Evening star., 1940-04-05
Smith Makes Bid to Overtoke
Clarke as Duckpin Leader; ]
Store League Race Hot !

Astor Clarke's closest riva! for the
District League championship to-
day was Hokie Smith of Columbia
who with an average of 128-48 for
50 games has supplanted Perce
Wolfe, Clarke's Rosslyn bowling pal,
in second place.
Smith, who led the all-star circuit
for the first seven weeks Of the cam
paign with mark Of 135 for 81
games, is squirting again and last
night at Columbia assumed the
runnerup spot with a 397 set as
Wolfe turned In puny 3l2.
AS the pacesetting Rosslyn club
posted a 81 victory over Columbia,
Clarke maintained his sensational
pace with 800 set. With an aver
age of 1878 for go games, he holds
a lead of ITS pins over Smith.
Ed Blakeney, the Columbia anchor
man, was the top shooter of the
match, amassing a 429 set with
games of 100, 164 and 1865.
Tonight's matches will bring to-
gether Arcadia and Lucky Strike in
a double-header at Arcadia, Brook
land at Georgetown and Mount
Rainier at Chevy Chase.
Selected Teams Roll at BrOOkland.
Interleague matches will be re-
sumed at Brookland Sunday at 8
pm. with selected teams of the
Capital Transit and Brookland Rec
reation Leagues engaged.
Probably the biggest squad OF
Washington's leading woman bowl
ers to compete in an out-of- town
sweepstakes event this season will
trek to Baltimore tomorrow for the
inaugural of Joe Damico's Franklin
Open. Among the Capital rollers
lured by top prize of 500 are
Lorraine Gulli, Lucy Rose. Evelyn
Ream, Eleanor Bark, Jessie Sacrey,
Stimmy Hart, Thelma Robinson,
Marie Spates, Lucille Young, Ruth
King, Vickie Wienecke and Mabelle
Herring, national woman's singles
champion. The 10-game affair with
opening f1ve-game blocks at 2 and
4 pm. also will attract a bevy of
Richmond and Norfolk stars.
The Maj. Howard w. jackson
Doubles for woman duos with av-
erages of 213 and under to be staged
at the Wilma and Spillway drives in
the Oriole city Sunday promise to
draw a host of District combina-
tions.
Store League Race Heats.
The two-team pennant chase in
the Department Store League at the
New Recreation grew hotter as Kann
and Woodward & Lothrop main
tanned their first-place deadlock
with sweeping victories. While Kann
busted of Garfinckel with Irwin
Simon's 379 and Vic Riston's 374
featuring, the two-time champion
w. & L. rollers ran their winning
streak to y games by whitewashing
Lansburgh. Tom Schrivener's 367
led the defending titleholders.
In other matches Raleigh Haber-
dasher moved into third place by
swamping Credit Bureau and Guy
Curran and Jelleff shaded Hecht
and Goldenberg, respectively, 81.
Featured by Henry Jarvis 211 and
team counts of 1,033-2,757, the run
ner-up Topedoes swept the third
place Submarines to gain ground in
the Naval Tool Designers Tenpin
League as the pacesetting Destroy
ers dropped q, tilt to the last-place
Cruisers. John Penn Of the Subs
was tops with a 550-set.
With 1876, r. e. Robinson of Art
Metal Works boasts an all-time re-
cord for the Jewellers League. His
whopper resulted from four strikes
and five spares. Blustein No. 2
rollers routed Bluestein No. / to
maintain its lead over Shah 6z Shah.
The near-record rolling Of Dor
othy Disney and Helen Suess was
effective In the Women's Procure.