Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1935, Page 37

SPORTS. HOLBROOK PCKED | 70 RVAL BOLTO Clif Disappoints Nationals’ Boss by Lack of Spirit as No. 1 Backstop. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. OWN on the farmstead in Mis- sissippi, where he “figgahed on a-doin’ a little plowin’ around,” & young husky with ball playing ambition well may be meditating these days on what the future holds in store for him. Most ball players do when the frost begins gathering on the pumpkin. 1f s0, Sammy Holbrook here and now ean meditate in a happier vein, for hundreds of miles away, poring over averages and laying the foundation of next year's Washington ball club, President Clark Griffith is willing to cast a vote of confidence in the Mis- sissippi farm boy’s ability to be a major league catcher—regularly. Throwing & hint of possibly much gignificance, Griffith yesterday di- vulged that his quest for battery strength during the forthcoming joinf meeting of the major leagues in Chi. cago will not be confined to the pitch- ing terminal. The Nationals need a catcher and the mecessity is second only to that connected with the throw- ing end. “I am disappointed in our catching,” disclosed Griffith. “I thought that Clif Bolton, given a regular job, would show more fight and spirit than he did last year.” The remedy, Griffith admits, is a problem. The minor leagues have been combed by the Nationals for likely-looking backstop prospects, _he avers, but there are no such species not already tied up by big league teams. The joint meeting next month, plus James Marbury (Sammy) Hol- | brook, are Griff's chief hopes. Bolton Okay Mechanically. "I DON'T expect to grab a first-string major league catcher, understand,” explains Griff. “Love nor money couldn't get one. The clubs that have good catchers—New York, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Boston—are going to hang on to them. What I hope to do is to pick up a young recruit from one of these clubs and develop him myself. “Whether Il get what I want at the meeting is something else, but by the time we start training camp I'll have one or two youngsters around who can run and throw. Il toss ‘em a couple of big mitts and let ‘em learn. Catchers can be made. : “I am not disappointed in Bolton's progress as a catcher. He can receive well enough, is a pretty fair thrower and a dangerous hitter. But I thought he would show more life once he was given the job. A catcher should be &/ leader, an inspirational sort of a ball | player like Cochrane. Clifl was too | ‘dead’ to suit me. “Holbrook has all the fight and fire in the world. It's entirely up to Bucky | Harris, of course, but as for myself I wouldn't mind a bit telling him that | he could have the regular catching job and go to it. I think he has & definite chance to make the grade.” Asks to Be Sent Away. | T!-m opinion of the Nationals’ boss | regarding Holbrook may come as | something of a surprise to Capital | fans, to whom the 23-year-old Mis- | sissippi boy proved a disappointment | last season. Still, the Nationals’ boss bases his opinion on several facts.| ‘mainly Holbrook' lack of experience in professional base ball, his physical | and mental condition of last year, and | his overwhelming desire to make good. Reporting to training camp last| Bpring after shaking off a prolonged 1liness of the Winter of 1934, Holbrook failed to even resemble the highly- touted recruit from Chattanooga, for whom a National League club was re- ported to have offered a sum running well into five figures. He was the worst looking ball player in camp. Not even in batting practice did he hit. Jack Redmond, an obscure youngster, handily beat him out for the second- string catching job. “Shortly after the season opened,” ; disclosed Griff, “Holbrook came to me and asked to be sent back to the; minors for another year of seasoning. He was so downhearted over his show- ing and worried because he wasn't ‘accepted’ by the players that he really wanted to be sent back. I told him I needed somebody in the bull-pen, though, aad nothing doing.” Holbrook stuck with the club, re- ceived a chance, flashed promise at the outset, and then faded toward the end