1940-07-05 — Page 23

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 5, 1940

BOWLING ALLEY JOTTINGS

By "Strike"

Quite a fair three-game Ten Pin Į pins per game. As it was he won the match was played on Thursday in the Third Round of the Singles Handi- cap Competition between Dick Venezla and D. Walker.

Venezia's handicap was plus 17 and Walker's plus 40, therefore the former player was conceding 23 pins per game, or 69 pins for the three game played.

The match resulted in a very narrow win for Venezia by the low margin of nine pins, again demonstrating the justice of the handicapping Committee.

The individual scores were:-

Re-

1st 2nd 3rd ceives Ttl.

172 168

510

D. Venozla

(plus 17) 180 D. Walker

139 69 501 (plus 40) 153 · 140 It was thought by most bowlers that the veteran Venezia would overwhelm his less experienced opponent even though he had to concede 69 pins, but Walker put up a good fight for it, and had he made a spare with his last ball I am afraid Venezia would have him- self dropped down on his last game.

Venezia's average worked out at 170 pins per game exactly and Walker's at 167 pins, including his handicap.

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With a little more experience can see Walker being in the limelight before long.

Old friend Spenko and his Tulsa men are still continuing in winning vein for on Friday they met Doc Mol- then's team in a friendly 5-game Ten Pin match.

Spenko's team was as usual, viz and Spenko, Peterson, Borg, Moore while Doc Molthen's team was practi- cally the Champs team, with the ex- ception of J. Higgins, Molthen's team lined up with himself, veterans Ernie Hearther and Dick Venezia, and Higgins.

a newcomer;

Tulsa won by the lowly margin of 51 pins, the individual scores being:-- U.S.S. TULSA DOC MOLTHEN'S

TEAM Total

Total 885 Ernie Hearther 979 Pete Peterson 842 Dick Venezia 816

831

808 A. A. Borg

Doc Molthen 764 J. Higgins 668 E. J. Moore

3271

F. Spenko

3322

two books of tickets awarded by the Alley Management for any bowlers, who makes 950 in a 5-game match.

Spenko was again in form and was scorer with 855 easily second high pins to his credit, or an average of exactly 177 pins per game-this is in- deed good bowling-but Spenko has been bowling well lately.

Peterson, who by the way is never far behind the leader, was third high- est scorer with 842 pins, or an aver- age of 188 pins per game-very useful on this occasion for his side-while Borg was not far behind with 831 to his credit or an average of 166 pins.

Moore's effort was quite good but not good enough for him as he can usually do better than 764 or an aver- age of 153 pins per game. He was ob- viously just a little off form.

Although as I have said, the scoring all-round was of a high standard, it that there were was rather curious only

three scores of 200 or over throughout the match, and these were all bagged by Ernie Hearther; he made 206 on his second game, 222 on his 4th game and 202 on his last and 5th games.

The average score per player per game worked out for the Tulsa at 166 pins, while Molthen's team registered 163.5' pins.

I mentioned in a previous article my puzzlement at the lapses of veteran players in matches, for generally there is always one game where they fail; it is really hard to understand.

Molthen made the low score of 124 on his third game, while on the other games he averaged 171 pins per game. Hearther dropped down to 153 on his third game-perhaps he wanted to keep Molthen company-while on his other four games he averaged 207 pins per game.

Spenko dropped to 143 on his 4th game, while averaging 185 on his other four games.

Peterson made 129 pins on his last game, while his average for the other four games worked out at 178 pins per game.

I think I have already mentioned in a previous "Jotting" that many Duck Pin players are quite useful at Ten Pins, and that many Ten Pins players have proved their adeptness in Duck Pins.

This was exemplifted in a Duck Pin played in the match (Five game) Alleys on Monday.

