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Marathon duel With Krupa Starts Here Sunday.
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Gelhausen to Oppose Kollmar Tonight
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Bill "Whitey" Munn, big Elizabeth bowler who is the undefeated claimant of the "world's marathon title," takes on the strongest opposition he has ever faced in defense Joe Krupa of Cleveland at the Centre Academy Sunday. The first fifty games of their 100-game match will be rolled here and the remainder in Cleveland June 19th.
The 35-year-old Krupa is a "Johny-come-lately" to the Nation's top-flight bowlers, but he has been very much in the limelight for the last three seasons. He has rolled twenty-two 300 games, won the Chicago all Star Sweepstakes last winter, the 1943 Middle States all-events crown and twice has beaten Joe Bodis and Walter Ward, Two of the best, in the individual matches.
At top of game.
Munn , who has crushed three notched opponents in those wearing 100-game matches, is at the top of his game. He is currently leading the Centre Recreation Classic with an average of 205 for sixty games.
Fred Voelpel of Long Island, Fank Serpico of Philadelphia and ray Schultz of Buffalo have been unable to stay with Munn over the marathon route, fading in the late games with numbed hands and bleeding fingers as Munnn continued to pile up double centuries.
One of the greatest in modern bowling history was accomplished by Munn in his fifty-game strip against Serpico in Philadelphia. Bowling on his opponent's alleys, Munn deluged his foe by averaging 231 for the fifty games.
Sunday's match will start at 3 P.M. At the end of the twenty-fifth game there will be an intermission of approximately two and one-half hours, with the second twenty-five-game block slated to start at 9 o'clock.
