Evening star., 1949-11-10
Frances Johnson, Ice Palace
Team Spray Bowling Records
By Ben McAIwee

By Ben MeAIwee
A 176, the highest game bowleo
here this season by woman, to-
day stood beside the name o1
Frances Johnson, star captain o1
the Chevy Chase Ice Palace team
Flashing her big string al
Greenway last night in 402 set
Miss johnson supplied the fire.
works as Ice Palace smotherec
Greenway with season recore
team counts Of 654 and 1914 ir
the Capitol Ladies Major League
It was the third time IN three
seasons Frances has bowled games
Of over ITS, for which the Ma
tional Duckpin Bowling Congress
each time awards a gold medal
In 1947 she posted 176 in the
Washington Ladies League ano
IT. in the Ladies District. with
only a week separating her two
brilliant efforts.
Making q grand slam in the
women's division of the giant
Evening Star tournament was
Frances standout achievement
last season. Besides her winning
gross score Of 453. the Ice Palace
leader posted scratch set of 42e
and 166 game, both all-tine rec
ords for women in the 21-year-olo
event.
Clarendon stepped on the gas
with second high season scores
of GAS and 1900 to beat the pace
setting Bethesda Bowling Center
quint, 81. Marion Hamilton's
392 and Lucy Roses 140 led the
Clarendon charge. With Eliza
beth Turner lolling 1877 in a 35s
set and Boots Petit totaling 378
Bethesda went down swinging
with counts of 604 and LIT.
Toni Rowe's 143 gave King Pin
q 81 win from champion Brook
land. Miss Rowe dropped her tor
average to 1873 with a 351 set.
Hyattsville, aided by Frances VIII
sons 346, trimmed Hi-Skor, 2-1
The close pennant race in the
Major District loop witnessed
Hendrix Steak House taking over
first place on total pins over
Miller Wrenn Furniture of Airing
ton.
With Paul Perkins hitting for
153 and 405 and Hokie Smith
tallying a 398, Hendrix was a 2-1
winner from H. B. Leary Bros.
with GIG, $40 and 639. Karl
Gochenour, rolling 156 and 4o4,
made it an exciting battle as
Leary counted COG, 655 and 628. -
A 2-1 beating by Valley Forge
Beer cost Miller -Wrenn clear title
to first place. Cletus Pannell's
1ast-box spare count rescued the
final game for the furnituremeL,
627 to 625. Howard Parsons was
best for the beermen with 389.
Pannell climaxed a 391 set with
al.
The hectic battle for the in
dividual lead saw Pannell squirting
back on top with an average of
127-10 as Joe Harrison. Morris
Miller star. and erstwhile pace
setter dropped to fourth place
with 126-27 after a 367.
A 1872 game made with 10
straight marks in a 423 set moved
Pat Crescent of Covington Motors
one pin behind PannelI with q
1879 average. Pat reeled off five
successive spares. q Sstrike.4 two
spares, strike and spare for the
leagues second high season game.
Lindsay Stott, Hendrix team
captain, is third with 1850 after
a 372 set. Russ Spilman's 800
jumped the Winchester Packard
ace to fifth place with 126-15
Perce Wolfe. Leary star, bowled
379 to take sixth with 126-11.
Covington Motors. aided by FL
lis Naiman's 153 and 421, swamped
Winchester Packard with 625, 65s
and 648 scores. Morris Miller Lii
quors with 81 win from Fat
Boy Restaurant held third place
one game back of the tied Hen
dirk and Miller Wrenn outfits
Sparked by Tony Santini's 159 in
q 40 set and Johnny Ressa's 149
in a 407, Morris Miller capped a
1,945 team count with the sea-
sons second high game of 72s.
Speedballer Johnny Burge,
raped out a season record 1872
game and 429 set in the Minor
District League to help Dufy's
Tavern sweep Prosperity Cleaners
at Greenway. Ralph Reid fired
100 and 402 for the winners while
Ashley Mitchell rolled 153 and
412 for the losers.
High-hying Mann's Decorators
by whitewashing Sellers Plumbers
extended its winning streak to Is
games. Dick Lees 397 and Clar-
ence Appler's 393 led as Mann's
Tailed 645 and 1882.
King Pin, led by John Mandes
S87 beat Willis Builders, 81, te
gain second place over the losers
Despite Johnny Stewart's 149-4os
and Charley Zimmerman's 149.
AL, Stewards Camera Shop lost
two games to Price Motors. Billy
Towles' 168 was the big wallop al
Powell Radiator blanked Ice Pal
ace. George Schmid's 143 ane
407 prevented Petworth from
sweeping Arcade Pontiac.
It doesn't look as though
Straub's Sneakers will figure fo1
the pennant in the big CONNER
cial Tenpin League, but they may
have something to crow about
when the race is over. Last time
out they fired a set of 2.763 which
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