Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1927, Page 30

uJ Laal ) A\ aah S e S LN, MONDA L, i o AN UaAadu o4, 1927. SPOR1 S, Central and Western Baskelers Priming for Important School League Battle WESTENDERS TO TOPPLE LOOP LEADERS Ahearn’s Squad Has Improved Con:s SEE CHANCE iderably Since Start of Series, While Blue and White Has Been Pressed in s off this public clash to. a. This bring together the ranking ace and doubtless will weight in determining y school titulav at the Arc of vital sepkd the Blue and red handily over Ceach Dan Ahearn's Yeal power in recent Wiral has been record unblem have showt while to keep its en Busine: and Tech ally mark start of play in the series will Western battle w Maplespillers representing Business Central High Schools were nz Pin drives in a match starting at 3:15 o'clock. K When the field Charley jusiness High gridmen take next Fall they will be led by May. clever quarterback, who three seasons has heen a regular on the Stenographer eleven. May, who has just been selected as captain of the foot hall team. also is & mems bher of the hasket ball and base ball combinations, v, involving a Charley were Fresh starting In the lone game toda acholastic quint, Coach Guyon's Eastern High tossers to engage Catholic University men in the Brookland gym, at 3:15 o'clock It is announced that Roland erstwhile Western High athletic lumi nary, desiring devote mora time to his studies, will not be a eandi- date for the Columbia University basket ball team, as was expected, when he becomes eligible on Fabru- ary 1. It is thought, however, he will be a candidate for first base on the university’s base ball team this Spring. Coach Gordon B. Rath of Eastern High School is planning to enter a squad of at least seven athletes in the University of Richmond games on February 12. They are O'Brien and Entwisle, milers; Clow, Bottazi, Henry Talbert and Joe Cosimano, sprinters, Dulin, | Recent Contests, Herman Riley. high fumper. A of others also may he entered, group is regarded as certain Buck O'Brien is consid ered one of the most formidable mem hers of the squad. He i being primed [ for an attempt to lower the District high school mile record of 4 minutes and 45 seconds. This mark was achieved by John Gross of Tech the 1920 interhigh meet It is expected that Tech will be rep. resented by only one man in the Rich mond affair, Harry Mullen. who has been showing ability in the dashes Coach Elmer Hardell will not enter A relay team this vear. as he has done for the last three years. The Manual rainers are rebuilding thefr quartet which was shattered by graduations. | Hyattsville High fossers, who hitve shown to much better advantage in recent tests after getting off to a poor | start this season, face two stern tests [ this week on the National Guard Armory floor in the Maryland town Gonzaga, one of the fastest combina- | tions in local schoolboy ranks, will match baskets with the Hyvattsville five tomorrow afternoon starting at 2:45 o'clock, and Hagerstown High, winner last Saturday night over East- ern High for the second time this cam- | paign, will visit Saturday afternoon. While Leland Worthington, who tu- tors the Hyatisville quint, is not pre. | dicting victory for his proteges in | either engagement, he believes that {he now has a team capable of fur. nishing both an interesting time. This combinatfon welded after =everal weeks' experimenting, comprises Charley Bailey and Kenneth Watts, forwards; Bob (faylor, center, and Capt Wilbur Wright and Albert Lewis, guards. Billy Spicknall, Stan- ley O'Donnell and Harry Dobbs are sturdy reserves, In their last game on Friday the Hyattsville bovs flashed a smart ex- hibition generally to vanquish Char- lotte Hall for the second time this season. the Gonzaga-Hyatts- villa offering is the only one involv- ing a local senior scholastic five to- morrow. Episcopal and Friends are carded to clash in the latter school's gym in a junior prep school 135-pouna league engagement. Incidentally, When Icicles Were Used as Pins Duckpin Matches Were All Wet BY JOHN A. FERRALL. HE Kid threw off his overcoat and his coat and rolled up his sleeves. “It feels pretty good in_here,” he declared, as he selected a ball and prepared to shoot. “Old Man Mercury sure has been giving us the lowdown lately.” “They wouldn't call this cold in Quebec.” insisted the Old Timer. Then he quoted: “There was a small boy in Qusbec, Who was buried in snow to his neck: When they