Evening star., 1940-02-04
BURNER Handicap Here Rsmore yesterday Stakes Lure Capital Pnmen
BowIers Are 10 Honor
Famed Veteran al
Convention Hall
D. c. TopfIiehters Seek
Rich OrioIe Prizes;
Girls Loops Clash

Washington's bowlers who shoot
for the heavy coin in high-geared
competition will have a crack at
more than $1,000 in prizes in two
sweepstakes today and tonight-the
inaugural Hap Burtner Handicap at
Convention Hall and the second an
nual Julian Easterday event at the
Highland alleys in Baltimore.
While the Oriole affair will draw
a select dozen or so of the city's
top flights, more than IS rollers of
all classes are expected to partici-
pate in the tournament which has
been named in honor of Harry K.
Burtner, manager of Convention
Hall.
To make the Burtner event par
ticularly attractive to the bowlers
who will pay tribute to the man
who for two decades wrote one of
the most brilliant chapters in
Washington duckpin history. Woot-
ton E. Young, president of the Con-
vention Hall Co. and sponsor OF the
tournament, will add 500 to the
prize fund.
Rich Prize for Winner.
A top prize of $3.50 will 60 to the
winner. The first five-game block
of the 10-game event starts at 8
this afternoon and the final round
is scheduled for pm.
Contestants will receive two
thirds handicap based on highest
league averages. Scratch is 1873
Twenty pins each game will be the
maximum handicap allowed.
With practically every sharpshoot-
er from the Central Atlantic area
competing. the Easterday tourney
promises to break all records for
entries, according to Everett Gard
ner, the crack Oriole pinman who
is ballyhooing the attraction. The
field is expected to hit over ITO.
Among the Capital contingent
will be Defending Champion Ed
Blakeney and two Columbia team
mates, Hokie Smith and Tony San
TIM; Joe Harrison, Perce Wolfe,
Howard Parsons, Ollie Pacini, Bob
Miciotto, Joe Di Misa. Karl Goch-
enour, Joe Freschi, Lou jenkins,
George Demeres and Fred Murphy.
Woman Bowlers In Battle.
A match between selected wom-
ems team from the Brookland La
dies League and a picked team from
the Lucky Strike Ladies League
will be the attraction at the Brook
land Recreation alleys tonight at 8.
Russ Diehl, Brookland manager, will
draw his lineup from Minnie Wei
necke, Ruth King, Martha Biggs,
Ann Meca, Virginia Kreamer and
Ann Reynolds. Maude Fuschine,
president of the Lucky Strike loop,
is likely to have Gertrude Rasch,
Edith Meredith and La Vonne Tay-
lor among her teammates.
With AL Bookof and Ralph Gold
berg leading the assault with respec-
tive strings Of 157 and lat, Milton's
Service Station established an all
time record game of $50 in the He
brew League. Goldberg took set
honors, with 421 in a 81 win from
Nurim.
Crown Smacks Naples.
Arthur Crown, with 121-34, is 19
sticks in front of Bill Gartrell for
the Brookland Merchants League
championship. Some high scores last
week were Boeglen's 156-380, Lou
Kreamer's 155-373; Jimmy Hat
lands 154-4l3 and Jack Gooding S
152-434.
You have to look no farther than
Annetta Matthew to find the top
average roller in the Ladies Federal
League. The ace Federal Bureau
of Investigation bowler, with 1856
S67, forged ahead of Irene Scott OF
the Marines. Her average is 108-34
for As games.