Evening star., 1940-03-20
New Champions Due Fort yer Winter Horse Show Ends Tonight

400 Set' cf Season
In Match Tonight
Must Roll 800 to Hold
Average as RossIyns
Meet Mount Rainier
Astor Clarke, who bids fair to
retain his No. / national duckpin
ranking laurels for the fifth con-
secutive time, tonight will be shoot
ing for his eighth District League
400 set and his 22d of the season
when he leads the pace-setting
Rosslyn team into battle against
Mount Rainier in a match over the
Rosslyn lanes at 8 pm.
Incidentally, the king of the duck
pinners must roll at least 800 to
maintain his record average of
1904. Setting a dazzling pace,
Clarke last night posted his ninth
400 set of the season in the Rosslyn
Independent League to increase his
second loop mark Of more than 100
to 130-63 with a 405.
The first bowler to ever roll over
20 400 sets in season, Clarke, with
still approximately Is league sets to
roll, may establish an amazing
record of more than 30. He's rolled
five in the Federal League to date
While Clarke continued his SEN
sational bowling to headline the
front-running Clarendon Decorators
81 victory over Shermans Clothiers,
Whip Litchfield, with an even 400,
ran the total number of 400 sets
shot this season in the Rosslyn loop
to a record figure of IS. OF these
Frank Mischou has rolled seven and
Karl Gochenour six. Litchf1eld's
Cooke Press was swept by Sports
Center when Dick Clouser shot
160-379.
George Clarke shone with top
string of 167 and 388 as A. L. Kelly
took the odd-game skirmish from
Kidwell's Senators.
Rolls Another Big Score.
On successive nights Margaret
Smith has shone with respective top
sets Of 342 and 359 in the Washing
ton Ladies' and Catholic Ladies
Leagues. Her first effort, which in
cluded a game of 1873, gave the
Cardinals a 81 edge over the Pin
Points, but her latter splurge went
for naught when the strong st.
Anthony's A team whitewashed
Holy Trinity.
Marian Boggs, with game OF
143, and Pauline Ford, with a $40
set, were prominent as the Sham
rocks swept the Wee Bees to take
over second place in the Washing
ton Ladies' loop, while the Ell Gees
dropped to third as Beulah Morgans
1885 paced a 81 win for Tiffany
Shop.
The pace-setting Edmonds ouint,
led by Ava Lambert's 1885, swept
Lucky Strike.
Northeast pinmen practically
clinched the championship in the
Diamond Cab League by mopping
UP three time pennant winning
Service Station as Al Spivey fea-
tured with 136-370.
Rip Collins Of Administration lived
up to his nickname last night at
Chevy Chase as he ripped the naples
for game of 162 in the P w. A.
League. Classification pinmen gar
nered the remaining honors. as
Charley Kings 800 was the high
light in team counts of 631-1, ,745.
Break Season Record.
Breaking their own season record
set by two pins with 1887, the
B'nai Birth pinspillers trimmed the
runner-up Friendship, 81, to as
sumo a one-game lead in the Dis
tributors League. Lou Robbins lat
$50 was high for the winners.
Top shooter in the Graphic Arts
League with 122 at the Lucky Strike,
Jack Gooding will have another
loop leadership to protect when he
rolls tonight in the Brookland Mer-
chants circuit. With 121, he's
point ahead of Arthur Crown,
Brookland Hardware teammate, and
Bill Gartrell.
Paced by Tom Oakley's two sea-
son record counts of 160-406, Man
agement swept Finance to climb
into a tie for first place with Legal
in the United States Housing
Authority League. A three-game
loss to Accounts cost Legal undis-
puted leadership.