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Show Earl Averages 193 to Hold BifradinrStatePinMeet C. W. Parry of Ogden Second; Shultz Takes Third By Telegram Sparta Editor Jack Earl greatly enhanced his chance of winning the stats Individual Individ-ual bowling championship Sunday by averaging Its -. av for his five games , at Ma-gna and thrby bold I 1 first place Be as- I , I fumed In the first fl Zi "week's play at the I Orphsum last I ' iweee; with a brll- t - lUant SM average. 1 . ( With 19 games eto play over a a- y -1 three weeks' pe- (riod, the youthful l,Ur u not wholly r J without his chs . : -- IsevgeiB) however. The veteran Weiss Clauds W. Parry of Ogden. champion In IMS, moved up from eighth to second place Sunday Sun-day when he averaged 1M despite nine splits at the Orpheura, and is only tl pins behind the leader whereas Earl's lead over Lee fltrat-ton fltrat-ton a week ago was 111 pins. Norm Shuits came through with snother fine series at the Ace Sunday Sun-day despite a second game of 135 and his 1M average for the first ten games puts him In third place well within striking distance of the leader. A 223 In his last gams enabled C J. Butts to climb from ninth to fourth place despite a shaky start but other favorites such as P. C Jensen, the defending champion, and Jack Qulnn continued to have their troubles. Jensen Is down In twenty-first place and although In eighth spot, Qulnn Is 1S1 pins behind be-hind the pace setter. The most spectacular rise Sunday was made by Oeorge Olson, last year's second place winner, who had 103 for the day's high series, a score that enabled him to gain T pins on Earl and move into fifth place. y , a; '. ! George Olson a a a his 1036 tops play Sunday. Only Two Errors Olson hsd 1M, 181, 228, 14 and 23S at the Temple. He had only two errors, both on the five pin. Two last frame errors kept Mark E. Weiss from sxceedlng Olson's total Weiss finished with 102S, shooting 238 for his top game. fltratton, George French, Frank Guthrie and Jack Bradley all in the 1000 class on the opening Sundayskidded Sun-dayskidded badly. Bradley opened with 225 at the Acs and than failed to get SOO. Striking in every frame but the fifth when the five pia stood, 8. Frsnk Baksr, who has a seasonal average of 17S ia the Telephone league, came through with a 27S at tha Ace alleys for what will probably prob-ably bs the high single game of the tournament. He was oas of ths four to average over 200 Sunday. He averaged only 140 for his two outside out-side games, but blasted out a 725 total for his three middle games, shooting 221, 226 and 27 in a row tototal 100S. It will take at least 10 strikes in a row to beat ths 27 soors. ' A. A. Ewert hsd an even 1000 at the Orphaum with only two games over 200, ths big ons a 234. Albert Nelson, who hsd a bad session at Magna last wsek, came through with 1003 at the Temple Sunday. Spectacular Shot ' One of the day's most spectacular shots was a spar of ths 1-5-7 split by Butts. Jensen spared the 7-0-10. Angus Olsen of Provo hsd ons of ths days batter games with 246 at Magna, but failed to land in ths first 28. Earl's performance at Magna was regarded as especially fins by the veterans, who wondered how he would stsnd up aftsr last week's brilliant performance. He was shaky to start, shooting only 1SS and 177, but he steadied with 217 and 215. He will shoot next Sunday's session st ths Tempi, beginning at 2 o'clock. |