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Merritt Willmarth Leads Tourney with 207 Average The Monitor-Leader MONDAY APRIL 13, 1942 PAGE 10 175-Average Prize Money Expected In This Corner Bowler Chases for Bath CityKeglers IF TIGERS PLUMMET TO 2ND DIVISION, Norm LaCroix Hits 664 at State Tourney; SI,OOO Prize Van Chalk 1,241 THEY'LL AT LEAST HAVE MANY v '-~ J Caldwell and Bcclaerc Hits 1245 6 Game A PRECEDENT Though unable to place among ninth place in single with a 685 Series in Classic; the top five teams in any event. over the weekend. By DENNIS BROWN I Single Mount Clemens bowlers came EXCEPTIONAL SCORING Blasts 276 off with assurance of second- Just a year ago. the Tipers entered into the American League the Only a limited number of the season carrying high hopes of snaring a second junior loop Merritt Willmarth was dream- best thing, cash prizes, as they scores by Mount Clemens bowl- pennant with a resultant chance of improving upon their World ing of SIOOO today and it was no completed the Bath City’s as- ers were reported, but a major- Series performance of the previous season, when they lost out idle dream, either. sault on records at the state pin ity of those presumably the meet in Saginaw yesterday. to the Cincy Reds. For he is higher tallies by local keglers accorded a 50-50 - pot off to a start. Scheduled to jys pogmepl. The tournament started on the expected among The season, however, dism.'H picking up ' —are to be the chance of that ! weekend 3 will meet the St. Louis Browns in the opener, they were rained out &/C LEAGUED ML/ST / \\ of Jan. and con- prize winners. Exceptional scor- amount as first place money in tv/ / \\ tinue through April 26 with a on the first day in gloomy forecast of the shape of things to the .Jules Thicket Individual ing in he Saginaw affair has W ECTVPZET O \y li , TV \ majority of the top-notch teams general to come. When they finally pot around to tangling with the Classic at the Royal Recreation Mr/k hoisted the averages on following day, Bobo Newsom pot set down and individual bowlers in the the point where it is expected Brownies the drives in Detroit. state participating. hard with a 8 1 defeat, presaging the comparatively sorry year that it will take at least 1,100 to Willmarth, finding his stride Despite a blight of Norm that was to follow for the garrulous hurler. taps, make the prize list in the dou- in the fourth game of the six- LaCroix blasted the pins a Now the second season since the Tigers grabbed the pen- for bles and 575 in the singles. game scries, blasted the pins for singles score of 664, good enough nant is about to open and the outlook for Del Baker's crew is In the doubles, this would in- a 1245 count an average of to be guaranteed of a good posi- happy like a lark. A second division berth is the prospect, clude the following: Caldwell not 207.5 a game —in smashing up- tion in the singles money. In the sorry step-down from the great feats of two years ago and Vanßeclaerc, 1241; Hank a wards into first place in the rich doubles, George Caldwell and BALANCE BETWEEN EXPERIENCE, AGE IS DELICATE LaCroix and Gil Bentley. 1214; meet. A 175-average bowler in George Van Beclaere posted a a slip, from penant winner to second division*in Mel Frederilk and Albert Glefke, Yet such the Major League, where he is resounding 1241 to assure them- not to evince startled exclamations. The 1193; Harry Saunders and Bill two years is one .bal- a member of the Purton Auto selves of a ood cut of the prize age a delicate one that a McCracken, 1137; George Note- ance between experience and is such Sales team, the 39-year-old Will- money. Top place in the doubles turn boom and Los Frederick, 1123. smart, fast experienced ball club in one year may into a marth had only a 554 count at .is a 1298 by Fred Wol and Cass still more experienced, but creaking at the joints crew the next Among the singles, the follow- the end of the first three games. Grygicr of Detroit. In the sin- ing Experience is fine, but like newspaper clippings, it doesn’t are included in those over 691 SECOND SERIES gles, Merte Standish of the Mo- 575: 664; stop hot line drives. Norm LaCroix, Sam “My hands seemed to get a tor City is holding down the top Levine, 584; Not a few clubs have witnessed the depressing slump into Mike Murphy, 583; little sweaty, then,” he explain- spot with a 736; Steve Thurson, Les Frederick, 580. Hank La- the lower regions after a year on top. Perhaps the most notable ed this morning, “and my ball also of the city', too!, ovrr the Croix. 