Evening star., 1940-12-12
By ROD THOMAS.

AStor Clarke today was laughing
at Hokie Smith. AStor is the top
ranking duckpin bowler of the coun-
try; has been for five seasons. But
year after year the Arlington
hovitzer who manages the new
Lafayette has failed to qualify for
the roll-off OF The Star Yuletide
tournament. Handlcaps of the run
of-mine boWlers have sunk him.
But last night shooting with the
Lafayette team in the District
League. on his home lanes, eoaded
Clarke made sure of place in the
final with a scratch set of Ala, To
this may be added a small handicap.
Scratch for men is 1913 and Clarke
wasn't sure whether his District
League average was 1913 or little
below.
Out al Hyattsville, Smith rolled
$50 with the Lucky Strike team OF
the District League, Including a
2-pln handicap, Hokle's 352 virtu
ally eliminated him from the roll
off, to be held Immediately after
Aill Will SOIIlC S4 LAW " pS
split among the skilled and lucky
Rolled $50 Record.
Last year, Hokie grabbed a 500
slice Of the melon with tOurna-
ment record score of 76O. second
highest 5-game tally in duCkpin
history here and eight sticks under
the national record.
As defending champion of the
mems section of the tournament
and winner of many others, Smith
said the other day This one is
easy enough for the dub, tough
enough for the star Clarke
wanted 10 bet. with falrlSh odds,
that Hokie wouldn't be among those
present when the scramble for the
big cash takes place, the day after
Christmas. He'd have won. No
male bowler, by the way. ever has
repeated as Star tournament
winner In the women'S depart
ment, Lorraine GULL has tllumphed
three times and Bess Ackman twice.
Lorraine propably was erased from
the current event when she counted
only 334 Monday at the Lafayette.
One of her leading rivals for the
No. | national ranking. Lucy Rose,
was rueful after last nights COM
petition, On Tuesday Lucy failed
to qualify with 800 at RosSlyn
Last night at the Georgetown
Recreation she fired 412, from
scratch, which easily might have
won her a prize IN the preliminary
and certainly would have given her
a crack at the major com. The
4l2, incidentally, boosted her Wom-
ems District League average, with
the champion Rooslyn team, to
1911, the highest average evel
carried for 80 games by Wash
ington woman in league play.
Bockman Tops With 467.
Leading male performer of the
evening was Jerry Bockman Of the
Takoma Duckpin Association, who
rolled 467 with 28-pin handicap
on the Takoma drives His strings
we're 13l, 159 and 1893 Bockman's S
was the top gross set of the tour
nament so far.
At the Lucky Strike Helen ODea
of the Women's District League
marked up the high game of the
event for her seX-l56 Rolling with
Red Circle Food Shop she totaled
20-370 as her team lost, 81
TO Chevy Chase Ice Palace. On the
winning side, yet loser was Lucille
Young, who probably failed to
qualify in The Star tournament
with score of 1884, same count
marked up by Miss GULL in her
feeble showing at Lafayette. Mrs
Young, Miss GULL and Mrs. Rose
by the way, are the top-ranking
skirted boWlers of the Capital.
In other Women's District League
matches Rosslyn increased its pen
nant lead to three games by de-
feating Georgetown Recreation, 30;
King Pin defeated Rendezvous. 2-l
Arcadia trimmed Clarendon, 2-1
and Penn whipped Del Ray. 2-1.
Caroline Hiser of King Pin shot
the second highest set of the evening
in league combat. 39l, but it didn't
count in the tournament. She al
ready had qualified at Hyattsville
Another star performer who safely
vas in the roll-off. having done all
right at the Lafayette. was Ida
Weinberg of Rendezvous. She rolled
1856 against King Pin.
Evelyn Windsor of Arcadia figured
to be in the final at Clarendon when
she rolled $3.50
Mabelle Herring of Penn Recrea
tion, chronic prize winner in The
Star tournament, probably qualified
with 1885 at Penn.
Geib Sets League Mark
Kicking himself today was El Geib
who likely lost out in the tourna
nent Tuesday when he rolled only
22-364 at Rosslyn. Last night set
season record for the District
League with 456. At Hyattsville
shooting with the second-place
Lucky Strike team against Hyatts-
vile, he rolled games of 14l, $50 and
165, TO be the star of 81 victory
On the losing side was famous Perce
Wolfe, former Star tournament
champion, who failed to qualify
Monday at Hyattsville. Last night
he shot 1894 and saved Hyattsville
from a shutout with a 10th-b
spare.
AS Convention Hall swamped
Penn, 80, with a set of 1864 al
Convention Hall. the national tor
money winner of last season, Tony
Santini reached the tournament