The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-06
SherwoodsHopine'fo for
Better Things.
FIRST BOSTON GAME
Classification Of Bowlers-
Matches for the Week.

With the bowlers of the city both
the regulation and candle pin men, it
has been decidedly off week with alb
solutely no important matches except
ing the first contest in the Sherwood
McCarthys series and the closing
match between the Cuckoos of the
Casino alleys and the Soencers.
The result of the first effort of the
Sherwoods to win the 5000 purse in
their match with the McCarthys of Bos-
son was a disappointment not only to
themselves but to every candle pin
bowler of the city, who naturally has
considerable pride in any local team at
tempting to face the Boston enthusi-
asts. 1t was not to be expected that the
Sherwoods, rolling for the first time
upon strange alleys, should come out
ahead, and the fact that the first match
in the series finds the Boston men hav-
ing lead of 26 pins is nothing to the
discredit of the SherWoods
The trouble was with the Sherwood
total and the five men on McCarthy's
team are naturally feeling elated that
having boWled poorly themselves they
could have emerged from the contest
ahead of their opponents. The men who
lp1lCu uPOll lllG DuEINOOu team nave
very little to say about the result eX-
cepting that they were upon strange
and upon polished alleys.
However an analysis of the bowling
done, reveals many Weaknesses on the
part of the Sherwood quintet. For in
stance, Jendron and Mccain, properly
rated as two of the first class candle pin
men of the city made averages and IN
dividual strings that would be looked
a Nv, ,,r
the minor teams of the city. Jendron
with 81 string and a 228 total-a rs
average! Mccain with a. 70 string and
a 10 average, Any one who would have
dared to predict such things before the
game would have been rated as a suit
able subject for some resort other than
a bowling alley.
On the other hand. it is not to be ex-
pected that either the Sherwoods or the
McCarthys either on home or foreign
alleys, are going to roll up 273 games
81 averages. That was Doran's per-
Torrance Friday evening and certainly
most ereditable. DOran did not make the
highest single string, but he did get
the highest total and the highest aver
age, and those are the things that count
in the end. Doran's work is all the bet
ter when it is known that he has not
been bowling this winter with any reg
ings' practice prior to the game.
1t was a bit curious that while the
Sherwoods were struggling along in
BOSTON, rolling strings that they hated
TX at, local alley records were
the boards, and team in
ant was making a 1850
tota. 0lIed bowlers of Wor-
cester, ere getting 1247
pins.
Those club to-, Tn at the
Hancock Club hav, 'og in
some remarkably good i
ing of late. Totals such as l.
teams there are putting up mig
night would stop many better Jel a1
The tournament is not yet over, but al,
ready the results have given evidence
of the sagacity of those who arranged
the tournaments and it is likely that
similar tournaments will hereafter be a
feature in the winter life of the club.
Other clubs in the city would not make
a wrong move if they attempted to
maintain alleys for their members.
Although discounted, of course, by
McCanns phenomenal string of 1856
pins, the single string at candle pins of
las rolled Friday evening at Whites.
stands as the best thing Jerry Guthro
ever did. For two years the alley rec
ord has been 1874 with the honor equal
lY shared by Norton and Colvin. Then
Connie Murphy, in one of his quests
for fame, went out after the record.
and all but reached it, getting 1873 pins.