The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-08
AFTER THE GAME.
How the Palma Bowlers Entertain Their
Guests.-A Club Orator.

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How the Palma Bowlers Entertain Their
Guests.-A Club Orator.
"One of the pleasantest features of a
bowling match at the Palma Club"-so
say out-of-town visiting teams. sis the
cordial and hospitable manner in which
visitors are treated by the Palmas during
the evening and particularly after the
game" While these remarks also apply
to all of the clubs in the Amateur Bowl
ing Association. as far as entertaining
visiting teams Is concerned, it is conceded
that no club in the association has done
more to encourage q continuance OF the
''social session" after every game than
the Palma Club. Many are the choice
ben-mots scattered around and sharp
saliies of repartee INDUCED in on such oc-
casions. when 1.-THE feast of reason and
the flow Of soul" are turned on u nder full
pressure.
Last week the Staten Island Athletic
Club visited the Palmas, and as usual
meUpdefeat in their characteristic smil-
ing manner. No misfortune can ever
quite Knockout the sturdy aud genial
Staten Islanders. The more you lick 'em,
the better they like it. But they always
have their revenge, and If they do not get
it OIL the alleys. they generally para!yzs
their hosts around the festive board, by
summoning their galaxy of humorous
~raconteurs, silver tongued orators and
vocal artists, to let loose their respective
pent-up repetoires for the amusement OF
the admiring crowd.
At such q game they have never been
vanquished, and in the language OF
sporting clubdom, are "out of sight"
The triumvirate consisting Of Camacho
Livingston and Cole. with the addition of
Kuhlke, could keep an audience in Il hill
arious mood for many hours. The bright
est scintillating star of this talented
coterie is Arthur Livingston, ore of the
of the Staten Island A. c. and the Man
haitian A. G. Always ebullien5
with vivacious humor. he has
a happy faculty Of making
a friend of everybody who has
the good fortune to know him. The fol
lowing impromptu address was delivered
by him at the spread after the Palma
S. |. A. G. game last week, and comes
nearer being a serious" effort on his
part than anything ever essayed' by him
on a similar occasion. 1t indicates so
clearly how friendly the relations are be-
tween the S. 1. A. G. and Palma Club
that it is worth publishing. The major
portion of the address was delivered
after the style of James Owen O'Connor.
"Fricnds, Romans, CountryneD n
Gentlemen or the Palma CJuD.-
You come not here tonight to praise
Staten Island, but to bury them; to you
be the praise, to us belongs the funeral.
I had a dream last night; l dreamt that
while passing through an old country
graveyard | came across ten tombstones,
aud upon one of the ten, more conspicu-
ons thar the rest, Tread this inscription
Sacred to the memory of ]. H. w. Cole,
VINO endeavored TO teach his team TO bowl;
For a short space of time, he thought they were
in it.
But the PalinaS didn't think so, no, not for q
minute.
SO here they lie buried beneath this clay,
And here they will rot till Judgment Day.
at is not my intention, gentlemen, to
emulate the forensic eloquence OF our de-
parted Shakespearean Willie: no, / will
leave that undertaking for such
astronomical, after dinner orators as
Chauncey NJ. Depew and others OF his
ilk. Neither do l wish to belittIe his
reputation as the poet laureate of the
Seventeenth century. No doubt he was
all that history tells us, the champion
quill driver of SonnetS and poems, of
comedy and tragedy, but l seriously
doubt, with all his aforesaid ability, he
knew even a little bit about bowling.
The merest tyro among US could give him
points on the game. Yet, strang us IL
may seem. Shakespeare and the game Of
bowls are indirectly connecteds II you
will take the trouble TO search through
the voluminous foIios of some of his writ
lngs, you will find the game of ''Skittles'
mentioned. which was no doubt INDUCED
In by the nobility, as well as the snobo-
cracy OF hat period. And SO from this
very game of "Skittles," out of its ashes,
10 to speak, crude aud chaotic as it seems
to have been, has emanated the most ex-
Vibrating of all winter sports-the
American Ten Pin Game. Doubtless If
some OF the Beau Brunmels of that
period had been present at our game this
evening. they would have exclaimed, 1T
takes a Yankee to beat an EnGlishman,
first, last and all the time
Nov, gentlemen, 1t was not my inten-
lou when | arose on this occasion, 10 go
IEtu a long and tedious dis sertation on