Evening star., 1942-12-10
Rina|di, lGochenour,
Watson High Men
In745Game
TulIies Would Have Put
Them in RoII-Off Of
Sturs Tournament
BY ROD THOMAS.

Three members of the Brookland
Recreation team OF the District
Duckpin League which last night
established an all-time Washington
record with a game of 745 today
ruefuny found themselves in the
company of an army of buffers.
In the case of the latter they shot
league scores which, with full handi-
caps, easily would have qualified
them for the final of The Stars
War Savings Tournament. rich in
prizes, to be rolled during Christ
mas holidays.
With the usual outlook of medic
ere performers in any sport, they
questioned: What chance have ~"
and didn't enter. Most of the maj jor
awards in last years War Savings
Tournament went to buffers with
fat handicaps)
Many star failed to qualify. AS
Astor Clarke. who held the No. l
duckpin ranking of the country for
six consecutive years, an outstand-
ing record in the world of sport,
used to say: The Evening Star
Tournament is the toughest of all
for a good bowler to win. Those
handicaps!"
Ace Found the Going Tough.
Clarke, now bowling promoter
At Tampa, Fla, on several occasions
was unable to make the grade into
the tournaments roll-off. Under the
present setup so per cent of the
contestants at each alley survive
for the roll-off in which they bowl
at no cost. The entry fee is only a
dollar.
In helping to hang up the team
record last night, Nick Rinaldi, Ray
Watson and Carl Gochenour, shoot
ing at the Chevy Chase Ice Palace,
against the Ice Palace quint,
would have breezed into the roll
off and a mass of luscious plums
Rinaldi rolled 436, Watson, 422, and
Gochenour, 400 and all would have
received handicaps-based upon
league averages against a scratch
of 129. Members of the hot team,
shooting in various line-ups in the
Brookland Commercial League, will
attempt to qualify tonight.
To enter the tournament one
merely pays buck. signs an entry
form and presents the form just be-
fore shooting his three-game pre-
linn He may use league set for the
qualification test. Otherwise he
must bowl in a group of four to an
alley.
Opportunity Still Open.
All alley managers are familiar
with the simple rules of the tourna-
ment, and bowlers who desire to
Join the big party should apply
at their favorite plants. The wom-
en'sscratch is 120 for league shoot
ers and 100 for others Non-leaguers
among the men are handicapped on
scratch OF lis. Safeguards have
been taken asainstesringers."
Getting back to the Hrooklands
record game. Rinaldi contributed
179; Gochenour. 167: Watson, 159
Howard Deputy, 1875, and Joe
Freschi, lis. The team set of 1888
was a season record for the city.
Brookland topped the old mark
of 1877 rolled last season by Ar
cadia's team in the same league
The Arcadians. incidentally, cracked
record which had stood for dec
ade, made by the Occidentals, also
in the District loop.
Meet Huguely's All-Stars.
That tremendous performance last
night doomed interest in a special
match to be rolled next Sunday at
the Bethesda Bowling Center in
which the Brooklands will meet
George Huguely's Bethesda ALL
Stars, a team which in recent weeks
has regained lot of Washington S
prestige in competition with picked
line-ups of Baltimore
Representing Bethesda will be
Tony Santini. Hokie Smith, Ed
Blakeney, Ell Geib and Bill King.
Supplementing the Brookland
forces will be Elvin Shank, between
bowling seasons a crack horseshoe
pitcher.
Outstanding in the War Savings
Tournament last night were H. Nc
Carthy. with 8l-483, including a
l62 game, at Hyattsville; Ralph
Meiklejohn, with 5l-483, at Ia
koma; Bob Nichols, with 93-467
at Clarendon; Herb Hall, with 93-
463, at College Park. and Andy Sill
man, with 5l-450. at Greenway
Bowl. Best among the women was