Evening star., 1940-08-11
Final Between Lacey
And Henson Would
Be Dream Till
Is Experts Shoot 1t Out
On Next Two Nights;
Event Highly Roted
By ROD THOMAS.

From now on any hoss shoe
tilrower to win a match In The
Stars championships will need to
pitch lot of ringers. After a fort
night of competition the fields have
narrowed to the 16 best male f1ippers
and the two top ones among the
other sex in this section of the coun-
try
They will shoot tomorrow and
Tuesday evenings on the Commerce
Building public parks courts for the
supremacy of Metropolitan Wash
ington, play starting each night at
7:30 clock.
The mems field, according to
Harry Woodfield, vice chairman of
the. National A. A. U. Horseshoe
Committee, who keeps in touch with
ringer affairs everywhere, will be
probably the strongest in proportion
to size, of all to compete this year,
barring only the national champion
ship to be contested at Des Moines,
Iowa, late this month.
Great Match in Making.
II results 60 with seedlings the final
will bring together two pitchers of
national championship caliber in a
match the like of which Washing
tor ringer fans have dreamed Of
Embattled would be Clayton c. Hen
son, Virginian, and Clair Lacey,
former Kansan now employed in
the War Department. Henson Is
the defending Metropolitan cham
pion and several times winner of the
big title. Lacey recently was
E crowned champion of Washington
To gain the throne he averaged 72
per cent ringers, which.is truly big
time hurting, and Henson has been
beating that pace in practice. He
finished first in the all-star Met
ropolitan Singles League this sea-
son with the loss of only one game,
and among his recent achievements
was decisive victory over Indiana's
Jimmy Risk, who holds the world
trick pitching title and other major
distinctions.
Henson is seeded at the top and
Lacey at the bottom of the draw
The Maryland champion, Lee Flesh
man. is in the upper half and
Charley Howery, Virginia titleholder,
in the lower. but there is little to
choose between them and some of
the others who failed to gain titles
IN the sectional competition just
concluded.
How They Square OFF.
The pairings follow: Clayton Hen
son. Virvinia VS.. Robert Campbell,
Maryland; Irwin Carlberg, WASH
ington, VS.. Frank FELTON,, Virginia;
Don Behnke, Washington, VS.. Elmer
Swartz, Virginia; Walter Haley,
Washington, VS.. Lee Fleshman,
Maryland; Charley Howery, Vir-
ginia, VS.. Marvin Emerson, Mary
land; Ed Baranowski. Virginia, VS..
Temple FARRELL, Maryland; Bill
Hartley, Washington, VS.. Hoot
Dansberger, Virginia, and Frank
Fleshman, Maryland, VS.. Clair
Lacey, Washington.
Tomorrow nights competition
among the men will be carried out
to the semif1nals and the event will
be finished Tuesday evening, the
men throwing the final after the
girls have settled their argument.
The fair flnalists are Lucy Rose of
Rosslyn. noted bowler, and 14-year-
old Stella Baranowski of Lincolnia,
Va.
The tournament courts, IL in
number, will be closed from S to 7
pm. for conditioning but seven
other lanes of the parks layout will
be lighted for practice.
From start to finish the Metro
politan playoffs should be bang
up ringer show, certainly the best
from the point of class in the 12-
year history of The Stars cham
pionships.