said. ‘Are you driz ™ He replied. ‘Yes. 1 is— But we don't call this cold in Quebec." “Is that one of Frank Goll's?” asked the Kid. “That is by Kipling, though you may not believe it,” asserted the Old ‘Timer. “Kipling?” asked the Kid, solemnly. “How do you kipple?” Search’ me,” said the Old Timer. “But, just to change the subject, 1" admit ‘that we've had a few prett cold days. The lucky thing, which you do not appreciate at all, is ha ing a comfortable place like this which to bowl. Now, in the day o “Yes, I know,” interrupted the Kid. “In Winter you used to throw water out of the window and then slide down the icicles."” Fresh, homemade Ice Cream. in old “Exactly,” ag “and we alway cows from Oc red the Ol built fires under the ober 1 to April to keep them from giving ice cream. Some times, of course, the fires would go out on us; and that is how I acquired my fondness for cream What 1 started out to discuss, however, were the bowling establishments of ti old days them at least. There still are plenty of bowlers at large in Washington Who can remember bowl Ing in establishments where you had 1o wear your overcoat hetween shots,” What!" exclaimed the Kid “Weren't the buildings heated? Well I'n te the world that—say, what do you know about that! A strike on the first Of course,” he added, “I couldn't have done that on the old d to get warmed up frozen pins bounce lively when you socked some of araund p “My hands were o numb most of the time,” admitted the Old Timer, frankly, “that I didn’t hit them often enough to find out He threw the second three pin nd third balls at without in, Your hands appear to be a triffe suggested the Kid. Boy! Page Red my mind isn't ed the Oid Timer. “1 nking of the night when it establishment where that we numb yet irange! *I " gw apol th oy on the gam: usy pins are holes in the hot with the location filled the pan water dripped the alleys instead of duek i them 8 P e heen hay agreed the ng very much was that just making re the last len a couple on the alleys. argument about me- explained Timer, pin break i h of the hunch had anew s a d 1 asked Old Timer u settle the question? up seven pins — HAWKINS U MOTOR CO. Conveniently Located Timer; disturb- | nded a | on his spare and toppled just one pin with the other two shots. “It was finally agreed to figure the score according to the mfmber of icicles standing on the alley when the ball disappeared in the pit,” he said “I see,” nodded the Kid, as he watched the Old Timer chalk up his score. “I suppose that is where you learned your peculiar method of keep- ing bowling scores. What's the idea of giving vourself nine on that spare when you only got eight in the box— you counted seven on the mark. I have to watch you all the time to keep you from stealing a point or two on me. It's mighty funny that your mis- takes are always in your favor.” Bowling Kleptomania, “They are not,” declared the OId Timer. “And please don't call it stealing; it is merely bowling klepto- mania. Why should I bother to steal a point or so from you when I'm leading you by 11 pins in spite of that lucky first-box strike of yours, and we've only one more frame to roll? But I'll admit that I did figure that score incorrectly; I did give myself a few extra pins—so I guess the, kleptomania. charge will have to stand.” ‘Just what is the differenc tween stealing and kleptoman Kid wanted to know. ‘Absence of motive Ol Timer. “A be- the * explained the person who steals without actually needing the thing taken—as with those few points I | added—is called a kleptomaniac; there is no apparent motive, no reason why he should steal. For example, if 1 put my hand in your pocket and took out a dollar, that wouldnt actually he stealing on my part, because I already have a dollar and don't need the extra one—wouldn't know what to do with it. That would be kleptomania and 1'd be a kleptomaniac.” | “No vou wouldr Kid, positively If vou put hand in my pocket and took dollar, you'd be a magician.” contended the vour out a FOREMAN FIGHTS TONIGHT. Al Foreman, local leather pusher. will seek to attain another rung on | the featherweight championship lad |den in Philadelphia tonight, when he |opposes Mike Ballerino, former title holder, in the main hout at the Arena in the Quaker City. | TRAINER KEENE DEAD. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., January 24 (#).—G. H. “Ham” Keene, trainer for the Joseph K. Widener stables, was found dead in his bed here at the Ar- lington Hotel, where, with Earle Sande and Sam liildreth, famous jockey and trainer, respectively, he was enjoying {a vacation i — . BOXER MUST PAY $1,500. | CHICAGO, January 24 (®).—Jock Ma- lone, middleweight pugllist, has been |ordered in a jury's verdict to pay {81,500 to Mrs hael Secor, 70, who {ueked $10,000 for injiries suffered when she was struck by the hoxer's automobile November 3, 192 WILL FORM HOCKEY LOOP. LOS ANGELES, January 24 ().~ Announcement was made today by Winthrep Sears, promoter, of the for- mation on the West Coast of an In- ternational Professional Ice Hockey League. Vancouver, Vietoria, Pori land, Seattle, Los Angeles and Holly | wood will start play next year. San | Francisco and Oakland will he added jto the international loop upon \ struction of a rink in 'the for s | \ Hudson-Essex Service Station Capacity 90 Cars Rear 1121 19th St. Pot. 860 '\ HOLLAND MOTOR CO0. Display—1636 Conn. Ave in | 'BOWLING RACE KEEN IN TYPOTHETAE LOOP “ive of the members of the 14.team Typothetae Bowling league are very much in the running for the cireuit championship. Judd & Detweiler now leads, with 29 victories and 16 losses hut H-K Ad Serviee, mow in fifth place, is but four games back of the Pace-setters “igures on the league follow: League Records. W | Wash: Mcna. Co Packwd Ptg (o | H'R Adv. Sory ¢ Potter o, - W Pre. o I Pub and. Fne. Co col. Print o Thaver Printea'ft 16 Ranadell, Inc.. . 10 | ROP. And. Paper 18 Stant. Paper (o 111 High team gamee— National Capital Press 606 Tndd & Detweiler. 604 High team 10 & Detweilor, 1,601 National Can 1544 High averages—Mischou 112:34: Goodall, High individ Verdi, 159) Ellett --McPhilomy HG 604 05 He Al (2] 200 504 153, and Mischr High individual Goodall e 400 Individual Records. JUDD & DETWEILER. He on % jetrivimmrey B35333% v 3 Ford 5 Mallonee Homan Spiivan Anagan Ransoma Gelleher 1329 3 1zam 2333333 7 ATIONAL CAPITAL 105 75 46 80 87 29 PRINTING k] 353532 S Mischou Small Grallex near einberg Rozicer PACKWOOD SIERER Stenle Connolls Knopka Clements Littls Bucky 1290 198 124 112 Heinzmann Ruppert Yoorhees Bailey Tamnagn Smith Tanner Hierling WASHINGTON Fox : A Favrizio | Volmer K. Fabrizio_ . Boehm 15 41 t R d HineaEas 18335 120 7 107 Anderson 0. 28 11 23 115 COLUMBIAN PRINTING 45 139 a8 5 15 30 4 12 THAYER- co McClosky Trice Cole ... Stringer Mellon Ihornters ayer Smith ... Baker Cole .. B. Lipnald H. Linpold Campbell Walters R. P, 1 1 1 1 1 ™e ! 1 1 1 1 1 PAPE| Kline ... 1 Walsh © Morris Roberts Hughes Dougl. Schae r L STANFORD McPhilomy Stanford Goodman Johnson Mace Birmingliam 100 iy W LEAGUE IS ORGANIZED. FORT SMITH, Ark P).—A new class “B league with St. Joseph, Springfield, Joplin, Fort Okmulgee members ganized. 24 ball Topeka, Smith and has been or- January b as U. S. CYCLIST SCORES. PARIS, Janflary 24 (&) can eyclist The Ameri- aeger won the municipal council’s grand prix at the Velodrome | I'Hiver here. Competing against an international field, Jaeger covered the 30 kilometers in minutes 19 sec- onds. " RADIATORS, FENDERS NEW RADIATORS FOR AUTOS | ! WITTSTATT’S R. & F. WKS. TROUSERS | To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F | games. | two of the an the 0 (9 on to-496 SALES In Washington and Vicinity for 1926 greatly exceed the total Nash_sales in the same territory for the 2 years of 1924 and 1925 combined. THINK IT OVER Wallace Motor Co. Distributor L ireet With the Bowlers THLETIC CLUB lowers expect a4 big night to morrow night at Convention Hall Smithfields, league leaders, and Arlingtons, run ners-up, are to clash and the differ ence in standing between these teams is =0 slight that a couple of wins for the Arlingtons would put them In front. Right now. the Smithfields are leading by only half But getting a couple the Hams may prove a for he Arlinglons. Smithfield to be the jinx club for the ambitious sec ond-place aggregation. Not long the Arlingtons set the league afire with a winning streak of 16 games. Then they ran o the Smithfields and dropped three in a row After that the Arlingtons hegan an- other winning streak. This last one has srtung along through a dozen And the Arlingtons feel that the Smithfields will not troublesome. LEAGUE fol- alleys were able to shoot in the 60 class. Like the good bowler he is. Weldman went along in fine style and so did Ellett, but such Gilenn Wolstenholme, Howard hell, Al Work, Walter Megaw, Rosenberg. George end, oomey and Hap Burtner found themselves well behind the keading Weidman at the end of the five games Wolstenholme, highest among the trallers, was 62 pins back of \Weid man at the conclusion of the block while Burtner, last of the hig boyvs in the struggle, was 131 pins behind virtually out of the running for any prize. Several Camp- Max Joe game of games from real job seoms ark horses revealed them selves in no uncertain manner during |the first-hiock rolling. Prominent among them were Joe Mulroe, Fred Moore and Henry Hiser. Mulroe av eraged 4 for the block, a surpri ingly high count for him, while Moo not only kept right on the leader's but crashed a game of 185, one the best “pot” games rolled in months in the District Hiser showed the Washi ing fans that there are men in Hyatts ville who can sock the duckpins when e turned in 600 for his five his chap has been hitting the pins well for the American Legion team in the Prince Georges County League and may bear watching during the remainder of the sweepstakes. Evidently the girls of Philadelphia are getting pretty good at hardwood duckpin _bowling. For a time the Quaker City lassies could score hea ily only against the rubber-banded va- riety of duckpin, but the decisive vic tory they scored over the Washington Terminal girls here Saturday indicates that they have been practicing against the kind of maples in vogue here this time prove so o in the League Agriculture last week brou men of the cir With Property Plant Bureau Contest bureau Inter- ht hor uit into the limelight shooting against the outfit, Harry Nelson, captain and anchor man of the former team, went into his tenth box with his team five pins back, spared and counted X to win by a margin of 3 pins. On an adjoining alley, Ruppert, anchor for Solicitors ~ team, registered in his tenth box and counted it, which gave his outfit a 502 win over the Entomology bowlers. spare Big boys of the bowling game cer- tainly found the going rough in the first five-game block of their private sweepstakes faturday night at the King Pin establishment. Only Clem Weidman and Derce Ellett of the leading lights of the District duckpin visit 15 Washington again en February they should give the picked team . F Pl e¢GIANT POWER FUE luminaries as ton bowl- | games. | When the Pennsvivania Rallroad girls | of the Washington Ladies’ League quite an interesting battle. Capt, Jack Ferrall of the “Bowl” | Weevils representing Plant Industry in the Aggie Interbureau circuit is claiming a world duckpin record as | the result of recent performances Against the Accounts five he totaled 296 for a set that included eight marks in the match following. shooting akainst Property, he complled a 343 total with nine marks. Jack insists that this is the first time ‘n tory of the duckpin sport that a bow er has “picked up' 47 pins on a single mark. Times-Herald pinmen will Fredericksburg tomorrow r | start a tengame match with ram of that town Five games bowled in the Virginia munic and five more will be rolled on a day vet to be selected | star Total pinfall will determine the match | The Times-Herald squad in cludes Capt. Tom Kinney, Jimmy Boyd, Ben McAlwee, Mickey vhnson | Charley Curtin, Jim Donald, Otis Law | rence, 'y Burriss and Ray Rohlaver. SWIMMING HERO'S PAL vinner. 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J.) {a 4to1 v | Ington, WALFORD SOCCERISTS BEAT MONROE TEAM o firmly ensconced In first section 1 of the Washington er League today as tha result of d-place vesterday pm the nd pitch, exhibition, match is, 3 to 1, on tha Monroe aggregatior ddy Monument Marlhoro won an from Rritish Un Rosedala playground edale and ad & mis- taking as to the playving site for scheduled tiit and o r clash Fort Washington downed the Army Medical Center a plaved game vesterday a t winning 1 to members of ¥ Myer team of Washington Socear League last od for the vic Fort n will ba in the league next thei t weil Wash Olsan and booters Rrowr the ok vear, sta Washingt 18,000 AT HOCKEY GAME NEW YORK, Janua ) More than 18,060 fans, a A reeord for ed tha New eir local rivals 20 defeat at hockey wat York Rangers hand t the Ar 2t Madison Sq len last night AUTOS AT HUNTS OPPOSED MELTON MOWBRA Tanuary 24 ») hounds by mote ca bad form by hunting are being made to put a st by not making public the pla time of the various meet neidered ANOTHER YOUNG STRIBLING MACON, There is and the Ga., Janu a new “Pa" Str former holder hecomes “Grandpa.” W Stribling, “schoolboy' presented witk morning and today title an 813-pound bay newcomer ‘has been Stribling, 34