The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-30
HANC0CKS.
Review OF Their
Tournament.
GOOD BOWLING.
Interesting System Of Hand
Tapping Used.

With the completion of the annual
candle-pin tournament at the Hancock
Club a day or two ago, there is no
question of the success of the series of
games between teams formed of club
members. An idea of the interest
which was taken in the tournament by
the club can be seen from the fact that
there were nine teams of five members
each, making 45 men actively engaged
in bowling at the small pins The
teams were organized on the rating
basis, the plan being to equalize the
men on the strength of what they were
supposed to be able to roll, the handi-
Gaping being done by the bowling COM
mittee.
Each team was supposed to have
two men called scratch men who We're
rated as able to make SIS pins a string.
A third man was rated as an 80 man,
one at 70 and the fifth at 65 or 70. 1t
was not possible to give teams | and 3
any So pin men, so they were allowed
10 and 10 pins respectively, each game
they rolled.
| The teams played matches of three
strings each, each team playing three
games with every other team In the
tournament. The contest was decided
by games won instead of total pins
made, that being the rule in almost
every other bowling centre except Wor
cester. There is some question if the
| tournament would not have been more
successful from a competitive point of
view had the rating system been less
extensive and the teams been confined
| to members who might be called en-
! thusiasts in candle-pin bowling. In
several matches neither team had its
quota of men on the alleys. The bowl
ers present rolled and the absentees
were given their rating In one instance
team rolled its match with only the
captain present. On account Of the
difficulty in rating bowlers and the luck
which is ever present in candle pin
| bowling, some of the teams had a big
advantage through the rating system.
| After the tournament was started it
was impossible to correct the handicap
ping or modify it in any way. Team
9 took the lead and held it until near
the finish when team 5, composed Of
Capt. Ward, Adams, Perry, Gates and
Hunt went ahead and won first place
| in the tournament Its record was IT
games won and lost. Team made
the poorest showing in the tournament,
winning but games out of the "a it
rolled. The members of that team rated
|
score regularly, and the low-rated
men absented themselves regularly,
/ thus affording their low-rate opponents
a chance to make good scores and beat
out the rating OF team men. The fea-
lture of the tournament was the ability
of the low-rated men to get better
scores than the marks which they had
been figured as worth by the bowling
committee.
The first prizes were military brushes
which are now the property Of team S
Irollers. A silver match box offered to
the man making the highest average
was captured by George Linton. who
leads with an average of 1921. That in
cludes handicap of two and one-half
pins allowed him on each string. The
real leader Of the tournament is Ward
of team who was rated as scratch
man. He made an average of IS. sc
pins. A. F. White was also ahead of
Linton. his actual average being 49, 16
He was also scratch man. Mr.. White
wins a handsome pipe holder for max
ing the highest single during the tour
nament He tipped Iii pins in one OF
his games
According to the rolling the strongest
candlepin team which could be selected
from the contestants would be Ward
White, Linton, Hackett and KettelI.
The standing of the team is as fol-
lows: