Evening star., 1941-09-03
Pin Campaign Begins
With Diamond Cab
Showing Way
Charley Smith Bright
Star in Opening ot
BrookIund Plunt

The l941 40 bowling season Off
cially is under way, with the Dia-
mond Cab League the first to open.
The Cabbies started last night at
Brookland Recreation with Dick
Hobart, executive secretary of the
Alley Operators Association, roll
ing the first ball and deftly picking
off No. without disturbing another
pin.
Otherwise there was some fancy
rolling displayed, with Charley
Smith hanging up a pair of scores
likely to stand at the top for several
weeks at least. He had 160 game
and a All set to spark his Ray Steel
ers to an odd-game win over Shore
ham. Other matches also were
splits, Calvert over Restaurant, last
years champion; Hotels over Serv-
ice Station; Auto Sales over Mount
Pleasant, and Brightwood over Up
town.
Brookland will be the scene of
another opening tonight. with the
20-team Brookland Merchants loop,
one Of the city's fastest commercial
leagues, slated to start at o'clock.
Arlington Acettes will put their
five-match winning streak to the test
tonight when they journey to Del
Ray for special match with the
womens team there beginning at
8 o'clock. On Hap Newman's Del
Ray club will be Anne Hiden, Angela
McMenimin, Ruby Parry, sgd Wells,
Frances Wilson and Evelyn Gay
while the Acettes will present
Mildred Peacock, Mary Fike. Thelma
SINNERS, Virginia Wright, Kitty
Rice and Kitty Helms.
A warmup match for the coming
District League race is slated to-
night at Brookland Recreation, with
Russ Diehl's team playing host to
Jimmy Moore's King Pin squad
Starting time is s o'clock and spec
tators are invited.
Another 20-team loop taking to
the mapleways tonight is the Office
Of Building Management League
slated to start at 7:30. at King Pin
Earle Stocking, Silver Spring man.
ager, has openings in two 51s
leagues, the Silver Spring Business.
mems on Thursday night and the
National League on Fridays. Open.
ing games in both loops are sched-
uled next week and interested teams
should dial Stocking at Sligo 116t
as soon as possible.
E. D. Merrill, president of the
Capital Transit Co., will roll the
first ball tomorrow night when tht
22-team Capital Transit League get:
going at Lafayette at 9:15 pm. Mer-
rill also will present a trophy to last
years championship team. This
will be the fourth season for this
league.
Hap Burtner, Convention Hal
manager, announces that his alley.
will reopen tomorrow. Burtner ad-
vises that leagues can start Sep
tember s.
Final meeting of the Business
mems Recreation loop is slated fol
8 o'clock tonight at the downtown
New Recreation. This is handicap
league made up of retail and whole
sale firms regardless of averages
cFirms interested in joining are re-
ferred to Charley Parker, New Rec.
reation manager.
There is an opening for one 55!
team in the Petworth League. Ths
usual preseason meeting will bt
held at Petworth tonight at O'Clock
with the election of officers as tht
main business.
Other meetings tonight are
Arlington County League, o'clock
at Rosslyn Bowling Center; Be-
thesda Businessmen's League,
o'clock, Boulevard, and Veterans O.
Foreign Wars League, o'clock, a
the home of Daniel Forne, 81 Frank
lin street NE.