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Show Butts Paces Hook "Ball Outfit Into Lead of 245 Pins 'C. J.' Collects 998 Pins in His Five-Game Five-Game Series Thsnks to C. J. Butts, who cams within two pins of averaging 300 for his five games at the Orpheum alleys Sunday, the Hook Ball bowlers bowl-ers will go into the final half of their ten-game match at the Temple alleys next Sunday afternoon with a 245-pin lead over the Straight Ball team. Scoring in general was disappointing. disappoint-ing. Only five games of over 200 were rolled. Butts accounted for two of them with 220 as an opener and 226 in the fifth game. P. C. Jensen supplied two of them with 203 in each of his first two games for the Straight Ball squad, and Frank Guthrie, hook ball anchor man. got the other with 211 In his middle game. Trailing by SO pins midway In the first game, the Straight Ball crew rallied to win hy four pins and pulled Into a 69-pln margin at the eonclualon of the second game. Guthrie's 211. Frank K. Baker's 1M and a 191 by Butts paced the Hook Ball bowlers to 9. the best single team game. In the third game and it put them ahead for the afternoon. after-noon. Both teams drew a flock of splits with 46 for the Hook Ball aggregation aggrega-tion and 44 for their opponents, which is nearly equivalent to two a game for each of the men. Butts and Jeff Mansell were the most successful In avoiding these score reducers, each getting only seven. Butts overcame his splits In m hurry hy bunching his strikes, especially In the first, fourth and fifth game. He opened the first with five In m row, finished the fourth with a "turkey," so that his five to commence the final game really gave him eight clean sweeps In succession. In his success, however, the diminutive di-minutive Butts was something of a "doublecross" to his opposition, playing more directly for the pocket than one generally does with a breaking ball. The fact that he led in strikes with 24. followed by Guthrie with 20 and Earl Dennis with 17. wss further proof of his superior' accuracy. The Hook Ball players mi..ed the headpin only seven times, while the Straight Ball crew missed "Louie" 16 times on the first ball. The Hook Ball men had 23 more strikes than their opposition, made only IS errors er-rors against 29 for their rivals and had to shoot the No. 10 pin alone only 35 times, whereas the others (Continual on Pnllowtir Par o t H ' j I - C I. Butts ... He shooU 250-191-I9I-170-226 998 ' Butts Sets Pace For Hook Squad (Continued from Preceding Pass) faced it on spsrs shots 17 different times. Butts, with only ons error, a "cherry" or No. pin chop on the S-10 combination, and Baker with but two, one of them a cherry, had ths least number of errors. Jeff Manse II and Jack Bradley each, spared the 5-7 split snd Butts made ths 6-10-7 combination. Scores : HOOK BALL TEAM j 2 n 4 B Totals Olson ir,T 14T lKk 144 ITS Mil Kskrr .. ... 1M Ml 1" l" ' Butts W l'Jl l''l l7" 2 '' Krhsttler ... 147 lit ltl ion 1 "11 (iutnri. .... 170 1M all 171 1J 10 Totals r,2 N,n 4 92 437S STRAIGHT ItAI.I. Ts.AH , 12 3 4 5 Totals Msossll .... 11 I''" 174 1J lrt J2.I brno UK I7 17 -S 14D 77H J-tsro .... 2"! 2"t I'd ! Brsnirr .... ! Ifin IV! 17 19 SMI (fumu lot 17:1 14 I4S 12 S17 Totsls .. knt S71 7.-IS nM 7(o 4133 Fonhsr ststi.'-.rs romt-llrd by Ed Wilkinson Wil-kinson rsvsal lbs foll'.wn.a at n n -i 3 i a Olson ........ 14 7111 S J I B.asr .. 1 14 :ti; j 14 ; s Bi'ts S4 24 7 1 9 4 4 Krh'ltlsr 1 22 10 4 20 3 J UuUirls 20 ill S 4 102 Totsls .. 115 4 15 15 21 Hsos.ll .11 7 11 J J r.n..ls 17 1 S 10 1 S 7 J.t,sn 13 24 S 4 14 S B Hraoley .. ...s-14 21 In S 21 4 J Utiinn 12 2 104 7 Totals .. ...S5 12S 44 2S 74 27 25 |