578. occasion was in 1915 when the Philadelphia Athletics. Amer- started to take.” He responded Included among the higher League winner skidded to the dungeon after two straight ican with a pin-rattling combination singles games were a 246 by years of performance in the Series, commonly turned the of 201 276-214 in his filial three Mel Frederick in the doubles, Autumn Classic by those who know baseball cliches the best. games for a (591 and the 1240 Drill Teams where he posted a 648: a 246 by The Chicago White Sox performed somewhat similarly in total. In his fifth game, where Emmett Quinn in the doubles; a they dropped to sixth place after winning the World 1918 when he counted 276, only a spare in 241 by George Notcboom in the it Ride for Championship the year before, but made a double-oddity by the third robbed him of the 300 Cup doubles; u 2~8 by Mike Murphy promptly winning in 1919 and then losing the the pennant chance. Willmarth, who has m the singles; a 238 by Gil Bent- play gambling scandal, Series with Cincinnati in the famed been bowling for eight years, ley in the and hies, part of a 614 baseball’s blackest mark. Here Tonight had no misses in the six games, 1 count, and a 237 by hi.; partner, Washington is among the list of goats, having plunged his only empty frames coming „ ... .. The second finalist in the rid- Hank LaCroix, who fashioned a to seventh in 1934 after taking the flag and losing to the Giants on splits of which he had six. ing drill team competition be- 600 for their 1214. in the series of the previous season The slender bowler, who also ing staged at the Mount Oilm- Only eight teams in the entire GOOFY, AFTER ALL NAT LOOP NOT SO performs with Batkin’s Radio in ens Rbbog Chib wiR be decided tournament have gone inn 2£.7<> Over in the National League, where the chief claim to fame the B-2 League, gained back his in judging of a ride-off between huC an unusually large number minor-league Hig Sliil4‘ of is a bunch of pitchers and a few second rate entry fee of $lO by posting the Minor-Struts | the Stirrup Club and the Silver are bunched in the 2,700 and vaudeville performers if American loop supporters can be high single game on his squad Spurs at the indoor ring of the 2.800 brackets. have, believed the clubs surprisingly enough, been fairly con- with a 276. He bowled on Sat- Trams Nlarl Artion Toda> Club on Joy boulevard to- The Blue Rock tram of the sistent. Most serious offender, naturally, was the Dodgers, who urday. night. Major league posted a 2857 to took the flag in 1916 and ended up in seventh in the following Since Willmarth’s count is 95 Twenty Squads to Perform This Week In a competitive drill yester- lead all Mount Clemens teams year. pins over his nearest competitor day afternoon, the Scarlet as Gil Bentley whittled out a Now obviously Detroit can’t wind up in eighth place this in the tourney, which is nearly on Mount Clemens Recreation Alleys Troopers went into the finals of 6.39 score ori games of 215 225- year, since the Philadelphia Athletics have a 99-vear lease and half-over, the com|>etition by taking a 199. The team hit 1033 in its he was given an ex- Pirates Win One week of competition and Twenty-four doubles teams no war clause on the bottom rung. But the Tigers could very cellent chance of grabbing off three-judge derision over the second start as Al Tews blasted running all of the five man events being will open the minor events to- well finish in seventh position by simply a bit slower the SIOOO prize for first. And, Diamond S club. out a 264 with nine straight he finished, the minor events squads night, the first going on at 7 a than the Washington Senators. This is expected to made barring a collusion between The Scarlet Troopers, cap- strikes after spare in the sec- the Bobo their in the Mount Clemons-Macomb o'clock. The other two doubles ond frame easier by the fact that Nats have one Newsom on pinboys and bowlers, he seemed Spring Title tained by Thomas A. Coffey of Other scoring saw to Recreation bowling tournament squads will follow at 8 45 and Oldhru 2791 relay team and if the hefty one can get rolling, he promises guaranteed of at least SIOO.