The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-12
THE LEAGUES FINE START
YIcToBT FoR THE CENTURY AND
INDEPENDENT CLUES.

Fun Scores of the Two Games - Tho
Athletic Clubs Wayne's Meeting
Lively LoriIlards and Successful
scots-Sporting Notes.
The Jersey City Amateur Bowling
League made a beautiful start last night.
Two games were played and both at
tracted a large and enthusiastic audience.
At both the best of feeling prevailed.
The unsuccessful clubs accepted defeat
gracefully, and the v~ictors, although
happy, did not indulge in any demonstra-
ton, but gave three cheers and a tiger
for their opponents, and gave it with a
will. The compliment was returned by
the vanquished, and then both united in
endorsing the fairness of the umpire. At
the parting there was d merry shaking of
the hands by the rivals.
Thus las begun the meetings that will
produce good results if the same spirit
that was manifested last night is con-
tinued.
THE RIVAL PLAYERS.
The rival teams last evening were the
CenturYs and Lafayettes and the indie
pendents and Volunteers. A remarkable
coincidence was that the home clubs won
in both instances, although the visiting
teams the prophets had 1t would be sue
cessful.
The scores were low. This was due to
the fact that the players were nervous at
the opening, the use of regulation pins
ana care in placing them OH the spots
and the players had to watch the chalk
line and keep on the right side of it.
They will become Injured to these things
with a little practice, the nervousness
will vanish and the score will &c up.
HOW THE CENTURYS WoN
The L~afayettes Were the callers at Colo
mel Browns Court House alleys, where
the Centurys bowl. The alleys We're in SUI
perb condition.
The place reserved for the spectators
was comfortably filled. The contest was
nip and tuck and the audience had an OPP
portunity to cheer both clubs. They
moved along like evenly matched trot-
tiers until the fifth frame. There the Cen
turys struck a snag. The pins would
split SO that it was impossible to make
spares and the Lafayettes obtained a lead
Of 81 pins. The ill Iuck of the CenturyS
continued in the sixth frame and when
the totals were put in they were in the
rear by 81 pins.
Il was worse for them at the end of the
seventh frame. as the boys from Lafay-
cite had improved their lead and were SO
pins ahead. The visitors were regarded
as certain winners. "a
A LONG LEAD LOST.
The game is not won, however, until
III 4c1ob pm AlCPo.s A|uCA 10 lChlC ~ AhC
Centurys rallied white the Lafayettes fell
away. In the eighth frame Hulse,
Maggs, Wallace, Bowiey and f.. Del
Orme made spares, and Mills and Kerr
made strikes.
An almost open frame for the Centurys.
Loach, Douglass and Jones, for the Lay
fayettess made strikes to stay the gain Of
their opponents and Cohen putt up a spare,
the others failed to get either. The eighth
frame closed with the L~afayettes in the
van with a decreased score. The Centu-
rvs had cut it down by ~ Plus.
In the ninth frame the Centurys drew
closer to the visitors. Maggs. Bieder-
huse and e. DelOrme made strikes and
Hulse put up d spare.
gsThe only open frames on the Lafayette's
frame were those of Duls. who made a
strike, and Mills and Baxter had spares.
The frame closed with the Centurys only
seven behind.
AEN THE FINAL Squirt.
The home team made a grand squirt in
the last frame. Maggs and Kerr made
strikes, and Hulse, Wallace and Bowley
made spares. The best that the Lafay-
cites could do was strikes by Brennan
and Mills. 1t was a disastrous frame for
the Lafayettes, and the Centurys finished
t%hirty-one pins ahead.
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