Evening star., 1941-12-04
Find Common Cause
In Keep En- Ro||in'
Drive for u. ).
Aged Men Nay Roll Off
Tie in Acrobutic Tilt
Of Many Years Ago
By ROD THOMAS.

In Washington probably will be one
arranged for next Tuesday at
pm. at the Hi-Skor. with J. w
Wood as host to this mixture OF
pln-ShooterS:
Members of the headquarters
staff of the National Defense Saw
lngs Organization.
Members of The Star sports de-
partment.
Old-time boWlers of the Capital.
Most of the Defense Savings crew
never have handled a bowling ball.
All of The Star sports writer's
might just as well not have.
The old-timers. with few excep-
tlons, haven't entered a bowling
alley IN years.
Each will lay a buck on the line
for Uncle Sam, the same being an
entry fee in The Stars Defense
Bond Handicap Tournament, model
for duckpin and tenpin events to be
held throughout the country under
the semi-official wing of the De-
tense Savings Organization, headed
by Eugene Sloan.
Just Keeping En- Rollin'.
Few, if any, of the participants
IN this singular competition will
stand a Chinaman's chance, they
feel, of winning any of the fat
and numerous prizes in the bond
tournament, but all can see dollar
each well invested. The Defense
Savings staff, pleasantly surprised
by the alacrity of bowlers in joining
their campaign, are matching their
spirit. The full-handicap, equal
Opportunity-for-a small-entry
setup of The Star Tournament has
caught the fancy of the Nations
boWlers. with the prospect that mil
lions of dollars will be steered
thereby into Defense savings, in
which all prizes, made up in the
main of entry fees, will be given.
The sports writers will battle for a
kitty of their own, but each hoping
for fortunes smile in quest of prizes
in the main tournament. Having no
league averages they will receive the
IA pins a game allotted by tourna-
ment rule They W re against
many bowlers with ht,..> caps here
tofore unheard of with mems scratch
at l29 and fall difference to be
allowed. how'd you like to have the
franked sticks of a guy with a league
average of 80, SO pins a game. III
for set? The Womens scratch is
l20 and the betting is that no Lor-
raine GULL or Lucy Rose will pluck
the top plum of $500 in Defense saw
ings, nor that, in the mems division,
an Astor Clarke or a Hokie Smith
will bank the first prize of a $1,000
bond.
It's Been Long Time.
The old-timers' section of Tues
days party will bring together men
some of whom haven't seen each
other since many of the current
stars were born. Codgers in their 7Os
will attempt to match their years
In sticks.
One of those beyond three-score
and ten will be Joe Michaud, re-
noWned in the early days of duck
pins as bowler and promoter, who
may have been the inspiration for
the veterans reunion. Anyway,
Harry Woodfield, in suggesting it,
recalled that he and Michaud en-
gagged in probably the screwiest
bowling match on record.
Many, many years ago." wrote
Woodfleld, IS, best known as presi-
dent of the National Horseshoe
Pitchers Association, Il challenged
Michaud to follow the Leader
game at his own Diamond alley.
"Michaud was about as hot as
they came as q bowler, but I was
an acrobat
Bowling Goes BIotto.
I'm each frame we boWled from
different stance. There were some
queer ones. In one box I placed
three balls at the foul line, stood
on my hands, shifted weight to the
right and with the left showed each
ball down the alley.
This almost stumped Joe. but we
wound up with 63 pins each. If he
cares to, I'll bowl off the tie with
him when the Old timers get to-
gether in the Stars Tournament. =
In case you're not informed on
the clty-wide maple party, your
alley manager gladly will regale
you with the simple details of what
has been proclaimed by the Nations
bowling leaders as the outstanding
bargain in the games history.