The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-26
Elizabeth Loses the Tie in
the Bowling Tourna-
ment After a Hard
Game.
BUT PALMA WAS INSULTED
Roseyille Said that Palma Had
Too Many Bets to Make Fair
Decisions.

housewife on wash day.
And no wonderl
Roseville had just won the champion
ship of the Amateur Athletic Bowling
League, for which there had been a tie
with Elizabeth
The match was bowled at the Palma
Clubhouse last evening, and Elizabeth
lost by seventy-three pins.
The game began with preliminary
kick from Roseyille, which came near
making scandal in the League.
1t seems that it has been the practice,
from the formation of the League, for the
neutral club, on whose alleys a tie is
bowled off, to supply the umpire. This
rule was never broken until last night.
When the two teams made their appear
ance in the alleys Captain Heilner, of the
Elizabeth team, gave the name of DR..
M. II. Carpenter, of the Palma Club, as
his choice for referee Dr. Carpenter
has acted as referee in many games, and
his sonorous voice, which reaches to every
part of the room, makes him peculiarly
good man to fill the place. when his judg-
ment as bowler and his level headed dis
elimination as judge are taken into con-
| Sideration.
Right here they struck snag.
| Captain Stuart, of the Roseville team,
objected.
| This raised great commotion.
| Nothing of the kind had ever been
known before.
| But according to the rules of the League
! the referee must be acceptable to bo- n
sides. So DR.. Carpenter felt very bad.
JUMPING ON RosEvILLE.
| Mr.. Hathaway, of the Palma Club, m
mediately called an informal meeting of
the League. There were present plenty
| of members of the different clubs, and at
| the meeting were Mr.. Samuel r. Finney,
chairman of the Bowling Committee of
the Jersey City Athletic Club; Mr.. w. H.
| Ellery, chairman of the same committee
of the Oritani Field Club; Captain He'll
ner, of the Elizabeth Athletic Club bowl
ing team; Mr.. Sam Hathaway, of the
Palma Club, and five members of the
| Roseville team.
When they met there was merry war.
| Captain Stuart said that he had nothing
personal against DIR. Carpenter, but that
Roseville objected to any Palma man as
referee.
"Whya" said Sam Hathaway. 'Why?
Tell me what objection there is to Pal
ma man"
WELL said Stuart, 'I understand that
Palma men have a large amount of money
| bet on the Elizabeth team, and we are not
| going to run any chances
| Mr.. Hathaway was on his feet in an in
slant.
II think" said he, ''that that is a gratu-
itous insult. On behalf of the Palma Club
| protest against any notice being taken of
| any such outrageous insinuation against
the honor of DIR. Carpenter and the good
faith of my club. have been bowler for
a good many years, and have never come
| across an exhibition of so unsportsman-
| like a feeling in the whole course of my
career. | call on the representatives of
other clubs to bear me out and to back up
the practice of the League"
Mr.. Finney Immediately responded to
| the challenge.
81 have always been proud of belonging
| to the Jersey City Athletic Club, said he.
| Tonight am just as proud that am not
a member of the Roseville Club. never
knew, among gentlemen, an action SO in
| eXcusable on any grounds"
1.-The old practice of the League in select
ing the umpire in a play off game from the
club on whose alleys the match is played,
has never been departed from, and cour
| tesy alone would demand that no eXcep-
| tion should be made now. The Jersey
| City Athletic Club entertains q feeling OF
rivalry toward the Palma Club, but
that feeling is not one of bitter
jealousy. but of generous regard and
| emulation In this matter we stand
shoulder to shoulder with the Palma Club,
and hope that, as gentlemen, the Rose
vile representatives will withdraw their
| opposition to the appointment of a Palma
member as referee. Every one must agree
with me that no club of gentlemen would
insist on such point as this one raised by
Roseville."
GOOD FOR HACKENsACK.
Mr.. Finney was heartily applauded by
everybody except the five Roseville men,
and two of them looked as if they agreed
with him. Before the applause ceased
| Mr.. Ellery, of the Oritani Club, had the
| floor.
This is most unfortunate affair." he
said. 1T is not as if we were two rival
| colleges, like Yale and Princeton, ready
| to do anything, no matter how unscrupu-
lous, to carry point. We are supposed to
be lot of gentlemen, belonging to differ
ent clubs, engaged in splendid sport fol
mutual benefit and the promotion of good
| fellowship and good bowling among the
members of the League. The spirit shown
by the Roseville men is typical rather of O
| crowd of boy baseball players than of q
club of gentlemen"
Captain Heilner, for Elizabeth, apollo
gized to the Palma Club for being the
unconscious cause of so gross an insult
as had just been laid upon the club, and
hoped that there never would be a recur-
| renee of it.
when we accepted the generous offer
of the Palma alleys, y said he, 1--WE thought
we had gentlemen to bowl against. Ii we
had not we should have laid the response
bility of choosing the alleys, choice
or no choice, on these men from Roseville,
would have had no opportunity to hurt
our feelings by this ungenerous and
gratuitous insult to our old rivals and
! friendly enemies, the true gentlemen of
the Palma Club. For the whole League
/ apologize and hope that the Roseville
men will retract."
| But the Roseville men would not yield
all inch. They insisted that they would
| not bowl with Palma member for ref
cree, and they had to have their way.
| Mr.. j. H. Davis, of the Jersey City Ath-
| letic Club, was finally selected, without
| objection from the Elizabeth Club, who
only wanted to stand by Palma as mem
ber of the League and a club of gentle
| men.
And that is the reason that Elizabeth
did not cheer the umpire.
| THE GAME.
| When the game began, Elizabeth
started off with great frame, and
| showed great vim. The frame looked
| like 200 game.
/ And Roseville was behind.
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