Evening star., 1944-01-28
Woods Team Meets
Rodier's Bombers;
Warner Rolls 45S

6arndrQ dan0lcap, which looms as
one Of the big bowling tournaments
Of the season, King Pin tomorrow will
stage an all-star team match which
promises to bulge the Brentwood
Village maple plant with spectators
when the Bill Wood sharpshooters
and the Henry Rodier Bulletin
Bombers start firing at 8 o'clock.
The Bill Woods, with Ollie Pacini,
captain, will present Tony Santini,
Bub Guethler, Fred Murphy, Ed
Blakeney and Bob Miciotto. The
Rodier lineup, which so far has
not been announced by Capt. Dick
Hobart, is expected to include Al
Wright, Perce Wolfe, Eddie Keith,
Paul Jarman and Karl Gochenour.
There is a strong possibility that
Miciotto will roll with the Bombers.
The six-game Barnard event,
which last year drew $50, gets UNDER
way early in the afternoon and runs
until closing time.
Warner'sN458 q Record.
Ed Warner split things wide open
at the Arcadia the other night when
the S. & A. team bowler posted an
a0-time record set of 458 in the
Navy Department League with a
season game mark of 189. Navigation
led the team rolling with 6l5 and
1,746. incidentally, Tom Galleher
sports the loops all-time record
game Of 210 which WAS rolled six
years ago.
Tonight Takoma Recreation will
stage its third straight weekly
handicap tournament for bowlers of
both sexes. Last week Charley Wray
was the winner with 46-424,
Entrance fee is $3.50 with con-
testants receiving two third hand
leap based on a 1913 scratch. p.
One Of the closest flag races in the
long and memorable history of the
Masonic League is being waged at
Penn Recreation, according to Ray
Cross who has been scoring the big
fraternal loop for the last 10 years.
Says Ray: "As far back as I can
remember there has not been as
tight battle as the present one.
OF the 80 teams only the first IL
have percentages of 500 or better"
Silver Spring on Top.
Silver Spring, back in the league
after six years absence, leads the
pack by two games with Whiting,
Hiram, Gompers and Petworth in q
four-way tie for the runner-up spot.
Pentalpha is sixth, four games out Of
first place, while Stansbury No. and
Potomac are deadlocked for seventh
place and close behind are Joppa,
National, Stansbury No. 2, st. Johns
and King David.
Andy Price of Potomac, defending
league champion, again sets the
pace with 1908 with Abe Povich of
Gompers, who several years ago
established a league record for
average of 125, trails with 120-18
and Fletcher w. Sears Of Potomac
has 1904. Price also Is a season
record holder with . 432 set, while
top single of 180 belongs to Major
Robb of st. Johns, the only bowler
who has rolled In the loop every
year since its birth in 1918.
DR.. E. E. Hobbs, pace-setting Sill
yer Spring, sports second high game
of ITO and John Deputy of Petworth
is third with 164. Veteran Johnny
Shaull Of Pentalpha leads with 40
strikes. Silver Spring, with $50, and
Petworth, with 1,790, are tops for
the season.
Smash Brookland Records.
Two season records were dashed
into the discards last night in the
Brookland Merchants League at
King Pin when Ramsey Cleaners
banged out 673 and 1874, with Bill
Cliffs 164 and 404 the heaviest wal
lops. Modern Way Movers were vic
tins of the assault. Karl Gochenour
fired 400 but his No. 4 team dropped
the odd game to the last-place
Jameson Battery. Dutch Ais swept
Rudy's Tavern as Charley Mehler
led with 139 and 374. Brookland
Garage nicked the pace-setting
Martin Flowers in the rubber game
as Cones and Smith aided with 354s
each.
Rolling 401 the night before in
the Capital Transit loop at Penn
Recreation, Gochenour featured the
Garage teams sweep into a first
place tie with Eastern No. l and
Traffic No. l after Garage won II
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