Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08
Norfolk Woman Leads
In Special Events
With 129 Pace
Array Of Stors Listed
For Tourney Sunday
With D. c. Strong

Whether or not Katherine Wick OF
Norfolk, currently ranked the No. 3
woman duckpin bowler of the coun-
try, Is entertaining any idea of try
Ing to regain her national No.
title which she lost last year to Ida
Simmons, her hometown rival, the
fact remains that the defending
champion in Sundays 18th annual
Dixie to be rolled at the Arcadia
and Lafayette sets the pace in spe-
cial events for the leading feminine
rollers OF the East with an average
of 129.
Already this season Mrs. Wick has
won the women's ninth annual Ches-
apeake at Baltimore with a national
seven-game record of GOT and prob
ably nothing would please her more
than to grab off the 500 top prize
IN the Dixie for the second sue
cessive time.
BY her own admission, Mrs. Wick
made little or no attempt to carry
on as the Nations No. l woman
duckpinner last season. Having
won the title once. she was we'll
satisfied to bag some of the fat
prizes here and there in the many
money events.
Trailing Mrs. Wick with an aver
age OF 122, Miss Simmons, seven
times wearer of the No. crown, will
be seeking her sixth victory in the
Dixie. After her first triumph in
1885, Norfolk's comely blond star
monopolized the championship for
three years, 1887 through 1899. Her
nine-game winning score of ISL in
1871 stands as a record for the event.
Lorraine GULL Durable.
Four times winner of the Dixie and
still going strong after two decades
Of great bowling achievement, Lor-
raine GULL is well among this sea-
sons leaders with an average of
1926 First winner in 1882, she
came back to win in 1884 and 1896
and in 1910 snapped Miss Simmons
3-year reign. Ranked No. 4 national
ly last season, she was off winging
In quest of her once cherished No. l
ranking by winning the Forest Park
Open at Baltimore early this season.
Running second with an average
Of 1854, Lucy Rose of Rosslyn will
be shooting for her first victory in
the Dixie. Second in the Forest
Park Open, most of Mrs. Roses bril-
liant rolling this season has been In
mixed doubles, winning the Thanks
giving Day tournament at Lafayette
and the Franklin event at Baltimore
with Billy Stalcup as her partner.
In the former they established q six
game national record of ! ,633 and in
the latter flve-game mark of 1871.
Cutting the Dixie to two blocks
with four games at Arcadia and five
at Lafayette will give all contestants
. crack at Lucille Young's four-game
national record of ssh and Miss
Simmons five-game mark of TOP.
Heretofore the nine-ga affair had
been rolled in three-game blocks.
Capital Delegation Strong.
Besides Miss GULL and Mrs. Rose
Metropolitan Washington will have
such topflighters participating as
Caroline Hiser. Ingomar Moen,
Alma Mehler. Jessie Sacrey. Inez
Bryan, Virginia Wright, Madge
Lewis, Stimmie Hart, Martha Biggs,
Vicky Croggon, Boots Workman,
Ruth McClintic. Ruby Parry,
Frances Wilson, Marie Spates, Mary
Magnetic, Helen Roberts, Gladys
Lynn, Corinne Hauser, recent Meyer
Davis winner, and runnerup Lois
Gladding
Baltimore promises to swell the
entry list with Elizabeth Barger, who
just won the Evening Sun tourna-
ment with 30-game national
record of 1897; Marie Anderson,
runnerup, who also broke the old
30-game mark with 1888; Ethel
Brewer, who set 30game mark of
1856 to win the event last season;
Ida Stallings, Lola Shanahan,
Myrtle Liphard. Ruth Zentz, Evelyn
Rossi. Pat Scheafer, Lillian Young,
Audrey Mullaney, Audrey Atkinson,
Mildred Cameron, Winnie Sealover,
Marian Lanahan and Naomi Zim-
norman. Among the Oriole con-
tingent also may be Lolita Janowitz,
who won the Dixie in 1893.
Despite the new OPA ruling limit
ing the use Of automobiles, Arville
Ebersole. executive secretary of the
National Duckpin Bowling Congress,
expects a field of more than SO with
Doris Leigh, Elizabeth Junginger,
Eloise Gumm and Elizabeth CHM
bert of Norfolk and Louise Duke,