Verhovayak Lapja, 1947 (30. évfolyam, 1-24. szám)
1947 / Verhovay Journal
\ PAGE 8 BRANCH 37 Chicago South Side As of March 22nd, 1947 the Chicago Verhovay Branch No. 37 Bowlers have ceased to be known by this title and from hereon they shall be referred to as the CHICAGO So. SIDE KNITTING & BASKET-WEAVING SOCIAL CLUB! (WE Knit & weave to order, so come in and ask for an estimate as to your needs & desires!) This change of name comes about as the result of the return match game with Br. No. 342 of the West Side, held at Stevenson’s Recreation, 79th & Cottage Grove Ave., in the upstairs room, no less, on Saturday night, the 22nd of March, 1947. For this occasion the West Siders brought «ut their four top teams, as did we! (Huh!) TVe of the So. Side were' highly imbued and fortified with extreme faith in our talent and ability to trounce the visiting branch to erase the stigma of the defeat at their hands in the first match game, and in the beginning frames of the first game our trust in our performance was upheld, but alas & alak our hopes were short lived! Far be it from me to say we didn’t try; in fact I am of the opinion we tried too hard, which is hardly conducive to attaining laudable Scores. A choice bit of gossip which I can not leave out at this point (and don’t breathe this to a soul, BUT . . . when we arrived on the scene of the ensuing ten-pin foray WE FOUND THE WEST SIDERS PRACTICING! Aha!! See what I mean! So what could you expect of us poor, un-practieed, stiff-armed, highly vulnerable bowlers from Br. No. 37! . Oh, but leave us not get too facetious . . . we bowled our best '(and if you’ll notice the scores below, you too will agree that if that’s our best . . . well!) and we had a lot of laughs and plenty of relaxing fun. Come to think of it, we almost did win this last match game. Of course, that almost is a highly fluid word, and, as in horse-shoe tournaments, an almost does not count! Not for us anyway! After taking a tsnly of the scores for the four opposing teams we find that the difference in scores left a remainder of 143 pins in favor of the West Siders, but I still believe that if several of our heavy bowlers would have tossed better games, and if the West Siders were not so adroit at bowling, and if we were not so lousy, we would have won the game! There, that makes a little sense, does it not? Hmmmmm! Well, here are the scores for both teams, so take a gander at them and draw your own conclusions; TEAM NO. 1 Branch No. 37 Branch No. 342 3 Game Series 3 Game Series Bill Demeter 419 Frank Pliers 531 Kay Nagy 377 Mary Mead 321 Irene Fecske 267 Mrs. Joe Dhondt 321 Coleman Gyure 378 Zella Pliers 432 Judy Kun 456 Charles Saillors 480 TotalPins 1897 TotalPins 2066 TEAMNO. 2 Bess Sera 254 L. Saillor 297 Joe Fellai 498 G. Karling 271 Mary Kun 414 H. Kasser 408 Irene Fazekas 391 J. Oziminski 427 John Demeter 528 H. Punches X Pins 489 TotalPins 2085 Total 1872 TEAMNO. 3 John Fazekas 445 A. Reedy 409 Helen Rezes 300 R. Wesesku 316 Marion Czeteny 331 B. Kocisko 323 Margie H. Kun 398 C. Marks 417 Bill Kun 423 B. Reedy 440 Total Pins 1897 TotalPins 1905 . TEAMNO. 4 Char. Fellai 278 Olive Todd 322 Al Demko 387 George Reedy 482 Helen Demko 339 Agnes Ellias 356 Mary Demeter 380 Mary Oziminski 330 Paul Kun 400 Joe Saillor 499 TotalPins 1790 TotalPins 1989 The grand total of the four teams in Br. No. 37 is 7689 pins While for Br. No. 342 the grand total is 7832, a gain of 143 pins which won the game for the visitors. An interesting oddity in the scores is the exact number of pins that the five bowlers on Br. No. 37 teams 1 & 3 have . . . they are identical, bowling 1897 pins each. Probably happens once in six million! Oh yes, and before we forget; .even if we of the So. Side didn’t come away victorious from the