Evening star., 1944-04-23
Men, Women Shoot
in Hiser Handicap;
Wolf Is Honored

Suburban Maryland maple lanes
will be the mecca for tournament
bowlers this afternoon and tonight
with the 34th annual mems city
ouckpin championships on tap at
Silver Spring and the Hyattsville
Recreation Open Handicap sharing
the interest of a slew of pinspillers
of all classes.
From Q o'clock until closing time
men and women will compete in
the five-game Hyattsville event
which already has a paid-up entry
list of 80 men and Is women gained
from preliminaries staged by various
Hyattsville leagues. Top prizes for
both sexes will be $50. Entrance
fee for men is SIS and for women,
s3. Three-fifths handicaps will be
based on a scratch for men of 1873
and l18 for women. The winners
also will receive trophies.
Next Sunday Oscar Hiser, Hyatts-
vile Recreation proprietor, again
will be host to many men and
women who will shoot it out in the
inaugural of the Perce Wolfe mixed
doubles. The new event, named
for Washington's popular No. l
bowler, promises to be whopper.
The winning couple will split 500.
Entrance fee will be ST team. A
three-fifths handicap based on a
combined 235 scratch with a limit
Of Is pins a game will be given.
Bethesdans in Spotlight.
After a mixture of singles, doubles
and teams take their turns in the
tournament starting at this aft
srnoon. Action will be accelerated in
the w. C. D. A. championships to-
morrow night when the Bethesda
Bowling Center major league with
nine teams gets the second weeks
competition off to flying start.
Navigation pinmen of the Navy De-
partment loop also are on tomor-
row nights schedule. Dutch AIS of
the Brookland Merchants will be
among the teams rolling Tuesday
and McGolrick Plumbers are listed
for Wednesday. Hope and st. Johns
ouints will roll Thursday night but
most of the 30-club Masonic League
pinmen will see action Friday night.
incidentally, Clayton Brown of the
newly-crowned champion Whiting
team, was the winner of the annual
Shah Trophy tournament in which
50 of the eligible So Masonic rollers
competed Friday night at Penn
Recreation. Brown, given six
franked sticks, cut loose with 1872,
1874 and 1913 for gross 425 to nose
out Wesley Miltner of Pentalpha
by one pin.
Miltner Comes Close.
The treasurer of the Mems City
Association needed Al pins in his last
four boxes and without a spare
break got 80, missing No. pin in
the last frame for a tie. He posted
games of 152, 145 and 103 and with
a 24-pin handicap tailed 424. Char
ley Brown of National finished third
with 30-402. Andy Price of Po-
tomac, the scratch man, marked up
$50 but his teammate, Fletcher
Sears, fired the second best scratch
score OF 39l.
Among her seasons achievements, |
Caroline Hiser boasts the record set
of 422 for women in the King Pin
Mixed Doubles. The Hyattsville
star, with 1876, 149 and 1873, topped
by II pins the former league mark
held by Lorraine GULL. Miss Hiser's
big set, however, is two pins shy of
the seasons city-wide record of 424
rolled by Kitty Kendrick in the
Rosslyn ladies loop.
Anacostia Spillway will be the
scene of the keen District League
pennant chase Wednesday night
with all IA teams rolling at 1880.
Lafayette is the pace setter, one
game ahead of King Pin. A post
poned match between Chevy Chase
Ice Palace and Spillway will follow
the regular scheduled tilts.