As can be seen by these figures the

was of scoring all-round

a high standard; it could not be expected that Higgins a newcomer, could get into the stride in the first match that he has ever played in these Alleys, bowl- ers will agree with me that it takes

The occasion was a match between a little time to get used to the con- U.S.S. Asheville and Tulsa, and I was. ditions in the Alleys, then the Alleys rather surprised to see the Asheville themselves, and even the ball they used veteran Ten Bowlers turn out to play However, I expect before long to have Duck Pins. They were C. G. Cunning, to narrate on some useful scores put W. J. Balaski, and Joe Harvey and the remaining members of the team, up by this player.

the Ernie Hearther, as usual, was bril-H. N. Levy, is well known in liant; he was easily top scorer with Alley as a good all round Duck Pin 979 in his bag or an average of 196

player. pins per game; it only required a strike in the right place to make him 1,000 or over or an average of 200

LAWN BOWLS TEAMS

(Continued from Page 22)

Second Division (v K.F.C., Away):-J. W. Harrop, C. Willcox, J. Aitken and F. Chan ning (Skip); R. D. Fitches, J. Headridge. W. E. Hollands and J. W. Macdonald (Skip); G. Willerton, J. Hayward, J. R. McWalter and J. S. Riddell (Skip).

K.F.C.

The Tulsa team were all well-known Duck Pin players, Pierce, Hofman, Drewes and Vasko. The match was in- deed a very close one and resulted in a win for the Tulsa by the very low margin of 10 pins only, the Individual scores, being as follows:

TULSA

Total

ASHEVILLE

Total

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rest of the players on both sides were nob far behind with averages of 00 to 94, Asheville worked out at 04.5 pins per game, while the average of the Tulsa worked out at 95 pins per game.

LADY STAR

The average per player per game for

J. H. Watts

TULSA

DARE DEVILS

928

F. Spenko

847

Doc Molthen. F. P. Hollis

827

Poto Peterson.. 842

785

A. A. Borg....

811

S. A. Jamall..

724

J. Moore

690

3204

3199

On this occasion Watts for the Dare Devils

We have another lady bowler who is com- ing into the "high lights" in Ten Pin Bow-was way and above the highest scorer with ling in the person of Miss Ruby Tang. This 920 or an average of 186 pins per game. young lady recently registered the extra- Spenko for Tulsa was second top scorer with, ordinary good score of 195. The score sheet 847 in his bag or an average of 170 pins per shows that she started off with strikes en game, but this is not unusual for Spenko,

or at least very close to it. her first and second frames, a spare on her he can always be relied upon to be on top third frame, then three strikes in a row on her fourth, fifth and sixth frames; she failed

on her seventh frame to make an eight, a nine on her eighth frame, then a spare on her ninth and 10th frame, finishing up with a nine on her extra ball.

Had she made another strike in the right

place, this young lady would have undoubt edly beaten the Ladies' Ten Pin record for the month which is held by Miss Nancy NE.

who made 211 on June 11.

F. P. Hollis of Mindanao has been and

for

in

gone and done it again! He started off July Ten Pins by with the highest score knocking up 257. This he accomplished on Tuesday.

This score has beaten his own record of

which he made 252 in these Alleys January this year.

However, Hollis's score sheet shows that he made five strikes in succession on his first five frames, a spare on his sixth frame, a strike on his seventh frame, a spare on his eighth frame, a strike on his ninth and tenth frames, finishing up with a strike with his first extra ball and an eight with his

second extra ball, Good work Hollis.

This score is going to be hard to take off the alley record board for the month. There was an impromptu Ten Pin match played

on July 3. It was impromptu in so much that it was a three men, three game match between Asheville Pharmacist's Mates and Asheville Boatswain's Mates. The matchi resulted in a win for the Pharmacist's Mates by 174 pins. The individual scores were as follows:-

