Evening star., 1941-11-27
.Undreamed-of Prizes
May Await Some in
Handicap Event
SIS in Defense Sovines
Would Be Smallest
Award in Big List
BY ROD THOMAS.


You have it from the Washington
City Duckpin Association, which
supplied the official accountant, that
16,908 men and women competed in
The Evening Star tournament of
1910 for prizes approXimating $1,000
in cash but this year, provided the
same number takes part. the prize
fund. measured in national de-
fense savings-this is no typograph-
ical slip-will be Sl6,908
Awards will be in defense bonds,
but in cold coin the fund would be
the greatest by far in any tourna-
ment. local or national. in the his
tory of duckpins-sl2,68 The Ma
tional Duckpin Bowling Congress
championships of last year set the
record of s9.5OO.
Accounting for a prospective cat
apult in The Star tournament fund
is the first entry fee ever levied in
the 14-year-old event, which hereto
fore has been presented to the
bowlers as Christmas gift. Ac-
counting for the entry fee of 81 is
a call from Uncle Sam for defense
spinach.
In a Bowler's Paradise.
In the battle for bonds, to open
a week from next Monday on all
the 800-odd maple lanes of Metro
politan Washington, will be bowlers
heretofore never dreamed of firing
for a prize of $1,000 in defense
savings, for men and $500 for
women, the capital awards in The
Star tournament.
The buffers participation is due
to a full handicap system which Will
leave the guy named Joe, with his
go average, on an equal footing with
the Nations No. duckpinner. Astor
Clarke, whose l29 average OF last
wear is being used as scratch for
men, and the gal Josephine. with
her hard learned 78, with nothing to
fear from Lorraine GULL. whose 12O
of the last campaign is the basis Tor
the womens handicaps.
Formerly in Star tournaments a
tenspot was a juicy prize IN the
Qualification round, but if the field
this time equals that of the last, the
males will fire at such plums as these
In the three-game preliminary;
For high set with handicaps: First,
5000. second, $50: third, Sl2o;
fourth, 500; fifth, SIS; sixth, $50;
seventh, SIS.
For high sets without handicaps:
First. 5000; second, $50; third, Sl25;
fourth, 500.
For high games with handicaps,
something entirely new: First, 500;
second, SIS; third, $50; fourth, s25.
For high games without handl-
caps: First, s100; second, SIS; third,
$50; fourth, s25.
The Pot Sweetens.
A big jump not only in the sizes
but the number of special prizes in
the rolloff, for which so per cent OF
the contestants at each alley will
qualify, also would be available to-
wit:
High sets without handicaps:
First, $500: second. $3.50; third, S100;
fourth, SIS; fifth, $50.
High games with handicaps:
FIRST. 5000; second, s100; third, SIS;
fourth, $50, fifth, S25.
High games without handlcaps:
First. $50: second, sl00; third, SIS;
fourth. $50, fifth, SIS.
Many bowling tournaments have
been held with the equivalent Of the
smallest Of these prizes as top lures.
With $50 Defense bonds as principal
awards, number Of fairly impor-
tant duckpin events have been held
this season here and elsewhere.
Hear That Paper Crackle.
In the mems section Of the tour
nament in which Washington bowl
ers now are invited to participate
these would be the roll-of prizes,
exclusive of the specials mentioned,
provided last years entry were
equaled:
First, $1,000; second, $500; third,
S400: fourth, $780, fifth, 5000; sixth,
SITS; seventh, $3.50; eighth, sl25.
Ninth and tenth, 500 each.
Ten prizes of s75 each.
Fifty-hve OF $50 each.
Seventy-fve of S25 each.
Mems and womens entry fees will
90 into separate prize funds, with
rs cents of every dollar turning up
in the kitty. The other two-bits
goes into a fund that will pay the
freight of the qualifiers in the final
The bowling operators, by the way,
are kicking back dime per quail
fer for the payoff.
Come Right In, Girls.
IN last years field were two men
for every woman, and if the same
number and ratio prevail this time
the women's prize list will be about
as follows:
Preliminary-High sets with han
dicaps: First, sl00; second, S75;
third. $50; fourth, s25.
High sets without handicaps:
First. s75; second, $50; third, s25.
High games with handicaps:
First, s75; second. $50; third, SIS.
High games without handicaps:
First, SIS; second, $50 third. s25
Specials in rolloff-High sets with
out handicaps: First, 500; second
S75: third, $50; fourth, $25.
High games with handicaps:
First, SIS: second, $50; third, s25.
High games without handicaps
First, SIS; second, $50; third, S25.
And in the main scramble:
First, $500; second. $3.50; third
5000; fourth, SITS; fifth, $3.50; sixth
$125; seventh, S100.
Eighth, ninth and tenth. SIS each
Twenty-Five prizes of $50 each.
Forty of $25 each.
Keep in mind, you pin shooters
that all awards will be in Defens
savings, with the figures mentione,
here representing bond value at ma
turity.
Also that if last years entry i
exceeded, this speculative prize lis
not only will become a reality, bu
will fatten.
u Cote Woreo Po%in1