The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-12
News of the Week on
Local Alleys.
BOSTON MEMS VISIT
Matches That Are. Sched-
uled for Coming Week.

The event of the week in local bowl
ing circles was the visit of the Boston
teams to this city last Tuesday eve
ming.
The two games each between repre-
sentative local candle and. regulation
pin teams have now been bowled, and
whether or not the games were upon
home alleys the results were all the
same. In each and every case the
Worcester representatives won.
Undoubtedly the large amount of
candle-pin bowling INDUCED in here
had something to do with the superior
work OF the Worcester men. The Tri-
nifty Court team showed that it was
clearly in much slower class than
Whites Infants. The Boston men
missed their spares repeatedly, while
win the Worcester boys a miss was
the exception rather than the rule.
IN the TWO regulation pin games the
Boston men showed more proticiencv,
although failing to reach the totals
piled up by the Hancock BOWERS. At
the alleys of the Hancock Club regula-
tlon pin bowling is all the rage, and
the scores that the teams in the club
ootesL now In progress make, show
enefe is more than one good big pin
bowler included in the club champion
ship. In fact a team of 1--WE Hancock
men could be picked that it would be
SAFE TO bet could whip any other five
regulation pin devotees in the CITY.
Inc Hancock Club contest by the
way, is fast nearing "A close The re-
suit is style in doubt. for games rather
than totals count in making up the
places. The team captained by Adams,
however, is very generally picked for.
the winner. Everything looked rosy for
Capt. Adams and his four conferees
until Thursday evenings game, and
now some of. the other teams in the
club are taking hope.
Neither of the big pin teams of the
city at large, the Worcesters and the
Winthrops, had match last week II
Is more than probable. however, that
the series of six games-two of which
have already been rolled resulting in
overwhelming victories for the Wor-
| cesters, although the scores were
small-will be resumed this week, the
teams this time meeting on the Casino
alleys.
The subject of polished alleys and
steel plates still continues a bone of
contention among the big pin rollers.
go even SO far as to say that polished
alleys are old-fashioned and are pass
ing out of use. Still others maintain
! ~ the two alleys n Whites have
n < been polished at all. but that they
h Q been Just creased and that it
is Impossible to roll any sort of bail
on the alleys successfully. But not
withstanding all this talk against the
polished alley, the fact remains that
the Boston men We're unanimous in
their praise of these same alleys.
AS for the iron plates, opinion is by
no means so divided. On this point
both factions agree with what was
published in The Sunday Spy of a week
ago, namely, that iron plates have a
| tendency to keep down the scores. Pins
will wiggle and vibrate upon iron
the plates were of wood. Proprietor
| White is thinking seriously of replace
| ing one or two Of the iron plates with
wooden ones.
| The evening of the week for the can
ole pin boWlers frequenting Whites al
| leys will be Wednesday, when both the
| Infants and the Babies have match
games scheduled. The Babies will roll
their second match with the West
boros on Whites alleys, and while the
| Babies are adding to their present lead
| of ITO pins, the Infants will be strug-
Cling at Southbridge to knock down
| more pins than opponents who will
have the advantage of home alleys, and
a home crowd
| 1t will be a busy week upon the
Casino alleys with games scheduled for
every evening with the single exception
| of Saturday evening. The sport at the
| Casino alleys will begin tomorrow
evening when the Cuckoos will meet
uhe Spencers, the strongest bowling
team in any of the Worcester county
towns. This game was first planned for
| last Wednesday evening, but owing to
| the severe snoWstorm the Spencer boys
| telephoned that they could not keep the
| appointment Tuesday evening, if pres
| ent plans do not misearry, the Wor-
cesters and Winthrops will undoubted-
| ly roll the third game of their series.
The following evening the bowlers of
| the E.. S. Pierce and George F. Hewitt
teams will roll the third game in their
| series. These matches are creating a
great deal of interest among the en-
ployees of the two concerns more from
| the amusement afforded than any es-
pecial excellent bowling.
The newly formed Casino Bowling
| Association, comprising some men who
are good bowlers and others who are
not so good, will monopolize the Casino
alleys Thursday evening in a series of
games, the exact program for which
has not asyet been arranged. The Mag
aras and the Biadfords are down to
roll another match Friday evening. and
on the same night the Cuckoos will go
to Spencer, meeting that team for the
second time this week.
The prizes on Whites alleys this week
| resulted in high average scores and
larger individual totals. The first and
second prizes of 25 and 20 cigars will go
to Waterman and Dunn, each of whom
rolled a single strir g Of 119 pins. ].
Paine is sure of third prize on ia
pins; c. Mason's 112 total entities him
to fourth place, or ten cigars while the
five cigars offered the high fifth man
will be apportioned in some manner be-
tween Willard and Lohnes, each of
whom have Ill total