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NELSON'S MANAGER A TROUBLE MAKER Tex Met All His Demands in Gans Bout, However, and Cleared $13,215. This is the only autobiography written by Tez Rickard. It was pre- pared in collaboration with Box man Bulger, for publication ezxcl sively by The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance. Shortly before Rickard’s death he discussed with Bulger plans for pub- lication_of these memoirs in book form. Following is the eleventh in- stallment of the autobiography, which is appearing in daily chap- ters. BY TEX RICKARD. (In collaboration with Bozeman Bulger.) HEN Billy Nolan came into | son for training, I had my first taste of what a pro- moter has to contend Wwith I don't want to give the impression that all fight managers are bad. Many of them are mere parasites, living off ting troubles just to impress the }lr:gt‘crmg‘nh what they consider their efficiency. There are many others, their hters but do much toward k&:pmlflgthe fight game on a high basis. “The success of several fighters has been ment of the manager than of the| hter himself. fl‘Bul Nolan was of the irritating, an- To begin with, he insisted that all of the $30,000 purse was to go to Nelson. That would have left Joe Gans with- erence to Nolan. | m,"fien 1 wired you that we would come for a purse of $30.000,” he said, Had Written Agreement. 1 was quite certain that Nolan hadn't understood anything of the kind. Be- Immediately I discovered that fight- ing was not exactly on a sportsman- like basis when it came to money. S Goldfield with Battling Nel- | in the matter of managers. their fighters and causing all sorts of though, who are not only helpful to ‘due more to the wisdom and judg- | O] brand. out snything. ‘That, however, made “T meant that would be Nelson's price.” sides, I had the agreement in writing. ‘We wrangled and wrangled over matter until the whole camp was dis- . The newspaper men wrote all kinds of roasts of Nolan. He deserved them, too. The town people were strongly aligned against him. Poor Joe Gans and his manager, Mc- Donald, seemed to be up against it every way they turned. Joe was a smart _darkey and a very honorable one. I made up my mind to see that he got a square deal. There would be no run-out by Nolan. It got.through his head pretty soon that the mining people would see that he went through with the fight or make it unhealthy for ‘him. this time I could see that the m’fi{ was going to be a financial suc- cess. It was mt t,l-ler afr. T{:e m:m:l people had plenty of money to spen (and were .lemnyc more _enthusiastic every day. The actual building of the oked up a little more. ‘We could have come out clear on that fight eewz wrthout the big crowd of ,visit>¥. ut we wanted the visitors to advertise our town, that being the !prime motive in starting the affair. 1 agreed to raise the purse 3,500. Of this Nolan was to get for Nelson and Gans was to Anything I did seemed to . Nolan then saw the writ- ing on the wall and also agreed. Nolan Adds to Trouple. With this trouble off my hands I 2an right into another. Nolan added to the former irritation by notifying us that Gans would have to weigh in 133 pounds at the ringside. Therc was mm-,go talk about this. Gans, eager for the t under l:.ny conditions, finally to 4 Anybody would think everything all wight after that. But no. “Rickard,” Nolan told me the next time I went out to his camp, “Gans has got to weigh in 133 pounds at the flnfi.ldz with his fighting tegs on.” t straw almost broke the camel’s | back. It was pmfihn:fili&hr:mwns‘ doing everything e stir things ‘up. He was trying to makc an im- pression on Nelson. I was not experienced in boxing mat- j8ers, and naturally did not understand (thesse things. I went to Gans, though, ‘and told him of Nolan's demand. “Boss,” sald the darkey, “Nolan hasn't my right to do that, and he i it."” “Can you make fighting togs, Joe?' “I'll try, Mr. Rickard, but I don't be- Bteve I can ever do it. That weight will ‘weaken me.” Just the same, Nolan insisted. Gans, ®gain willing to concede anything, set | about to reduce his weight lower. He made it, but to this day I think it weakened him in that long fight. I was the happiest man in the world when we finally got those two light- weights in the ring and saw George Siler present as referee. Gans Always Popular. Nolan's tactics had turned many peo- ple against him and Gans had a big He always was a popular that weight in your hter. Long before the bell sounded for the ’l’fi:fi ;&uflnd I knew th:{.hour Goldfield made good w! a bang. We /had priced the tickets from $5 to $25, :nd the big demand was for the higher ‘enes. Those men fought 42 rounds, neither willing to give up. In the end Nelson fouled Gans with | ® blow in the groin. That blow and ithe discussion aroused by it I will take up in my attempt at describing that Might, as I saw it, in my next chapter. ‘The total receipts of that fight were $69,715. Of this $33,500 went to the Tighters and $23,000 for expenses. My net profit was $13,215. Not one of those who had guaranteed | the purse had to put up a nickel. We | had pulled off a successful fight in Gold- field. and gee, how that town celebrate The day of the big purse ha'l dawned. 1f Goldfield could put up $33,500 what ! ©ould the big citles do in the future? The fight itself was = hummer. (Copyright, 1029. by the North American Newspaper Alliance.) (Next—One Truth About Nelson’s Foul.j CUE STARS TO CONTEST FOR TITLE THIS WEEK| L James E. Maynard and John A. Mac- Collum are to meet this week to deter- mine the wiz of the Arcadia billard tourstiner.e, which has been in progress dor cevital weeks. Maynard has won 10 of 11 matches and MacCollum hasi #s many wins in a dozen starts. Fred A. Anderson, after losing his t six games, won the next seven t&;{u tieing Maynard for consecutive s, THE STANDING. w. 10 10 > Maynard MacCollu; Thomas. McCauley . Corish . “Ellis. . Anderson’, . Mattocks Murray. . ani e 3 43 “’u"gx 452 85 ‘187 267 Bus2-UgIONY. oE0 BoNTRaaaaEEe B saoaannsawar HOwARD CAMPBELL BURTNER S AHEAD INBOWLING STAKE Gains 23-Pin Lead With 608 Set for Third Block. Mandley Second. Hap Burtner, captain of the Conven- tion Hall bowling team—the, only man of 29 entered in the Howard Campbell sweepstakes to shoot over 600 in each of the first two blocks—took the lead in the big event last night at King Pin No. 1, by getting 608 to bring his total to date to 1,222. He replaced Brad Mandley, who had a bad_ session, but not disastrous enough to drop him out of the runner-up berth. Tony Santini also was shoved backward a notch, get- ting 570 to hold third place. Burtner is the only one of the con- testants to pass the 1,200 mark. Mand- ley fell one pin shy of that mark with 1,199, and Santini brought his total to 1,194. e High honors for the second block went to Paulie Harrison, the Curb Cafe star, who bowled over 629 maples during the five-game session. Jack Wolstenholme shot himself into a contending position with a 614 set. With the exception of Burtner, they were the only contestants to go over the-eoveted mark. Bernie Frye, the King Pin newcomer, was credited with the highest game of the second block. He upset 153 pins in his fourth game. Oliver Pacini start- ed with a 150 game, and Harrison went on a rampage in the third and fourth games, with 140 and 150 counts. Pacini with 1174, Harrison with 1,173, Jack Wolstenholme wiil 1,170, Rosenberg with 1,167 and ‘Howard Campbell with 1,160 are rated among those likely to rush to the front next Saturday night when the scene moves to the Coliseum alleys for the final 5- game block. Summaries: Lang . Pacin Halloran Barnard Isemann Whalea J. Wolst Frye . Campbel Cowles . Billheimer Morg: Logal Deputy. McCurdy Fischer Harrison G. Wols Wood Burtner’ Rosenby Work Mandle} Moore . Waldrop " Weidman Santini Hiser MeCall "', 117 9 105 118 100 1 118 122 99 CENTRAL HIGH BASKETERS DEFEAT G. W. FRESHMEN Leading their opponent all the way, Central High basketers last night took the measure of George Washington Freshmen, 37 to 27, in the preliminary to the George Washington-University of Baltimore Varsity game in the Colonials’ gym. Broadbent and Capt. Fisher headed the winners' attack, the former garner- ing 11 points and the latter 7. Castell, former Cenfral player, was high scorer for the Freshmen with 9 points. Central was in the van, 24 to 11, at the half. The Freshmen rallied toward the last but never seriously threatened to overcome the scholastics, Central 31 G w. Leverton, Frosh 1. « 4l cvamnnonaZea® Rice. : Monk, ¢ De Lisio, &. . Romig. &..... Lampson. .. Newcomer, & McGann, ‘& - U 1) | ommmrmoowmno~ 81127 Totals . 5 rd). 1 Referee—M) B [y D. C. GIRLS OUTROLLED. BALTIMORE, Md., January 19.—The Regent girls of Baltimore bowled 34 pins better han ile Terminal Ice las- sles of Washington here tonight. The score was 1,372 to 1,338. Scores: 149 Totals r. Eberts (District Boa Adams . Thomas Weinberger Alexander . Disney .. Totaw H 121,372 Rombolo Burke . Hoffman Whitbeck Jarrett Totals . RALEIGH, N. C. January 19 (P). | —John M. Lepo of Youngsiown, Ohio, fa junfor, has been elected capiain of the 1929 foot ball varsity of North Carolina State goliege. 00 3¢ | Suttivan 1 | Isemann THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. JANUARY 20, 1929—SPORYS SECTION. i — CLEMENTS A. WEIDMAN JACK. WOLSTENHOLME e MULROE'S BOWLERS TRAILING IN MATCH Joe Mulroe’s All-Star Duckpin Team will have to pick up 78 pins Friday night at Arca gained by Fredericksburg All-Stars at Fredericksburg. ‘The Virginians will be the attraction there Priday night. Al Fischer and George Isemann trailed by nine pins in doubles at Fredericksburg, and Mulroc led Sulli- acquainted with drives. . Scores at Predericksburg follow: TEAMS. Fredericksburs. 83 112 the Fredericksburg Doubles. Fischer 0 208 116 9 103 1219 SINGLES. 105 85 9 88 Butler jacobs 83464 i it e ] Sullivan . A Mulroe .. D. C. DE MOLAY TOSSERS DEFEATED IN RICHMOND Moncure Chapter of De Molay of this city defefited the Robert Le Bruce Chap- ter of Washington, D. C., tonight on the Central “¥” court, 41 to 22. Off to a flying start, when Johnson caged two goals in rapid succession, the Richmonders raced to the front at half time by a count of 20 to 8. Score: Richmond (41). ington (22). a Washinglon (22). ] Johnson, 1f. Wood.lf ... Woodfin, r W. Sinclair,rt. X Halle. .. Chisom,ig. . Miles.rg - R. Sinclalr,} Disson,If. 141 Totals .... DATES, PLACES SET s aomsot 3 4 3 1 3 1 0 | maSuwSa Totals. 15 By the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, January 19.—Dates and places of the national and international speed skating championships of this country and Canada, under sanction of the Amateur Skating Union of the United States, were announced here today by Willlam Carroll Hill of Bos- ton, president of that body. ‘The United States national outdoor champlo: s were assigned to Min- neapolis on February 2 and 3, and the United States national indoor cham- pionships to St. Louis on February 22, 23 and 24 The Canadian national indoor cham- plonships were scheduled to be held at Montreal on February 15 and 16. The North American outdoor cham- plonships were awarded to Saranac Lake, N. Y, and will be staged on Feb- ruary 7, 8 and 9, and the indoor title races will be staged in Detroit on March 15 and 16, though these last dates, president Hill said, were subject to_change. He said that his body had sanctioned the North American figure championships at Boston on March 4, 56 7a1d & N to overcome the lead | van by 4 pins in the singles match. | Schiup The local pinmen had difficuity getting ,{}""b - 50| gagements. RICHMOND, Va., January 19.—John | FOR SKATING MEETS | skating | \WELLS IS SETTING PACE | IN BILLIARD TOURNAMENT A tie which existed in the handica) billiard tourney at the King Pin Bil- liard Parlors has been broken, Delbert | Wells taking the lead by winning two | games during the past week, while Lynn Fellows was idling and Andrews was winning his only contest. Standings: | wells . coruniusssnad Ale Raley .. De Lashmuti Scott ... 'HECHT C0. BOWLERS DEFEAT LANSBURGH Hecht Co. bowlers last night defeated Lansburgh & Bro. rollers by 78 pins in the first half of a 10-game match at Convention Hall. The Hecht pinmen totaled 2,607 pins to 2,529 for their op- ponents, After winning the first three games, Hecht was beaten in the last two en- Bowling of the final block will take place February 2 at Kingpin No. 1 Aljeys. THE HECHT CO. Kettler . Nalls . Tobey Rosenberg Ritchie . Totals ... Totais 12 534—3,529 s.E. BOWLERS START ONE-BALL DOUBLES Bowling In the one-ball doubles league, the first ever to roll in the Dis- trict, started last night on the South- east alleys with 6 of the 12 teams of | the circuit in competition. The re- mainder of the teams of the circuit will + make their debut tomorrow night. | King and Brewer rolled the highest, set of the league’s inaugural, totaling 396, to defeat Walter and Tolson in all three games of their battle. Last night's scores follow: King ... Brewer 200 126—396 44144 65—189 100333 73--187 64—138 130 137345 70180 44170 12 114350 70195 70190 140385 48—180 54—181 102361 OLD DOMINION TOSSERS DEFEATED AT RICHMOND Waiter | Tolson . c. E. White. . White. . Hawkins . Rader . | Bowers McDanie Whiter. epner [} it Dominfon Boat Club of Alexandria lost a hard-fought basket ball tussle to the flashy Richmond Blues tonight on the Blues' court, 34 to 29. 1De Taa Il | Standards CELTICS AND YORKES LEAD FLOOR LEAGUE Celtics defeated Yorkes, 27 to 19, and De Luxe downed Standards, 30 to 9, last night in unlimited class loop games in the Boys' Club League. Celtics and De Luxe quints now are tied for first place, each with three wins and one | 1 defeat. In 85-pound class loop matches ‘Times Boys Club, pace setters, won its fourth game in as many starts, defeat- ing Colonials, 18 to 9, and Tigers took 0o | the measure of St. Martin's, 12 to 5. Boys' Club Whirlwinds defeated St. ‘Thomas, 26 to 17, but bowed to All- Nations, 19 to 15, in an exhibition double-header. The league schedule for this weel and loop standings follow: TOMORROW. Yorkes vs. De Luxe (Unlimited League). Hartfords vs. Standards (Unlimited League). Meridians League) Fort TUESDAY. vs. Crescents (115-pound Myer Optimists (115-pound engue). Colonials vs. Calvary Eagles (130-pound League). WEDNESDAY. St. Martin's vs. Speakers (100-pound League). Terrors vs. Griffs (100-pound League). 1 Good Bhepherd vs. Corinthians (130-pound eague). vs. THURSDAY. Frenchys vs. Fort Myer (115-pound ) x;\"{‘e‘:led‘un: vs. = Optimists (115-pound vs, De Luxe (Unlimited League). Times B. C. vs. Tigers (85-pound League): Colonials vs. St. Martin’s (85-pound League). FRIDAY. Colonials Corinthians (130-pound League). Times Boys Club vs. Optimists (130-pound L ). al SATURDAY. St Martin's 3. Times Bovs Club (8- otrid League). P Golenials. Vs, Tigers (85-pound League). Gelfics vs. ‘Hartfords (Uniimited League). Yorkes vs. Standards (Unlimited L:ague). vs. Times B. C igers . St. Martin's 11 Colonials . Grifts T 8t. Martin's .. Speakers Lisiied Biinad *Speakers Arcadians Fort Myer . Ontimists Merigians . i 2 “Winner of fiist Kalf of 115-pound 130-pound League. w. bl Ootimists Times B. Colonials ..., Good Shepherd Corinthians ... ‘200 Unlimited Leasue. _ Celties ] 750 1500 400 ‘200 Hartfords AU AAWUON LRaUANE WWRNE WDNOM Yorkes CAPITAL WESTERN UNION GIRLS WIN ON ALLEYS RICHMOND, Va., January 19.— Western Union Women's Duck Pin Team of Washington tonight defeated Richmond Western Union in a five game series on the new Richmond alleys by a wide margin. The scores follow: RICHMOND GIRLS. Jones .. . 88 100 83 Wallenhure ‘103 Strattry 9 Schutte Schremp McNeil +...454 434 438 426 448—2,200 WASHINGTON GIRLS. RICHMOND, Va. January 19.—Old Ba Sanders Fling Palmer ...l Team total 76 84 83 78 86— . T2 111 95 105 85— v 401 471 468 450 491 e 468 ™ | spurt it started when it left the ceiiar | it took two from St. John's and knoc¥ed | 328: ‘Anderson (Ruth). 327, | | Centennial 0| two clubs that 49 time performance, and a new man by MASONIC LEAGUE. Team Standing. King David 648 648 596 57 p 5 9 King Solomon . 1 joopa ... Congress Erightwoor Feteral | Trinity Pentaipha’ National . Osiris 4 W50, 1 Mount Ple: a3 | Takoma . ’ Justice 421 Lebanon /... 41z | Hiram ... : 404 Alhert Bike 111l 4 Acacia ....... 36 368 | Columbia. No. 3 Eilver Spring ... Mount_Hermon .. Fast Gate ... Naval ... Roosevelt 8 7 High team games—King David, 638; La | Favette, 615. High 'team sets—King David, 1,798; Favette. 1.749. High individual David, 11 Watson, e. asant ... 7 421 | averazes—Phillips, La Favette,' 1114 ual Sets—Phillips. King David. | ner.” Singleton, 405, Williams, La | High individual games—Phillips. King Da- | 1id. 180: Arringer, La Fayelte. 163: Koehler. | Bafrister, 1.7. kes—Watson, La Favette, 32: | ng David, 20: ' Stocking, King ., Burtner, Centennial, 27; Ellis, 27. res—Phillips, King David. 139; 2 tworth, 136; Urban, La Favette, us: | Higl Deputy, High weekly games—K. Heinzman, Haneke, 140, King David kept its terrific pace by | taking all three from Joppa. Phillips of King David was the main factor with a 357 set, incidentally increasing his lead in individual averages a few pins. Barrister, a dark horse, climbed into | a tie for third position by taking Parker for all three. and Federal kept up the by taking all three from Mount Hermon. Trinity furnished the upset when, with- | out the aid of the regular anchor the latter out of second place. Brightwood. Centennial and Hope | were the remaining teams to win all | three. Pentalpha, Roosevelt and King | Solomon were the victims. Collier was a big gun in Trinity's wins, with a 365 set, the best of the week. Only two oth- ers rolled better than 350—Phillips, 357, and Ruppert, 353. EASTERN STAR LEAGUE. Team Standing. Unity ... Washington Bethany Ruth ... Brookland . Columbia Ceniennial. 203003 20 st BEERESREEE deent ethans. 1.460. es—Bethany. 504; Unity, High individual sets—Greevey (Bethany), | Hich individual samme—Owen (Washinston | High averages—Owen (Washington Cen- | Em: .n."‘sj';':“s'.’-;n g icks (Unity). 94-2: | cey any). 94. o;uufi’fi‘ sames-_Richards (Columbia). 94; ‘emple), 94 Te strikes - Whitbeek (Washington Cen- High_spares—Owen (Washington Centen- Bial), 50, AGRICULTURAL INTERBUREAU LEAGUE. Team Standing. Central Stores . Interbureau Plant Bureau Economics . Blister Rust . ot Shops . 25,324 . ts—So-Kems. 1.680; Central SI?!‘:E l‘i;";lr x‘:fl.erburr-u. 1.653. i ames—So-Kems. 631;_Inter- . 581; Shops, Central Stores. 579, High_individual sets—Ruppert. 319; Gor- R Idividual sames—Adams, 156; Posey. n 3 3 50; F. Donaldson Paimer, 149. Central Stores took possession of the first rung of the ladder by sweeping all three games with Soils-Chemistry. Tucker, with 143 and 358, led the way support from Frank Donaldson, who contributed a 320 set and did some | brilliant pinch shooting. The entire | So-Kems outfit was off stride. Crosswhite, shooting his first set for Economics, carried his team to a two- game win over Interbureaus is a warm battle, the second game being decided by a two-pin margin, and the third by four pins. Capt. Miller supplied Cross- white with plenty of support; -while Hank Conklin’s 333 count was the best for Interbureau. Plant Industry, after leading the cir- | cuit for a couple of months, has been encountering real opposition of late, its opponents in the last nine games hav- ing shot for an average of 540. Last week was no exception, when Accounts totaled 1,628 to take two of the three games and forced Plant to shoot 572 to | win its single contest. Plant’s set of 1,584 would have trimmed any team on the floor except Accounts—its opponent at the moment. De Glantz of Plant led both teams with a set of 362, while Capt. Stork’s 356 was best for Accounts. Blister Rust, led by Posey with a set of 358, took all three games from Shops | and step) into a tie for third place. Fivaz helped with a count of 320, while Castle and Clayton did the best bowling | for Shops. DISTRICT LEAGUE. Team Standing Convention Hall .. . 14 08 | King Pin . . 689 Stanford Pap 556 | Curb Cafe Progressive P Temple Arcad] e Meyer Dav, Petworth . . High team set—Stanford Paper Co.. 1.851. game—Progressive Printers, 669. zh team High individual set—Mitcheil (Temple). 406, Hig] dividual __ game—Wolstenholme igh_avel ley, 119-42. Convention Hall and King Pin, the | pear to have the championship bstween them and who are separated only by 222 pins, will | meet dangerous opponents next week | in Temple and Cornell's Lunch, though neither is rated of championship cali- ber. These two clubs have a knack of | rolling their best against the leaders and some upsets may be expected. During the past week Convention Hall lost its firm grip on first place by losing a game to Petworth, while King Pin was winning all three games from Meyer Davis. King Pin also picked up considerable in total pin fall, but they | have not caught the champions as yet. | Stanford Paper Co. rolled its third 1,800 set of the ¢ampaign and won two games from Curb Cafe to keep its hold on third place. Both clubs turned in a 600 game, Curb winning the final with :u. Stanford rolled 617 in the second game. Alded by Charles Benson, who showed signs of returning to his old- rage—Rosenberg, 120-13; Mand- | the name of Fredericks, Arcadia won two games from Cornell's Lunch and lost & hard one when Cornell rolled 597 to Arcadia’s 570. Frank Miller came near breaking ‘Wolstenholme’s record ‘of 158 for a single game in the Temple-Printers | Parkwa for Central Stores’ wins, but had fine |y, game, however. helped Temple to its only win over the Printers. NATIONAL CAPITAL LEAGUE. Team Standing. y Filling Station Kingz Pin Denham Co. . Meyer_Davis . New England Cafe Linwoods ......... Service Cafetcria People’s Insurance S F. H. Smith Chevy Chase .. .. N High team sct—Ser Calfeteria. 