Evening star., 1940-11-04
Last to Enter, Astor Clarke Wins
Halloween Bowling Tourney;
Gene Brown Legion Victor

Although Washington City Duck
pin Association rule may rob Astor
Clarke of his seventh consecutive
No l city title. the Lafayette
Bowling Center manager, with the
fourth annual Queen Pin Halloween
Handicap as his third tournament
conquest of the season today was
more than holding his own in
great drive to win the No. national
ranking for the sixth straight time.
To be eligible for city ranking
a bowler must roll in at least l25
league games. This requirement
last season cost Hokie Smith. Tony
Santini and Ed Blakeney places in
the select circle of Capital rollers.
All three were named in the ranking
10 of the country. as National Duck
pin Bowling Congress rules require
only 200 games This number in
cludes league and tournament COM
petition.
Limiting his rolling to the District
League. which he leads as defending
champion with 1890. Clarke can
finish the season with only SO league
games.
The last to enter in a record field
of LOG. Clarke last night at the
Queen Pin handily won the two-day
Halloween affair with scratch
score of AIS. His consistent games of
143, 139 and 143 netted him top
prize of $50.
Jack Hassett of the Northeast
Temple Minor League was second.
His Ala, worth s25. included a "a
pin handicap. Franked "a sticks,
William King of the Treasury De-
partment League shot 400 to collect
third money of SIS With a fat
handicap, E. McLemore of the Inter-
departmental Mixed League shot
401 to win the last prize of $40.
Cissel-Saxon Post Nets $3.50.
Hugh Arbaugh. proprietor of the
Silver Spring maple plant. was
happy to turn over to the Cissel-
Saxon Post approximately $3.50,
half of the proceeds gained from
the fourth annual American Legion
benefit pin party he threw yester-
day, in which record field Of 204
men and women competed.
Winner of the top prize Of $50
was Gene Brown, a 99average Sill
yer Spring roller who turned in a
724 score. which included a handi-
cap of 1870 pins. Games of 118. 1874.
113. ia, 125 gave him a net count
of 594.
Georgia Hays. winner Of the first
event, spotted ITS pins. finished sec
ond with TIC. Mrs. Hays, formerly
one of the city's leading woman
rollers, made a brave attempt to
repeat her brilliant 1887 triumph
with a 544 score 1t was one of
her few appearances on the drives
in two seasons.
Mike Avon, the rising star of
Chevy Chase and Arcadia, and Ed
Anderson finished in a tie for third
place with TIT. Mike distinguished
himself with top scratch set of 712.
John Burger, Takoma's speedball
demon, practically tossed away the
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straight spare breaks in his final
game after firing whopping 1872
for his third string. With a 25-pin
handicap he counted 716. Sixth
place went to w. E. Brown with
22-90-712.
Arthur Crown, the only male con-
testant to roll from scratch, turned
in 578. Alma Mehler's SGT was high
scratch set for the feminine entrants
King Pins Beat Hagerstown.
Paced by Lindsey Stott's 386 and
John Chaney's 143. the King Pins
came from behind to trim the
Hagerstown All-Stars by score Of
1908 to 1,774 in the first block Of an
intercity series. A last-game count
of 654 turned the trick after first
game deficit of 43 pins.
Buckling down, the Marylanders
won two doubles and a singles clash.
Angelo Palladino, tops in the team
engagement with an even 400 came
back to trim Bob Miciotto in singles,
355 to 346, and finished with 400 as
he paired with Cody Black to win
from Bill Miller and Bill Beatty, 754
to 702, in doubles. Chaney and Stott
also dropped a doubles match, 682
to 688.
Hungry for victory, the Shamrocks