Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1951 — Page 16
“dead heat.
+ . In modern fashions, the women's angle is generally
~universal.
But when the feminine styles for bowling are
unveiled—stand back, a junior civil war is in the making.
pa
« what he is talking about.
~this astounding results: i Slacks—30 women. . .
'%. Those particular individuals
LZ who hate to see arguments end
“in a draw may dispute these
. statistics. We » prepared for f that eventual“ity . the
«gals we picked at random rep‘resent a good eross section of Indianapolis’ bowling raternity.- The vears - of Kegling experiJtnce langes rom six weeks to 10 vears. Many of the ladies volunteering comments were 1lso speaking for their teammates. Actually the figure goes well over the hundred mark. Qur survey was spread over such emporiums as Valhalla alleys, Parkway, West Side Speedway, Delaware, Sport Bowl and Pritchett Recreation. Here's how the ladies, young and old, reacted: Mrs. Marie Biggs of the West Side Industrial League pulled no punches with her opinion: “I'll take dresses any time. My teammates feel that way too! Lots of us girls look as big as thé side of a barn. Dresses are the only thing te wear.” Mrs. Inez Pointdexter of the Riley Dramatic Club can also peak with authority. “My team 1as triéd both. However, we are
Jack Welsh
«hanging back to slacks. They
TEENY SEE
¥ ’
are by far the most practical.” n » = IN THE CIVIL Aeronautics “fixed League, we cornered Miss Kay Duncan at the Parkway alleys. “I get all tangled up in slacks, I take the dresses. lhorts would be allright though.” (Hmm, we just re~eived a flash bulletin that 1.000.000 men agree with Miss Duncan!) Mrs. Martha Eader, a housewife who bowls in the Tuesday Night Ladies’ Handicap League, casts her vote for slacks. “That is the only thing to wear,” she explained “but frankly, I notice more girls wearing the dresses in league play.” It looks like slacks are fading out.” In the Ladies’ League at the Sport Bowl, Miss Dolores Beghtel and Miss Gertrude Meyer both give a vote for slacks. Mrs. Elizabeth Hausman of the same league has “tried hoth but I'll take the dresses.” Mrs. Louis Dixon of the Alvison Mixed League at the peedway alleys has been wear‘ng slacks ever since she "start4 bowling five years ago.” Miss ose Wohlhieter has only been Howling six weeks but she'll take slacks anytime. The young tenographer contends “they zive me more freedom and I feel more comfortable in them. = n = MRS. FLO BENNY, a vetsran of 10 years, is a member af the Won-Ten League at the Pritchett Recreation alleys. “I bowl in dresses rather thar '‘acks most of the time and I think teams look better wearing slacks.”
Mrs. Bernice Gray of the Taylor's Market team in the West Side Industrial League
thinks her team is one of the nicest dressed anywhere in the city. “We bowl in dresses—navy blue, but each week the girls wear a different colored handKérchief “around their necks.” We also talked with the proprietors throughout the city. They all wanted to remain anonymous for obvious reasons after all, their ~atly chores at the alleys present enough. headaches without having a frenzied band of females challenging the authenticity of their onminions, Like the managers ered varied comments. The consensus generally ran something like this if a gal is well blessed by mother nature, slack the thing to wear , it will help their bowling and give the gallery something to whistle . . . err, talk about. ” =" n ON THE OTHER hand, some of the ladies, who enjoy the art of knocking down pins instead of husbands, would do better bowling in dresses. It
the ladies
deliv
are
seems they go from one extreme to another either near contenders as a-heavy-
weight or look like somebody's ‘brother wearing a wig. That, my friends, does not constitute this writer's opinion. That's merely the information passed on to us. But no matter how you look at it . . bowling among the ladies has produced some outstanding perfarmances and hiliarous moments for all. ” ~ " THERE WAS no doubt about William F. Murphy's intense love for bowling. His teammates will tell vou he talked about the sport right up until the end. Murphy died from a heart attack after successfully undergoing an operation for ulcers. He was an active member of the Darko Cleaners team in the St. Catherine League until four weeks ago when he entered Methodist Hospital. Murphy was a veteran of 17 ‘casons In the St. Catherine 6
last Tuesday
Now, friends, this is not heresay.
