Evening star., 1939-03-02
Asfor, 0ut-Averaqed
Rolls More Games
Than His Rivals
Race Among Capital
Stors Close; Lucky
Strike Girls Win


Strike Girls Win
If the National Duckpin Bowling
congress continues to award bowl
ers three pins game in deciding
the standings of the country's rank
Ing boWlers, Astor Clarke will stand
an excellent chance of retaining his
No. spot
This was revealed today when
Dave Burrows. statistician of the
N. D. B. c., released the averages
Tor sweepstakes and special matches
on Washington's leading bowlers.
Clarke. holding fifth place with
1858. has rolled $50 games. against
'22l for Joe Harrison, who leads with
an average of 1878. Clarke in
this one instance would pick up
81 pins on Harrison.
The three-time holder of the No,
l ranking with three league aver
ages of 124 makes it at present an
eVen-up battle. Harrison, rolling in
only two leagues. is several points
under Clarke. The difference in
the games Of one league also would
aid Clarke.
H0kie Short on Games.
Hokle Smith with a second place
average of l24-l22 hardly can hope
to gam the No. l honors because of
lack of league competition. How
ever. in the only league he rolls,
the District, he tops Clarke with 125.
Tony Santini with only 139 games
is running third with 124-3O. Ed
Blakeney, his Cuff and Santini
teammate, is fourth with 1870.
Back OF Clarke comes Bill Krauss
with 1922 for 1856 games. Trailing
are Karl Gochenour with 123-1O8 for
ITO games; Howard Parsons with
1882 for 1873 games and Perce
Wolfe with 122-75 for l64.
Wolfe, leading four leagues, in
cluolng the District with 1858. fig
ures to give Clarke the real battle.
Lucky Strike Recoups.
Lucky Strike regained second place
IN the Ladies District League by a
shutout over Convention Hall as
Lorraine GULL rolled 375 to tilt her
top average above IT. Incident
ally, Lorraine duplicated her three
game total rolled the night before,
which showed her Columbia Heights
League average past the 100 mark.
Led by Ruth Rothgeb's 1913 and
Beth MlnSonS 353, Arcadia tripped
Chevy Chase twice, the defeat cost
ing the connecticut avenue girls the
runner-up spot. Georgetown was a
FL winner from Red Circle Food
Shop and the front-running Ross
lyns 81 winners from Rendezvous.
Emerson & Orme Service pinmen
are champions of the General
Motors League, with Arcade-Pontiac
the runner-up. Pacesetters from
the start, the servicemen climaxed
thelr season at the Lucky Strike
last night by sweeping Capital Cadil-
lac. Ernest BoWman's 100 and Will
bur Hoods 356 were tops, as Wolfe
Motors trimmed Pohanka two games
IN the Wlndup. The league will
stage a sweepstakes at the Lucky
Strike next Wednesday.
Steinmetz Sticks at Ton.
Although losing a 2-1 decision to
Mccormick, the pacesetting Stein
metz plnmen maintained their one
game lead in the Patent Office
League as the erstwhile second-place
Remsens were knocked into seventh
place by the Marconis, who gained
the runner-up spot in a tight pen
nant chase. Herbie Kaschub, roll
Ing top counts of l44-381, watched
his Franklin team lost two games
to Bell Sam Lidoff, leader-off roller
on the Bell club, posted a string of
l4l to win the 81 for the weeks
highest game over his 1O5 average.
Wright, with top totals of 582-1, ,644
nicked Fulton twice.
Carl Leckner's top 100 enabled the
leading Accounting team to chalk
up 533, the deciding score in a 2-1
win from Georgia in the C. & P
Telephone League. Chuck Kline's
345 was tops as Southern District
nlpped Cleveland twice.