Evening star., 1942-02-15
Margaret Lynn Handicap Tops Sabbath Card of Five Events for Bo
Hall Host 10 Safeway
Tourney and Clash
OF Star Teams
HyuttsviIIe Recreation
Stoses Weekly Affair.";
Franklin Open Is On

Three local events, a county affair
and an out of town tournament will
provide the top bowling attractions
for many Capital man and woman
duckpinners Of all classes today ant
tonight.
The seventh annual Margaret
Lynn Handicap at the Arcadia for
trousered rollers with averages OF
1OS and under and skirted pinspill'
ers with los or less is expected to
crack its last years entry record OF
254. 1t will open at 2 pm.
Out at the Hyattsville Recrea-
ton Oscar Hiser will stage his
weekly handicap 3-game event start
ing at 2.
Convention Hall will be the scene
of two big affairs with the SafeWay
tournament scheduled to start at
2:3o, and the Convention Hall ALL
Stars and Del Ray Cavaliers taking
over at 8 in a benefit match to help
boost the Metropolitan Police Boys
Fund.
With a total of $160 in Defense
Bonds as the lure most OF the pin
men who compose the 34-club Safe
way loop are expected to be on the
firing line when General Superln-
tendent Justus Saunders fires the
first ball to open the annual 3-game
tournament held by the grocerymen.
Entry fee will be 50. The winner
will receive a S75 Defense bond
Crawford Bittenbender and Mel
Tallant, with 115 averages, will be
the only scratch contestants.
Bill King on Hall Team.
Bill King, the Penn Recreation
ster. who last Sunday after coping
a prize in a Baltimore tournament,
rushed back to finish second and
third in the Red Cross handicap
at Clarendon. will bolster the Halls
lineup which also will include Abe
Weinberg. Arthur Crown, Elvln
Shank and Julie Singer. Hap New
man, Del Ray pilot, will have such
sharpshooters as Bert Lynn, Buck
MCDOIldlO. FL 1clU, cSAO4C AASA'AA
and Jimmy Cenci.
Still seeking their first victory OF
the season on Baltimore drives
most of the city's howitzers will
compete in the third annual Frank
lin Open. one of several big-tlme
events staged by Joe Damico. the
genial Oriole proprietor Cletus
Pannell of Colonial Village Recrea-
ton. out for his fourth conquest
of the season. will be the defending
champion. Tony Santini. Ed Blake
nov, Billy Stalcup, Astor Clarke
Perce Wolfe Al Wright, Kari
Gochenour. Fred Murphy, Bill
Krauss, Joe Farrison. Ollie Pacini
and Ray Watson are Capital favor
ties to cop the s125 top prize.
Tourney Spontaneously Popular.
If ever a bowler hit upon a popu-
lar idea it was Ralph Kirsch, the
r. F. c. League official, who orig
mated the Lynn tournament in
1886. He had only to mention it
to Monk Fraser. the livewire Ar
cadfa manager, and the stage was
set for the first mixed tournament
Of its kind to be held here.
More than 200 competed in the
1886 event as a tribute to Mrs. Lynn
one of the foremost leaders in the
duckpin game. and since then the
entries have increased each year.
For six years no other event ap-
preached it in entries until last fall
when 301 rolled in the American
Legion mixed affair at Silver Spring
This latter mark was cracked when
31l rolled in the recent Old
Dominion at RoSslyn.
Former winners are-1936, Mary
flanagan and Mike German: 1887
Annetta Matthew and Bill Seiden-
berg; 1888. Catherine Lewis and Joe
Bastile; 1889, Inez Bryan and Lester
Stout; 1910, Margaret McDermott
and Ed Heller; 1941, Katherine
Gaul and A. P. Moonan.