Our question brought
dresses—30 women , . , yep, a
League and one of the circuit's oldest bowlers. Ironically on his last night of active competition, Murphy rolled a 506 series which isn’t bad for a gentleman of 66 years. That series was his best of the season.
ou = 2
FRIENDS close to the family relate that the likeable Irishman was talking bow!ing shortlv before he died the league oflicials
score
Several o
no
Were KIaaing
him about getting a temporary substitute. 3ill would have none of that! “What do you mean subsubstitute why, I'll be back tnere bowling within a
week or twa, [I almost feel good enough to bowl right now.” During his many years of competition, Murphy often bowled three night a week.
When he wasn't toeing the line himself, Bill followed the various leagues as a member of the gallery. What is probably even more remarkable in Murphy's tenactity for the sport is the fact he had an eye removed last year. Bill didn't even stop to consider that a handicap within a few weeks he was back at the alleys getting the feel of things again.
A native of the South Sid Murphy also Lili basebail shortly after the turn of the century as a member of the Sandoes nine. He worked 49
vears as an adjuster for Rem-ington-Rand and like, his fellow bowlers, the side-kicks at work, mourn his passing. Murphy was laid to rest at Holy Cross Cemetery. His teammates, Clyde Tuttle, Dr. Kneiper, Virgil Rohrman and Herb Gulligan, served as pall
bearers, A son, Charles. bowls in the Naval Ordnance League. The
younger Murphy might post a higher average but it will be a man-size chore to surpass his father's popularity and sportsman ship. = = =
IF THERE WERE busier men
than Norman Hamilton in 51 years of bowling service on the local scene. we'd like to hear about them. Hamilton. now 65, has virtually retired from the game. He confines his activities to once-a-week how day with the 6
League at the Central He's a member of the X and still sports a healthy average In his hevday however
Ha nilton was one of the most active keglers in Indianapolis. He originated the Indianapolis Bowling Association's Yearbook shortly after the turn of the century and over a span, served as as many as six season. Hamilton worked as secretary of the Commercial League for 15 years and was President of the Indiana State P x A ation in 1925-'26-"27 Norman also held the post of secretary for the Indianapolis Bowling Ase sociation for 10 years. Norman has bowled on all the old-time alleys and virtually all of the new ones of the youngsters in the game may not remember Hamilton's contributions to the sport. but just talk to the real old-timers they'll tell you he was a real workhouse . a man of tireless energy
25-year secretary leagues in one
for
ssnei
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JIM WISCHMEYER to modest for a sport writer good. We cornered Jim the other evening for a congratulatory note on hi pointment as Broad Ripple allevs The conversation quite nat urally got around to Wischmeyer. who operated bowling alleys in Alexandria from 1942 until 1946 recently rolled a 255 single. hut “Just got lucky.” Now a bowler with ‘a 177 average doesn't just get lucky . there has to be a degree of consistency ir his makeup. Wischmever has it; folks, don’t let him kid vou. Seriously, Jim, congratula tions on your new venture. Asx former manager. mechanic and salesman of bowling materials, we know you have the qualifications for a successful ” ” =
IN BASEBALL, a left-handed pitcher is generally rated a nemesis to a right-handed batter. We'll concede that fact but we can't help wondering whether or not the situation carries rover into bowling. The alley experts tell us a flock of southpaw bowlers on one team are just as much of a rarity as a mound staff loaded with lefties. Well, maybe so but we've found a whole team of left-handed bowlers in the U. S. Rubber
recent an-
ma
howlin
League at the Delaware allews, These lads are members of
the Wrong Arms five and roll every Monday night. The quintet Includes Rebert Koonz Ray Summerville, © Russ Murrain, Chet Russell, and Car! Busenbark. The zquad is constantly
improving and recently soared
This guy Knows . During the past week we talked with ‘at least 60 women keglers throughout the city. . “Do You Prefer Slacks or Dresses While Bowling?" , . .
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES :
SUNDAY, NOV. 18, 1951
‘State Bowling Heads Here For Confab
{ The tdingt State Men's Bowling Association will meet at noon today at the Severin Hotel to outline plans for the 1952 state tournament and to select a site for the 1953 tourney.
