The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-13
Doings And
Gossip.
WEEKS MATCHESa
Winthrop's Team VIII Bowl
Brown College Men.

4 The past week has been a very busy
4 one at the bowling alleys and ali Of
4 the teams have rolled matches during
the week at both the regulation and
candle pins. AS all the owners Of
alleys have special prizes up for indi-
vidual work, some fine work has been
done by many of the star bowlsrs Of
this vicinity. ~ S "
AT Whites the attraction was a con
test for the highest single string at can
ole pms, the first prize being Is cigars.
The contest closedi at midnight, and
was won by Walbridge.
AT the Casino alley, contest is going
on winch is attracting the attention Of
poWlers from all parts of the city, and
curing the PAST week many who are
out Tor the prize have done lots of fine
poWllng. A gold watch is offered to
the one Who bowls the largest number
OF strings over so. W. H Carpenter
ieads with % strings, and John Hooley
is second with % strings. In the con-
test Tor the highest single string at
candle pins, w. A. King leads with a
score of 49, A meerschaum pipe is
the prize offered. lad ~ 10
AT the Winthrop alleys there are two
contests in progress, one for the high
est ten consecutive strings at candles,
ana the other for the three highest
strings at the regulation pins In the
first contest Walter LeF'lavor- leads
with a score of 951; A. F. White ia
second with score of $50. In the reg
ulation string contest, the leader is
w. A. Howe of Marlboro, with a SCORE
of $50; w. II. Carpenter of the Casino
alley is second, with a score of 527.
| AT the Sherwood alley the principal
interest is in the fight for the highest
| ten strings of candles. None of the
| bowlers have finished ten strings yet,
| but the large number who have COM
pleted part of that number. give prom
Use of d close contest before the first
of next month, when it comes to an
end. m
Mr.. White of the Pearl street alleys
was in Boston during the week, and
made arrangements for series of
matches between his team and some of
the strongest candle pin teams in Bos-
| ton
| Manager, White has decided to have
| his team represented in the two-man
candle pin league, and meeting will
take place the first of this week to ar
range a schedule. At Whites alleys,
Friday night, the Indians and Infants
will bowl the third and last of their Sc
ries. The Indians now have a lead Of
one pin, and the deciding game should
| be very close.
| AT the Casino alleys, great pleasure
| is felt at the acceptance of the chal-
! lenge to the ,Sherwoods. The Casino
team are very confident of winning, and
! if they do d challenge will be issued
| to the Babies. The Casino team has
a very busy week before them;a Mon
day the big pin team will bowl the
| Winthrop team the second Of the series
of four games at big pins. The Casino
team secured a lead of Sc pins on the
first game. Thursday night the last
of the series of six games with the
Winthrop candle pin team will be rolled
at the Casino alleys. The Casino team
has lead of 1913 pins, and should prove
an easy winner.
| Capt Mccain has accepted through
The Spy the challenge of the Casino
candle pin team, and will meet their
representative at the Sherwood House
at O'Clock today, to make arrange
mcnts for the match Saturday night
the big pin team Of the Winthrop al
| legs will go to Providence and bowl q.
match with the Brown College team. A
return match will be arranged to- take
place in this city Some night during
| the week the big pin team will go to
Southbridge and bowl the town team.
BURDENS OF SHOPPING IN MA
Mia. fo
| Dieter from a Soldier in the st. Paul
Pioneer-P ress,)
| I have just arrived at the rather re
narkable conclusion that money is -
great nuisance. The opinion is so un-
usual that l suppose will have to ex-
plain 1t. A few minutes ago / thought
1 would like a couple of oranges, so
went down to one of the vendors at the
! gate, picked out two that looked like
| I +I,o+ H.,
| ed two Spanish cents. | offered him q
dollar and received in return forty-four
two-cent pieces. Now one Of these two
cent pieces is almost as big as an AM
erican half-dollar. So when you think
that all this stuff only represents As
Iicents in American value you can I'M
! derstand my disgust A good deal has
been said at different times about the
value of travel as an educator. Ger
tainly our experience here has educated
about $4,000 American soldiers out of
any free silver notions they may have
entertained heretofore. be5ne.
Why, no one thinks in the Philippines
of carrying money in his pockets Ev-
tery one who has money, and they are
mostly Europeans, wears q large money
belt. You never see gold money or pa
per. Everything is silver or copp r,
and to carry $25, that at home one
could stick in his vest pocket, here
would have to be carried like a mill
stone around the waist fifty big Span
ish or Mexican "pesos," as they call
them. We were paid in gold of course,
and the natives would handle and bite
our ten-dollar pieces as if they had
never seen the like before.
1t gives an American some little
pride in the financial solidity of his
country's coinage to walk into the
Chartered Bank and receive for our
American dollar, because it bears the
stamp of the United States, more than
double its weight in two Mexican doll
lars. The Mexican dollars are bigger
than those of the United States, but
are only worth 46 cents.