Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1926, Page 78

THR@U GH@ With Many Ranking Plz;y- aiive Teams Here, Have Unexcell- Washington Entl on Represen ed Opport ties for participation season 10 4 t capped b Col jant 16th of the The, team in U m the able leadership of Ma son as acting captain, in Cortlandt Park: Capt. Charles Ki bourne and Maj. C. A. Baehr Strong Team in Prospect. ‘With such players as Col getts, ' Morris, Palmer, Joh Baehr, Majs. Thomas and Coulter Capts Wipprecht and Walsh among its members, in addition to the team which won last Fall, the War Depar' ment, under the leadership ot Johnson, the new capt; should bLe able to place a strong team into the fleld this yesr .The Assistant J 'E“ @OUNTRY Enjoying Game. st popular sports of America. once considered to be an ¢ imited class and pla me, vitnessing it, le tc ment al! of the con- now is necessary for district ' to determine the contenders 13l events. a for enjoyfng good polo ! long drives to | r taking rssion charges, Capital during the season their own with repre- obinson, has proved him. have in- | Where formerly | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHIN GTO' ININTH NO. 1 1S SURE OF-DUCKPIN PENNANT In the home stretch, with a lead of 8 games and only 18 to go; it looks as though Ninth No. 1 is a sure win ne the East Washington Church Duckpin_Cireuit. The fight for second place, however, is close, four teams having n chance to oegupy the runner up positiop Besides leading the league, Ninth No. 1 has high team game and set | chalked up to its credit with scores of 608 and 1,747, respectively * Harry Streeter is leading in individual v with ]H') pins but Horner, Mertz, Stephenson, Fisher and others are right on his heels. | Seaton has high same with Horner has high set with 411 Souder, who has been leading in spares nearly the whole season still out in front with 182, while Charle: ephenson ig now over the top and leading in strikes with 44, Standing of Ninth No. 1 ngram Douzlas and enthusiastic plaver | G quent participant in the locat | es of the War Department club. under bringing goal tou at the Southeastern ament to this city ful this will give sport oppor 1 the best tion, comprising those | the stromg polo centers . Philadelphia, Richmond and North Carolina. inspiration for irs As o 1l ved the & rever Among the ators of polo matehes | and- the social activ- o will be found of the representative people of 1 activities. The \Washington S a by official, taking pa ny 1 Capital, aftairs It \ull be held t! Willard Hotel, on more to be s been. High of repsasentative: SOV elm‘\er t Army, Navy prominent people, will gain to join in showing and approval of the trian sport of the Na- is of the and locally re meet their support NATIONAL CAPITOL LEAGUE. of Teams. e strikes = per Ties i bt games Fame—Me- TYPOTHETAE LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. five-game 16ad over Judd & | 3 d but six games left, the f st place may as wel! handed to the National Capital s. In other words, the shouting. d & Detweiler and Packwood ing Co. v battle it out for sec- place al Press continued its ing in a game of | 4. Mischou had a | ;’74 HH 360 Rocords to Date. u,y.finueu Rule. ';41 irations ziven yuite a jolt when but three inning the firs ¢ margin, but Harmony second ird by man for | 9, 127 and noteh by Central climbed a giving a dose of whitewash. | ame of 132 and set of 230 took ihe twood in the losing the last by pargin o | place the pins in good form, was forced to the limit to he third going to Friend- Letween the leading ahd Amity, run- q | NORTH WASHI TURCH LEAGUE. standing of Teams. adividual —Whilhide, ual eot—Bell. Mount Pleas Pleasant strengthened its ce during the past week by taking three games from Im- Baptist while the third-place Presbyterian five was keeping average down by taking two from the runners-up. Pet- rollers bettered their chances 2 Heights out of taking two games h chgh!» pin mnl‘er» 2 forteit. { Mount hold on first’ pl to make an| Balti- | amateur sport it always has| dent support of soclety followers of | business and | it is all over | (T E ")lvi re'on hand to battle | Friendship | Colum- | | North Capitol. . { Records to Date. | Rigb individual aver Second high individu: 109-41 3+ Third Wigh 109-41 Higl | Hen Moet ¢ | Most High average—Horne individual average—Mertz High team set—Ninth N — WESTERN HIGH FENCERS LOSE TO NAVY PLEBES ANNAPOLIS, Md., Marel an interesting match with here this after won from W Washington, Summaries: ~In the foils Plebes hoo! of i Brown. W. H jadefeated Blount, | Barnhar: Ser W | defeated Barnh Baranay. W 5 mm).l n. 1 [ | Hiount. d Brown. Qeeated . DES MOINES, Iowa, March 27 () —Charley- Hoff, nimble Norwegian pole vault record breaker, has accepi- ed an invitation to emer the Drake | ! relays here April 23 and 2 the week when they rolled a score of 575 against Immn'\uel Baptis Co- 2 close behind, hov'e\'er. a_Cc un{ of 573 scoved on Petworth. Central came to life and registered a team set of 1.605 Tomorrow night the Central Presby- terian five meets Columbia Heights. | Tuesday finds Petworth battling | | Emory, while Immanuel Baptist | takes on Columbia Heigh's Wednes- day and rolls again on Friday. meet- ing Wallace Memorial. Tuesday, April 20, has been selected as the date for the league's second | annual banquet. The affair is to be held at Central Presbytertan Church. AGRICULTURE INTERBUREAU LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. W 44 D48 Property. Accounis So-Kems jant Industry Economics | Roads Sohcitors Interbureaus atcoumta! 1 Somes—bro 300" Roads, 502 ind!idual Sete—Dixen V. 'Gercdortt, 570 High individual games—Dixon 162 Ennis. 158 Week 56 pine. By taking two games from Public Roads five, the Property out- fit retained the leadership of the league in point of total pins, but the 445 17 prize—Myer of Property. stork. Mye high | 9, and | gain of | the | HE largest seine -cver § Fisheries before .md small mouth bas work of seiming the stock Basin who brouz Potomac with him a corps of saasoned vivermen When these put in their appearance they were. greeted | by han U0 tishermen anxious 10_witness the operations There was a_great deal of prelim inary work to do before the big seine couid Le put in the water, when | it was flnally siretched out to o | s"mie of the finny tribe the difficulties under which -th d to work. together with northy, wind, prevented doin ht be vithout e 3 t them ~ fr t what n termed a tes results, Many Thingss Interfere. Friday, owing 4o the rain was suspended, but yesterday the men were on hand bright and early to Ic cate the les, some of which had to on the first attempt Then work was furher handicanped by not having a seine boat, the boat used for this purpose on the lower | tomac belng “too- large to be out of the wa iy, After man: ! a boat around V was decided to floats formerly | beach T} n the ne of the smalier used ‘at the bathing Jong seine, which had been piaced in the water to scak so it i would sink immediately when the seining operations began, was then placed on the float, but the stropgz Mhwest wind preventad the men (rom maneuvering'it with the help of two row b and long p a result only a very short haul was made and no fish cauzht. To expedite the work of moving the sround the Basin two over-boa were offered, one do others and the other King, to be pla ught up or' | George E two boats Deeters. Capt nece; held the beach in order { asked if to do this work Buildings and T ided it wu nove some stakes that at the old bathin; to land his seine, and secured Publie Deeters then d Accounts outfit Fames won u all a So-Kem: 1 and star fu the c team, the Prop. ade u despeicie d, picking up 15 xes. Tucker Fave him plenty of assistance und | resistered the high game of the ateh, 1 | he star of Accounts’ over the So- ning t | below vietories of quint; and he 1 leffort to annex their best Two ma vy counts, t Bureau bowlers su a_ whitews his tean the hands o k of the gam Holmes ¢ iis stuff in a 4 result his cellar chainps rprise into Solicitors’ two of the 2 Interbureaus ree games and thr tes matches ouple ot fore the easilv dispo: script pairs willingness to demo the thing wus -done Agricultural pair—men, | children; nobody barred. It has bee; | suggested that a match be with the McPhilomy-Ellett to : any women o com RECORD LIST OF AWARDS . FOR CIT\ DUCKPI’\J EVENT N handsome silver cups, which | merchandise offerings \Georgc Iseman, chairman of the prize committec | in addition to the money rewards. will be supplemented later on by many ‘llhe work will be awarded for meritorious worl These cups, which are RGB AND STREAM By Perry Miller. opcrated m the waters of the District of | Columbia was placed in the Tidal B measuring 1,500 feet, with a depth of 20 feet, is being used to seine the Basin of carp and other fish declared ng it this Spring with ga crappié, sun fish and rock bass t up from the lower | erent stakes and other ob- | As | wiers on | on the alleys during the coming tournament of the Washington Cit | Duckpin Association, have been donated. it has beén announced by Basin lost Thursday. This net, | “undesirable e fish, by the Bureau of | including large | | | Maj. Cary Brown | dispatched one te Capt. Deeters s: exactly how long it {to finish the work | Basin, but that he was on the job to | continue until it was finished. He | s2id he would york 2ll day todas | Is Ready to Plant. | Tne Bur 1to co | fish as the edit for its be er who immediately | the Basin he did not know | wouid take him | S of seining the of soon as the work of seining| Basin is completed. Too much | can not_be ziven the buretu t in this work, which b the per: al supe lof Glen €. Leach, chief of th on of fish culture. Leach has ied four divi- work | Sertice Laundr vithstane 4 the I8 encountered by his crew. they good hauls t the District_today There have been & ferent expresstons of opinic to the size and kind of fish that will be ettec There are those who think only <maM fish will be caught others who declare that there are ca in the Basin weighing 325 and pounds One old colored man id he has been casting the Basin for years, wis ove I have seen b en that I expect when tl many set Capt. Deete; expect to have | show the people nd_tomorrow. good many dif- o 0 who his that | are | m Hvre » of they will know n finally landed in the net’ declare that there are a lot of old fish in the basin. In fact, a most _every one has a different stor: tell. Two smaller nets hold the fish caug to be replanted in as bass, crapple, sun the other for the | be uged to| for those the Basin, such fish. etc., and t the Bureau desirables.” will at, one | best JUNIOR NINES TO CLAtH. Junior and Renroc Junior Base ball teams meet today at 2:30 on | | Seaman Gunners’ field. Moose plavers | are to report to Manager Nally at| Moose jon as a feature of the Warching- City Duekpin Association's tour 1t. but this will depend large! cap Earl and Perce de- 1 it Tnterstate Comni 3 Dethis 34 Khl"rs of ha'r(-ll-’l 3 h. [ and M omary seat 12, cast his | of polished | trust old | taps over all| one more hectic race. | s mnot confine hisf ¢ night to sounding taps ight Le taps for Micke Fetle would say, we don't Witalen in the will wvindow eye: acr he row have that | well—i {and. as | mean m The | the Colunibhia ches of last Tuesday 18" lead cut down of dropping a ons. but thev still main- | able margin on the with the Hilltoppers and waging a great battle | " trifle | ame to| v of the Beeque | flashed a brilliant game in her thi rolling against Bethany, ! ing the maples for the fine count of just two pins shy of setting v mark for her team theriue Furey of the Climbers the second time in two wee! 1 new record high set on t tenm when a total of a 5> for the bit of bow ir set the week Catherine Moriart ters of Tsabella sterted the team on to at pe win over Interstate rde when she counted 127 ond clash. A double-header in nth and eighth frames. in w <he added 38 pins to her game, 304 the Daugh ) did ance to finish in the >. C. girls are staging Having no ¢ | first five, the I. The prize list will be the greatest ever offered by any duckpin tourna- | a close race for. top honors on the | ment in any city at any time in the history of little-pin rolling. This statement 1s made on the authority of Henry organization That there will be more teams shoot- | ing at the Coliseum, starting April 19. | than on any ‘previous tourney is now a certainty. Another of the organi tions which has asked for a night to | be set for its circuit during the tourna- {ment s Odd Fellows League. Just how many teams will roll from that | organization has not et been definite- | 1y decided. A number of fraternal and commer. | cial bodies will have similar special } nights. The list of cups to be awarded win- | ners follows: | For the best nine-game total in cla A—Silver cup by The Evening St | Newspaper Co. | B—silver cup by the Times-Herald. For the best nine-game total in class For the best nine-game total in class | Tait Rodier, president of the Cc—Silver the Washington Post. For the best set rolled in the singles. class A—Silver cup by tlie Bulletin. For the best set rolled in the singles | class BE—Silver cup by Pearson & Crain. For'the best set rolled in the singles class C—Siiver cup by Coliseum ley For the high set rolled during the tourney by a class A bowler—Silver cup by Recreation alleys. For the high game rolled during the tourney by a class B bowler—Silver cup by King Pin alleys. For the high set rolled during the tourney by 2 class C bowler—Silver | cup by Convention Hall alleys For the high game rolled during the tourney by a bowler in any class— Silver cup by Grand Central aller cup by With the Bowfiers | 166 1 | clares the Old Timer, “the d front rank of sports and past \and does happen. . [ recently saw tw | games of 151 and M. respectively, and I'm convinced that the lov rolled the best game. ““The other bowlcr crossel the head pin on practically every shot and yet ! |had 3 spare breaks. He blew 2 of |them—a 1-pin break. and a . Zpin {chance. His lowest count on the | spares he made was 8; on a strike he counted ‘'16. The other splits and left 1 pin standing on his only spare breal, after what looked like a perfect hit. He\did not miss shot during the game and never left 2 pin standing that he had a chance to get. And he hit the headpin prac- tically every time. “Theoretically, you'd say that if a ‘shooter socks the No.. 1 properly he will get:no splits, but that will take a lot of proving. In this case the other guy was missing and still get- ting them, if you get iwhat I mean! “Harry Dixon of the Aericulture In. { re: hurew Leazue ‘mnd holder of the | ict ‘hag & appeal to the gambling instincts of the so-called human race,” man got 9. " de- | uckpin game certainly stands in the imes, o District League sharpshooters roll man jgrievance,” says the Old Timer. “Harry is just beginning to realize | that prosperity has its drawbacks. It ning their annual tournament are ar- ranging to make Harry scratch man and give eyery other bowler a handi- cap. Harry wants to know what the big idea -is in making him shoot gainst the entire department, penal- izing his good work during the season instead of rewarding it.” He will feel a lot better when the treasurer begins handing out checks to the league's prize winners” Just now Harry fig- ures to be the biggest individual prize winner in the circuit's history. He has the best individual set, 445; the highest single game, 177, and is lead- ing the indfviduals with an average of " 110. 1!here are—there ain't no move. " ‘This zoes to ehow that you do nof neod to reyard a reall, oo ity he “col Wis uwh pa; .’5 B A Almost anything can happen— | seems that the league officials in plan- | That is all the first prizes | o team. At present Iva McEntee is | leading, followed closely by Mildred | Jensen, who has just returned to the | line-up after being on the sick list for several weeks, Capt. Jessie | | Smith is next in line. Bertha Heine. mann has done well in the last two weeks and is close enough to be : contender. | In “taking" the Washingtons for | the odd game. Columbians showed 1 | real championship form. Getting a | {311 game in the first encounter, they dropped to 43% in the second. but came back strong with 513 in the | final. fl.enu Levy held her average k with a 315 set and also turned in high game with 114. Capt. May O'Brien | was on the job with a neat set of 306 and 113 as her best game. Edna | Parker helped considerably with 303. Lorraine Gulli crashed the maples | for &, 520 set, with 116 as her best ingle effort, while her teammate ‘irginia Yarnell came through with counts of 108 and 109 in the second and third games and finished with 310. Lottie Rhodes helped the Commer- | cials to score their lone win over | Columbians with a count of 115. She | Eotou wat oF B16: ! DISTRICT LEAGUE. ! Standing of Team: W. L. 51 48 Y ASARRRSE T Pins ford Pane nuon Hall. . Torminal Tee Co.. ! Cornell’s Lunch Temple . . Mount Picasanis. Mever Davis Petworth Regulare [ Lok aiim oY ISHEAZRZ i 2 Records to Date. Hich team set—King Pins, 1.821. High: team zame—Convention Hall. 865 Hieh anidual Q!—Rflfi!nbfl'{ ?)0 High individual game—Friend. 16: High individual average—Friend. 117 i Greatest number of strikes—Miller, 46 | Greatest humber of epares—Megaw 207. | By registering a triple win over | Meyver Davis, King Pins added one | game (o its lead, as Stanford Paper | Co. was unable to take the final from | Temple. The league leaders were.trail- | ing in the final box of the first game. | but pulled it out by means of two | spares and a strike. H: Burtner was best for the winnars, h a 356 set,' while Arthur Logan and Gene Mc- Goirick were highest for Meyer Davis, with total of 334 each. Stanford Paper Co. had little to beat in_the first two with Temple, but the | cohorts of Manager Olive unleashed n attack in the final. piling un a 608 which was & 3.2 ] | | | | | | Monday and Fi DUCKPIN ISt N | Congress, Columbia, No. COLLEGIATES BETTER THEIR DUCKPIN LEAD H 27 Collegia’ twe games County weel when they e es of thelr place Sers Laandry American Legfon, runner-up, faltered o bit when it dropped ome game to St Jerome's matches thi ALTSVILLE, Md., March increased their lead in the Prince Georges| Association this took all three week Chillum r of games from De Molay » A C. pointed the way t Mount Rainer. schedule: Monday. vs. Ross' All Tuesday, Comets American gion;, Wednesday ms vs. Jerome's vice Laun- dry vs. Friday, legiates vs C St | J | | set against the last-| combination. | l | tars. | Le | | ignoring the Kid's Col. | | this collar. men from the bureau to | « a6 i6 Records 1o Date e Collasiates t—olloziates. 1 t—George Stephens A Friend erage—Henry TITLE SERIES LISTED FOR ROLLER HOCKE A matches gets und Arcade r and the Be the Whiting of the ga series of ho for the city championship way tomorrew night at the between the Washingtons ts. teams captained b others, Who w when it was popul in the davs before tne war The teams already have met in four practice tilts and appear to he matched for their title series. Whiting heads the Bearcats and in- cludes in his line-up several of the plavers in_town. among t Morrow 1. Harrison s Berth and W d to perform captained by George George E with the Harry Whiting The ope 9:50 o'clock. The teams will play cach | LEAGUES In thie e Papermaker to match the efforts of their Jack Whale of the tea than 300 to get a set tch of the wee! standpoint was that be Convention Hall and Terrminal Ice Co h the former took the first tw na and then dropped the enightcap con- | 1€ pecuns tmat land in A test The ~<‘omb for Convention Hall | were 3 . fo men were counting i The pecially ) o 8 2 the best for both Cornell's Lunch has been taking the dust of Regulars in the previous games of t ing been able to ¢ one win in pre- vious sets. but ample reve was taken when the lunchroom bo; turn- a whitewashing effort, 611 and 368, its set total ddle game being the high st recorded during the week Petworth evacuated the cellar pos: tion by taking one game from Mount Tl while Regulars were being roughiy handled by Cornell’s Lunch With onlv three weeks of the sched e remaining, it appears that the first four positions in the team standings, ! which carry league prizes. are practi- cally - deelded. It is still possible. mathematically, for the leading King team to be ousted ain to be rolled v it and 2 complete - the latter team theia the champion MASONIC P Stanst Hiram John Binete Parker Osiris Centennial Jovoa_ . National Hone | Slileton ilie Mount Pleasant Arminius Roosevelt Milans . {iolumbia. Harding East Gate, Brizhtwood 10 Anacostia 103 Record fo Date. m set—La Fayette—Mount Her- team came—La Favette. 627 individual set—Rosenberg. 422 individual zame. Rosenberz. 