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HEMPSTEAD- What promised to be one of the closest bowling contests ever stages over the hundred game route was turned to a route here Sunday night when Whitey Munn, New Jersey's venerable marathon champion of the world, checked the championship aspirations of Heineman Centre's stocky Freddie Voelpel. Munn came over from his Jersey digging's with a narrow lead of 83 pins picked up in the 50-game block rolled at Hollywood Recreation on June 14th.
He opened the matinee block at Heineman Bowling Centre with 164 to add another single stick to his fragile lead. Voelpel reduced this in the second number to 60 sticks when the Laurelton star chalked up 214 and then followed up with 182 to further reduce Munn's lead to 43 pins. From that point Munn gradually increased his lead until at the end of the 56th game he held an advantage of 132. In the next ten frames Voelpel toppled 203 to cut this to 101 as Munn was pacing himself nicely with 172.
Going intot he 60th game, the Jersey star was rolling along at a smooth clip, piling up a lead which saw him 391 to the good at the end of the 75th game. From there on it was Munn all the way. The "over the river " representative started his big guns a- blazing and at the end of the 91st game, at which point Voelpel conceded defeat, the Garden Stater had rounded out an average of 795 sticks.
Munn featured the final block with a 278 in the 86th game while Voelpel's high game came in the 74th when he chalked up242. The total pin count for 91 games for Munn was 18,799 for a grand average of 206.5, while the Heineman Centre prexy's 18,004 total count gave him an average of 197.8.