Dr. Frank Peters of Hartford City is president of the organization and will preside over ‘the meeting.
| The remainder of the organization's officers are: Art J. Setter, I't. Wayne, first vice president; Ted Siener, Indianapolis, second vice president, George Blummer, Hammond, third vice president; Smith, Frye. Elkhart, fourth vice president; Cliff Hoffman, Terre Haute, fifth vice President, _and
WHEN TRAGLDY strikes a sleeping city, the uasung messengers of mercy are very often the firemen. Their hours are long, the pay moderate. Yet like their American brothers, firemen are great lovers of sports. Here Indianapolis bowling has captured the fancy of these public protectors. Not just an occasional turn at the neighborhood alley but a full-
fledged league in fact, two leagues. The circ:its were organ- | zed in 1946 and approved by the local union. > » = = ONE LEAGUE the Indiana Firemer's Assocation, Known mong the firemen as Assistant Arnold Ph shift. The is the Irdianapolis Fire
ers Local 4i€, also called AsChief Ctl..rley Gregory's t. Both leagues are sanctioned by the American Bowling Con-
Thursday and Friday nights «re the dates for pin action at the Parkwz2y alleys. The teams alternate the two nights.
The groundwork for the leagues were cut by Joe Quigley, Francis Louis Bauer, Carl DonI'rancis :¥kroggy) ComNan Fagan, and Hal Price. city firemen are proud of 18 to he sure but the ant fact is that Indilis has one ~{ the very few emen leagues in the United
Both
leagues are having a torrid battle for the championship this year. In the IFA League, W; I. Sextet is battling back and orth with Rural Inn for the lead.
i
W. 1. Sextet has finished second each year since the league began and are now determined to gain
the championship. Rural Inn are the defending champions and are
+
wut to make it two in a row,
a ” n IN THE IFFA circuit £E & W Heating are the pace-setters with 1 fine record. Quality Pastry is close pursuit and Shirley Brothers and Midget Diner are o capable of grabbing the dia-
A of
A 580K
the Indiana Firemen's loop finds the’ hest rformances coming from W, I and Rural Inn. Dan Hanas a 17 for W. ]1. Sextet [Les Cruse has a 176, Carl elly, 171, and Jim O'DonRural Inn's top powers Moore, 183, Danny Faand Bryan 8hort, 169.
630 and a 255
ion in
iation ation
Donn nel 170 are Hugh gan 173
Moore's
over the .500 mark with a 2119 record . . F T. WAY NE i= becoming a must stop” on the national bowling scene. The city was recently awarded the annual B'nai B'rith regional tournament, scheduled for Mar. 15-16 The remaining three regionals held at Buffalo, St Louis and Milwaukee. Another event of national significance will be the National Lutheran Laymen's Bowling tournament which has been awarded to the Key Lanes in Ft. Wayne for 1953. This event usually draws from 400 to 500 teams from the central states for a full schedule of team, doubles, and singles . , .
will be
TRUCK TRAILERS CUSTOM’ BUNI ALSO REPAIRING—PAINTING
JOHN GUEDELHOEFER
202 Kentucky Ave. R238
are marks to date.
some outstanding bowlers. Seal 190’'s before he department in 1949 after 11 vears’ service. alleys rath Tavern Heart League.
the league Chief Phillips doesn’t bowl but his son Don is doing
in the leagu e with a Joe's had a litt season but provement in cating he will the leaders.
man Britton is the big gun a 173 Heating Fire House 13 has a 172 ay to date
gingle |
Joseph Brooks, Evansville, sixth
vice president. , = = ” DELL. MOSSHOL DER, South Bend, is secretary of the ISMBA and will preside over the balloting of delegates to determine the Hoosier city which will receive the 1953 tournament. Dr. Peters did not announce how many delegates will attend the meeting. However, under the by-laws of the organization each city member is entitled to one delegate. The 1952 tournament will be held in Terre Haute, marking the first time the event has been held in an Indigra city that far south,
INDIANAPOL 18 howling officlals have submitted a bid for the
A" Night in the Alley ly Gene FeingOM...
PARKWAY ALLEYS
THORS DAY NIGHT!
1953 tournament and while no! formal announcements have been made, grapevine reports indicate the Capitol City has an excellent chance of being named host city.
The meeting will also feature a discussion of several changes in the state charter as designed by the American Bowling Congress. A meeting of the executive committee of the Indiana State Men's Bowling * Association was held last night at the Hotel Severin to” review records of recent years. The results of these findings will be discussed today at the state meeting.
Several proposed améndments of the state charter were discussed and will be acted upon today.