115 individual ~ average—Rosenber. High t mon. 1. Hieh f H|‘;}! High 118-19. Last week only able to take their entire' sets. Colum- bia No. 285 scored a clean sweep over from Pike, Joppa trimmed Singleton in three games and Joppa outclassed Takoma. La Fayette turned in the best team game, 615, and the highest team set: for the week, 1,717. They lost one game, however, to Potomac, | the latter team having a 40-pin handi- cap. Borden of Stansbury. rolled 146 to top all the individual efforts, and Krouse shot 374 @to gain high set honors. Dawson team in rolling 468 for each of its- three games' was considered remarkable. Team captains are mquefited to sub- mit their entries for theé' Washington i City” Duckpin_Asociation tournament. Caille LIBERTY SINGLE Rowboat Motor The Original Direct Drive Motor, $90 | 5 MONTHS TO “Pay Whilé You Play’ Every Caille Motor Guaranteed. Durable—Dependable—Esey Starting. You take no Chance. JOHN J. ODENWALD five teams were | 3 did the | same with Acacia, French took three | The . performance of the | i thing that will improve your bovl | of th | Friena. | |is they lold time | ‘em below 2 re stars | r here | M £ | Washington's well | Billy | | popular ing game is scheduled for |10 een | Africa got to do a set of r_wd growtn of the duckj | you poor with | |t pinboys "» Lonll 11| can get into the duckpin game. 00 | girls breaking ) an 4 | 1 GIRLS MAKING THE SPORT A YEAR AROUND PASTIME | Element of Uncertainty [l Imo]\ es, Combined With plendid Exercise Afforded, Accounts for Its ashington Rapidly Growing Popularity in W AV} the top button of his 1 S names on the score s going to buy the Treasury Departm establishmant, with 100 alleys on each floo about this und g act of yours emagk e gomg to are you undressing to go to bed on t! i, taking off hi shirt a5 the Ol 1 cec remarked the did nth Ho red the Old Rik bowl on these ou're just sorc becaus u kn said the Kid the Old Timer rejouned “Zasso I—it's off. Lonnie put Mellon has found that there Secretar he cellar even after Congress get e taxpayers of the countr Tough on Lonnie, Kid. “But don't ¥o rdoing th g too man: tans “Kid, whe what the duckpir ¥ Il need bowling establishments 1.000 populatio hingt B Old | tor mu: people the alles for every a]ln l‘(l: 2 would be able to ot a resefvation chec below Do they reall L do.” all lo levs opened. “How come bowli what makes tha the Iid. “Still in the Cradle.” he duckpin game still adle,” aseei will be 13 vears before short dressges. and then all th long pants ) § rxgum it out the best ith a game nd so unce’ next ing bov 1 about A te on that one/ Old Time Firestone ica so he re of the pir game.” g to ]'udu(e ub 1t said ‘hi. Kid. [ thought | remarked t + \aise pinboys to take was a s “Firestone is goi down there fo dumbbe: “The newspapers tol New Type of Pin Boys ber than two protested the Old Timer is all piffle is going to do is along with the automobile tir “What's tne asked the Kid ; “You know hov get ber said thhe Oid Timer. ‘I know darn| vou don't, so I'll answer m question. They tap the trees fo: it just like vou do for maple sirup milk the tiees, vou understand. W they are going to feed tha milk to the young pinboys xe,ulax milk."” getchu, . rubber | zd not for | were rubbe: then they vou can sick man lick me I ' DUCKPIN LEAGUE I Stinding of Tea Won . id the Kid. Wash and elastic that nd Jdowy “etting pins ever zetti: counds usible.” admitted the it sounds plausible ner. “And th 1 the 1 they need once gets started dvwn ther Il need millions of them to ! pace with the growth of the right now has more follow | than ail the other games—base ball, foot ball. golf.: tennis—combined. And when I say bowling I mean the tenpin zame, because the duckpin_ sport is scarcely known outside of Washing. | ton and Baltimore. Tenpins is | game for girls or youngste shuts out half the fans. said the Old Tt able to rai Brown. Top40: *Ciak Pha a0 e (rhe Bankers rolled the final game of a very suc durf - and that st week :xv!{nf :1}:»? Anybody | causing 2 hanges in the The | standin n will make the sport | the champions! astime. Most man | finish by for the in but tha will stick to the game Tor its reducing possibilitie ‘Why has the duckpin game been | o slow starting?" asked the Kid “A question of cost: and a 319 13 X | Uiz izzzzzz Clothes Made-to Orde, Are an econcmy because. by reason of superior materials and workmanship, they wear better and last longer. 117c p leading Riggs at the ali-the-year full games. RADIATCRS, FENDERS BODIES MADE AND REPAIRED NEW RADIATORS FOR AUTOS WITTSTATT'S R. & F. WKS. mis- If you want real suit satisfaction come here and be satisfied. 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