of the campaign, when an un- known named Bill Starr did most of the understudying for Bolton. Hol- brook wound up with a batting aver- age of .259 for 55 games, making 35 hits in 135 trips to the plate. The base-stealing percentage while he was | behind the bat was pretty high. | Still, with all, Griff regards him as | & worthy rival for Bolton next year as | regular backstop and the Washing- ton club’s president is not by habit a bettor on prohibitive long shots. Neither Redmond nor Starr figure as prospects in his book. GEORGETOWN LOOP BASKET BALL TILTS JUNIOR. Geo. Luth. (23), Peck Mem, (12, i Kidwellt___ 1 @ Mills.. | 0¥ meslsososon R 88 5uonscnd EE| amuomoond boi:] OR252205m> Totals____10 130 { Referee—Mr. Tucker. SENIOR. n (30). Geo. Pres. 5 G P. Buckler.f___ teh . Totals_._. 8 =1 Peck Me! 3 Q cnsaiisias? ¥ covausRR® 2910 D 2o 2 CLDIIOD 350y | ooomasss! | oo 8l Totals_.. Referee—Mr. Schafer. al 5l g I H H o I'S A This was the second hurdle from the start in 1!>-mile classic. p, was first; No. 12, white horse in the center, Royal Thomas, R. D. Wolfe up, was second, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 17, 1935—PART ONE. ' Navarion, Noel Laing As Field Took One of Jumps in Classic “Wanquepin” Race at Warrenton || and No. 9, hugging the rail, Macroomi, E. Jennings riding, took third place. the other side of No. 14. Navarion is somewhere in No. 9 is just ~—Star Staff Photo. ONLY ONE AHEAD IN EASY GALLOP {Claim of Foul Disallowed. Purple Knight, Thursday Trail at Bowie. WILSON WINS ON TRAPS Breaks 48 Targets in Gun Club 8hoot in Cold Downpour. Cold, wind and rain failed to stop Walter 8. Wils¢h from shooting bril- liantly in the weekly shoot of the Washington Gun Club yesterday, and the club treasurer finished with a 48 in his 50-target quota to lead all other contestants. R. Norton was second with a 46. Turkeys will be awarded winners in the annual pre-Thanksgiving over the club traps next Saturday. Yesterday's scores: pecial Dispatch to The Star. OWIE, Md, November 16.— B Making his twenty-third start of the year, Mrs. Deering Howe's Only One, toted 123 pounds, 1 1-16 miles over a slow track newal of the Prince Georges Autumn | Handicap and earn $2,650. ‘There was nothing to the day’s head- liner other than Only One. Jockey | Bobby Merritt sent the 4-year-old lchestnut son of Lucullite and Orissa {on top going to the paddock turn. | Saving ground on the reil until reach- | ing the stretch turn, where he went | very wide, Only One came on to a galloping score over Alfred Gwynne | Vanderbilt’s Purple Knight. The lat- | ter's rider, Lloyd Knapp lodged a claim of foul against the winner which the stewards disallowed. Third money was | accounted for by Shelby L. Burch’s | Thursday, one that won the recent | running of the Riggs by a nose from ! Only One. Cold weather held the aday’s attend- ance down to 7,500. The track was slow from last night's rein. when Maxie Hirsch's Columbiana won the opener, with Mrs. Walter M. Jef- ford’s Thirteen Stars, scoring in the third race. Columbiana Shows Class. COLUMB!ANA wes making her rac- | ing debut. She closed with a rush in the home stretch and won like | a good 2-year-old. In scoring in the‘ third, Thirteen Stars, trained by Pres Burch of Washington, got up in the | closing strides to win from Trans- porter, one that Shelby L. Burch | handles. The W. P. Burch Memorial run in | memory of the late Washingtonien of | that name, saw the Howe Stable's | Cycle, favorite, racing six furlongs in 1.12 3-5 to win; but the race was mar- | red when T. H. Somerville’s Pretty Knight and Jockey Sammy Renick were both injured prior to the start. Pretty Night lunged into the fence near the stall gate. She suffered an injured leg and was withdrawn from the race. Jockey Renick, who is under contract to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, | suffered abrasions on the head and | possibly a dislocated shoulder, | In winning Cycle had only to re- main off the pace until straightened away for home, where he drove on to |a length victory over Felix Spatola’s i Wise Prince. A. C. Compton’s Dartle { was third. FLEY-BUFFALO 60 STRS RING FANS Welters Well Matched for Colored Boxing Feature Tomorrow Night. NXIOUS to wipe out the draw verdict on his otherwise flaw- less record, Billy Eley, promis- ing local welterweight, will square off against the opponent who held him when he encounters Gene Buffalo tomorrow night in the fea- ture of the Lincoln A. C. all-colored boxing show at the Lincoln Colon- nade. Part of the proceeds will be turned over to the Community Chest, it has been announced by Promoter John W. Carter. Boasting hosts of followers, Eley and Buffalo are expected to battle beefore the largest crowd ever to sit in on an indoor show Yeaturing col- ored fighters. Opinion varied follow- ing their draw a couple of weeks ago. Buffalo's supporters claimed that Gene was entitled to the decision and that he will prove it by outpointing Eley tomorrow night. Eley fans look for In a scheduled 8-round semi-final. Baby Kid Chocolate will meet Tommy Mollis. They are welterweights. In supporting bouts, all booked for six rounds, Jack Grant, local heavyweight, will face Howard Brown; Ted King will oppose Tommy Hutchers in & featherweight bout, and Johnny Free- man will tackle Sammy Williams in & middleweight scrap. —— ADDS TO STUD LEXINGTON, Ky., November 18 (#). in 1.47 4-5 to win the thirteenth re- | | Mr.” Springston | TOPROW OUTR The daily-double pay-off was $57.80 | At 50. At 25 4R 46 S FAST TURF FIEL 11 to 10 Favorite in Front in $15,000 Handicap at Arlington Downs. By the Associated Press. RLINGTON DOWNS, Tex., No- vember 16.—Top Row, giant killer of the 1935 race meets me e Discovery, ran a fast field of 14 thoroughbreds into the ground today to win the $15,000 added Waggoner Memorial Handicap. ‘The little_son of Peanuts, owned by A. A. Baron), was backed down to the position of an 11-10 favorite before post time. Under Jockey G. Woolf’s guidarce, he ran the mile and a fur- long in 1:51, two seconds off the track record set last year by Ted Clark and earned his owner $14,550 to boost his total winnings to $102.620. ‘Top Row, carrying a heavy package of 122 pounds, finished two lengths ahead of Rip Van Winkle, which bore the light impost of 93 pounds and earned $2,500 for the Lone Star Stable with J. Jacobs in the saddle. BACK another half length was Our Count, property of H. C. Rumage, who collected $1,500 for his perfor- mance. Our Count carried 110 which included Jockey J. Johnson. Another lightly weighted entry, A. G. Tarn’s Martin Barton, carrying only 94 pounds and ridden by R. Kastner, took fourth place money of $750. ‘Top Row was away slowly but went started improving his position as he went to the outside approaching the far turn. After he took command there never was any doubt of the out- come. Rip Van Winkle closed with a great burst of speed after going seven- eights as an apparently badly beaten horse. Top Row paid mutuels of $3.10, $3.30 and $2.70. Count $2.80. SAILING RACES SLATED Association Members to Pilot Craft in Meet Today. Believing turn-about is fair play, members of the Race Committee of the Potomac River Sailing Associa- tion will be at the tillers of many of the boats which will compete today in the final sailing races of the season, to be held as a feature of the Corinthian Yacht Club’s oyster roast on the club grounds at 2 o'clock. Among those competing will be Commodore Archer M. Allen, Judge Prentice E. Edrington, Ralph E. Winslow, Paul G. Tomalin, Alfred Hansen and John Fox. The class A handicap series will be Brangler II and Lady Avon. PAPER QUINT TO PLAY Has Two Clashes on Tap—Boasts of Clever Talent. The newly organized District of Co- lumbia Paper Co. basket ball team, recent victims of the Old Dominion Boat Club quint, will play two games this week, facing Fort Myer at Fort Myer tomorrow night and the South- swishing the cords for the paper boys. —_—————— STUDENT RIDERS’ SHOW Arlington Hall's Student Riding —Ladysman, 5-year-old son of Pom- pey-Cleopatra, champion 2-year-old shoot | by virtue of two victories over | to the inside on the first turn and | Rip Van Winkle | returned $13.00 and $4.90 and Our BOWES' JUMPER Stretch Rush Accounts for Laughton Boy’s Victory at Middleburg. BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR, Staff Correspondent of The Btar. IDDLEBURG, Va., November 17.