Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-03-03
CRACK BOWLERS COMPARED
KANSAS CRY CuAMrio>s CoutD HoLD
THEIR oWN ANYWHERE.
In Both individual and Team Averages
They Excollcd the high Kecords Made
In the Massachusetts bowling
League sporting notes.

As Boston Is the Hub 90 tha universe, so
1t is the center Of what is recognized as the
leading bowling organization on oarih-the
Massachusetts state Ltagu'. II la the
Massachusetts league whIcl makes the
Jules which govern the bowling clubs OF
Kansas city to-day and all game. in that
league are rolled under the same strict
rules which govern the tournament and
match games In this city and Under the
same regulations as to alleys and pins.
As the conditions governing the big
bowling games In Massachusetts, are cN-
nctly the same as those governing the
games OF the Kansas city Amateur Bowl
ing League, n fair basis for comparison 10
afforded BY the figures showing the scores
and averages made in the two leagues IN
the past season.
aso se'n 10 the S0pafs4" pp%lsfs aas, ,"s CITY, Who
have come TO be iauliel &mong the leading
exponeuts Of this popular game. This
years leader IN the Massachusetts, league,
Marren, of the Les Mserables finished
the season with an average OF fraction
under i72 and only four other bowlors In
the league made as good an average AIS
good as lG9.
League, finished with an average OF lN'.
Lord had AN average of lI3 aud Nichols,
Taylor nnd Morris each had 100. The fol-
lowing Is u comparative iahle OF 'he Il't
KANSAS CITY.
Bell Kansas Ctiys.................'..'''' ~
Nichols Kansas OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Taylor, Kansas CItys........,.........'.,. iG9
-'0'' 90 '''' MASSACHUSETTS,.
Marren. Les ernbes....,.......,,......ll lll2
Marston. CharIestown ......,.,..,.,.,.....l y
broauIeEi Salehn ..'''.'''''.''..'''.'' ICY
James, II. y. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. lh'
In connection with these figures 1t must
be taken into consideration that the
Massachusetts league, with its thrs" diyis-
ions, has twenty-five teams, with NO. bowl
crs to make averages, while the Kansas
city league has hut six teams with thirty
bowlers, so i viii be easily seen ihai tha
of the Kansas city bowiers than hown 10y
the figures.
in the team averages Kansas city again
sas Citys finished tn, season with an
average of 2.5t2, while the Les Miserablgs
who led the Massachusetts league, aver
aged 2.iT3. The Kansas Cttys established
a new tVe-man team record during the
tournament of 2Gfd, which Surpas-es any
league. and Bells Individual three-striuE
score OF G3i cnlpsos Davis mark of 6ol
which Is high in the Massachusetts league.
THESE hEures ana comparisons certainly
seem to indicate that Kansas city can beat
the. world on bowling under strict rules
ana regulations There Is a host of 10y,
ers of bowling in Kansas city who would
like 10 see some arrangement made toy
which the crack bowler- Of Kansas city
games The suggestion has been made
that as the two cities ar" too distant to
admit OF teams exchanging visits "a ser
ies of games by correspondence he ar
ranged Games could he bowlpd on any
evening set and the results could be cN-
changed by wire. The bowlers @f Kansas
city are willing to engage in a contest of
this kind, to be either between picked
teams Of the crack bowlsrs of the city or
between the champion Kansas CityS and
the crack tenn of Boston The Kansas
Citys are wiling ,o make the same prop
,1sition to the Npspcrs, which won the
Massachusetts league championship ser
Is of thrre games could be arranged
,.hich would prove to be very interesting
= rl the loNlers ~ the oitIes ImternsLel.