Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
K. C. TEAM BEAT EAGLES
MISSOURI BOWLING TEAM NOW TIED
FOR FIRST PLACE.
Race Last Night Was Exciting and
the Eagles Began Well, but
Their Opponents Were Too
Fast for Them.

The game last night between the Eagles and Kan
sas Citys proved to be the most exciting of the
series, for the Eagles. who have been putting up
surprisingly good game, went after their strong OPP
ponents in a most savage manner and obtained a
nice lead Of ffty-eght pins in the first five
Baker being mainly responsible by reason OF a
bunch OF four strikes which fell in his net II did
not promise to be a game OF large scores, for the
other nine could not do much in the way OF
marking and with the exception of Clark none OF
them came within hailing distance of their average
game. In the tenth frame the Eagles had increased
their lead to siSty-three pins and the teams were
getting about even break with the pins. but the
staying qualities Of the champions began TO tell and
they closed the gap in the next five frames so that
the fifteenth frame showed them only nine pins be-
hind. The steady work OF Clark was telling for his
team and only the uncertain spare work OF Lord
kept them from getting 4 fair lead
At the time the Eagles began to drop back
and splits becoming numerous with them es-
pecially with Killing and Everhart who had unusual
ly hard luck In this respect, having twenty
splits between them, but mostly the result of I'M
steady handling of the first ball From the fifteenth
to the twentieth the game was Just about even and
the large crowd present had plenty of chances to
shout. The in the twentieth gave the Eagles
a lead of pins only and the Kansas Citys began
to work a regular Salvation Army racket on them
For the rest of the game ball rolled was ac-
companied by volley of shouts and yells that re-
minded the spectators of old times in the league
rerhaps the elatter had its desired eheet tor the
Eagles gradually lost ground and three opens In the
thirtieth put them IS pins behind This victory gave
the Kansas Citys tie for first place with the Mis-
souris. while the Eagles will start the second series
tied with the Acmes for third.
The work Of the individual bowlers was noticeable
In the case OF Clark and Baker only Clark started
poorly for him. but in the eighth he struck and did
not open again until the twenty eighth when he
missed difficult and ugly three pin spare. his
only miss of the game. He then marked out his
last ball being strike, which gave him the good
total of 5i4. He just two pins behind Baker.
who got splendid start, having 2I3 in the tenth.
and more than so ahead Of Clark. In the twenty
fifth his lead reduced to pins. three splits
drawing him back, He put in double just as
Clark missed, and but for split in the last frame
would have made the final difference few pins
greater. 1t a pretty between these two
for high man and decidedly the interesting
feature Of the game.
Next to them the for low man. between
King, OF the Eagles, and Lord of the Kansas Citys.
Killing capturing the position by the bad splits which
followed him all through the game Lord pulled
himself together in the last frame and got in three
strikes or he would have been of the 400 class
with Killing.
McMinamin had his usual misunderstanding with
the pin settlers and they nailed the corner pin to
the spot too often to please him. As result he
missed five spares and had to be satisfied with $780,
Farley and Hackett also up against a number
OF splits and their suffered in consequence
Voght and Hurst did not hold up their end and
their scores were only fair. The