—Three thousand hardy spectators and almost two- score thoroughbred horses braved a chill and bitter afternoon | here yesterday to open the Middle- burg Hunt's annual Fall race meeting on the Glenwood estate of D. C. Sands. Everything from Irish mist to Dutch downpours beset the onlookers and | participants who turned out for the | first of two days' cross-country sport, | but they were rewarded by six good horse races and a few miscellaneous thrills thrown in for good measure. ably was the Burnleigh, a 2!2-mile brush event won by the outsider of a strong four-horse field, Walter Bowes’ | Saughton Boy. In this scrappy affair four first-rate jumpers went at ft of the route, with Saughton Boy com- ing on in a brilliant stretch rush to | edge out Prank M. Gould's What Have You, the pacemaker. Race Easy for Indigo. WmLE the Burnleigh set more Hearts afire than any other in- | cident of the day, top billing was | given to a 4-mile timber test called | the Dinwiddie, Which brought back to | Virginia that courageous old cam- paigner, the Northwood Stable’s In- digo. Repeatedly challenged by two | younger horses, this veteran son of | Stefan the Great shook them off as a terrier flings a mouse aside. When they swung under the wire, Indigo | was at least two lengths to the good and still fighting for his head, as he had been all the way. | A second nip-and-tuck battle, de- | veloped in the closing flat race, lost isome of its flavor when the winner was disqualified. Mrs, Marion Du- |3m | Ponit Somerville’s Hustle came on the | outside to collar E. 8. Voss' Stunt | Flyer in the last quarter of this mile- | and-one-half dash, but in making the turn for home obviously crowded Stunt Flyer against the rail. Bobbie | Young’s claim of foul was allowed |and the Voss entry was moved up | into the winner's circle. Winners Never in Doubt. L’]:‘Bil secondary timber and brush | attractions of the afternoon were [fairly in the bag the minute the | horses left the post. Benjamin Gris- | wold, 3d, took his chestnut Be Happy to the front in the Raymond Belmont Memorial, run over post and rail, and never thereafter left the issue in doubt. Anderson Fowler, the third owner- rider to score during the afternoon, was astride undoubtedly the best horse in the race when he flashed past the judges’ stand an easy win- | ner on his Peacock in the Homeland, a 2-mile claiming affair. The other amateur who rode his own mount to victory was Noel Laing, who took the hurdle race with Nava- rino. He also shared Andy Fowler's win, as the trainer of Peacock. There were only two spills during the entire day, and neither rider was hurt., The Middleburg meeting will close Wednesday with a second card of six races, beginning at 2 p.m. Summaries: resailed to decide a tie between Hh har ing Water. J. C. Justa Flapper. Miss Nancy Patterson: Ehiphirs John A Piyne. Time—2:40. . Mrs. John A. Payne. 2:40. INWIDDIE. (4 miles over timber for 8500 purse)—First. Indigo. Northwood Stables: _second Welbourne 'Jake. Mrs. Marion Somerville; third. Pries Fisher, jr. Time_—8:10%. THE ~ BURNLEIGHT (2% m . for_qualified hunters ridde amateurs—Pirst_ Ssughton Boy. Bowes; second, What Have You, Pri Mrs. Frank M. Alvin Unie: Gould: _third: 'Kim. %w e_r‘ln—Dr-»uu. ime—4 TYE lfihfln BELMONT MEMORIAL (3 miles over timber), amateur — Be Happy. B. H. mmrfnfi"i. *Gliues Bovee. THE HOMELAND (2 miles over brush) -Pir: acock. over n by ML ank M. Gould. rmyer. . Dan . Cald, A. E. Plerce. Also ran potto. Howard C. Pair: Baliada, How- 33,8, Snr;, Slieve Tron. ‘Irving Beaver: THE BR( 3-year-olds miles on the flat—Pi: E.’S, Voss: second. Palm Mrs. D. B! Wents. jr.: third, Petronius. Miss Charlotte (Hustle, . Somerville, but was disqualified for foul- in the s . Mann . erville. finished fourth but Tine Wit Huette ) Ales rencedeorse Jeb- 3 Tal sel. J. W. Ethrid ALEX ARMOUR HAS 77. Alex Armour, formerly professional at Congressional, played a round of golt over his old course yesterday | M He played with The best of the races unqueman-' hammer and tongs through every inch | : | jello, Nick Lutze, George Koverly and BOWLING WIN IS CLOSE Norfolk Health Center 3-2, From Peninsula Bus. NORFOLK, Va, November 16— Norfolk Health Center tonight de- feated the Peninsula Bus Lines in the Southern Inter-city Duckpin League, 3 games to 2. Wallace led the win- | ners with a set of 624 but was topped | by Kane of the Busmen, who shot 655. On total pins, Peninsula was high, with a margin of four sticks. Scores: Cops, Haralson Wallace_ .. | Creamer | Beecham | Kane Crowder_ | Gauer- | 4 .91 N SWEEPING a 5-game match with the Temple Dixie Pigs last games but tightened its hold on first | place in the Southern Intercity Duck- slapped on the whitewash. In the third and fifth games the sary counts on each occasion. Bill| Krauss was high for Occidental with | | |Sweeps Five-Game Battle With Temple Dixies in Intercity League. ] night at Northeast Temple, the Occidental Restaurant team not only stretched a victory streak to 17| pin League. The Occidentals have won 21 skirmishes out of 25. It was the third straight match in which they Restauranteurs staged last frame ral- lies to get over the hump with Astor| Clarke, anchor man, delivering neces- | 678 and George Honey topped the Pigs with 594, one stick ahead of Gene Hargett. The scores: Pacini Totals _ 637 569 — MATMEN COME BACK THANKSGIVING NIGHT Turner Promises Bright Progrnm! for First Wrestling Show of Indoor Season. |WRBTLING fans who have strug- gled along through a two-month | lapse of grunting and groaning again | will receive doses of the mat game on Thanksgiving night, November 28, it has been announced by Promoter Joe ‘Turner. The grappling show will be the second sports card listed for Turner’s new arena, which will open three days before with a boxing program. Promising one of the brightest cards of the year for the opening show, Turner looks for a mat boom during the coming season, basing his pre- diction on the influx of many new- comers and the return eastward of former local favorites. Among those whom Turner plans to book early are Ray Steele, Paul Jores, Man Moun- tain Dean, Vincent Lopez, Karl Po- | | Tiny Roebuck. _—— GIRLS IN BASKET FINAL Sherwood and Georgetown Teams Score in League Play. Sherwood and Georgetown teams won their way to the finals of the Girls' Interplayground Basket Ball League yesterday, the former defeat- ing Potomac, 23-21, while the latter trimmed Twin Oaks, 19-12, on the New York Avenue Playground court. Elizabeth Lewis came through with s feld goal in the last minute of play to win for Sherwood, while Peggy ‘Wilson scored 15 of 19 points to lead will meet Saturday in the first of a three- game series to decide the title. WESTERN HIGH-Y VICTOR. Western High-Y’s team doubled the | score on Central to win the opening game of the Y. M. C. A. High- Y League, 34 to 17. Flather’s 13 field goals would have been sufficient to win for the West Enders, | straight match in the world cham- | pionship three-cushicn billiard tourna- the rear. " . | Neap Finishes Neck Behind in Wannamoisett for Purse of $4,610. By the Associated Press. AWTUCKET, R. I, November | 16 —Crossbow 2d triumphed | today in the $5,000 Wanna- moisett Handicap, & mile and | 70 yards for 2-year-olds at Narra- gansett Park. The blaze-faced son of Crusader scored his first triumph in August | and followed with a victory in the | Sanford Stakes at Saratoga. | Since then, racing with the top- | flight juveniles of the land, he has | found the cupboard bare. Today he earned $4,610 as the win- ner's share. His total for the year is | $10 410, | A crowd of 20,000 braved near- reezing weather to watch the run- | ning of the last rich stake on the | New England racing program. Crossbow 2d won by a neck from Neap, half of the Brookmeade Stable entry, with Indian Broom, the other half six lengths back and a length and a half in front of Sir Jim James. The winner paid $4.90, $2.50 and | $2.80 with the Brookmeade entry pay- | ng $2.30 and $2.70. The daily double today paid $617.70 with 30 tickets sold on the combina- | tion of Meloy and Dearzin, winner of | the first and third races. Maintains Unbeaten Record With | Defeat of Layton in 3-Rail Billiard Tourney. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 16.