maple-wood arena, we at least have one shining example of a bowler’s bowler in our midst, none other than John Demeter, team No. 2, who gave a superb demonstration of how to make a bowling ball behave. He threw EIGHT consecutive strikes in the second game of this series and got a total of 245 for that game. Our boy John, we calls him! Joe Saillor of No. 342, bowling on teams No. 4, came |n with a 199 in the third game, which in itself is expert bowling. Also Frank Pliers, another No. 342 member of team No. 1, who got a score of 180 in the first toss, with 187 in the second game. Going from one extreme to the other we find that Coleman Gyure, Verhovay Journal BOWLING — SCORES — BEAVER FALLS — YOUNGSTOWN MENS’ MATCH GAME A match-game between the Beaver Falls bowlers and the local boys was rolled on March 15th at the Champion Alleys. The local girls also bowled and both teams emerged as victors. After the games all the visitors and local bowlers and fans were entertained at Johnny Borey’s Tri Tavern. A tasty meal and refreshments were served and everyone had a grand time at the party that lasted until the wee hours. The following are the scores of the match-game: March 15, 1947 Youngstown Mor :y 187173 150 510 Barkó 171166 177 514 Gregory 180182 154 516 Padery 167190 193 550 Miglets 183154 210 547 888 865884 2637 Beaver Falls J. Namath 140174 177 491 J. Juhasz 170234 132 536 S. Nalesnik 169187 154 510 Z. Kovács ‘197 185 172 554 J. Nemeth171 190 177 538 847970 812 2629 FRANKMOLNÁR. MGR. YOUNGSTOWN, O. March 13, 1947 Nemeth 225167 158 550 Tullis 196178 197 571 Blasko 162203 192557 Barkó 168144 199 511 Miglets 165203 199 567 Totals 916895 945 2756 Rosko 153137 156 446 Csizmar 165192 131 488 Velluci 141192 141 474 Elias 237164 193 594 Totals 875876 779 2530 March 20,1917 Morey 144145 212 501 Gregory 138— — 138 Blasko 157152 210 519 Barkó 165217 187 569 Miglets 178218 188 584 Tullis —159 185 344 Totals 782891 982 2655 Villani 185194 149 528 Knight 174167 183 524 Pruneski 171 176178 525 Hanson 192137 160 489 Cannel 173174 187 534 Totals 895848 857 2600 FrankMolnár, Mgr. BEAVER FALLS— YOUNGSTOWN <GIRL’ S MATCH GAME Beaver Falls S. Kolumban162 128 133 423 Y. Szilis126 137 112 375 M. Nameth115 120 129 364 Boiler61 101 75 237 R.. Kolumban152 136 129 417 616622 578 1816 Youngstown . R. Preslipsky 92— — 92 M. Padery 127141 148 416 L. Mezei 155153 170 478 M. Barkó 160143 106 409 A. Petro 132113 159 404 Benish .— 144 150 294 666 694733 2093 Feb.15, 1947 FRANK MOLNÁR, MGR. April 9, 1947 TRENTON — NEW’ YORK MATCH GAME TRENTON WINS BY 107 PINS L. KISH HITS 612 With Ladie Kish blasting out games of 234, 200 and 178 for a high three of 612, the Trenton Br. 417 team captured the honors from the New Yark Br. 48 team be a margin of 107 pins on Sunday, March 23, 1947, at Fox’s Alleys, Astoria, L.I., N.Y. The pins scattered to the tune of 198, 185 and 198, giving Jimmy Emondy a 581 series and E. Kowalik came through with a 200 game bringing victory to the Trentonites. • A return match is planned in the near future, this time in Trenton. Scores of the game are as follows: TRENTON -- BR. 417 G.Lieblang 179 185 136 500 E.Solters 145 130 135 410 J.Tarr 176 184 198 558 L.Lish 234 200 178 612 E.Kowalik 159 200 182 541 893899 00K> 2621 NEW YORK— Br 48 E.Nemeth 126 — 181 307 J.Toma ---165 151 316 A.Ibos 128 188 186 502 T.Vaught 141 132 — 273 J.Vaught 190 155 190 535 J.Emody 198 185 198 581 783825 906 2514 J. Vaught,Team Captain. APOLOGIES TO ALBERT JOCZIK. Writing about “Hungarian Freedom Day in Pittsburgh” in March 26th, and about the picture of the shipment of Chapter 117 of the American Hungarian Relief, Inc., in February 26th issue of the Journal, we twice made ourselves guilty of a serious omission which is sincerely regretted. Of course, the name of