Evening star., 1949-05-23
panneII and Weinberg
Reach Final in Hectic
Mateh-Game Bowling
by Ben McAlwee

tails No. / duckpin bowler. and
Abe Weinberg, Georges Radio
team star Of the National Capital
League as opponents, the Metro
politan Washington match-game
championship will be decided next
Sunday at Colonial Village start
ing at pm.
They won their way into the
finals of the seventh annual
elimination series last night at
the Virginia pin plant when Pam
neil whipped two-tine former
champion Bill King in pulsat-
ing extra-box finish. four games
to three. Weinberg beat Frank
Micalizzi. the Schlitz Beer team
ace, Al in semif1nal.
Pannell started the night OIL
trimming George Schmid, AZ In
the quarter final round, but not
before the young up-and-coming
Colonial Village star gave Pan
nell a real tussle.
Weinberg, too, barely escaped
defeat, at the hands Of AL Wright.
before subduing the crack Hutcht-
sons Furniture roller, 4-3 In a
semifnal. Wright almost won
the match in the sixth game but
a seemingly perfect hit on a last
box spare netted only six pins
when he needed nine for victory.
Stage Dramatic Struggle.
In the other two quarter finals
Micalizzi erased Jesse Rowland.
Lucky Strike luminary, AZ. and
King outbowled Perce Wolfe, AZ.
The battle between Pannel and
King was one Of the most dra-
matte bowling clashes ever wit
messed here. Pannell won the
first two games, 1873 to 1T and
1873 to 115.
Pannell, with q 1e-pin lead. was
on his way to make it three
straight when King spared and
struck In the final two boxes TO
gain q tie as each pinman counted
1874. King won the roll-off with
q resounding strike.
But Pannell made 1t three
games TO one by annexing the
fourth, 1877 to 1913. Pannell pulled
this one out Of the fire with q
last-box strike after King had
counted nine on q final spare.
King came from behind to take
the fifth game. Ill to 103. with
spares in the seventh. eighth and
tenth frames. King got the Jump
and won the sixth game, 131 TO
81. This squared the contest at
three games each.
They were two tired pinmen
who entered the seventh and de-
Gliding game. Pannell took the
lead with O. second-box spare.
King cut Pannell's l0-pin lead TO
i've with q fifth-box spare. King
trailed until the ninth, when .
six-pin spare count put him one
pin UP, 81 to 90. The game ended
l00-all when Pannell counted 10
after missing . two-pin spare
break. Kings best was . nat
nine.
With victory hanging in q bal
ance on their second roll-off. Pan
neil hit the headpin full for four
pins. Here the redoubtable an
cf1orman of the champion Hutch
ison's Furniture team made one
of his best shots. He cleaned OF
pins Nos 2, 4, 7 and 10 and on
his third shot nailed Nos. 6 and 8
for a 10 count.
King Barely Misses Spare.
King, in the meantime. had
fired q powerful shot into the Ia
pocket, leaving Nos. and 7 for a
spare break. On his second heave
he hit No. 4 pin thin on the right
side sliding the maple in front OF
No. z. When he missed the i'm
portant No. pin on his final shot
he fell at the foul line from ex-
haustion.
While pulling the. tape OF three
blistered flngertips, King plainly
shaken by his loss. remarked, II
don't know how I managed to
bowl those last three games"
Micalizzi and Weinberg also
came out of their battle with Bills
tered fingers.
Scores of matches: