Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-02-16 | Page 29 | Pin Champs Face Record Field

' : ; ; ' , : Enter A. B. C; Tourney , In Quest of Rich Purses i i " By HARRT GRAYSON Special to The Telegram j. NEW YORK, Feb. 16 Championships are hardest to defend Id bowling and golf. Johnny Murphy realizes this as he prepares for another American Bowling congress tournament on 28 new alleys al-leys In a New York armory, March 10 to April 30. Murphy, 22- . year-old pin boy, emerged with the all events title a year ago In i his native Indianapolis. Th record-breaking Manhattan entry list includes many champions and ex-ohampions all sharpened up " for a whack at the $120,000 in prises. Charles Warren, 23-year-old aa-alstant aa-alstant football coach of Springfield, 111- will be back to battle for his singles crown, as will the Chicago team of Tony Slanina and Mike i Straka, who bagged the doubles diadem last trip. The Fall City Hi-Bru five-man crew wilLmake, an earnest effort to duplicate the performance which gave Indianapolis its second crown In 1936. .Marino Brads Squad Milwaukee, which holds three of the four all-time congress records all-events, doublea and five-man Is to be represented by such as Hank Marino, match gams king; Gil Zun-ker, Zun-ker, holder of the all-time all-events mark; Charley Daw, erstwhile a doubles ruler, and Frank Benkovlc, who copped the doubles on successive succes-sive years paired with Daw and then Zunker. ' . Chleago'a delegation la to be I hfasded by Jlromle Blouln and Adolnh Carlson. Blouln is making mak-ing his first appearance In a na-ationaj na-ationaj tournament in 10 years. Blouln, now 46, retired after ao , quiring every worth-while title and defratlnc, krglers like Jimmy Smith, Joe Falrare, Mort Llnd-aey Llnd-aey and Joe Sehrlbner. He bagged the all-events in Pittsburgh In 190. (e Mort Luby, editor of the Bowlers Journal, considers Carlson, a picture pic-ture kegler, tops among the reigning reign-ing luminaries. Carlson is a former national match game champion and led In A. B. C averages for 10 years. Ora Mayer is coming all the way from San Francisco. He took the all-events at Syracuse two years ago. Otto Stein, former all-events snd national match champion, will shoot with ths Wooster Lambert team of St Louis. Lambert was one of the sponsors of Colonel Charles . A. Lindbergh's flight to . Paris. St. Louis possesses another mashing plsyer In Ray Holmes, whose Hermann Undertaker team recently established an all-time league record of 3797 pins. Holmes was high with 792, which Included a 300 scors in his final blast. Mcrcurlo Enters Skang Mercurio and Jo Bodia are foremost among the large number num-ber carrying the Cleveland banner. Mercurio, a former pin boy, has the highest lesgue average In the land. Bodis and Carlson are running a dead heat for high average for the last 12 years. Cincinnati has produced champions cham-pions in every division, snd only one i, of them will miss ths 37th renewal of the big show. Th absentee will be Eddie Wetter-man, Wetter-man, wbo teamed witb Al Dalker to capture the doubles leadership In , 1910. Wetterman was killed by a hit-and-run driver while returning home from league play. Daiker is a member of the Potter Shoe team, many times champion a of the famous Hamilton county league, the Rhlneland's oldest and premier circuit. Two other former championa t are with the Potter array. Thry are Eddie Votel. winner of the slnglea at Toledo in 1928, and Hugh Stewart, all-events victor in Detroit in 1933, who has many a perfect scores to his credit. Stew-' Stew-' art, called the "human Iceberg," is regarded aa the finest match player in and around Cincinnati. Carl A. Baumgartner, whs won the world solo championship in ' 1921, la Cincinnati candidate. Members of the Flaig Opticians, wbo captured the five-man crown In Columbus In 1933, are scattered around the various loops, but all are beaded for New York. Larry Shotwell of Covington, Ky., Just across the river from Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, hammered 774 in the slnglea in Cleveland in 1930. This atill stands as the highest aver recorded In A. B. C competition. It Is not likely to be bettered In New York nor for a long time to come.