Albert Joczik, so well known and kindly remembered by the readers of the Journal, was not intentionally omitted from the list of the men who helped hold the fort during the memorable Tag Day held by relief-chapters 2 and 117 on March 15th. The fact is, he worked from morning to late, counting the monies collected and making himself — as always — useful in every way. Nor did we intentionally omit Albert’s name when mentioning the gentlemen who had loaded the truck with the bales shipped to Hungary, yet, afterwards, our attention was called to him as one of the champion loaders on that occasion. We don’t want to pass the buck, but explanations being due we are forced to point out that no provisions were made by the Chapter- involved to supply this editor with complete lists of workers. We never pretended nor claimed that our reports on these events were complete in this respect. It was not our intention to “give credit to whom credit is due” but to tell the story for the encouragement of others who may be moved by the successes of these endeavors to launch similar movements. There are many others in addition to Albert Joczik whose names had been unintentionally omitted and, therefore, we include in our apologies every volunteer worker, helper and contributor not mentioned in the Tag Day story. our own Br. No. 37 fire-ball came in -with a soggy (miserable is a good word too!) 98 in the first game. Our white hope! I understand his brand new bowling ball is up on the auction block and any bid will probably take it! I make my bid . . . two Wilkie buttons! Following the games the members of both teams and their guests were invited out to the Chesterfield Liberty Hall, 817, E. 92nd St., where the elder women members of Verhovay Br. No. 37 had prepared a wonderful repast of meat loaf sandwiches, with red-hot pepers too; plenty of beer, pop, wine, and last but not least, a little bit of snake oil for them that had aching molars! Quite a number of members did at that! The gracious women who prepared all this were: Mrs. John Demeter, Sr.; Mrs. Steven Kun, Sr.; Mrs. Rose Farkas and Mrs. Andrew Káposzta. There were about eighty people present and it certainly was a lively gathering for this little aftermath of a bowling match. Miss Judy Kun of No. 37 brought along her portable phonograph and there was a wonderful period of jam session and dancing, with all the youngsters (?) of both branches knocking themselves out in fancy terpsichorean adagios! (Fawncy dawncing, you know!). Miss Mary Demeter, No. 37’s bowling secretary, introduced several speakers, among them being Mr. Antal Lachman, Secretary of Branch No. 342; Mr. Andrew Varga, President of Branch No. 37; Mr. Joseph Rohaly, Secretary of Branch No. 37; and Mr. Frank Kovács, Comptroller of Branch No. 37. Oh yes, yours truly was asked to say a few words . • • so I did! Darn few, if you recall! All in all, we had another delightful evening of fun, which is the main reason why we do bowl. It was summed up quite accurately by Branch No. 342’s Charlie Saillor, the time we visited the West Side. He said, “I don’t care who wins the game or who comes in with high scores . . . just so everybody has a good time and has a lot of fun,” which is our attitude also. We enjoyed every minute of the match games and hope to challenge you West Siders from No. 342 again, because we too are avid followers of and indulgers in match games and hope to participate in more as the seasons come and go. This will wind up another in a series of bowling reports ... see you all again soon, so until next time so long and keep up your good scores, becuz if you don’t . . . well, then your bad scores will keep you down, and we certainly do not want that! Sincerely, PAUL KUN. 727 E. 92nd St., Chicago 19, 111. Branch No. 37
