Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06
EVENTS IN BONLERDON.
The Happenings and Gossip Of the
Past Six Days.
How the Contests Are Progressing
in the Different tournaments TIE
Match With Cincinnati Team.
Notable Work Of Individual
Bowlers--Interestin Echoes from
the Alleys.

While the match between Wheeling
and Cincinnati bowlers is the stellar
event of the season, the date for the
first meeting between the opposing
clubs is so far distant that local lig-
mum vitae tossers are not yet gener-
ally discussing the possibilities and
probabilities of the contest 1t may
be safely asserted, however, that
Wheeling did not. go blindly into the
match, and that the local bowlers are
not putting up their $500 simply for
the sport to be derived from the con
test. Tney have not only figured out
possible chance of winning, but
when the teams are arrayed against
each other they will give substantial
evidence of the faith that is within
them by covering any reasonable sum
which the Cincinnati boys may desire
to wager on the result of the first SER
les Of games. The Brooklyn Bowling
Club defeated Cincinnati with greater
ease than they defeated Wheeling, and
if Kuppinger is top notcher'' in the
Ohio metropolis, Wheeling's chances
VI cNNui LIB lily Pdi sc oAC WAY SOSN'
The games last Friday night closed
the .twenty-first week in the Wheeling
tournament, which will continue for
six more weeks. That it has proved
the most successful tournament ever
conducted among local bowlers is at
tested by the fact that the clubs have
manifested their loyalty and their in
terest by keeping all their appoint
ments There has not been a single
postponed game in twenty-one weeks.
In striking contrast was another tour
nament, during another season, in
which the interest Jagged to such an
extent that the promise to distribute
$500 in cash prizes has never yet been
fulfilled. During the past few weeks
there tournaments were brought to a
successful close, the Y. NJ. G. A., the
Carroll Club and the Big Five.
Considerable rivalry has developed
among the patrons of the Musee alleys,
, because of the offer of a cash prize
of a $3.50 gold piece for the high score
each week The prize last week was
taken by Will Wilhelm, whose string
footed up PA pins. This remarkable
score is the best which has yet been
made.
The last scheduled games in the Big
Five tournament should have been
played Friday night There are a
number of postponed games, which
will be bowled off Monday night, none
of which will, in all probability, change
the order in which the leading clubs
will pass under the wire.
| The social leaders of the Defender
| team of the Wheeling League enter
tained their ladies last night at Fette's
alleys. and as might have been eX-
pected, they did their very best before
/ the weaker sex. but were handicapped
! by their high hats and high collars,
yet some large scores were made by
both ladies and gentlemen. Then fol-
| lowed feast, at which all hands did
| themselves full credit. The party ad-
iourned at a late hour, to meet again
on the same alleys in the near future
The standing and averages OF the
ten clubs in the Wheeling League at
the close of the week is as follows: