Evening star., 1940-03-07
Scratch Titled 10 110
For Annual Event
Slated March II
Chevy Chase Team Beots
Leading RossIyn Men;
Newsmen to CIush

Washington's lower-average bowl
ers who have been watching the
stars and middle class Of maple
spillers parade in sweepstakes COM
petition will come into their own
Sunday. March II, when. the Bill
Wood sweepstakes is staged at the
Lucky Strike.
Two changes will be made in the
annual dub" affair. The usual LOT
average has been raised to ITO and
for the first time handicap Of
three-fifths will be allowed.
Entrance fee will be IS, including
the cost of games. The 10-game
event will be rolled in two five-game
shifts at 2::30 and 7:30 pm.
Chevy Chase bowlers put the bee
on the leading Rosslyn team lest
night at Rosslyn, 81, with Ed Nash,
q substitute, Gaping the victory
with 391, stick more than Jack
Talbert's count. The invaders won
the first two tilts with 618 and GIG
to 610 and 563. Rosslyn stepped on
the gas to cop the final, 662 to $40
Perce Wolfe's 1856 was high for Ross
lyn.
Rosslyn Girls Victors.
It was a different story over at the
Lucky Strike as the pacesettine
Rosslyn girls team mopped up the
Red Circle Food Shop in a Ladies
District League match. Lucy Rose
hiked her average to lit as she
shone for the victors with 147-360
Capt. Evelyn Ellis Naylor added 33s
to team counts of 586-1,634. The
Red Circles made a gallant bid fol
the middle game, only to lose on 6
roll-off. Lucky Strike was a q
winner over Arcade-Pontiac with
Lorraine Gullis 128-347 featuring.
Russ Diehl, manager Of the Brook
land Recreation. appears to have
picked natural" by scheduling thu
selected teams of The Evening Stal
and Times-Herald Leagues to star
hostilities in the inter-league cham.
pionship series at the Michigan Pari
maple plant Sunday at 8 pm.
The Times Herald team will in.
clude Mickey johnson, Fred Waple
Bill Sheehy. Ray Bohlayer, Hienie
Lange, AL Michaud. Ed Carey and
Bubbles Cahoon. The Star hneuI
will be picked from Larry Weidman
Charley Holbrook, George Rogers
Howard Bailey, Taylor Jones, BOZ
Courbat, Bill King and George
Burrows.
Brookland Race Deadlocked.
With a record count Of l.83'
Brookland Shoe Repair swept Ma.
rion's Shingle Shop to deadlock thu
pennant chase in the Brooklane
Merchants League with Brooklanc
Hardware and Baldwin's Bakery
The Hardware quint lost undisputeo
possession of the top rung as Jimmy
Hollands 1893 paced M. p. M. Mar.
ket's 2-l win. The triple tie alst
resulted when the Bakery outfit took
the odd game from the Tavern crew
Dave Groth with 1884 was high ir
the new team mark which bea
Baldwin Bakery's former record BY
36 pins. Jack Gooding of the losin.
Hardware quint shot top string o.
$50.
Probably for the first time in he
long career Lorraine GULL will pas!
up defending a bowling title. He,
annual jaunt to New England Il
roll in the Yankee and Olive John
son sweepstakes will take her t,
Hartford and New Haven Saturda,
and Sunday, the same days the Ole
Dominion classic is scheduled a
Rosslyn. The five-game Virgini,
attraction which promises to draw
a large entry will start SATURDAY
at 8 pm. and wind up midnigh
Sunday. The entrance fee is $3.50
Edith Meredith Tops.
Paced by Edith Meredith's 1l8
313, the Marine Inspection and Nav
igation team took a 2-1 decision
from Social Security to increase it
lead to two games in the Luck,
Strike Ladies' League as the run
ner-up UPP-N-AT-M dropped tn,
odd one to the Colonials. The third
place Commerce quint was humble,
81 as Rebecca CBoo Armstrong
119 proved the deciding edge TO
the last-place Strikerettes. F. n
A. swept F. A. "A. No. l with to)
team counts of 507-1,423. Capt
Dora Gullickson of the losers gar
nered top set of 800.