Evening star., 1944-09-10
Men S and Women 5
District Leagues
Among Starters
BY BEN McALWEE.

by BEN MCALWEE.
What promises to be a tremen-
dous bowling season will get under
way this week with openings in the
crack mems and women's District
loops highlighting a crowded calen-
dar.
Capitals leading fair rollers will
usher in the 25th season of the
Washington Ladies' League at La
fayette before getting their District
League campaign under way We'd
nesday night, while many of the
top-f1ight pinmen will timber up In
openings of the Rosslyn Indepen-
dent and Rhode Island Business
mems loops Tuesday night and
will see action Wednesday in the
fast District circuit.
High on tomorrow nights program
will be the start Of hostilities in
the 24-team Safeway League at
King Pin and the Navy Department
loop opener at Arcadia. Part of
the Navy Band will pep 1t up for
the long-organized Government
League, which encompasses many
Of the city's veteran rollers. Of
ficers of the city's biggest grocery
loop, which starts at 9:15, are: Miles
Ryan, president; John Pagan, vice
president; Bert Warner, treasurer,
and Mel Tallant, scorer. Scheduled
to start at Brookland Recreation
are the 14-team Sodality Club, Mems
c. & P. Telephone loop with IA
teams and the st. Martins Mems
Club. The Massachusetts, Society
of Washington Mixed League opens
at Hi-Skor.
Pistol Club on Firing Line.
Tuesday evening at Sis the In
come Tax rollers with ,18 teams
start at Lucky Strike trailed by the
12-club Owl loop Of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey and Forest Service
Leagues at 7:30 Over at Brook
land the 12-team International
Business Machines loop gets under
way at tbs, while at 8 o'clock the
24-club Ladies Lutheran Church
rollers will swarm Arcadia.
The newly y-organized 14-team 18th
Precinct Pistol Club League with
Sergt. Henry H. Heflin as president
will open fire at tbs Wednesday
night at Brookland Recreation. The
Friendly Club is down for action at
the Lucky Strike the same hour.
Wednesday at Penn Recreation,
the Capital Transit rollers will open
their seventh season with E. D.
Merrill, company president, rolling
the first ball. Officers of the loop
are Ike Goad, president; w. H.
Sparshott, vice president, and r.
F. Lawson, secretary.
Tenpin bowlers will hold sway
Thursday night at Lucky Strike
with the OPA loop of IL teams
starting at Z.
Women's Leagues Open.
Friday the Brookland Recreation
ladies' loop of IL teams with Irene
Gochenour as secretary starts
33-week campaign, while at Arcadia
the 16-club Ladies' Independent
League with Mary Fox again pres
ident ushers in it's season.
Buswell, whose top game of IA,
gave the Inspectors 81 win from
P. w. Drawing and Fredette, with
high set of 375 to give the Defend
ing champion Progress No. / team
an odd-game victory over Torpedo
Tube No. /, featured the opening
of the Navy Yard League at Lucky
Strike. Master Mechanic John w.
Kindle of the Erecting Shop fired
the first ball. Bucky Burns and
Joe Goode, are president and sec
retary, respectively. of the 24-club
loop.
Muriel Scott of the champion
Commerce quint is the new presi-
dent of the National Capital La
dies League which will open its
season September Is at Lucky
Strike. Agnes ThaXton, also a mem
Der OF Commerce, was again chosen
secretary and Marie Caponnetto was
named vice president. There are
two vacancies in the loop for either
Federal or District government
teams.
How the Stars Square Off.
The opening nights schedule of
the mems and women's District
Leagues for Wednesday starting at
7:30 are:
Men-Brookland at Colonial VIII
lage, Bethesda Bowling Center at
Northeast, Lucky Strike at Hi-Skor,
King Pin at Hyattsville, Spillway at
Lafayette and Greenway at Clar-
endon.
Women - Colonial Village at
Brookland, Rosslyn at Bethesda
Bowling Center, Hi-Skor at Lucky
Strike against Red Circle, Ice Pal
ace at King Pin, Lafayette at Spill
way and Silver Spring at Takoma.
Tomorrow nights Washington
Ladies League matches at 7:3O will
bring together last seasons pen
nant-winning First Grill led by
Lorraine GULL and the runner-up
Garvin's Grill with Lucille Young.
captain, while Hessick Coal, Jennie
Egan, captain, meets H. e. j. Con-
struction, Mae Diehl, captain: the
Boots Workman team against S. g.
H. Parking headed by Rena Ride
nour; Harry Rich's Barber Shop.
Frances Wilson, captain, engages
Edmonds Optical with Hazel Glover,
league secretary as captain; Invest