The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-23
VOLUNTEERS VICTORY.
THEY DEFEAT THE cENTURYs
CLEVER BOWLERS.

An Interesting and Merry Meeting OF the
League The Lorillard Pool
Tourney-Entries for the Big Boxins
Exhibition. Ht $50
First the horse car, then the tally no,
now the tally no with fireworks.
This tells the growth of interest in the
meetings of the clubs in the Jersey City
Amateur Bowling League. They began
niodestly. 1t was treading on new ground
the union was an experiment i'll this
city, the club members were strangers, and
the clubs moved quietly. The horse car
was the vehicle used. The first week had
not passed when the change occurred.
The clubs did not meet as rivals in a bitter
contest, but each found the other to be a
jolly band of brothers who all had the n
idea Of the object OF the union-that it
was formed for the sole purpose OF bring
ing together in Il organization a jolly
set of boys who intended conduct
ing. their games in a friendly spirit
and having a merry time vt each meet
ing. Then the tally no became the con-
veyance for the visiting club, who, renl-
izing that it was to DE a happy night,
concluded to increase the enjoym ent by
a ride in a conveyance or their own,
where they could keep the fun going.
Inc enthusiasm 1uCTehSeQ duu idou
night the pyrotechnic display was added.
The Centurys paid their first visit to the
Volunteers at Becker's alleys, on Jackson
avenue. The lively Century boys pro-
cured a stock of sky rockets, roman
candles, ETC., and they Illuminated the
route on their ride. When they neared
The Volunteers headquarters they. were
agreeably surprised. The home club had
caught the infection and were burning
colored fire and sending up rockets in
honor of the visiting club. They met as
old friends. 1t was one Of the happiest
games that has been rolled In the series.
The victory went to the home club. 1t
has been a remarkable coincidence that,
with one exception, every game that has
been rolled for the League championship
the home club a won. The exception is
the loss of the game by the Centrals to
the F~airnountS, which gives the latter
the lead. Had the Centrals won the clubs
would all nave been a tie, with one game
won and one lost. II the home club con-
tinues winning q grand and exciting
finish to the League series will be wit
messed.
The alleys where the game was rolled
are considered to be hard alleys, and 1t
requires Il skillful bowler to make q good
score. The new regulation pins We're
used and they had to be hit hard before
they would go down.
The Centurys had made a change in
tkeir team, and were sanguine of placing
another game in the won column, but
they were out of the hunt from the start.
Only W men in the team went oven the
average line. Five could not go beyond
the twenty block, and Bowlcy almost
made u clean record of breaks and had
only double figures.
-Four of the Volunteers went above the
average, two were close to the mark, one
was in the twenty block, two IN the teens
mud Humphrey, who is Il of the
steadiest bowlers of the club, just reached
the century mark.
The Volunteers had a lead of twenty
four when the first game closed. The
centurys made an earnest struggle, but
the home club steadily moved away, and
ut the end of the franae were eighty pins
ahead.