Evening star., 1941-02-06
Hokie Hits Toboggan
With 343 as Rival
Cha|ks Up 381
Arcadia Two Comes Out
Of First Place; King
Pin Girls Set Pace

Out to knock Hokie Smith and
his Lucky Strike mates off their top
spots in the District League, Astor
Clarke of Lafayette Bowling Center
today was only 20 pins behind the
individual leader, while Arcadia.
gaining undisputed possession of
second place, was only two games
out of first place.
Hokie almost helped Astor accom-
plish his purpose when he took his
huge l30 average on toboggan ride
at King Pin last night. His count
was only 343 as Lucky Strike won a
81 decision from the Rhode Island
avenue pin plant representatives.
Clarke. shooting for his third con-
secutive championship, fired 381 at
Lafayette and although he dropped
several pins below the 129 mark he
picked up 38 sticks on Smith, who
Shrank his top average to approxi-
mately 129-15 for so games. Throw
ing in 154 last game, Clarke was
outrolled by Paul Fitzgerald, who
featured Lafayette's 81 victory over
Penn Recreation with 16l-4l9.
Games of 633, COG and 654 netted
the winners a count of 1893.
Arcadia Scores Sweep.
Sweeping Brookland Recreation
as Ollie Pacini led with 136-373,
Arcadia pulled away from a second
place tie with Convention Hall.
After losing the first skirmish to
Clarendon, $40 to 604. Convention
Hall banged out winning scores of
645 and $50 to post the evening S
top set OF 1908. Ed Blakeney's 135-
398 and Tony Santini's l50-396 were
high for the invading Hallmen. Joe
Freschi led the Virginians' first
game win with l42 and finished with
395 but Lou Jenkins topped his
efforts with 160-396.
Harry Hilliard was the standout
pin mauler of the night when he
fired 162-443 as Hyattsville smeared
the visiting Georgetown Recreations
with 646-l.885. The Westenders
dropped the final tilt by one lone
maple. $50 to 629 Harry Wolfe's
382 and Perce Wolfe's last-box
counting also were valuable to the
winners. Sam Bensons 143-401 was
high for the losers.
The champion Rosslyns eked out
a first game win from the invading
Chevy Chase Ice Palace quint by
two pins but were on the short end
of the winning counts in the final
two. Paul Jarmans 163-388 and
Ed Nash's 1886 gave the victors
their edge Whip Litchfleld led
the Rosslynites with l50-3S5 while
George Clark shot 379.
King Pin Girls Lead
King Pin, on total pins, rides in
front Of the Ladies District League
flag chase by virtue of a 2-l win
from Penn Recreation and the erst-
while undisputed leading Rosslyn's
2-gan1e loss to Arcadia
Lorraine GULL. King Pin captain,
with 367. and Caroline Hiser with
1868, led in the victory while Jessie
Sacrey was high for Penn with l29-
341. Miss GULL boosted her average
to l2l-12, only nine pins shy of Lucy
Roses top average. Beth Mlnson's
l40-336 was high for Arcadia.
Irene Gochenour, one of the three
Rosslyn substitutes who are filling
in for the touring Lucy Rose. Blanche
Wootton and Evelyn Ellis was high
for Rosslyn with 1855 Margaret
Petersilia and Hilda Sprinkle are
the other two extras.
Chevy Chase Ice Palace failed to
get over its 18th winning match,
losing two games to Clarendon as
Mary Fike with 132-352. and Alma
Mehler with 1876, led the invaders to
victory. Boots Pettit's 1876 and
Lucille Youngs $50 we're high for the
Ice Palace. Del Ray with Mary
Esten rolling l2l and Florence
Sabean. 337, trimmed Georgetown
2-l, despite Marge
Smiths 128-344.