City Fireman Sets Maples on Fire
TOO HOT TO HANDLE—That's probably the best way to depict the current battle for first place in the two city firemen's leagues at Parkway alleys. In a moment of horse play, the firemen try a varied means of "cooling off" the situation but actually they will have to settle it on the alleys. Looking from left to right, you'll find Dan Hanley, fire house 22; Joe Quigley, fire house 14; Frank Hanley, fire house six; Bernie Hanley, fire house 13, and Joe Quinn, fire house six.
the league's best individual
Both leagues have produced
Jiggs the from the
rolled in retired
consistently
Seal is still active on the and bowls with the Vallteam in the Sacred
nz a = BILL GEARNS threw city’s’ few 300 games play in 1948.
one ol during Assistant
a good job as a
member of the Barrir team Joe Sandberg of WI. Sextet hast alway een among the top three
179 average. le difficulty shown good recent weeks soon be back
this has indiwith In the IFFA League Norwith the E & W Loren House
average for
five. of
erage
The 1951 season marks the first
Hamilton, Ohio Five Take Lead In Handicap Class
A new leader emerged from the field in the handicap team division of the Capitol City bowling tournament last
A CLAUSE was written into basketball = h tonight the league's by-laws - that anv FOR A GUY who used to jockey trail. It happened right here in JRSHet OB) season or an company which hed worked "midget auto racers around com- Indianapolis... at 9900 §. Meridi- With an 80 to 52 triumph ove! ompany vhich hed worked all 5 ! N Olive f Kankak 1il ight on an emergency call dirt tracks, bowling may an St. where a one-third mile dirt ~Yazarene Olivet of Kankakee, 1li be perr ted to postpone like a meek pastime. But track was operated. : Norm Cozad and Maurice Reed chedule til another da: t's not the vay Chuck Shearer During the third lap of a 10-lap led the Foresters with 18 points unately nroblem has never [eels about it. heat, Shearer tried to pass two £a¢h. devel d 5 : Shearer is a veteran of 13 rac- cars on the inside. ” nt . js developed. 1 Shortiv. before the ing seasons and I just didn't make it. Every- College Basketball Shortiy > f OF h eason op- ; 1 } > ; : shed ir Au rR 4 + more recently an thing happened so fast. Friends STATE ened in August, fire struck th a . : : : : aM Tram} e official starter of tell me the car went end over end Indiana State 50, SN, Illinois 43. y Bake Flour Mill. Kelly rr A hardtop and big twice and the rolled over three Huntington 80, Nazarene Olive! Han! Do our a car events. times on.its side.” 32. anlev were overcome bv 8s e - o : 2 " i veanh de s wi os es mas Chuck retired as Shearer miraculously escaped OTHERS 1 "ne 4 8s in i 7c ad 2 2 2 T - tv but 25a fi Al 2 0 in en an a driver in 1941 with his life but not without in- Geo. Washington 90, Saratoga 71. ity e fire esca 3 - " . : It emen ip pee FLD but not until he jury. The veteran driver suffered . it serious injury. AH thr er : : OU. 3700 Jul) Fee Wele had known an six broken ribs and a head con- High School Football members of the South Side CYO abundance cussion. He was knocked out fo five and despite the mishap, none DY : oth IL 107 South Bend Central Catholie 19, X oi ii . A of thrills and 20 minutes and spent 10 days in : 3 missed a night's action on the . : a, South Bend c atholie 12 lev: ee : : several brushes St. Francigz . Hospital. Shearer ee levs aleys. with death. didn't drive again for two months © To an outsider, the firemen's Shearer Chuck, now a & & # interest in bowling may only be family man; lives SHEARER came back to finish an off-hours hobby, But if you've at 1026 N. Keystone Ave, and is out the 1940 season and drove six ever heard the rabid chatter employed at the Bickery En- weeks before retiring in 1941. It around the hook 'n' ladder house, gineering plant. He was first appeared the handwriting was on
night at ‘the West Side alleys, ” " » THE HARD-HITTING Lowenstein’'s five from Hamilton, Ohio fired a 2839-371-3210 to bump Joe Love Insulation from first place The score of 2735-465 }200) had enabled the Insulatio ive to hold first place the tourney opened four weeks ago Lowenstein's ascension to first place also knocked Mode! Shop into third place on a 3165 Fritz Fremgen was the instrumental factor in pacing the Ohiong to first place with a 621 series Fred Cline's Realtors retained fifst place in the actual pin fall bracket with a 3004 score. However, Berghoff's Beer of Ft. Wayne rocked the maples for a 2049 score to move in as the
runner-up. Paul Ramsey was the big gun for the Beermen with a
667 series, coming on a string of 212-222-233. Dietrich’'s Decorators
were knocked back to third place
on a 2986=score. Tompkins’ Ice Cream, previously in third place slipped out of the “big three” on their 2832 score. The action swings to the doubles and single events this afternoon at the West Side lanes.