1,790. High team game—Meyer Davis. 633, poligh individual set—Mandley (H. B. Den- amn), High individual game—McGolrick (Meyer Davis), 161 i average—Weidman (King Pin), 113- 34; Campbell (King Pin), 118-3. A new record, new team leader and | two upsots easily sum up-last week’s activities. Joo McGolrick of Meyer Davis provides the record with his single game individual effort of 161. Park- way Filling Station is the new team leader as the result of King Pin's double trouncing by New England Cafe while Parkway was idling. The upset came |in the form of Chevy Chase's double win over Linwoods. Chevy Chase opened with a 549 game set. They did not fare so well in the second game, when they rolled but 488. Wagner and Driver featured for | the opposing clubs, the former with 351 and the latter with 336. Howard Campbell did his share for King Pin with a 35% set, but was badly supported and the New England Club took two games. Charles Poulos led the total of 1,623, Dedpite the record rolling of McGol- rick, Meyer Davis lost that game and another to ths H. B. Denham Club. | “Dutch” Newman topped the victors with his score _of 380. Lyons rolled 367 for Meyer Davis to better McGol- rick’s total of 356. BANKE LEAGUE. Team Standing. Parnetual ... 5000, Bank of Washing(on i3 American §. & T. N 70 Yash. L & TN, 1 ‘63 k25 Nationai Bank. 4. W. B. Hibbs Co 3 Pederal Reserve 35 ash. L. & T. 1 American 8. & T. No.'2 Federal-American ... Northeast Savings Bank Second National Bank.. Eastman Dillon Co Nat'l Metropolitan Bank District National Bank Murphy & Co........ Park Savings Bank. ... High individual sbt—Harrington, Hibbs. 378. 1sillkh indiVidual game—Harrington, Hiobs, High team set—Riggs, 1.660. High eam game—Perpetual, 582. oHikh, strikes—Keiner, Bank of Washing- 0 3 7 4 3 1 419 ton. 24 High spares—Reely, Amer pliEh cparess Reely, American Security & High average—Brooks, Riggs. 107-21. Keiner of Bank of Washington took 1 | high st prize for week, with 369, and Schroyer of G. M.-P. Murphy Co., high game, with 130. i 7, COMMERCIAL LEAGUE. Team Standing. Bur. For'gn & Do Bureau of Mines. e s 0 8 igh team game—Paienis No. 1, 583; reau of Standards. 568. High team set—Bureau of Foreign and Do- mestic Commerce. 1.629; Patents No. 1. 1.625. High ‘individual game—Simmons (Patents No. i), 141: Miltner (Bureau of Foreisn & om Commerce). 139, High indlvidual set—Pugett (Bureau of Mines). 358: Eckhardt (Bureau of Foreign & Domesiic Commerce), 357. High individual average—Miltner (Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce). 113-5: Moeller (Patents No. 2). 110 Eckhardt (Bu- Teau of ign. & Domestic Commerce), POST OFFICE LEAGUE. - With the first half of the race nearly over, the teams are closely bunched, and interest is at fever heat. As the teams go down the stretch, % | Shooting Stars are enjoying a three- game lead, being closely pressed by In- dependent and Registry teams. Shooting Stars, a dark horse entry, newly organized this year, have been the sensation of the league. After a poor start which caused them to lose their first nine games, potential power of the team began to assert itself. Money Order, a team which was tied for first place, was delivered a blow by the Owls, a team recently reorganized. Under their new leader, Capt. Dulin, who also shot a 355 set, the rejuvenated Owls took three from Money Order. Postmasters, Money Order, and De- ve all are in the thick of the race. Frod Barthlemess and Henry Thomp- son, two of the mainstays of the Shoot- ing Stars, retained their title as dou- bles champions, by decisively defeating Gus Priedrick and Hick Barrett, stars of the Parcel Post team, in a challenge match. The feature was the rolling of Thompson and Barrett, who shot 349 and 347 respectively. WASHINGTON