The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-01-28
PRETTY BOWLING, THAT.
The Big Fives Fine Aver
age---Baseba1l and
Sporting Notes.
One, eighty and eight.

That was the average of the Big Five,
of the Jersey City Athletic Club, in the
two games rolled against the team of the
Oxford Club, of Brooklyn, last night.
1t was not a sprint, or unusual record
for this team, for they in the opening
game of the new league bowled two big
games. 1t wa thought they then had
reached high water mark, as they made a
total of 1860 in the two games.
The guessing machine of the prophets
was out of order. The grand average
justified the opinion, it is true, but bowl
ing is a gam of large possibilities and
the Big Five saw this fine average Of two
weeks ago and last night missed it two
points.
The clubs bowlers have made q pheno-
menal record this season. In the new
league the averages are extraordinarily
high, in the Amateur Bowling Assoc
citation they lead with an average
several points greater than that OF
the leaders of previous years, and in the
association of the second teams the clubs
team is in first place with an average
equal to that OF the leading clubs OF the
senior class in the league contests in the
past. In addition to team work, the in
dividuaI scores nave been superb. Every
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now in q r roll up over swo hun
dred. So frequently has this been done
thatit no longer excites surprise and adj
miration. 1t is now expected. Then, too,
the maximum record was made this sea-
son by Wadleigh, who for several weeks
held the best score on the alleys. 27S, and
then put up 300 and made fifteen consecu-
tive strikes. 5 Hly
1t has been q remarkable, a brilliant
season for the club in the bowling field,
and from present indications the aver
ages will not drop. 1t has produced good
results. as interest in the game has been
aroused and the alleys are in constant use
by the members who are ambitious to
become skiiful hurlers of the wooden
sphere.
There was a large attendance last night.
The games were bowled on the Jersey
City Clubs alleys. The home team went
over the nine hundred mark in the first
game and the performance elected hearty
appreciation. When they beat the first
game by sixty-four The crowd was jubi-
liant and yelled with as much ardor as
five hundred school boys on dismissal
when they a V been given an unex-
pected holiday.
Our readers will be pleased undoubted-
ly to have the excellent games given in
detail. In the first frame of the first
game the Jersey Citys were weak Two
strikes and three breaks was the record
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an open frame, they had three strikes and
twa spares and a total of los. This gave
the OxfOrds the lead by "a pins, a distinc-
ton that they did not afterwards enjoy,
as they did not again lead. In the second,
third and fourth frames the Jersey Citys
did not have q break. The Oxfords had
two each in the second aud third, but left
an open frame in the fourth.
In the fifth the Jersey Citys had one
and the Brooklynites two breaks. The
first half of the game ended with 528 to
the credit of the Jersey Citys, and 442 to
that of the Oxfords. The Jersey boys
had the advantage by 86. In the sixth
the Jerseymen had two breaks. and the
Brooklyn boys failed to make a credit.
The seventh shows but one credit, a
spare in the Jerseymen's record, and this
was duplicated by the visitors. The Jer-
sey Citys made one break in the eighth
and the visitors only q solitary credit.
III Jerseys had two breaks in the ninth
and The visitors kept even with them in
credits. The Jersey Citys closed with
three breaks and the BroOklyns with
three credits, all spares. The Jersey
q sitys won by 149 nins-
In the order Of frames Che .boWlers
records wese as follows:-Curran began
with a break, then five strikes, q spare, a
strike, a break and a pare Klein, a
strike, three spares, a break,s IA strike, a
break, two strikes and "a break. Davis
had two strikes, a,spafe, a strike, a spare,
four breaks and q strike. Olmstead
started with a break, four spares, two
breaks, two strikes and a break. Schultz
had a break, five strikes. q break, two
spares and q break
In the second game the Jersey Citys had
but sever breaks, and forty per cent. of
those were charged against one man.
The BrookIyns had twenty-three breaks.
The Jerseys had a break IN the first frame,
one each in the in the second, fourth,
eighth and ninth, and two in the tenth.
The third. fifth. sixth and seventh frames
were left open.
The scores follow