Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-05
Whitewash Lafayette
To Reach Summit
On Total Sticks
Blanche Wootton Sturs;
Henry Phipps Boosts
His Average to ll9

BY handing the third-place La
fayette Bowling Center three
game setback, Rosslyn rollers have
fired new interest in the Ladies'
District League pennant race, gain
ing first place on total pins over
Chevy Chase Ice Palace with the
latter ranking from a 2-1 defeat
by Hi-Skor.
Blanche Wootton tossed in the
big count for the squirting Rosslyns
with 389 while Lucy Rose, now day
time instructress at Wade Pearson's
Arlington Bowling Center, aided the
victory with 367. The lusty score
boosted Mrs. Roses top league av-
crate to 1885 for 81 games. Lor-
raine GULL led the Hi-Skor win with
$40 while Capt. Lucille Young shone
for the losers with BIT. The win
gave Hi-Skor a tie with Lafayette
for third place.
Rapping out the seasons record
game of 1863, Ruth Rothgeb, who
also posted the nights top set of
1888, paced the birthplace Arlington
Bowling Center's 81 victory over
Rendezvous. Led by Ruby Parry's
329, Del Ray was a 2-1 winner from
Convention Hall despite Margaret
Smiths 354.
In the other matches Red Circle
Food Shop. aided by Mildred Green's
329, tripped Arcadia, 81; Spillway
with Mary Magnetic hitting for 343
won two games from Clarendon and
Brooklyn led by Vicky Croggin's
BAT took the odd skirmish from
King Pin.
Phipps Hits 119 Pace.
Following up his season records
of 1877 and 412 with 387, Henry
Phipps of ESQ Extra zoomed his
top average in the Petroleum League
at Columbia to nifty 119.
While Gywnnette Herbert of North
was scattering the naples in the
c. & P. Telephone Ladies League
at Hi-Skor for highs of 1876 and 327,
the second-place Columbia and
Clerks, with a 2-1 win from Dupont
Toll, marched within two games Of
the leading Long Distance quint as
the latter dropped the rubber game
to the champion General Office
No. l.
Juanita McMurtry's 305 was the
highhght as Alcohol Tax rollers
bagged honors with SOB and 1,4l6
in the Commissioners and Miscel-
laneous Ladies League at Lucky
Strike Maxine Hickman Of Service
was tops with lis.
Joan Bransford Stars in Pinch.
Joan Bransford did a pretty nifty
Job of pinch rolling in the Lucky
Strike Ladies League when her top
scores of 142 and 800 paced the Co.
lonials to high of 519 and a sweep
over the M. I. N. quint. Led by
Marcy Lamberts 122-327 and Eve
Ign Mays 111-3ll, the Busy Bees
romped over Logan Motors with
1892 Inez Lucas 1875 were
the deciding counts in the So and
Sos 81 victory over the Jack
Mortons.
Schwab with 135 and Sparks with
354 were best in the Mount Rainier
Ladies League. Team honorS went to
Eunice's Beauty Shop with 531 and
1855.
Paced by Joe Callan's 399, the
leading C. B. Long team chalked up
a season record of l, 100 to turn back
the second-place General Oil Burn
ers in the Georgetown Commercial
League. Sam Benson was tops with
161-406 as Hillows Cafe shellacked
Thompson Welding Co. Stan Bias
EEK with 141 and Kenny Beck, the
Georgetown Recreation pilot, with
37s led in a sweep over Carson and
Gruman.
Pete McCurdy of Washington Pc
troleum and Bill Jeffries of Old Do
minion Bank tied in the Arlington
Commercial League for game honors
with 1874, but the latter was far
ahead at the finish with 381. Fire
Department, Washington Petroleum
and Norton's Cafe were respective
80 winners from Arnold Bus, Berg
MAINS Laundry and Heflin Plumb
erS.