Evening star., 1943-06-08
Two Baltimore Stars
Are Leading Rivals
OF Washingtonian
Hamilton or Poye Might
Goin Title Because Of
Greater Competition

Tony Santini of King Pin, who
SCOTS at bowling rankings, today
loomed the next No. l duckpin
bowler of the country.
The great Washington star, in the
midst of completing another bril-
liant season on the mapleWays, has
only two real rivals for the coveted
national honors, according to Arville
Ebersole. executive secretary of the
National Duckpin Bowling Congress,
who with Chief Statistician Dave
Burrows is busy these days making
final checks on the leading duckpin-
ners of the East in order to soon re-
lease national rating list.
They are Nova Hamilton and Nick
Pave of Baltimore.
These three are running neck
and neck for the top spot in special
eveEts, but, due to not having the
final league averages on the two
Oriole shooters, Ebersole, other than
to say that Santini had a great
chance to gain the No. title, was
without figures to make any specific
statement
Hagerstown Victories Help.
Winner of the United States Open
here last January, Santini finished
the 1923 season in bangup fashion
two Sundays ago by coping the
mems singles and sharing the dou-
bles championship of the Cumber-
land Valley tournament at Hagers-
town, Md, with. Perce Wolfe. His
average for special events for the
season was 1913 and a heavy fraction,
while he finished fifth in the Mems
District League with 1875.
1t is believed that should either
Hamilton or Pave gain the No.
spot over Santini that the greater
number of games rolled during the
season, for which the NDBC awards
two pins for each game, will be the
determining factor.
For the last several years Santini
has confined his league rolling to
one loop-the District-and this
alone has cost him not only higher
national rankings, but made him
ineligible for local ratings. His ac-
tual average during the 194O-41
season, when he was ranked third
among the first 10 of the country,
was a shade better than Astor
Clarke's, who carried off the top
honors for the sixth consecutive
year. But Clarke's advantage was
the difference in rolling SOL games
against 309 for Santini
Has Won Many Journeys.
With the exception of Clarke.
probably no duckpin bowler in the
East over a span of years has won
more major tournaments than the
tall, slim King Pin bowling wizard.
The quiet-mannered Santini, who
has let countless final box winning
strikes and spares do his talking
on the drives, nevertheless often has
expressed himself, you take the
titles, I'll take the dough"
Besides Santini, four other Cap
1tal plnmen may gain places in the
first 10 nationally ranked. Perce
Wolfe OF Lafayette, who missed out
last season after being in the
charmed circle for several years, bids
fair to be back again and the same
goes for Ed Blakeney, the Hi-Skor
ace. Ell Geib of Alexandria S Rec
reatlon and Billy Stalcup of Ross
lyn, despite the latter missing the
last month of competition by going
IN the Army, are expected to gain
one Of the choicy spots for the first
time. Stalcup at the time of his in
duction was the top Capital shooter
In special events with 100. Geib won
the District League championship
and was the leading tournament
winner of the season with four vic
tories.
Jack White and Mac Carboni of
New Haven are New England's lead
ing candidates for spots among the
firSt-ranked 10