Evening star., 1949-02-27
S17,B5 Melon Split
Info 1,541 Awards;
Woman Is Ace
By Rod Thomas

By Rod Thomas
Final figures on The Stars 21st
annual bowling tournament, an
nounced yesterday, revealed an
entry of 23,007, a prize fund of
$17,255.25 and a contribution to
the Bowlers Victory Legion. to
which the event was dedicated, of
$5,751.75.
The prizes, published herewith,
number 1,541-in 1948 there were
LOTS and the entry was 16,648.
According to national bowling
headquarters here. it was by far
the largest tournament in the
history of the sport excepting only
the American Bowling Congress
tenpin championships. renowned
as the worlds biggest sports event,
with more than 10000 partici-
pants in the 1949 affair now in
progress at Atlantic City.
Two of the outstanding per-
formers in The Star tournament
were women. Frances Johnson,
one of several skirted members
of the Connecticut Avenue Busi-
nessmen's League at Chevy Chase
Ice Palace, scored a sweep of top
awards. 70 capture first prize OF
$1O0 in women's gross sets she
tailed 453 with the aid of 27-
pin handicap, based on her aver
age of 100 with the Marx JeWelry
team. Her 426 from scratch, a
women's record for the tourna-
ment since it was placed under
its present setup four years ago,
was worth S25 and she plucked
another S25 plum with the top
game of 166. Miss Johnson is a
Federal Trade Commission secre-
tary.
WAC Sets Tenpin Mark.
WAC Warrant Officer Olive
Marsh, secretary to Army Chief
of Staff Bradley. hung up wom-
ems record in the tenpin division
with a game of 255 while firing
with the Marshmallows in the Be-
thesda Bellies League at Bethesda
Bowling Center. She was the only
top scorer to repeat, having won
single-game honors in the l948
tournament with count OF 23O.
After marking up the 255 in her
opening game, Miss Marsh strained
a leg muscle and barely was able
to finish the set, in which she
registered only SIG.
While serving as secretary to
General Eisenhower before Gen
eral Bradley took over as Chief
of Staff, Miss Marsh received the
WAC Commentator Ribbon,
pinned on by General Ike.
Largest slice of the mems melon
goes to Israel Rosenblum, a mem
ber of the Sellers Plumbers team
in the Bethesda Bowling Center
$1,000 Duckpin League. who.
tackled a handicap of 81 sticks to
a set of 451, the highest OF his
career, for a gross SOP worth 5000.
Rosenblum, co-proprietor of a dry
cleaning establishment, tied for
second place in scratch sets, with
Al Moreenstein, a contestant at
Brookland Recreation, with each
receiving $3.50 for his 451.
Wright, Tucker Brilliant.
High scratch performers among
the male duckpinnerS were Al
Wright, who shot a set Of 457 IN
the Clarendon Major League, and
Harold c. Tucker who registered
a game of 1872 in the Chevy Chase
Ice Palace Commercial League.
Their scores were worth $50 each.
Tucker nabbed S100 in tying for
tenth place in gross sets with g.
479. In tying for 39th in gross
sets with 12-469. Wright nailed
S55.
Rosenblum was pressed for
honors in the main payoff. Bill
Greene, an entrant at Boulevard,
was second with 102-498 which
netted him SITS and Dick RICHTER,
who competed at Penn Recrea-
ton, was third with 63-495 for
$3.50.
Miss Johnson's triumph re-
warded persistence. She took a
dozen turns in the tournament
and clicked on the 18th. Earlier
in the going, Ferne Greely Of the
Hi-Skor Mixed Doubles League
rolled 48-439 to hold what seemed
to be a winning hand. She
wound up second for prize of
S85. Third was Virginia j. CAL
vagno, a Lafayette entrant, who
collected S75 with tally of S.
434.
In the tenpin division, which at
tracted 1882 entries, Delbert L.
Erickson, a student at Gallaudet
College, rolling with the Gallaudet
Pharmacy team in the Nation S
Capital Deaf League at Tenpins,
Inc, in Alexandria, registered 201-
744 for the mems main award of
$50. He was trailed by Arthur w.
Brle, a Bethesda Bowling Center
entrant, with 186-726 for $40 and
Ralph C. Taylor, who competed at
Anacostia Spillway, with 1925
for $50.
Carrietta Rech PAGES Women.
Lou Colbert rolled $50 at Ten
pins, Inc, for high scratch set and
S25 and Charley Bures collected
$25 for the best game, 1858, also
at Tenpins, Inc.
Pacing the women in tenpln
gross sets was Carrietta Rech of
the Hellsbelles in the Bethesda
Bowling Center Bellies League. Her
tally of 258-753 was good for $40.
Miss Rech is appointment officer
of the Farm Credit Bureau of the
Agriculture Department. Tied for
second place we're Ada P Newland,