LADIES' LEAGUE. Team Standing. Beeques ... Commercials Hoboes Columbia Hilltoppers Kumbacks Comets . Daughter Colonials . Grabbing all three games from Daughters of Isabella while Commer- cials were losing the odd one to Colum- bians, Beeques are now out in front with a two-game lead. Daughters did not prove easy picking for the champs, however, forcing the title holders to shoot record scores to gain the verdict. Games of 501, 516 and 530, for a total of 1,547, enabled Beeques to establish a new season’s mark for team set, topping the former record held by the Commercials by one pin. Lorraine Gulli and Bertha Greevy were the outstanding performers for Beeques, each spilling the maples for a 328 set; and by a coincidence their games were exactly the same, each shooting games of 99, 112 and 117. Catherine Quigley helped with a nice 317 sot, 115 being her best single. Helen of Isabeila 22 | Sullivan and Alice Burke starred for the losers. A count of 114 by the former and 116 by the latter in the final clash put the team over for a neat 502 game. Virginia Yarnell of the Commercials featured the night's play with a spar- (Cotention Hail 157 | Kling 138 game in the second tilt with Columbians, coming back with 112 in the final to bring her Set total to 335. Marjorie Bradt turned in a neat 330 sct, with two single counts of 117 and 120. Each pulled double-header strikes in the second clash, when the team slot a pifty 549. Billie Butler was mainly responsible for Columbians getting the edge in two out of three starts with Commercials. Billle smacked the maples for counts n; :’lqgs. 112 and 111, for a set total of 329. TRANSPORTATION B. A. A. LEAGUE. Team Standing. Pet Bureau No. 2. 644 Klondykes Horsefeathers . Scoofers Onetoates . Go-Getters Ground Hogs Splinters . Bureau No. 2 moved into a tie for first place by taking Klondykes for three games. Horsefeathers broke the tie for sec- ond place with Scoofers when they took the latter for three games, while One- toates and Go-Getters were fighting it out for fourth place, the latter losing 2 to the former. Meantime the battle for last place between the Groundhogs and the Splin- ters was waging hot, Groundhogs tak- match when he rolled a string of 157. Miller missed a that cost him the mark. Had he made this his score wouls d have read 169. This three-pin spare break | be two out of three, one of the games won by ene pin. Strunk of Klondykes was high man with 131, - A Pet. | 138 | 11 630 +x|Woman’s League Is Added and ended with 529 to take their first | lunchmen with 361 to compile their | 47 | Baltimore. 87 | Hyattsville last year. 1630 | Baird. 5 | Bernstein, DUCKPIN DEVOTEES IND. . INCREASING and Two More Circuits Start This Week. | UCKPIN bowling continues | grow in popularity. otces are being won game each day and new arc being added to the al lerge number in operation here. Another woman's league opened at |King Pin No. 1 the past week and | two new circuits are to get into action | this week at the same establishment. | Quartermaster Corps Ladics' League, | with s1x wams entcred, started its schedule Friday night and will con- tinue to roll that night each week. Acacia Mutual Life Association Lad League, composed of six teams, open_hostilities tomorrow night. | man’s league of e of employes of the s make 1ts debut Wedne: G. E. Clark, in charge master Corps Athletic Asscizion, anc. Mrs. Katherine R. Albaugh of the Mu- nitions Building, were instrumental in organizing the Quartermaster Corps | Ladies’ League. Teams represented in this league are Transportation, Execu- | tives, Real Estate, Administrative, En- gineering and Supply. . Among the out- standing bowlers competing in the {league is Mrs. Virginia Yarnall, District | League star. . Organization of the Acacia leagues | has followed much energetic work on | the part of D. T. McGraw, executive of the company, and Pop Evans, veteran | bowler and duckpin promoter. Pop has | coached many cof the bowlers in both [mgucs. Teams of the two leagues [rolled practice matches the past weck i and much enthusiasm was shown. | Dixie Pig Team, which is practically assured of the Prince Georges County | Duckpin Association championship, is | among the first to-enter the National Duckpin Congress second annual tournament at