Evening star., 1948-07-11
.VFW Department
Bowling League
Closes Its Season


The Veterans of Foreign Wars
Bowling League closed its season
last week with a celebration at the
Heurich' Brewery when individual
and team prizes were awarded.
The II teams finished as follows:
All-American Post, Potomac Post,
Pentagon Post. Equality Walter
Reed Post, Columbia Post, Wilbur
S. Abel Post, A. Peter Dewey Post,
Washington Post. Front Line Post,
United States Army Air Forces Post
and National Capital Post.
High individual honors were as
follows: High strike, J. Kirchgess-
ner. Potomac Post; high average, D.
Detterman. All-American Post; high
set, George Iaccheri, Front Line
Post: high game, Bernie Hurndon.
Front Line Post: high spares. F.
Beilstein: high team set, Front Line
Post, and high team game, Wilbur
s. Abel Post.
Arrangements are being made to
enlarge the membership in the
league. The new league will start
some time in September.
Members of the Military Order of.
the Coolies of the District depart
ment participated in the parade last
Monday at Takoma Park, Md, and
won first prize for the best showing
in the first division.
Past National Seam Squirrel
Frank Topash gave recitation,
This Is My America"
National Capital Post baseball
team last Sunday defeated Column
hia Post, 7 to s. Equality Walter
Reed Post defeated Washington
Post, 10 to 8, and Potomac Post won
from Front Line Post by default.
The league playoffs, which find
National Capital Post meeting
Eouality-Walt Reed Post for the
title of the league, will begin next
Sunday.
National Capital Post met Thurs
day at 1919 K street NV. and
Senior Vice Comdr. James Flynn
presided.
The members paid their respects
| to Edward j. Sullivan, who had
passed away that morning. He was
one of the IA charter members OF
the post.
Meetings this week:
Sunday-United States Govern
ment Printing Office Post, 1900 New
Hampshire avenue NV.
Monday-George G. Blake Post
1927 Wisconsin avenue NV; Front
Line Post, 1919 K street NV.
Wilbur S. Abel Post, 935
G place NV.
Wednesday-Follow Me-Defense
Post, 1909 Rhode Island avenue
NE; Bethea- -Welch Post, 720 Barry
place NV.
Thursday-National Capital Post,
1919 K street NV; Equality-Walter
Reed Post, 935 G. place NV.
Friday-All-A Post, 1919
K street NV.
Auxiliaries.
Grace Fields, lady gold bug, con-
Quoted the regular meeting of Hor-
net Circle, Military Order of Lady
Bugs, on Tuesday at 935 G place
NV. Delegates and alternates
were elected as follows: Hattie By
ram and Leila Lyles; delegates and
Virden Syler and Ella Grimm, alter
mates.
Following the meeting a party was
held in honor of Past Lady Gold
Bug Rose Luebkert, who is moving
to Baltimore this month.
A special meeting of All-American
Auxiliary was held at the home Of
Hazel Glass on Monday, with the
president presiding. The following
were elected as delegates and alter
mates to the National Encampment
of Veterans of Foreign Wars Aux
iliary, to be held in st. Louis, Mo-,
from August 20 to September 3.
Hattie Byram and Katherine Sar-
gent, delegates; Hazel Glass and
Helen Hughes, alternates.
Meetings this week:
Monday-Front Line Unit, Wash
ington Loan and Trust Building,
Room 4l8.
Friday-All-American Unit, North
east Masonic Temple; Columbia
Unit, 1921 K street NV.