Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25

"Mullix" Bearly totaled 511, which
again provs that too much weight is
no excuse.
"Pidge'' Rahr again reached the 500
| mark Can it be that he was playing
| possum?
Batch" Beiswinger is slowly demon
strating to the public that his days as
| a bowler are about over.
Those Wheeling fellows can't ex-
! pect games on scores like they bowled
last week, especially when they go
against team like the X. K. K. boys.
The Big Tourney.
The International Bowling Tourna-
ment to be held under the auspices of
the United Bowling Clubs of New
York City, at Union Hill Park, SUI
burb of the Metropolis, during the
week of July 18th to 23d, is causing
| widespread interest among the army
| of bowlers throughout the country.
| The star rollers in nearly every city
| that boasts of one or more alleys, are
| banding themselves together and or
! ganizing into clubs to attend the big
! carnival. 1t is already safe to say
that there is not one of them that does
| not feel confident of returning home
with one or more of the $4,000 worth
of prizes at stake, not even limiting
at where the many championships
that are to be divided will go.
Probably the greatest rivalry exists
! between the bowlers Of the two great
est bowling cities in the Union, New
York and Chicago. The Westerners
claim that since they have taken to
the same style of game, and are using
the same kind of alleys. so long in
vogue in the East, they have become
as proficient in rolling the wooden
sphere as any Eastern combination of
pin-knights. We intend to prove their
proper time arrives.
With this end in view, more than
one hundred of Chicago's best rollers
have been selected and organized into
twenty, and if they are to be believed
What they will not do to New York's
crack bowlers next July will be
sim"
The Eastern twirlers, however, are
losing no sleep over Chicago's chances
to gain any of the championships.
They say they will take care of all who
are coming from the Windy City, when
the proper time comes.
The bowlers the Gothamites fear
most, are the teams and individuals
who will come from cities that are not
considered on the bowling map"
Here is where they are Wise, for it is
generally the team that has no world
wide reputation that steals in and
lands the leading prizes in events OF
this kind.
1t is surprising what an amount of
interest is being shown in the Car
nival by all the bowlers from the mi
nor cities. True, the greatest num-
Der of teams will come from the largest
cities, but the smaller ones are going
to be well represented.
The Canadians, too, are going to be
on hand to contest for honoIs in the
various American games. Toronto
has already applied for application
blanks for it's two leading teams, while
Montreal and Ottawa will also be rep
resented by at least fifteen bowlers,
sent divided into three teams.
Notwithstanding the fact that it
takes a few days to journey from the
Rocky Mountains to the scene of bat
tie, all the leading cities between that
point and the Mississippi river will
have one or more bowlers on hand.
1t is hardly probable that st. Louis
will be represented in many of the
American strike and spare or in the
head-pin ten-pin game. Their favor
lite game is cooked hat, and they be-
lieve they will clean up all the lead
ing prizes in that particular event,
but it is not safe for them to feel too
certain about this, because since the
big tournament was first announced,
some of the big ten-pin teams
throughout the country have drawn
SO inch line through their alleys, and
are rapidly getting the idea of how the
game of cooked hat should be played.
New England will be strongly rep
resented in the Sandle and Duck pin
competitions. Worcester, Mass, prac-
tically the home of the Candle pin roll
Ter, has already selected five teams for
Candle pin tournament, but expect to
increase this number to ten before the
tournament. All the New England
cities will follow the example set by
Worcester, and it is possible that
when the list of entries for the Candle
pin competition is closed the teams
entered will number nearly two hun
bred
The interest the fair sex is showing in
the tournament is not any less than that
of their sterner friends. Womens clubs
are springing up like mushrooms all over
the country. and from present indications,
there is some doubt as to whether the
number of women bowlers. who will COM
pete in the individual team contests set
aside for them, will not be as large as for
the men.
The first prominent entry received, came
last week. 1t was one from Miss Rose M.
Murray, of Toledo. o.. the acknowledged
woman champion bowler of the world.
Only short time ago. she added new
laurels to her credit by defeating w. V.
Thompson, of Chicago.
The general committee of the United
Bowling clubs in the east, assisted by
Secretary Manager Karp, in the west, are
already hard at work getting things in
shape for the big affair.
The alleys on which the championships
for the sterner sex will be decided, will