Richmond in March, George L. lsemann, secretary, has an- | nounced. This five Is likely to finish | among the leading teams, Iscmann be- | leves. ‘This team includes LeRoy McCall | and Hugh Waldrop, who last week set | new doubles set and game records which are likely to be accepted as | world records: Harry and Perce Wolf, | who were among the doubles winners | at Baltimore last year; Harry Snowden |and John Deputy, high scorers in several | leagues. Deputy will shoot in singles |and_doubles only, unless one of the | regular members of the team is unable | to make the trip. William Bowie, director of the N. D. P. B. C. of Hyattsville, reports that the Prince Georges County town will be represented by at least twice as many teams at Richmond as competed at Six teams represented o to t agues ready Three teams of Baltimore Odd Fel- | lows, League will make their annual | visit to Washington Tuesday night to meet a trio of teams selected from the local Odd Fellows' League. Three games are scheduled for each team here and a like number at Baltimore later. Total pinfall for all three teams will decide the winner as in former years. Each league will be representd by its 15 high average bowlers. Perce Elleft, secretary and outstanding star of the local team has named the following to roll for Washington: Arthur Logan, John Harville, Perce Ellett, Chalmers Groff, Charles Groff, Olin Hornig, Fred Ehlers, Fermin Cones, Jack Williams, Frank Donaldson, Edward Donaldson, Jack Rodgers, Jim Ellett, Tommy Elias and Thurmond Cordell. GALLAUDET BEATEN BY ST. JOHN'S, 41-25 ANNAPOLIS, Md.. January 10.—In spite of a rally which tied the score at 17 points when the first half ended. St. John's overcame Gallaudet at basket ball tonight, 41 to 25. With the score favoring the locals by 13 to 3 at the middle point of the first_half, Cosgrove and Dyer got their machine in working order, and brought the count to even terms as the half ended. Up to half time in the final half. St. John's led by 26 to 23, but a rally in which MacCartee, Smith, Hoff and Fader scored from the floor, gave St. John's a commanding lead. St. John's (41) Gallaudet (25) MacCartee, f. Drer, f... Rockefeller, £. o gt 1 Hokanson Ringle, & 2] wworoaben® 2 0 1 & | Wolenski, & Fader. ¢ ——ooowaoa, 9 34 Menton. LEAGUE PLAY BEGUN BY COUNTY TOSSERS (Special Correspondence of The Star) ROCKVILLE, Md., January 19.—The | opening games of the Montgomery High School Basket Ball League season were | played yesterday., when the Takoma | Park-Silver Spring quint won from | Sandy Spring at Silver Spring, 27 to 24, and Rockville bowed to Bethesds- Chevy Chase at Bethesda, 21 to 1 The teams proved unusually even! matched and both games were hot! contested throughout. The Gaithers- | burg-Poolesville game, scheduled to be | played at Poolesville, was postponed. | . The 1emainder of the schedule fol- | lows: | Jan: 25—Rockvill y 1 Poolesville at Damascus. February 1_—Bethesda at Rockville. Ta- koma Park-Silver Spring at Sandy Spring. Poolesville at Gaithersburs. February 8—Rockville at Sandy Spring at Bethesda, P Riruary 15—Sandy 8 Rockvil bruary a pri ville. Damascus. ‘ebruary 20— Takoma Park-Silver Spring at Rockville, Bethesda at Sandy Spring. ‘The teams are divided into two zones, i with Sandy Spring, Bethesda, Takoma | Park-Silver Spring and Rockville com- posing the southern zone and Pooles- ville, Gaithersburg and Damascus the northerh zone. The winner in each zone will meet in a title series, to be played February 22 and March 1 and 5, the | places, of course, yet to be determined. e DIXIE PIG FIVE AHEAD IN COUNTY FLOOR LOOP HYATTSVILLE, Md., January 19.— As the result of Berwyn Athletic Club defeating Brentwood Hawks, 30 to 21, last night in the National Guard Arm- ory at Laurel, Dixie Pig Athletic Club today is_heading the Prince Georges County Basket Ball League flag race with seven wins and one defeat. The Hawks and Berwyn are tied for second place, each with seven victories and two sctbacks. In the other game of the league dou- ble-header last night, Company F Re- serve team No. 1 trimmed Headquarters Gomrtny tossers of Laurel, 17 to 9. Wiegl was the big gup for Berw:n lasi night, scoring 18 po!,;m. | soomsomom: Totals ... LD Totals ... ReicreeMr. | Silver Spring, Damascus at