Evening star., 1943-09-19
Holds 2-Week Event:
'S250,000,0O0 Set
As National Goal
BY ROD THOMAS.

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BY ROD THOMAS.
Hyattsville will lead the way In
Metropolitan Washingtons effort to
land In the front rank as bowlers
throughout the Nation shoot at a
goal Of $250, ,ooo, 900 for the Third
War Loan.
Sponsored by the Prince Georges
County Service Clubs (KiwAnis, Ro-
tary and Lions), 4 twao-week tourna-
ment viii open September IS at
Oscar Hiser's Hyattsville Recreation
Center with the general target $780,
900 with which to purchase . fighter
plane to be named THE Hyattsville
Bowler"
A leader in the drive will be +.
Howard Duckett, chairman Of the
Prince Georges War Finance Com
mitee.
With the entry 'fee" the purchase
Of bond, men and women will fre
for approximately 81, 900 in War saw
nss and full handicaps will assure
equal opportunity. A bowler may
compete as many times as he buys
bond.
Bowling Stars Will Exhibit.
Hiser will stage a special attrac-
ton, involving outstanding bowlers,
each night Of the tournament. One
Of the principals is bound to be Perce
Wolfe Of Hyattsville, ranked No. /
IN Metropolitan Washington and
prime figure In the bond effort. He
Will be . guest speaker at the annual
bowling dinner Of the Hagerstown
Rotary Club Wednesday at which
Sally Rand, it Is understood, will
entertain.
Bowlers from anywhere are vel
come to compete in the Hyattsville
tournament and the Prince Georges
town Is expected to becom ethe capt.
tai Of the sport in this section for
two weeks.
A stupendous sum is $3.50 900 900
but IN a press release yesterday the
Treasury Department said 1t was
reasonable in view OF the 365 ,OOO, 900
produced by the country's bowlers
in the Second War Loan drive with
out really being organized for the
effort, as they are now. Approx
mately 10000 bowling plants are
planning tournaments and other
means Of gathering war coin.
Silver Spring Is Cited.
During the Second Loan, accord
ing to the Treasury Department. fig
ures, bowling prize fund conversions
from cash to war savings totaled
ST, 800, 900; Purchases by alley oper-
ators, $16,65o,0 900; individual pur-
chases Of Bowling Victory Legion
members, $22 10000 and sales
through tournaments, $4,000 900.
The release featured the ser1sa-
tional effort Of Silver Spring, Nd,
which it said. "set the PAGES for the
Nation on the new 'buy-a-plane'
promotion tactic in q trial ballon
bowling drive in July. A goal OF
s4o0, 900 was established, to buy a
Flying Fortress to be named The
Silver Spring, Nd but when the
last pin tumbled and the Board of
Trade, sponsor Of the tournament.
added up the total, the drive had
gone over a million" ,.,
Silver Spring was second only. to
Atlanta, where John Flick, lex- Wash
ingtonian, holds forth as kinEpin
bowling promoter. The IA leaders
In the last bowling bond drive, the
Treasury Department said, were:
Atlanta, 81, TOO 900; Silver Spring,
Md, 81, 100, 900: Kansas City. S416.-
600: Tulsa, $360,0oo: Fort Worth,
$263 ,2s3; Houston. $263, 900; Los An
geles, $235 900; Spokane, $20e 900;
Oklahoma City, $1s3, 900; Dallas,
$158 900; Detroit, $l47,000; Bridge
port, SOL 900; Milwaukee, 800, 500,
and Shreveport, $4,000.
Ebersole Dynamo.
Heading the pinshooters' bond
campaign is the Bowlers' Victory
Legion, an outstanding leader in
which is Washington's Arville Eber-
sole, executive secretary of the Ma
tional Duckpin Bowling Congress,
who has had q strong hand in
bowling bond efforts since The Stars
annual tournament OF 1941 blazed
the way to big money in the maple
realm. The Treasury Department
recently awarded its citation to The
Star for its help in the bowling
field. IT,
plans are in the making" said
yesterdays release, Ito establish the
sport as one Of the Nations leading
War Bond sales promoters"
In the meantime, with Silver
Spring having got its Fortress and
Hyattsville after fighter plane,
nearby Maryland literally is winging
'em into the headpin for Uncle Sam.