Evening star., 1941-04-07
Baltimore Also Goes
Overheard BACKING
Event al Atlanta
Blick, Host, Neors His
Cool of $50 Quints;
6. P. o. sendineS

With Washington entering ap.
proximately 40 teams. nearly twice
as many as last year, and other Sec
tions of the Guckpin territory also
showing huge increases, Arville
Ebersole, executive secretary of the
National Duckpin Bowling Congress,
said today that the forthcoming 14th
annual tournament, to be held in At
lanta, Ga, April 10 to 27, promises
to outstrip last years record mark of
376 teams. The 1910 meet at New
Haven, Conn, was comprised of 1875
booster and 181 major championship
teams.
Baltimore is going overheard with
from SIS to so teams and will be the
biggest team contributor from the
Middle Atlantic, while the New Eng
land teams will number close to so.
Ebersole also looks for Virginia to
follow suit and send its biggest dele
cation ever In report to Ebersole,
q New England railroad passenger
agent stated that 400 reservations
already have been made by Northern
bowlers.
Blick Near His Goal.
Out to make good a boast that il
ever a national tournament was held
IN Atlanta he would have $50 teams
in the event." John S. Blick, former
Washington bowling magnet. who
will stage the event at his 52-alley
plant, is within striking distance of
his goal.
Representing eight teams, star
men and women rollers of the Gov
eminent Printing Office will form
the biggest single squad of the Dis
trict to trek to the Georgia metropo-
lis. Three teams, G. P. o. Recrea-
ton and Welfare Association, with
Lee Brown as captain; Sol Herzog's S,
Bill Costigan, captain, and Progress
sive Printing, led by Paul Milan,
will form the mems championship
aggregation. Perruso Cafe. with Mae
Robinson at the helm, will fire in
the women's championship class.
Orville Platt will captain the An
napolis Hotel mems booster team
and Bob Lyons will direct the Amer
lean Legion, No. 33, aggregation and
Jdabell Cox and Sophia Dampier
will be respective leaders of the
Ambassador Hotel and G. P. o. Rec
reation and Welfare Association girl
booster teams.
Barnard Deserves Credit.
handspring in the G. P. o. bowling
enterprises and vice president of the
Washington City Duckpn Associa-
ton, Charley Chilly Barnard.
through his untiring effort, has
made it possible for Uncle Sans big
print shop workers to double their
teams over last year.
Long heavy hacker of national
tournaments. Bill Wood, general
manager of Lucky Strike and King
Pin, will send two mems and two
vomen's teams. Besides a team in
both championship classes, Eddie
Goldberg will have two booster out
fits representing his Clarendon Bowl
ing Center.
Besides its crack mems combina-
tion. Convention Hall will send two
girls quints, one witfr Bronson
Qualities as captain.
Topnotchers of another duckpin
era including Carroll DAILY, Chick
Heltman, Oscar Kee, Shag Rawlings
and Dutch Imirie, captain, will rep
resent the Royal Tavern team of the
Chevy Chase Commercial League.
Veteran Robb to Roll.
Major Robb, dean of Masonic
League bowlers, will be a member
of the leagues championship out
fit that will include Abe Povich, Or
vile Brown, Charlie Phillips and
Clayton Brown. Ebersole will head
the Masons' booster team.
Gait Davis will send his two strong
man and woman teams and Arcadia
also will have its two strong man
and woman District League outfits
on the firing line. Ella MAJ Linn
erick. who has yet to miss national
tournament, will head the Red Cir
Gle Food Shop team.
Going after the mems major team
title will be the Takoma ShamrockS,
led by Hap Newman. the Takoma
Recreation manager. and the Mount
Rainier crew of Hugh Crawley, Mel
Tallant, Billy La Billie, Ray and Bill
Ward.
A supporter of every national tour
nament, r. Harris team will include
Percy Patrick. Herbie Kaschub and
Iorano Simmons, star rollers of the
Patent Office League.