—Welker Cochran, aggressive San Fran- | cisco cue artist, won his seventh | ment tonight, defeating Johnny Lay- ton, Sedalia, Mo., in one of the most bitterly contested matches of the tour- ney, 50 to 46, in 46 innings. Cochran had a high run of 8 and came from behind to win. fl;aywn'n greatest run was a cluster of 5. —— GOLFER GETS TURKEY Smith Defeats Loving, 6 and 5, at Anacostia Course. Paul Smith won the turkey golf tournament at Anacostia Park yester- day, defeating Calvin Loving by 6 and 5 in the final round. Loving, who is a brother of Benny Loving, Charlottesville, Va., pro, always was down in the final. In the second flight M. Lukats beat | S. R. Ball by 3 and 2, while Harry Binlick defeated R. MacLaren, 6 and 5. The semi-fnal match at Rock Creek Park, between Levi Yoder and | Volney Burnett, was postponed be- | cause of bad weather and will be | played tomorrow. e {Por_Mon: FIRST RACE—S$800; old maidens; 6 furlongs. Chambersburger Stack Arm: iming; 2-year- Sentry __ 5 Knight Wi Starborough *Trujillo 113 SEOOND RACE—$800: year-olds and up; 1. miles. Bricht 9 Plumage_ 5 Jay Jay__ Naughty Curl__ CE—$800: claiming; 3- longs. Turion: r Brain_ 108 114 a Scatte: a Hope to Do__ Microphone_ 114 Deduct FIFTH RACE—$1.000; 3-year-olds and up; 1/ miles 107 2 Rough Diamond Commonwealith_ Official__ 109 Our _ 108 Brindle_ 107 jal_ Reil SIXTH RACE—$1.000; 3-vear-olds and up. 1/ miles. 107 North Wales IT 115 105 Sir Ten_ Conte 102 Sun_Appol Judy O'Grady _ 103 Round Tal SEVENTH RACE—S$800: claiming; year-olds and up; 1/ miles. Lady Marlboro 111 Church Call... 111 Stimulator_... 114 *a Dancing 114 __Clou 3- Blue_ "2 - 106 *a Chattertols & J. A, Gratton entry. PR R ST » 14 12 | & two-team fight for the lead . . . the 5 | Amity No. 2 came to life in the Odd 00 | creased its lead over Pinta in the SPORTS B17 “Griff Will.Seek Kid Catcher at Mart: Bowling Booms as in Days Before 29 DUCKPIN EDITOR BURIED UNDER SHEAFS OF NEWS Every Type of Organization in Capital Has Its League—Figures Presented by Myriad of Press Agents Gleaned. OT since the boom days be- N fore '29 has bowling known - the activity that marks the current season. Church and state, business and civic, fraternal and military—in short—about every con- ceivable type of organization is clam- oring for attention as the bowling editor's desk is hidden beneath a mass of papers covered with league standings, averages and other “vital statistics.” With the Government and commercial press agents tied with 10 handouts apiece about their respective loops, let’s first take a look at Uncle Sam’s wood wallopers. By giving a lesson to the Public Schools, National Capital Parks hung on to its two-game lead in the Men's Federal loop over Investigation, whose two-out-of-three triumph over High- way was matched by the leaders . . . Without Frank Xanten, however, Highway would have been in a bad/| way . . . Xanter shot a 159, the best of the week, to give his team its only victory, in the first game . . . Monk Walker's fine 156 game and 419 set enabled G. P. O. to take the odd game from the G. P. O. Union Printers, thereby swapping standings, the win- ners moving into third place. OVER on the women's side of the same organization, the lead is being valued as “dirt chea) Agri- culture teams standing one, two and | three . . . Agriculture leads with 18| wins in 24 games, Agriculture’s second | team is one game behind, and the | A. A A five one game further re-| moved . . . but Mary Esten, Post Of- | fice’s captain, eclipsed all the fair Fed- | erals with a 354 set, chalking up | games of 129, 123 and 102 . .. In the | PFederal Trade Communications loop, | the Falcons and Hawks have contrast- | ing records, the former on top with | 11 won and 4 lost end the Hawks| flying low with 4 and 11 . . . Getting | into the departments, we find General | Counsel No. 1 leading the Commis- | sioners and Miscellaneous League, the | Adjutants only a game ahead of the | Auditors in the Navy loop, Plant ln-‘, dustry holding the same margin over | Shops in the Agriculture Interbureau | Association and ditto Secretary over | Land in the Interior Department’s | 10-team tussel . . . but in another | Navy organization, the Navy Depart- | ment League, three teams are no fur- ther than three names glued together + . . The Quartermasters, Secretarys and S. & A. boast the identical records of 17 victories in 27 gemes . . . In-| formal Cases is holding a formal lead of 2 games in the I. C, C. men’s di- | vision . . . the Alley Cats are on “main street” in the Ladies’ Procurement Division, the Colonials, in second place, being four games behind. ND ’pon our word, if bowlers of The Evening Star aren't tied with three other teams for the leadership of the Commercial loop! . . . Diamond Service, Continental Baking Co. and Peoples Drug Stores are the “only” one stopping the boys upstairs from holding an undisputed lead . . . Par- sons, by the way, seems to be the big shot among the individuals, with the best average (122), high game (177— whew!) and high set (455) . .. Just 31 teams are trailing Jumbo Bread in | the Sanitary’s chief recreation these | days . . . Sanico Bakery and R. La | Bille walked off with the week's| honors, however, when that team shot a 560 game and a 1,600 set and La Bille “stuck ‘em all in the groove” for | a 144 game and 372 total . . . Pepco | Maintenance is maintaining its lead | in the Electrical loop and also high team set honmors with 1,705 . . Robinette, who has rolled more spares | (65) than any one else in 24 games, | leads in average with 144 . . . Saturday | nights continue to be hot in the Saturday Night League, with Con- vention Hall and Bond Bread making former is ahead at present by one game, but the runner-up has the best team average of 526 . . . None has equaled De Molay Alumni’s third-place | club 610 score in one game, nor its| record set of 1758 . . . The Cold Streamers finally caught Encore in the A. & P. League, and Condor is coming fast, one game behind the joint lead- ers . . . Encore’s 573 game and 1,663 | set last week couldn't head off the former second-place five. 'AS quite a stir that Ruby end of the first series in the Odd Fel- lows' League finds Fred D. Stuart, Amity No. 2 and Mount Pleasant in a three-way tie, according to the per- centages, although Stuarts hold the lead, having rolled three more games . . The Washington Centennials pulled up to a first-place tie with the Jos. H. Milans crowd In the Eastern Star League, each having won 21 games while losing 6 . . Helena Kohler still holds the season’s game and set records, 149 and 380. BROTMAN‘S MARKET is leading the Petworth League . . . The marketmen also hold two of the six records, a high team set of 1,693, and its Ruche having rolled the highest game, 155 . , . Out in Takoma, Stew- art Brothers and Brooks’ Shade Shop share the Suburban League lead, Seal Construction continues to head the Takoma Duckpin Association; Bap- tist Christian tops the churches and the Plumbers lead in the D. C. Re- pair Shop . . . Still further out, in Prince Georges County, the Arcades and Lustine-Nicholsons are fighting each other with 16 victories in 24 games (in the women's league) . . . The Lustine-Nicholsons are not doing 50 well in the Saturday Night Indus- trial loop, though, being in last place and seven games behind the leaders, Rutledge Motors . . . Jumping over to Bethesda, Mutual Insurance, Derrick Decorating and We Cab Co. are going nowhere from each other fast . .. cone tinuing tied for the top with a record of 16 and 8 ., . . Across the river, in Rosslyn, Shady Grove and Arnold Operated are exhibiting identical rec- ords of 20 victories and 10 losses, “tops” -in the Rosslyn Independent League. EN of leisure” in the Country Club Leagiz are hard at work fighting for a championship involving three country clubs . . . At present Beaver Dam (thanks to the efforts of McCarthy, La Mille and F. Moore) is leading by a game . .. Washington is second, and one game behind in third place is Indian Spring's firsg team . . . and Manor’s second team, in third place, is two games ahead of its fifth-place first team. Hamilton is within one game of the Bank League-leading American Security team . . . with Riggs cons tinuing to hold third place despite a desperate drive of Hibbs, now ona game behind . . . Although holding three team records, Nash is in third place in the American Legion League, now being led by Bunker Hill . . . the leaders probably are glad that Myerg and Kee are in their line-up, for the former has made eight strikes in 1§ games, while the latter has averaged five spares