Evening star., 1941-11-19
Memberships Of Z
Leagues at Penn
Enter in Body
List SweIIed by Loops
rom Convention Hall,
Arcadia, BrookIond
BY ROD THOMAS.


batch Of entries ever announced at
one time for duckpin tournament
turned up today for The Stars De-
tense Bond event with the sparkling
Penn Recreation, under manage
ment Of young Julian Himmelfarb,
Is the principal producer.
From the Penn Recreation came
no less than an even dozen leagues,
composed of 160 teams, entered in
a body for the qualification test to
be held during the week of De-
cember s.
The Penn entries we're: General
Land Office, II teams: Kilowatt, 10;
Farm Credit, IL; Hebrew, Is; Hebrew
INDEPENDENT, s; Soil Conservation
is; Financial s; Interior, IA; Inter-
nal Revenue, IA; Agriculture, is;
Penn Commercial, 16, and Wash
ington Gas Light, 18.
Convention Hall Heard From.
Manager Hap Burtner of Con-
vention Hall announced the full
entry of the Capital Transit League
of % teams, quite windfall, but
with a number of other big leagues
at the hall to be heard from,
notably the Masonic and Safeway
two of the largest in the city.
From Russ Diehl's Brookland
came the Odd Fellows circuit of II
teams and Monk Fraser at the
Arcadia turned in the complete
roster of the Spares and Strikes
Forever League of the Department
of Agriculture Bureau of Economics,
with Is teams.
All added up to 210 teams, or
roughly, 1850 boWlers, enough In
themselves to make up a whopping
tournament.
But only a start has been made
In marshalling the Capitals maple
ties to fight with their dollars for
the Nations defense as well as for
pieces of the fattest purse ever Of
fered in a duckpin tournament. The
sum stands now at $4,000 in defense
savings and will be added to in di-
rect ratio to the number of con-
testants. The fund will start up
ward as soon as the field passes
5000, which should be shortly.
Prizes Sure to Attract.
Only the capital prizes of a $1,000
defense bond for men and one of
$500 for women have been an
nounced. but a committee is at
work on a prize list that can be
nothing but attractive to all bowlers
stars and buffers alike. what with
full handicaps to be given and no
limit set upon the number of sticks
contestant may receive, with mems
scratch 129 and women's. 120. The
entry fee is 81, with so per cent
OF the contestants at each alley
qualifying for the final in which
they will bowl free. .,-.e
The setup of the tournament.
which offers equal opportunity for
all, has been pronounced by bowling
leaders everywhere as ideal. The
next fortnight should reveal wheth-
er the Capitals bowlers have set a
telling example for maple shooters
OF the Nation, but regardless of how
they support the event The Star
Tournament will be copied in many
cities. Already arrangements are
being made, in cooperation with the
National Defense savings staff, to
duplicate the tournament in dozen
cities with the movement picking up
momentum that promises land
slide. This applies to tenpins as
we'll as duckpins. the American
Bowling Congress, ruling body of the
big ball game, having fastened to
climb aboard the Defense bond
bandwagon.
Alley Men Show Spirit.
On members of the Metropolitan
District Duckpin Operators Associa-
ton and their staffs has been placed
q large share of the burden of gath
ering entries and many are giving
the task greater and more willing
effort than heretofore put forth on
any tournament by alley men. But
they need lots of cooperation from
league officials to succeed in big
wav and the latter are urged not to
wait for a sales argument by an
alley attendant but on their own
round up the membership of their
leagues. That bowler is a member
Of a league is prima facie evidence
that he likes competition. In The
Star Tournament he or she will re-
ceive that under the fairest possible
conditions, at slight cost, with the
rewards worthwhile and numerous.
As one league official stated it:
TITS not question of us coming in.
The only way to keep a sensible
bowler out of this tournament is to
throw him into clink. Maybe that's
where one belongs who doesn't en-
teri"