Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-04
Expected TO Reach
$3.50 With Alley
Men Kicking In
League Rollers Shoot
Qualification Round
Through Next Week

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Not only will the 18th annua
Evening Star Yuletide Handicap bt
larger than last years, which set 6
national record for duckpin entries
with approximately 10000, but the
prize fund will be juicier by con-
siderable.
Through an arrangement just
made with the Metropolitan Wash
ington Alley Operators Association
a dollar for every mapleway used IN
league play will be tossed into the
fund along with the customary $500
provided by The Star, plus two golo
medals.
In 1899 the total was 1894. This
time, according to an estimate made
by Arville Ebersole, executive secre-
tary of the National Duckplr
Bowling Congress, it will hit 81. lot
or more. Single drives, which
aren't used in league matches, won
be taxed.
Schlegel Collecting Coin.
To Ed Schlegel, secretary of the
operators association, has been as
signed the duty of collecting the
alley contributions.
throughout next week the clty'S
league boWlers of both sexes will be
occupied with qualifying for the
roll-off of the gigantic tournament
to take place Immediately after
Christmas.
Every league member who shoots
q full set next week automatically
will became a participant, with "a
per cent of the patrons OF each
establishment moving into the tlnal
which will be rolled by each quallf1el
on his home drives.
Most of the entrants Will De
granted substantial handicaps, based
on a scratch of 1913 for men and ll6
for women. the handicaps to be
based on averages as of next Satur-
dav. Have EN- ready, scorers!
Pearl ScheriCk Sets Records.
Boosting all-time highs Of l64 and
389 in the General Accounting Office
MlAeu LtdSut, L Cnl A1SAlNAA AN Va NAA~
pacesetting Eagles team today stood
in the bowling spotlight with one of
the seasons most brilliant duckpln
feats.
The new record-holder, tops with
her big game, made Lou HaWley OF
the ZipperS put on extra steam TO
gain set honors at Convention Hall
with 1913. His high string was 157.
At Petworth in the Federal Power
Commission Mixed loop Lyndall
Harris of the Buzzards with 112-304
topped the feminine rollers while
Herbert Of the Hoodlums with 1913
and Ginocchio, his teammate, with
318 were high for the males.
Han-Rosslyn Match Features.
The Convention Hall-RoSSlyn
tussle at Convention Hall looms as
the toughest match in the Mems
District League tonight. Both clubs
are red-hot pennant contenders.
Other engagements scheduled at
7:3o pm. will find the leading Lucky
Strikes host to Arcadia, Clarendon
entertaining Lafayette: Hyattsville
visiting Chevy Chase Ice Palace,
Penn Recreation invading Brook
land and King Pin the guest at
Georgetown.
The Five Aces cleaned up in the
Buckingham Athletic Association
League when Harold Babbitt fired
160-386 at Clarendon to lead team
in scores of 561-1,577.
With $50 Charles Weidman Of
Petworth No. is the owner of the
season record game in the Methodist
Church League. John Eckstine
banged out 1868 at Brookland to fea-
ture Mount Vernon's sweep into
second place by whitewashing Ep-
worth No. 1.
Dorothy Holmes shone with a sea-
son record of 322 as the front-run-
ming Machine Tabulation outfit
posted highs Of 484-l,397 in the
Census Ladies League at Columbia.
In the Electrical League at Takoma
Davis of Cameo Appliance with 148
and Fincham of Western Electric
with 1856 garnered top honors. Comeo
was high with team scores OF 619-
1,733.
Jack Wolstenholme showed some
of his old-time skill when ne banged
out 1888 to top off Silver Spring
Markets highs of SOB and 1,790 in
the American League. wright
jewelers. with 26-13 standing are
four games ahead of Old Colony
Laundry while Dome Oil trails by
one game in the pennant chase.