RUPTURE. EASER
MW the abdomen and state or Soule. ~ fy
| @ Meridian at Ohle @ Delaware ad Ohio .
time the night. tion had always been in noon on domestic sonal this arrange cuits were on a verge of collapse this
agreed to switch to. night bowl- ‘ ® " ue New Thrills As Bowler +
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'dusm COuntn'T Have DONE THAT
/ MORE Tage: S
4 AN AN UNBME h fo bReTier / A \ _PRel \ 17 ND
firemen have Heretofore, the
bowled at competithe aftertheir days off, However duties and other affairs virtually curtailed ment. The cir-
per-
Huntington Thumps Olivet, 80 to 52
tate Services N, Ind.. Nov. 1% College For-1951-52 college
Ex-Race Driver Finds
vear when league officials
HU NTINGT ~The Huntington esters opened their
you'll soon know all the “fires” introduced to bowling in 1947 but the wall that year. In New Alaren't put out by firemen.—J. W. it wasn't until ‘last year that he bany, Shearer was involved in al- - made his league debut in the Fri- most the identical accident that . day Night Men's League at nearly cost him hig life here, A City Gals Named Antler's alleys, short time later he went over the = = "
wall during a race at a track be-
SHEARER was a member of tween Hamilton, O.,
In WIBC Ratings
and Cinecin-
. the Rockwood Manufacting team nati. Both times he escaped unAmong the 20 teams ranked by ,44 his start was conspicuous injured. [oe Bw indeed as the team won the league That was enough for Shearer SERVICE seventh place with a. Joos iS championship by 16 games How After all a guy has to be prac- i score. H. H. Dickinsin of De- ever one. of Chuck's biggest Heal, He had a Wile ang two UNTIL troit leads the field with a 3017 thrills came in 1947 when he growing children. He was still in mark : ‘rolled a 279 single in a practice one piece after 13 vears of com- MIDNIGHT join i game at Uptown alleys, petition and the family wanted to ; The organization also honored This year Shearer is bowling Keep him that way, Setwin TROP. N. the nation’s top ten high series with the Bickery JEngineering five Shearer became a starter in i among the women and Hilda j the West - Side Industrial 1945, first with the Consolidated Groebel “is second with a 700 [eague. He likes the sport and Racing Corporation and later with SERVICE DEPT. OPEN threesome Faye Dunker of pelieves vou can't “beat °it for the Midwest Racing Association . . Owatonana, Minn, is the leader good exercise.” Chuck has a #orr, Last summer Shearer worked 8 A. M.-Midnight with 704. and a daughter, Charles Leroy. with the Championship Stoek Car Saturday Till 6 Marge Craig of Lafayette is 13 and Anita Louise, 11. And Club of Chicago, starting races apparently the only woman with this year they have joined papa six nights a week. Largest Service & Parts a 300 game this vear. Ann Con- on the alleys Shearer believes ! on a» Department in the Midwest nelly of Pittsburgh is second with you can never start too voung, THE HAZARDS of racing cona 290 single and Vickie Trezak'iyegardless of the sport : tinued to chase Shearer even of Gary is fifth with a 283 read- Shearer was a popular cam though. he was on the sidelines. ASHINGTON ing : j waey He broke a foot several years ago . paigner throughout the Midwest _ ; Among the country's high aver-\until shortly before World War 2nd suffered the same injury last CHEVROLET age ladies, Pat Striebeck of Mor-i11 15 1938 he won the Indiana- Yar when a car ran over his foot, 1 ris Plan is seventh with a 181|phi-Tilinols- Kentucky dirt track Shearer will probably be bask Your Downtown Chevrolet Deale average in 24 games. Merle Mat- ‘championship in New Albany. as a starter next season hut right thews of Los Angeles is the nn now bowling gets his full-time SEEPREENTITPNSNIETS 1571 leader with a 199 mark for 18) HOWEVER, in 1940 Shearer concentration, games > |nearly: came to the end of the —— -
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