a fray . Potomac has declared war on Internal Revenue in the Veterans of Foreign Wars loop and threatens the money chiefs’ posi« tion, now held by the slim margin of one game . ... the Steam Rollers arq crushing all beneath them in the Dynamite League, being six gameg ahead of the so-called Wrecking Crew . . . Bindery No. 2 and the Upy and Downs are all even in Judd § Detweiler's League, while Kiwanis No, 1 holds a one-game lead over thq S. S. Lions in the civic clubs . .. The Budget Bureau has budged its lead ta three full games over the Kann's in the Independent Ladies’ League. A triple-header strike by Martha Kauffman featured activities in the What's-in-a-Name League, the Ins formation star cracking out a 143 game and a 337 set . . . Mrs. Kaufl« man’s high game tops the former sea« son record of Flavia Hayes and carried her team to within one game of the league-leading Transportation five . . . Hessick Coal is two gameg ahead of Gallihner & Huguely in Co- lumbia Height's League . . . Highway Engineers are two games behind second place. Bowie Results Pirst race: Five and one-half furl urse, S800: for maiden ies—Columbiana. 115 (A on, $6.70. $3.80. $3.10; Sweet as 3.4 d Mile Frazier caused in the Central Presbyterian Intra-Church League | last Monday night . . . Chalking up | five spares and a double-header strike, | Ruby set a new record of 137 in the | league for both men and women, but | | Elzie Moyer beat it by 4 pins less than | Irans> an hour later . .. Ruby's team, Les| Femmes, the only girls’ group in the | organization, received some comfort in their cellar position when they were joined by the C. E.-League band . . . The Deacons maintained the lead in the Clyde Kelly League with & 2-1 decision over Semi-Circle, setting a league game record of 538 in the accomplishment . . . Kane couldn't stop the Teachers from being knocked from the second to fifth place, even with his game of 139 and set of 361 ... Metropolitan No. 1 and Pirst Church are making a bold at- tempt to catch Brookland in the B. Y. P. U. .. . Brookland leads 'em both by one game . . . the women of the same organization are being led by West Washington and again, two teams are found tied for second—Met- ropolitan and Kendall . . . Three teams are tied for first place in the East Washington church group, Doug- las No. 1, First Brethren and Grace Reformd having won 18 of their 27 games while a pair of teams, Mount Tabor No. 1 and North Carolina Ave- nue No. 1, share the Methodist Prot- estant top rung . . . Abe Weinberg's game of 157 and set of 405 led the Chidakels to'a three-game sweep over Sigma Alpha Kappa and first place in | the Hebrew Inter-Club loop. THOSI Masonic, Odd Fellows, K's of C. et al are waging a merry fight, too. . . . Three, the first teams of B. M, Dr. Rm. and Bd. Mt. are locked up in a first-place tle of the Columbia Lodge No 174, I. A. M. and Md. Mt. No. 1's Connors has not had his game of 165 approached . . . Fellows’ loop, smearing Fred D. Stuart for a two-game loss, knocking them from the top rung and climb- ing there themselves . , . Ovando in- C. League with a shutout of but the sixth-place Balboa & season’s game and set with 603 and 1,738 + The | 3.5 : claiming: 109 (R. Booker : Big Gawk. 112 second. $4.50. $310: Mister_Gi (C. E. Eve)_ third, $3.50_ Time. Also ran—Purled Flag. Myponne Prince. Behemoth. Celebrant, Bread Ki Third race—8ix furlongs: purse. 2-year-olds—i 104 Rosenzarten), orter A $3.10: High Pool third. $2 30, 57 80 aid S, a-8iant a Tit double Ted t) na Mr. and Mrs, Walted furlongs: pu ch icap 5 (R. Merritt). won, Wise Prince, 107 3.60. $2.60; Dartle, 0. Time 1:12 cing Tweedledee, ce —Howe-Sage Stable entry, and one-sixteent : Prince George Aue ‘;\dnuvv for all ages—Only. 0 0. c al c—Alfred Gwynne Vanderbily ntry.” Sixth race—Claimin, -year-olds and upward: mile and a —Naval Cad 116 (H. Richards). won. $3.50. $2.6 2 (F. Doughert: 089 = Pogarty 113 (W, D} me. 2:40%. Alsa Ty Lee for 3-year-old. e 2.20; Fort Dearborn. second. $6.30, $3.40: Wrisho) third, $2.90 3_ (Fy Lfi‘sm, second. Madeley). T ;mlhbot. Slavey Also ran—Idle Plirt, Ro: Old Judge. Muslet.’ Ke: ROYALS WANT A FOE. Royal A. 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