Evening star., 1940-04-16
ontini-BIokeney Team, City
Duckpin Tournament Hama
Up Brilliant Records

Over the top with 430 teams, 20
more than ever before have signed
up to roll, the Washington City
Duckpin Association today was all
set to stage the biggest tournament
Of its history starting Friday, when
the 30th annual championships open
at the Arcadia.
Topped by Rosslyn's 66 entries,
Secretary Arville Ebersole announc-
ed that the 1874 teams from suburban
and outlaying drives was no little
item in the record entry. With 3l1
doubles and 635 singles already in
hand, new records for these events
also promise to be written in
the books before the tournament
windur.
The handspring in digging for the
new entry mark, Ebersole states
Glass c teams will run we'll over
$50 teams, nearly doubling any other
class with Glass B and D running
we'll up. Twenty-one teams have
signed for the unlimited class which
promises to be doubled by teams
from Glasses B and C which will
take a second crack at champion
ship.
Bowlers of 1S leagues have been
accorded the honor spot on the
opening nights card, seven of which
will represent the Arlington Bowling
League. The first nights schedule
also includes % teams of doubles.
Orioles Almost as Good.
New bowling fame was Tony San
tinis and Ed Blakeneys today as
the crack Columbia duo boasted
a national record eight-game
doubles score of 2,053, rolled
at the Franklin alley in Bal
timore. Nearly as spectacular
was the opposing Oriole duo Of Lee
Seim and Earl Campbell, who, with
2.027, also cracked the former mark
of 2,0l7 held by Howard Henderson
and Eli Pickus of Baltimore.
Victory and national record were
in sight for the Orioles when San
TIM and Blakeney rallied in the final
five frames of the last game and
grabbed both honors They shot 288
to climax their record feat. Blake
neys count was 1,036 and Santini's
LOTT. However Campbell topped the
match with 1,O37. Seim rolled 900.
Paced by Lannie Blaine's 1922,
The Evening Star team posted 1,754
to trim Letter Carriers by a margin
of SIS sticks in the quarter-finals
of the Brookland Recreation inter-
league championship series. The
Star quint rolled high game of $40.
Gus Frederichs' 1896 were high
for the losers. The Star previously
had scalped picked Tines Herald
League team.
In the second match the selected
quint of the Treasury Recreational
Association scored an upset by
whipping the strong Capital Transit
League team, 1,798 to It'll. Champ
Clark's 152-381 led the winners,
while Gamers 1856 and Joe Overend's S
354 we're high for Transit rollers.
who had also put over an upset by
routing the all-star Brookland Mer-
chants League representatives, ar
odds-on favorite to cop the series.
Besides The Evening Star and
Treasury teams Western Electric
remains in the inter-league series,
originated by Russ Diehl, Brookland
alley manager.
Hebrews Rout Pacini Stars.
Banging out lusty 1911 count
the Hebrew League All-Stars de-
feated the Ollie Pacini All-Stars by
margin Of SO pins in the final block
at Convention Hall to win both ends
Of a six-game series. But the North
east invaders were on the long end
of a 81 decision by a doubles and
singles victory in the windup, as
Pacini and Fred Watson trimmed
Lou Ruche and Dave Singer, 728 to
718 and Pacini took Julie Singer
over the Jumps in the singles, $50
to 356. Watson was tops in the
doubles with 405.
Dave Singers 172-450 and
Ruche's 405 paced winning team
games of 631, 657 and 623. The
losers, led by Arthur Crowns 156,
took a 37-pin lead with 668 first
game, but their scores dwindled to
573 and SIT as the Hebrew club rode
to victory. Harry Browns 387 was
high set for the losers.
The strong Childs girls team, with
a 2-1 victory over the erstwhile lead
ing Sholls No. team, played an
important part in the Childs mans
team taking over first place in the
Washington Restaurant Employees
Association Mixed League. While
the new pace-setters were taking a
forfeit from the Wood Shed, Billy
Gantt's 105-304 and Isabel Weimer's
1926 were giving the Childs PIN
cites the edge. Bob Grissett's 138-
361 was tops as Neptune No.
swept Sholls mixed team. Jack
Melrose shot 1856 as the Ofhcers took
the odd one from S. & w. Dot
Calvert's 114-308 featured Lurba' S
81 win from Neptune No. 2 Anna
(Scotty) Rife turned in high game
of lis for the losers.
Averaging 1892 for his five
strings, Carl Rittenhouse Of Station