida Simmons, II think
this group Of woman bowlers Is more
enthusiastic about this sport than
any crowd I ever have seen. Maybe
there's something to this golf that
gets 'em going"
Ida, in case you don't know, is the
blond Venus from Norfolk who hap
pens to be the top feminine pin
knocker-over of the United States,
which, in duckpin bowling language,
means the world. For they don't
play with the little pins in many
other countries. She stopped knock
ing out strikes and spares at Hugh
Arbaugh's Silver Spring alleys, and
added: "You hold 1t this way and
roll it straight down toward that
head pin. And get some .umph'
in it," Ida was the main attraction,
but the occasion was more impor-
tant than the pin buster with the
fair locks. 1t was the opening of
the third season Of the Women's
Bowling League.
For several years now we've had
around town q women's golf group
that has steadily grown until today
1t happens to be the biggest thing
around town In a competitive way.
The gals who have played In the
tournaments staged by the Women's
District Golf Association, baked by
bad weather, aren't satisfied to sit
at home and knit or try to figure
out the intricacies of an opening
club bid. They're far more active
than that. Literally, they've gone
from the fairways to the mapleways.
Turn to Mapleways.
Dainty feminine tootsies that
tread the fairways Of velvet turf on
the golf courses around town are
taking pounding on the bowling
alleys. They'll continue through q
f1ve-month season. It all started
again yesterday and it won't wind up
until next April, just about the time
the competitive golf season begins
to get under way.
With true feminine efficiency, the
gals, modelling their bowling setup
after that Of the golf association,
have worked out . handicapping
system that will keep them all on
their toes throughout the winter.
They gather every Tuesday morning
at 10.
Acknowledged top bowler of the
18-team league, one Of the biggest
feminine loops in bowling In WASH
ington, is Pauline Ford, wife Of
George Ford of Congressional. Mrs.
Ford isn't . golfer-that is, she
doesn't play in the feminine tour
naments. But she is quite q maple
spiller. She reeled of q couple Of
games Of better than 10 yesterday.
Ida Simmons does better, but not
much better. Mrs. Ora Emge Of
Indian Spring generally Is rated
second to Mrs. Ford. 0,.z,'- 1.
But all the gals-the same ones
who can flub q tee shot and look
good doing tt-can bowl. You don't
SEQ any Wild swim Inc, Tor 1ny 1nSsed
puts, and Is far Is their practical
use is concerned, Hugh might as
well take the cutters out Of his
alleys. The gals probably are bet
ter bowlers than golfers.
you know, I missed three spares
in that game. I just couldn't get
that ball rolling right"
I'D had a strike in the first box
If that doggone pin hadn't tottered
so much"
The conversation is just about the
same as in golf. On the golf course
it would be about q missed putt or
so. On the bowling alley it's all
spare breaks and strikes and misses.
Competitive sport is the same every
where. It's always about the bad
ones.
Indian Spring Team Champs.
The girls all have the tomahawks
out for Indian Spring. That club.
1t seems, is tops in bowling as well
as golf. Last year they won the
first team championship in golf and
then wound up by grabbing the
bowling crown. This year they lost
the golf title. but they loom as the
team to lick in bowling again.
Strangely enough the top five bowl
ers of Indian Springs champion
ship outfit all are members of the
first women's golf team at that club.
They are Mrs. Walter r. Stokes,
Middle Atlantic women's golf cham
pion; Mrs. Karl S. Giles, an accom-
plished southpaw golfer; Mrs. Char
lotte s. Stern the gal who set a new
course record at Hillendale last
week.; Mrs. G. P. TOPS" Medley,
and Mrs. Emge. Athletic supremacy,
1t seems, goes together in all sports.
If these gals took up tiddley-winks
they'd probably excel at that too
Present officers Of the league are
Mrs. Karl 8. Giles, Indian Spring
president; Mrs. ]. F. Dowdall
Manor, vice president; Mrs. Charles
E. Slawson, Congressional, secre-
tary and Official scorer; Mrs. w. H
Warren. Army Navy, treasurer; Mrs
Alfred G. Paul, Congressional, hon
orary member Of the Executive Com
mittee.
Chevy Chase is the only active
golf club which doesn't have q team
in the league. Two other clubs have
three teams; five more have two
teams, and two have one team. AL
in all, counting substitutions, they'll
have more than 125 women bowling
Paste that in your hat, Mr.. Cul.
bertson. Maybe bridge is losing it!
grip and maybe bowling is the thing
It is, If you can judge by what !,
happening among the women golfer
around town. And then bowling
Clara, is so good for the figure. S,
is golf. But bridge? Well, sittinl
isn't exactly considered Z way {,
work OF those calories.