Evening star., 1941-12-20
Ed Wootton Snares
Pair Of Seconds
In Giant Field
Ollie Clark, Agnes Nixon
Collect Awards for
Top Gross Sets
BY ROD THOMAS.

As duckpins scattered weirdly In
the qualification round of The Star s
defense savings tournament, seven
men and four women each killed
two birds with one shot.
Middle-aged o. H.. P. (Ollie) Clark,
who rolled at Petworth, won the
high gross set award with 72-499
and was third In scratch sets with
427.
John J. Eckstaine, Lucky Strike
fired the best set from scratch, ~,
and was fourth In the gross standing
with 42-486.
Ed Wootton, Silver Spring, landed
second twice with a 60-494 gross
and scratch Of 434.
A little less consistent, Melvin L.
Handy. Arcadia, won third gross
prize with 69-490 and fourth scratch
award with 421.
Al McDermott, Brookland. crossed
the highest game of 202 with a 25-
pin handicap and was second from
scratch with lit.
Lozupone Shoots WhOpper.
Tom Lozupone, Chevy Chase Ice
Palace, collected the scratch game
prize with 1876, one Of the biggest
singles in the history of the 14-year-
old tournament, and was third in
the gross accounting with 15-200.
Fred M. Hugel. Northeast Temple,
was second in gross games with 26-
POI and tied for third at scratch
with ITS, Rudy Jarman, Lafayette,
sharing the prize.
Margaret Gallagher, Hi-Skor, was
third in the women's gross set stand
ing with 72-438 and fourth from
scratch with 1855.
Georgia Hayes. Lafayette. fired
the women's second best scratch set
of 379 and the third top game sans
handicap Of 1872
Irene Scott. Arcadia, shot 153 for
second in scratch games and landed
fourth In the gross payo1 with II
167.
Pauline Ford. Silver Spring, rolled
155 for first In scratch games and
tied for second gross with 16-171,
sharing honors with Hrs. Hugh
Crawley, ST., Mount Rainier, with
25-171.
Other prize winners in the pre-
liminary, amounts of the awards to
be determined by an audit Of entry
fees from the 81 metropolitan WASH
tngton duckpin plants where the
tournament is being held, were:
Men: Gross sets-Fifth, Walter
Frazier. New Recreation. $3.50;
sixth. c. P. Dewey, Hi-Skor, 81
At; tied for seventh, Grover Shep-
pard. Takoma, 54-74. and Lester
Ecliff. Hi-Skor, 102-474.
Men: Gross games - Tied for
fourth, Dutch McChesney, Hyatts-
vile. 22-192, and B. West, Silver
Spring, 31-192.
Agnes Nixon in Front.
Women: Gross sets-First, Agnes
Nixon, Lafayette, 108-443; second,
Sylvia Wilkinson, Rosslyn, 90-440;
tied for fourth, Alma L. Allis. New
Recreation, 141-432: Mary E. Hoult,
New Recreation. 147-432; Marjorie
Brown, Lafayette, 11+432: Mar
garet Anderson, Takoma, 84-32.
Women: Scratch sets-First, Lor-
raine GULL, Lafayette, 40l; third,
Beth Minson, Arcadia, 372.
Women: Scratch games-Fourth,
1nez Rhine, Lafayette, 149.
With nearly 10000 men and
women firing in the preliminary,
some high scores may have been
overlooked by alley men making re-
ports or the tournament headquar-
ters staff receiving them. A final
check will be made before the pay
off.
In the meantime, some 5000 pin
shooters Of both sexes are primed
for the final in which most of The
awards. all in defense savings, will
be made
To each alley manager has been
left the responsibility of setting the
dates and supervising the roll-off at
his establishment. The Star is pub
fishing as soon as received the
names Of qualiflers and the dates
upon which thev will fire the final.