The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-19
AMONG BOWLING CLUBS
DEFEAT OF THE CHAMPIONS MARKS
A TURNING POINT.
1t Has Caused a Heap of Comment
Averages OF the Week
bowling Notes.

The fall of the champions before the In
dependent Turner'S Friday night marks
new era in bowling affairs. Last year the
indianapolis Bowling Club won twelve
straight games without defeat, but this was
not considered phenomenal because the
other clubs of the league were inexperi-
enced. This year, however, it was believed
the champions would meet other clubs
which were their equal and it was some
thing of a surprise to the other clubs when
they all, ore after another. bit the dust at
the feet of the champions of last year. The
first series, in which each club met each
other club, wound up with string of
scalps for the indianapolis Bowling Club
in which dangled the locks of each of the
other seven clubs. And when the second
series began and the Indianapolis Club
started out with victory it began to look
as though the second series might go the
same way.
The turning point is believed to have
come now. The defear is hailed with much
joy by other clubs, and the Indianapolis
boys take it good naturedly. They knew
the time must come, and say they could
not have picked a nicer crowd of fellows to
lose TO than those making up the Independ-
ent Turner team. Their victory has put the
BILE spirits. The victory was celebrated
Friday night after the battle at the club
mouse, on North Illinois street, where the
members of the team gathered and made
merry until a late hour.
There is a great rivalry between the In
dependent Turner's and Social Turner'S.
Each club has won six out Of nine games
played, and they are tied in the percentage
table. The Lyra Casinos are one notch
ahead of these clubs in the percentage
table, but have played one less game. 1t is
one of the games postponed from Friday,
Dec. 10, and has been set down for Monday
night. OF course, the Independent Turner'S
and Social Turner's are hoping to see the
German-Americans win this game and put
percentage table with them If it should
turn out this way there will be some hard
nghtlng on the alleys next week
The Capital CityS still hold down the tail
enc OF the table with but one game out of
nine to their credit. They have done some
good work, but luck seems against them.
Scores which would win for any other club
are toe small to get them anything. They
are becoming to be regarded as joke, and
the other teams seem to agree that when a
sure thing is wanted match must be ar
ranged with the Capital Citys. The ALI
Americans are close second for the BOBBY,
and the Old Guards are third from the bot
tom The German Americans are at the ton
of the second half in the table, but they
nave no sure hold of the place, for they
must meet the strong Lyra Casinos Monday
night, and loss would tie them with the
Old Guards.
The individual averages are still at the
extremes. The high men are unusually high
and the low men are almost irretrievably
low. There are some readers of the papers
who have compared the scores with those
published in the Cincinnati and other papers
and find that the scores here are much low
err than in other. cities. That is not on ac-
count of any lack of skill on the part of the
skilled lot Of bowlers and would doubtless
make credtable showing anywhere. The
difference is in the game played. Indianap-
nj ha MI vxhor
nine pins only are used. In Cincinnati and
elsewhere the game is ten pins" Good
at ten pins that they can make at nine pins.
The following table shows the averages of
the players, the number of games they have
played in and the club to which they be-
long: