Evening star., 1946-02-17
,g of a bad name, both in the case of


bowling and billiards.
One of the worlds greatest billiard
players, Edouard Horemans, learned the
fine points of this most difficult game
on table in Belgian church. Prob
ably the foremost match-game duckpin
bowler this sport has known, Glenn
Wolstenholme, never defeated in COM
petition with the Nations best, rolled
his first strings as a fuzzy face on the
mapleways of Ingram Memorial Church
at Tenth street and Massachusetts, ave-
nue. NE. In short pants, he was one Of
the first duckpin shooters to score better
than 400 for 3-game league set.
From the same locale emerged per-
haps the Susan B. Anthony of the world
of mineralite and maple. Many bowlers
who read this will think of Bronson
Qualities as the only woman ever to
head a national bowling organization
composed both of men and women. In
1939-40 she was the president of the
National Duckpin Bowling Congress. In
1914 she was strikingly attractive
young woman with corn-tassel hair.
sky-blue eyes with the uninhibited spirit
of her native Texas sparkling from
them, and with penchant for playing
basket ball with unusual vigor) in the
gym of the Ingram Memorial Church.
Women's Epic Role
In Bowling History
You're listening to the genesis of
women's' epic role in bowling history
when tell you about sweet little old
lady named Billie williams who came
to watch the Ingram girls play basket
ball, but in odd moments bowled with
the Ingram boys. When the girls fin
Billie and the boys bowl. Then they
bowled. In short order, league came
into being composed of four teams of
females.
In 1914 officers of the Washington
City Duckpin Association were flabber-
gasted when the Ingram Memorial
Church League requested ladies
night" in the mems annual tournament.
I'VE had the night all right" says
Miss Qualities, with cuspidors .draped
with pink ribbons, smoking and pro-
family forbidden among the males and
the pinboys cautioned to be not openly
critical"
Putting the Broom to t
Bowling in Washington
Most proprietors looked askance on
the innovation of women bowling in
public.
One young businessman took q more
thoughtful slant. He told the managers
of his several establishments: Keep
these places SO clean and respectable in
general that any woman can come here
and feel at home" Morris Cafritz's
example quickly was followed here and
later elsewhere.
1t might be said that women took a
broom" to bowling and kept it swishing.
Throughout the land youu find scarcely
a modern maple plant which wasn't de-
signed to satisfy the critical eye and
squeamishness of Miss and Mrs Bowler.
Rest rooms that compare with those of
swank hotels and theaters, cushioned
chairs and benches for bowlers and
spectators where once were plain planks;
f1ossy draperies and murals to cover
the baroness of the wall in back of the
pits; meticulously maintained luncheon
cites and even full-fedged restaurants.
On entering certain one of Metro
politan Washington's thirty-o bowl
ing establishments one easily could i'm
agine himself in the grand room Of
palace. But it isn't unique. Such estab-
lishments are becoming numerous over
the land as the bowling ledger indicates
that proprietor and architect aren't kid
ding each other.
AL Of which Is far removed from the