PHARMACIST'S

MATES

O. Aasen......

BOATSWAIN'S MATES

V. V. Vining ... 440

425

E, L, Wood.... 365 J. F. Wagner.. 345

O. F. Drewes 491 W. J. Balaskl 507 | L. C. Garrett ........ 470

491 476 J. A. Vasko

H. N. Lovy W. H. Hofman 468 C. G. Cunning 448 | D. E. Norman.... 420

464

443 1. B. Pierce

Joe Harvey

1899

1889

1324

1150 Garrett was top scorer with 470 in his bag, or an average of 160 per game, which Feature of the match was the credit-is quite a fair average, but I know that

The following have been chosen to repre-able number of scores of over 100 and

sent Kowloon Football Club:-

First Division (v. P.R.C., home):-J. Gib son, A. Eastman, R. Hall and P. Young husband (skip); W. Groves, R. Hughes, C. Dowman and W. Simpson (skip); A. Lapsley. C. Pile. V. N. Atienza and V. Chittenden (skip).

Third Division (v, H.K.C.C., away):-C.

Woodcock, S. Wong, C. Fuller and B. Evans (skip): B. Thomson, B, Williams, Y, Abbas and J. Smalley (skip); P. Frost, W. Sera- phina, J. Henson and J. Smith (skip):

P.O.C.

:.

The following have been chosen to repre- sent the Prison Officers Club in the Lawn Bowls League to-morrow:

Third Division (v Cic.C., Away)-S. Mar vin, J. W. Hudson, J. W. Fitz-Gerald and W. J. Bagley (Skip); V. Freeman, G. Fos- ter, F., N..Hill, and T. Pile (Skip); W. W. Ebber, J. McCutrach, J; McCutcheon and A. Jullott (Skip).

Balaski's wonderful effort. There were no fewer than 12 scores of over 100, six being registered by each team, Balaski for Asheville bagging three of them, 104,120,. and 117. Also for Ash eville Levy had two, 122 and 104, and Cunning, also Asheville, the sixth 104.

Drewes for Tulsa bagged two for his side, 104, and 102; Vasko regis- tered two, 102 and 106; Hofman got one, 110 and Pierce 114; it is not often so many 100's are registered in one match.

The star bowler was W. J. Balaski for Asheville; he notched 507 pins for the match or an average of 103 per game. For Becond highest scores H. N. Levy for Asheville and O. F. Drewes for the Tulsa made. 491 pèch or an average of 98 pins per game; all the

Garrett can do better than this. The next best score was Vining's 440 or an average of 147 pins per game; again in Vining'd case, he did not bowl as well as I know he is capable of doing.

Norman's 420 would have been much more

game to make a very lowly 100. had he not falled miserably on his second

However, the absence of any large scores

tween the two teams, the very good-natured razzing between the players and theit friends alike.

was made up for by the keen rivalry bo

There was really a very keen and closely contented match on July 3, a five-gama Teh Pin match between our old friends of Tulsa

and the "Dare Devils". The occasion was a return match to one played between the same teams on June 25, which was won by Tulsa by 148 pins the first time that the Dare Devils haft ever been beaten-so one can imagine the keenness in this match.

The result was a win for the Dare Devils on this occasion by the low margin of 05: pins. The scores being as follows:-

Peterson. was a good third with 842, or an average of 168 per game; it was a pity he dropped down to a 135 on his fifth game otherwise he would have topped Spenko's

score.

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Doc Molthen's 827 and Borg's 811 were

The game

good substantial scores and materially as- sisted their respective sides. was a good one and the standard of play

above the average.

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Tulsa were up on the first game by 108

pins, which they increased to 145 pins on the second game: then the Dare Devils "girded up their loina" and got down to it, to reduce the lead to 60 in favour of Tulsa, which was further reduced, by the fourth game, to only one pin.

In the fifth game the Dare Devils were irresistible and sailed home to victory by a At the end of the fourth good 65 pins. game it was anybody's game, and, judging by the tenseness of the last game, every player did his utmost to secure victory for his side. Although the scoring was higher than usual, there were only three scores of 200 or over, Watts for Dare Devils bagging two of them, a 200 and 204, while Peterson for Tulsa registered the highest individual score for the match with a good 210.

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