The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-10
THE NEW YORK BOWLERS
WON FIVE OUT OF SIX GAMES
PLAYED HERE YESTERDAY.
A Defeat Administered by a Picked
Team from indianapolis
Bowling League.


the city from Cincinnati yesterday at noon
and began series of games during the af
ternoon with local teams. There are sixteen
men in the party of visitors, every one Of
whom has made national reputation as
bowler. The club is divided into two teams
of five men each with substitutes. One team
plays the afternoon games and the other
the evening games. Six games weEe played
yesterday and the visitors won five of them.
Since the Greater New York bowlers have
been on the road they have played ffty-sx
games and have won forty-four of them.
Their defeat yesterday was by picked
team from the members of the clubs form
ing the Indianapolis Bowling League, two
players being taken from the Lyra Casinos,
two from the l. B. C.'s and one from the
Independent Turner'S. The defeat by the
picked team is unusual from the fact that
the Indianapolis Bowling League has never
played tenpins having adhered to the now
almost obsolete game of ninepins. 1t is
considerably different from the game of ten
pins as played to-day.
The games of the series with the New
York bowlers are of the sort known IS
strikes and spares" Each player tries to
knock down the ten pins with the first ball.
If he succeeds he retires and no score is
given him until the next frame. Then the
number of pins made by him with the first
ball is added to the ten made on the
strike and the total makes his score for
the first frame. The pins made with the
first ball on the second frame are also
counted on his score in the second frame.
If, however, the player makes a strike with
the first bali in the second frame he is al
lowed to count on the first frame the num-
Der of pins made by the first ball of the
third frame and so on as long as he makes
strikes. 1t is thus possible for a player to
make thirty points or more in a single
frame. If the player fails to clear the alley
with the first ball of a given frame, but
succeeds in doing so with the second, he
makes a spare" and the number of pins
made with the first ball of the next sue
ceeding frame is counted with that frame.
On the last frame, the player rolls what
ever balls he may be entitled to from
strikes and spares.
The tournament is being held in Tomlin-
son Hall, where there has been laid two of
the best portable alleys ever seen. This Is
the opinion of the New York bowlers, who
agree that the alleys are equal to the best
stationary alleys. Although there has been
great interest taken during the winter in
the bowling games of the Indianapolis
League LOurQdu6ul, There WdS lOl IllO
large attendance expected at Tomlinson
Hall. During the afternoon there were
scarcely two hundred people in the hall, in
Guiding the bowlers, and in the evening the
crowd was not much larger.
To-day there will be six games. The Co
lumbia Bowling Club will play two games
with the New Workers in the afternoon and
two in the evening, and picked teams from
the Indianapolis Bowling Leagues clubs
will play one game in the afternoon and one
in the evening. This morning at 9 o'clock
the visitors will give an exhibition of the
game of head pins at Fred Kleine's alleys,
corner Southeastern avenue and Cruise
street.
THE AFTERNOON GAMES.
The opening games were played In the
afternoon and the Greater New Workers did
not find clear sailing. Two games out of
three was the best they could do, though
they won both games played with the Co
lumbia Bowling Club, supposed to be the
crack club at ten pins in the city. picked
team from the indianapolis Bowling League
gave the New York men a hard fight and
beat them by twenty-three pins. The In
dianapolis team was composed of H. c.
Bauer, of the Indianapolis Bowling Club;
| W. F. Off, l. B. c.. Elmer Gay, Lyra
| Casinos, Charles Krauss, Lyra Casinos and
| Iva Dicks, of the Independent Turner's.
| The scores during the afternoon were as
FIRST GAME