Evening star., 1940-01-22
Champ Monk Walker
Will Defend Crown
Next Saturday
Ida Simmons Teaches
At Bethesda; SteIIe
Steals Vets Snow

Milton Monk Walker, 1884 Eve
ming Star yuletide tournament
champion, will be the defending
titleholder next Saturday when the
second Charles (Chilly) Barnard
Handicap Sweepstakes is staged on
the Government Printing Office
drives.
The six-game event starting at
noon is named for one of the city's
leading bowling boosters, who over
a span of years has been of the
standout pinmen at Uncle Sans
big print shop. Until several years
ago Chilly was scorer for the
Mems Federal League.
Sanctioned by the National Duck
pin Bowling Congress, the affair
will be open to all bowlers. Last
year it was restricted to boWlers
of the G. P. o. Entrance fee will
be 81 Contestants will be allowed
two-third handicap with scratch
at 100. Winners will receive so, IS,
Is and 10 per cent of the total prize
fund.
Ida Simmons at Bethesda.
Henry Hiser is giving the women
bowlers treat all this week. The
Bethesda duckpin magnate has en-
gagged Ida Simmons as teacher.
Daily instructions and demonstra-
tions by the country's No. l woman
roller started today with 10 am. to
l pm. session at the Boulevard.
From to 5 Ida was to be at the
Bethesda alleys. A special match
will be staged Wednesday at $50
pm. Miss Simmons will pick a
women's team to roll strong Mont
gomery County mems team.
Sam UumbagO Benson was the
hero of Georgetown's 81 win from
Mount Rainier in a District League
match yesterday at Mount Rainier.
The 1929 national all-events cham
pion struck twice in his last box to
pull the middle game out of the
fire and shot 139 for his final string.
The suburban entry was off to a
winning start as Charley Nicholson
shot 145, high game in his top 400
set, Capt. Hugh Crawley rolled 378
for the losers.
Sun Dial boWlers shot 2,845 to win
by a margin of SO from the
Chevrolet-Texaco team at Martins
burg. w. Va. The victory gave the
National Capital League quint both
ends of home-and- home series.
Capt. Jimmy Moore, with 585, and
Russ Parks, with 575, led the attack.
Creedle Wins at Portsmouth.
Winners in the Portsmouth, Va.
Recreation Sweepstakes were: Blair
Creedle, Richmond, 625-715-1, $40
($100D; Art Carter, Norfolk, 61O-
721-1,331 $3.50; Jimmy Wallace
Norfolk, 1920 (s25); Billy Gauer
Norfolk, 1898 $40; Bob Fisher
Baltimore, 1892 ($75O); John Ham,
mond, Roanoke, 1920 $50; Carl
Pace, Norfolk. 1926 ($5).
Perce Wolfe, Washington's only
participant, shot 1928. A highlight
of the tournament was 712-set
rolled by AL Mincey, Raleigh young
ster. His score was 1885.
An Old-1'imers' night at the Rem
devious, Noble Veirs, ST., trimmed
Ben Hare, 355 to 354, in the 50-to-60-
year class; Dixie Davis shot 339 to
defeat Mike German in the 6O-to-70-
year class and Guy Stelle, 72 years
young, stole the show by rolling
1863 to win the Ne Plus Ultra class
Pop Crawley, dean of Mount Rainier
bowling, and w. G. Crabbe of the
War Department competed against
Stelle.
The event was staged by the Ma
tional Duckpin Bowling Congress
The winners will meet the Baltimore
victors later. Tad Howard, Rem
devious proprietor, missed the party
through illness.
Skaters Score Slam.
Shaffer Flower Shop pinmen made