Evening star., 1944-04-16
Doubles and Singles
Remain Open Until
Teams Perform


The deadline for late entries in
the Washington City Duckpin As
sociation tournament has been ex-
tended to Z o'clock Wednesday
night, just prior to the opening Of
the 34th annual championships at
Silver Spring, Secretary Harry
Dixon announced last night.
No applications will be accepted
after the tournament gets under
way except doubles and singles of
bowlers who already are entered on
teams, and these must be made be-
fore the team bowls.
With George F. Harbin, president
of the association, and a group of
assistants including Bill and Kay
Caul and Bill and Eleanor johnson,
Dixon worked until the wee hours
this morning at Convention Hall
making the schedule for the tour
nament. which ends May TO- The
schedule will be available at all
alleys by Thursday. Late entries
left out of the schedule will be
assigned special nights.
Stressing that all applications,
accompanied by entrance fees, must
be in by midnight next Saturday,
Secretary Lorraine Gulli announces
that the 23d annual Washington
Women's Duckpin Association tour
nament, which follows the mems at
Silver Spring, opening May IL, bids
fair to be one of the biggest in its
history.
Enter WOmen's Tourney en- Masse.
Following suit with the Silver
Spring mems three loops, which
have entered the w. c. D. A. tour
nament practically in q body. the
12-tean Silver Spring Ladies League,
Of which Helena Boyd is president
and Hazel SWEET scorer, has entered
the women's meet 100 per cent.
Emma Bourne, head of the Temple
Ladies, has assured Miss Gulli of its
full roster of IL teams, while the
Washington Ladies, with IL teams,
and Ladies District, with IL teams,
also will fire en- maSSe.
Six of the eight Takoma ladies
quints have entered and strong rep
resentation is looked for from Clar-
endon, RoSslyn, Mount Rainier,
Bethesda and Arcadia Independent,
not to mention the many Govern
ment leagues.
Both Miss GULL and Dixon again
urgently request that league scorers
send in averages of their respective |
leagues. The mems averages, vi
tally necessary to give correct |
handicaps, should include only
games up to and including March
81 while the fair rollers classifi- |
cations will be based on averages |
as of April Is.
Slated to roll in the mems tourna-
ment Friday, May S, the entire all
star District League, in the mean
time, tonight will fire at the Ar
cadia, starting at 7:30. Besides the
hot pennant scrap which finds King
Pin and Lafayette deadlocked for
first place, with Spillway and Hi
Skor trailing close behind, Tony
Santini and Bub, Guethler, Lucky
Strike teammates, will continue
their battle for the individual lead
ership. Guethler, with 127-14, is
only seven sticks ahead of Santini.
Schedule for Tonight.
The matches tonight will bring
together King Pin and Greenway,
Lafayette and Spillway, Hi-Skor
and Colonial Village, Brookland
and Bethesda Bowling Center,
Arcadia and Lucky Strike and
Hyattsyille and Temple. The Ice
Palace Clarendon match was post
poned.
Also of interest this afternoon and
tonight will be the Penn Recreation
party handicap for all classes of
man and woman pinspillers starting
at o'clock. The winner, besides
receiving cash prize of $50. will be
treated to Tuesdays opening ball |
game, dinner and a show.
Out at Hyattsville tonight starting |
at $50, Oscar Hiser will stage Red |
Gross women's team match and
bowling fans, besides seeing some of |
the leading fair rollers of the Cap
ital and Baltimore in action, will have |
an opportunity to pay tribute to a !
returning Hyattsville war hero, Ma
rine Corpl. Lewis E. Dick) Trott,
who will roll a ball to start hostili-
ties. Perce Wolfe, chairman of the
Prince Georges County Red Cross
bowling drive, will take up a collec-
ton for the Red Cross.
The weekly Takoma handicap
tournament has been changed for
the remainder of the spring and
summer from Friday to Monday, |
starting tomorrow night.