Evening star., 1940-11-22
Meets Brilliant Field
In Defense Of Dixie
Title Tomorrow
Doubles With Suntini
To Nail Nutmeg Aces
In SpecioI Match

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Confident of repeating his 1888
bowling triumph in the ninth an
nual Dixie Classic tomorrow, Astor
Clarke will have a final workout for
his difficult task tonight at the
Lucky Strike when he engages Steve
Dyak, the brilliant young star of
the famous Connecticut Blue Rib
bons in a special singles attraction
at 10 o'clock.
An added feature will be the Del
Rio doubles combination of Hokie
Smith and Ed Blakeney against Bill
Tato and Bill Dente, two other Blue
Ribbons who ask no quarter on the
mapleways.
Clarke appeared in top form last
night at the Lafayette Center as
he banged out 706 for five strings
paired with Tony Santini in de-
teating the New England twosome
of Mac Carboni and Ben Kosky,
1916 to 1922. Counting 90 pins in
his last box, Santini came from
behind to trim Krosky in singles,
1893 to 389.
Carboni and Kosky will see &C
ton tonight at the Franklin Bowl
ing Center in Baltimore with the
Jack White All-Stars.
Stars Perform at Bethesda.
White and several of his stars
also are billed for singles and
doubles at the Bethesda drives at
1890 tonight. Henry Hiser, the
Bethesda bowling boss, will select
his shooters for both attractions
from Frank Riley, Jack Perreu and
Chester Lindstrom.
Swelling the field in the rich
Dixie tournament tomorrow will be
a galaxy of other sharpshooting
Nutmeggers, including George
Brown of Bridgeport. Ralph Green
leaf and Ralph Russo, members of
Whites New Haven team. Steve
Witkowski of Middletown, Bill
Therrien of Collinsville and Tony
Carpenter, the Woonsocket, R. l.,
speedballer, along with the Blue
Ribbons Mike Gogino, Joe Gacek
and Nick Tronsky, who sports an
average of 1872 in the Connecticut
State League, will give the North
one of its strongest contingents ever
to invade the District.
Arville Ebersole, executive secre-
tary of the National Duckpin Bowl
ing Congress, who will supervise the
South's richest pin stake, announced
that Bill Beatty and Lindsey Stott
would be Washington's King Pin
team entrants. Milton (Monk)
Walker will represent Government
Printing office, while Bill Gartrell
will be the Brookland Recreation
entry.
Gene Hargett, runner-up to Ollie
Pacini in 1898; Joe Freschi. who
won with 1882 in 1885. and Cletus
PanneIl Of the Arlington Bowling
Center will be Clarendon team en-
trants.
Ray Barnes and Blair Creedle will
represent the Marshall Alleys of
Richmond, while Floyd Duke will
roll for the Richmond Health Cen
ter.
Baltimores big squad will include
Lee Seim, Earl Campbell and Ray
Fiorentino from the Franklin AL
leys, while the Recreation Center
Is sending over Nova Hamilton and
Bill Guerke.
Finals On at North Beach.
Dutch Shaffer's pin plant at
North Beach, Md, will be the scene
at $3.50 Sunday night of the finals
between the El Geib-Lou Jenkins
tWosome and the Baltimore Ever
EFT Gardner-Nick Pave combination.
In the first skirmish the Capital duo
swamped the Orioles, 1925 TO Ills.
Tops in the two-man affair with
635, jenkins came from behind to
trim Gardner in the singles, 444 to
437 The winner shot 157 to the
losers 1T in the final game.
Out for a sweep, the Shamrocks
of Takoma will trek to Martinsburg,
w. Va, tomorrow night for the
wind-up with the strong Chevrolet
Texaco outfit of that city. The
suburban quint with Hap Newman
at the helm will include Johnny
Burger. Dutch Newman and Rex
Stewart.
Despite Ordie Browns 148-377 at
the King Pin, Local No, Is dropped
q 81 decision to Local No. 81 in the
Electrical Utility Employees Union
League.
The Ell Gees and Del Rios again
are neck-and-neck in the Washing
ton Ladies' League flag chase after
the former trimmed Jacobsen Flor
lists, 81, while the latter shut out the
Cardinals. With Lorraine GULL and
Catherine Quigley, throwing in re-
spective counts of 152 and 1877 at the
Lafayette the Ell Gees posted sea-
son record of 625, topping the Sham
rocks former mark by II pins Mrs.
Quigley was tops with 352 set.
Evelyn Naylor was high for Del Rio
with 346.
Other matches in the city's oldest
women's bowling loop resulted in 81
wins for Shamrocks, Wee Bees, Pin
Points and Tiffany Shop from Gar
wins Grill, Principe Beauty Shop,
Edmonds Optical and Perruso Cafe.
Marconis Retain Lead.
After losing the first game. the
pace-setting Marconi pinmen tripped
Edison in the final two tits to main
tain their two-game lead in the
Patent Office League. Remsen
dropped the odd one to De Forest to
tie with Wright for the runner-up
spot as the latter, led by Oliveris
135-342, trimmed SteinmeJz, 81.
The weeks top league shooter at
Tad Howard's Rendezvous was
Grimes, who featured Whitney's 81
victory over Franklin with 152-373.
Two season records went by the
boards sin the Automotive League
when league leading Arcade Pontiac
posted 61s and 1859. Ed Goldblatts
ton 142 was the biggest single poke