The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-04-19
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You YOU ALLEY
By FRED r. DURRETTE
An Open Letter To James Watts, Jr.

ulcs and IL looks like your POrters
Cleaner five and the Friars Ale five
viii emerge league champs May
this corner suggest that your team
meet the Friars Ale FIVE i'm match
game to decide the city Champion
ship which your team would be de-
Tending The match could be Sc
ries OF three or six games over
four alleys with total pins counting
and could be arranged for May 4
Just one week before the nationals.
II Is true that your fye proved
your worth in the match with Fri
airs Ale earlier when YOU handed
them a bad beating. but didn't they
come right back and win the clas-
sizes. averaging S57. or close 10 II,
10 win out over your team and
four other strong kcglering hves?
This corner feels that the bowl
ing public would support such a
match and that arrangements can
be made for the match and trophy
secured
Then Jimmy II the ed. will allow
me this space may aud YOU for
the splendid job YOU are doing in
the Motor cts league? Being sta
tistician is tough job but You are
making il look easy Any job looks
easy when an expert is doing II.
We think the Motor City league
would be doing right II they vote
you an extra share for your sea-
sons work. And in closing may We
wish you ana your grand Ave all
tho luck in the world when you
and yonr team step on the alleys
in the nationals May s.
Yours truly.
P.S.-Givine that wine TO the
teams high scorer each night has
made your team one Of the top COM
peiitivc fves
National shape Up Like This;
II you have been wondering just
how the Detroit bowling fives will
stack up against the nations top
kcglors here's some notes We pick
Cd up recently. Top opposition In
the hye-man event will come from
the national champion Log Cabin
from cleveland with Brass Rail,
Woodlawn and ST Elizabeth. all Of
Chicago the 1889 Racine. Wise,
national champions: Douglas Cen
ter Toledo. and an all-star FIVE
from wilmington, Del. all cose up.
To cope with these high scoring
fives Detroit will send Friars Ale
1oe Louis Springhill Farms. Por-
ters Cleaners and possibly the SUR
prise five OF Henry Harden to the
firing line.
In the doubles Detroit seems to
have a decided edge With George
Bennett and Roots Fairfax, Vernon
Moore and Floyd Foster, and pres
eni national singles champion jim
my Jones and George Fields Ben
nett and Fairfax are just about the
best duo in the country and have
repeatedly challenged anybody 10
match. Tough doubles COMPETE
iion will come from Jackson and
GUY OF Toledo Dufauchard and
Houston. Cheathan and Harrison OF
Chicago. Reed and Robinson or
Thomas and Reed OF Cleveland.
Cleveland seems to have the top
women's five in the Zollies Grill five
but the Supreme Linen five OF De-
troit and national champion. West
field Beauty FIVE will give Detroit
formidable representation And
Brady Health five will make good
showing They have one OF the
countrys top hves with Miss Hazel
Lyman in the anchor slot.
Greyhound Lines seems to have
the best chance of the Detroit Boos-
ter FIVE simply because the team
just started 10 hit their stride and
is at present out splitting the top
teams every Thursday night
For sheer color and bowling
thrills the present all-star ladies
team OF Slim Jones' Is 81 about
tops The girls will b I'M forth
with some Of the mos colorful
bowling ensen oles IN the alleys
real soon. The outfits will be three
piece affairs with blouse. shorts
and pants.
Then too. the girls can really
spill the naples They recently de-
feated a strong male five By l25
pins up al the Forest club when
Hazclle Thomas. Capt Thelma
Baldwin. Edna Jones. Elmina Glib
son and Hazel Lyman hit the pocket
with regularity Leadoff Virginia
Dolphin led the team with a 1872
average for the three games and
now Manager Bowman is fhdinc
IL had to book games. As result
the team has received one chal-
lenge and will settle II Sunday aft
ernoon when they cross alleys with
the Springhill Farms five. the high
est averaged five in the city. George
Bennett. Capt. Roy Hillyer. Brownie
Westheld. George Jones. Bill Rhod-
man and Anchorman Boots Fairfax
will ind their hands full when they
try 10 top these kegling lasses.
The girls. with Bowman directing
traffic up and down between the
Is pocket. had games Of S57. SIS
and so as warmup for any wom-
ems 1--WE Match games are being
sought with top vomen's Eve In the
country Boss Slim Jones is sold
on the team and is willing 10 back
them 10 the limit against even Zol-
lies Grill. a team that might give
this FIVE trouble is one that has
Dorothy Childress Mary Smith.
Mary Coleman. Thelma Jones and
Jerry Wells on its rooster n these
FIVE girls are interested IN the
game please contact this writer.
n YOU are one OF those that miss