Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02
WEEK N gONLERD0N.
General Gossip About the Contests Of
the Past Week

Inc PaSI week
ON THE HARVEST HOME ALLEYS
THERE WE'RE A NUMBER OF
SURPRISES TO THE TALENT
AND ALL THE GAMES WE'RE
STUEBORNLY CONTESTED = A
NEW ALLEY RECORD FOR
THREE GAMES HOW TIL
TEAMS STAND.
The twenty-ffth week of the Wheel
ing tournament, which was finished
last Friday night, was beyond doubt
the most interesting week of the tour
nament. The standing of the teams
remain the same, but margins have
been cut down considerably. The race
for second place is a tight one, with
the All Alikes one game in the lead.
The race for individual averages is
very close, with Brown in the lead and
RAIDER, of the BOWERS, a close second,
having passed Campbell and Steven
son by his wonderful total of 59S (the
alley record in three games. Wise,
of the Bowlers, has an average of 173,
but as he won't be able to roll the re-
quired number of games, he won't be
considered in the race for any prize
money.
Last weeks games were started by
"Dutchy" Wilhelm's unprecedented
aggregation Of singers, and wouldbe
bowlers, taking a fall out of Tom
Brett's all-stars amid great excitement,
for the game that was won by the
big P's'' was close and belonged to
either team until the last ball had went
down the alley, when only eighteen
pins kept the Wheelings from winning.
The first and last games were won by
the "Hinglishman's" team without any
trouble. The above games caused no
changes in the standing, and make it
YtWO of the nine that were won by the
Puritans. Tuesday evening the Cronies
took sympathy on the Frog Horns, and
gave" them couple, or they would
never have won one in this last series
Twas like this-"F Fiddle" Rolf, who is
the main guy, had been coaXing the
CronieS for some time back to let them
have a game or two, stating that life
was becoming a burden to him under
the losing streak that his team was in
of late, and since Fiddle is an old
time friend of some of the Cronies,
they pitied him to the extent of leaving
them have the two games, which was
duly appreciated by riddles" team, for
after the games they ''whooped 'em up
few times.
The Frog Horns are still at the bot
tom OF the pile, while the Cronies are
hnf direr r,ix- i
margin. The Frog Horns won~seven OF
the nine Wednesday night. Sid Sar-
ver's short ends had no trouble in
downing Dad STEMS Rum Dums and
Sid did first rate himself, making 507
in three games, something he never did
before in his life. Harry Bearly was
expected to bowl that night, and in
fact he started out to the alleys, and
when he got to within a hundred yards
of the Wheeling League headquarters
he stopped, run his hands down in all
his pockets and discovered that he had
forgotten his "glue" and went back
home. big BILL of the Rum Dums
had on a green necktie, along with a
heavy heart and was in poor FORM while
the '1Sheeney" Horse" Druschel and
the others were but little better. Sid
was desperate, for had his team lost
then the Cronies would have won and
perhaps would have passed them in
the race, but now Sid sleeps well. The
Rum Dums lost all nine. The La
Bellies and Aber Nit teams had an old
score to settle OF long standing, each
team having lost a few "plunks" to the
other in their previous meetings, and
the games on Thursday were to settle
all differences between the two teams,
and each captain had out his strong
team, which rolled three very interest
ing games, but at the finish the Aber
Nits had won them all, much against
Bill Hastings's will, as he took a large
party of friends along to see him swpe
the Aber Nits. OF the nine games, the
La Bellies lost five. Friday nights
games were the banner games of the
week for excitement. The games were
between the ALI Alikes and the Bowl
ers, and were fought inch by inch. Each
side had determination written on their
faces, and each ball as 1T left the
bowler's hands was watched until it
disappeared in the pin pit. Spectators
ran from one board to the other after
frame would be counted; in fact, at
times q pin (not ten pin) could be
neard drop until after the totals were
counted and the winners were an
nounced, when a mighty cheer would
go echoing away among the hills that
abound the alleys. The first two were
won by the Bowlers by good scores. but
the last was won by the All Alike boys
after recounting several times. First
it was thought the All Alikes had it.
then Henning claimed 1t by recount.
after which the All Alikes claimed it
again, the final scores standing 1000
for the Bowlers to LOOP for the All
Alikes.
Below will be found the standing of
the ten teams, the averages for the last
two weeks, the schedule for the coming
week, and the standing of the teams in
the new race:
STANDING OF TEAMS.
Averages.
Apr Mch
Teams. W. L. Pct. Is