Evening star., 1941-12-21
Eyes Of Maple World
On Model Event in
j. ). Bond Drive
Nearly 5000 Shooters
Of Both Sexes Strive
For Record Fund
By ROD THOMAS.

Urged on by none other than your
Uncle Sam, nearly 5000 washington
men and women eagerly await the
call to action in the greatest duck
pin scrap in history, meaning the
final round of The Stars Defense
savings tournament.
Throughout the Christmas holi-
days the maple plants will resound
with a battle fought on 81 fronts,
with each alley in the Metropolitan
Area conducting its own section of
the tournament but with all partl-
cipants firing for common awards
all in Defense savings-totaling
more than 900 in maturity value.
1t is the largest prize fund ever
staked in the sport, with the capital
plum for men a 81 900 bond and for
women one of $500.
For the first time in their lives
majority of the participants are
shooting for more than chicken
feed, full handicap system having
made the path into the final easy
for hundreds who, without the
franked sticks, would have found
the way insurmountable.
Experts Up Against 1t.
Truth to tell, The Star receives the
short end of things in this maple
party, judging by the qualification
test which half the original field
survived. Many of the experts, hob
bled by the buffers handicaps, failed
to qualify, and the only top-fighter
of either sex, ever-indomitable Lor-
raine GULL, won a prize in the pre-
liminary. A three time victor in the
14-year-old Star tournament, Miss
GULL laughed off the handicaps and,
with tally of 401 at the Lafayette,
plucked the award for Womens high
set from scratch.
Agnes Nixon, State Department
Lacquer who rolled at the Lafayette,
was tops in gross set for women with
l08-443 and Ollie Clark, an old timer
competing at PetWorth in the A. G. O.
League, was high for men with
72-4ee
Tourney a National Model.
The eyes of the bowling world are
on The Star tournament, chosen
as a model for maple events to be
held throughout the country to help
Uncle Sam sell his defense paper.
But tournament money only will
scratch the surface of mine. A
national movement, stemming from
the tournament here, is expected to
produce many thousands of dollars
worth of Defense savings sales
through league prizes. By the end
of the season it should be quite the
thing for bowler to possess a saw
ings stamp book started with win
nings on the mapleways.
First action in the rolloff Is
slated for today at 3 pm. when a
small group of women will take
their turns at Henry Hiser's Boule-
ward, with the men at his plant
to shoot December %.
More Dates to Come.
Many of the establishments have
yet to announce their qualiflers and
dates. The bowlers are urged to
watch these columns for them.
Dates arranged include:
Hi-Skor, December 26, % and 80;
Queen Pin, December 29 Hyatts-
vile. December 26; King Fin. De-
cember 90 and January 2: Rosslyn,
December 26, 27 and %; College
Park. December 26, 27. % and 80:
New Recreation, December %, 26, 90
and 30; Silver Spring, December %
for Women'S Country Club
IeaguersD, 26 and 27; Lucky Strike,
December 26, 90 and 30; Columbia,
December 27, 20 and 30; Penn Recre-
alton, December %, %, "a and 26,
and Chevy Chase Ice Palace, De-
eember %, 26. % and 30.
The giant field in the prelim-
hary taxed the stats Of most maple
plants and the rolloff Is expected
to be no less difficult to handle.
All eligibles are urged to cooperate
with the alley managers.