Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-09
Bethesda bowIers
Face C|arendons
In D. |. Feature
Field for Meyer Davis
Tournament Sunday
Grows Rapidly

Five games out OF first place,
Bethesda Bowling Center pinmen
will be given their biggest test as
District League pennant contenders
tonight when they stack up against
the pace-setting Clarendon team at
Clarendon Bowling Center starting
at 7:30 o'clock. Last week Chevy
Chase Ice Palace handed Clarendon
it's only shutout of the season and
Bethesda aims to duplicate the g.
game licking.
The visiting Arcadia sharpshooters
will attempt to stop the second place
Hyattsville Recreation. while the in
spired Ice Palace outfit will bid for
its second successive sweep with the
third-place Brookland Recreations
it's opposition. Hyattsville is two
games out of first place while Brook
land trails Clarendon by three
games.
Georgetown Recreations will be
host to the fourth-place Alexandria
combination while other tussles will
find the birthplace Anacostia Spill
ways at Convention Hall, the cham
pion Luck Strikes at Arlington,
Hi-Skor at Lafayette and King Pin
at Rosslyn.
Matches in the starry Ladies Dis
trict League, starting at 7:30, will
find the leading Lafayettes at
Brookland, Rendezvous at Arcadia,
Ice Palace at Takoma. Clarendon at
Lucky Strike opposing Red Circle,
Bethesda at King Pin, Arlington at
Hi-Skor and Rosslyn at Anacostia
Spillway.
Enter Meyer Davis Tourney.
With Madge Lewis it's ace, the
entire Clarendon Bowling Center
quint, including Helen Roberts, Dot
Carlton, Aline Fairchild and Dot
Hershey, will compete in the 9Th
annual Meyer Davis tournament to
be rolled Sunday at Lucky Strike.
Inspired by their lusty rolling in
the Prince Georges County Ladies'
League, Erna Neidecker of Arcade
Beauty Salon, who fired near-record
scores of 100 and 1856, and Agnes
Collins of Lochner's Radio, who
banged out 1863 may be among the
newcomers to Bill Woods big bowl
ing party which will start at pm.
Another Hyattsville participant may
be Blanche Wexford of Waldrops
Restaurant who sports l52 and 36l
after her latest turn on the subur-
ban drives.
Commerce and Standards pinettes
again are deadlocked in the National
Capital Ladies' League flag chase
after Commerce swept Progress de-
spite top scores of 1874 and 327
posted by Helen Layman and
Standards was dealt surprising
80 setback by the last-place Keg-
lers. Navy Blues moved into a
third-place tie with Miscellaneous
through 81 win from R. e. s.
while Miscellaneous dropped the
rubber game to Statistics.
Beulah Fletcher Is Tops.
Beulah Fletchers 1851 paced
Morgan jewelers. to scores of 556
and ,564 and 81 victory over c.
& P. Clerks, while Virginia Rhoades'
lit and 32l gave Ballston BARRIERS a
81 edge over V-Ray Shops in the
Clarendon Major Ladies Loop.
Clayton Brown of Vaughn Glass
with lat and 39l was the top wallop-
er in the East Washington Church
League at Mount Rainier. East
Washington Heights and Sven Glass
divided team highs with respective
counts of SOL and 1881.
John Humphrey bagged top laurels
in the Takoma Commercial loop
with 140 and 379.
Greenway Variety dominated the
American League at Greenway Bowl
as Harry Worth's 1877 and 403 led in
team rallies Of $50 and 1889 in a
80 win from Kenilworth Boosters.