Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
CH|Cl0rS tournament
TO DETERMINE THE TEAM AND tn
DIvIDUAL ROWLING CHAM
PIONSHIPs
70 BE HELD NEXT JANUARY.
40 uovement as Yet for Local Rep
Observation-Disclosures Bowlers VIII
he Represented - Arrangements
Being Understanding and aver
ares of BovvIers in thc,Local Tour
naments 10 Date-Other Sport.

ex of BovIers in the,Local Tour
poments 10 Date-Other Sport
There has as yet been no movement
in Wheeling for entering a team IN
Chicago's great bowling tournament 10
aatarnnine the team and individual
champions of the United States, to be
held January 7th to 18th. 1t is al
readv an assured success, according TO
the report of the committees having
the matter in hand. The management
OF this tournament, which is the frst
national contest ever held by bowlers,
is under the control of the Illinois
Rowling Association, which has so sue
cessfully managed the Illinois state
tournaments for the. three years past.
It is expected that all that has ever
been done in the past in the bowling
line will be surpassed in the coming
contests. Being held under the control
of the American Bowling Congress, the
winners of the different contests will be
fully entitled to call themselves ma
tional champions and fully 800 men
are expected to enter.
More than thirty cities have signified
their intention of being represented by
teams in the meet, New York City lead
ing the list with an expressed intention
of putting in five teams, one OF them
being the Empires of New York, VINO
proved to be the closest competitor of
the Chicago team which won last years
unofficial championship at Union HILL
n. j.
Other cities which will be represented
are the Detroit, Baltimore, Pittsburg
Wheeling, w. Va, Cincinnati, CleVe-
land, Toledo, Louisville, st. Louis,
Buffalo, Brooklyn, Indianapolis, Column
bus Milwaukee. Peoria, Elgin and Kan
sas City. Chicago will enter twenty
five teams in all likelihood.
The idea of offering cash instead OF
trophies to the successful contestants
is done with the full consent of the
A. B. c., and is for the purposes OF
lessening the expenses OF the teams
which will have to come long distances
to play.
Ten pins alone will be played. This
is sometimes known as the American
strike-and-spare game. Three cham
pionships will be decided, the fiye-man
team championship, the two-man
championship and the individual. En-
tries are open to all teams and bowlers
in the United States, uniform fee OF
S. per man being charged in all the
contests. General Manager Godfrey
Langnenry reports that up to the, pres
ent time enough inquiries have been re-
ceiyed to indicate that there will be
about seventy live fiye-man teams, 10
two-man teams aad over 20o lndiyid
uals.
Rates of enc ard third fare on all
railroads have been secured, and the
railroads are preparing to take care of
about 500 delegates from the East.
New York City is as strongly inter-
ested in the contests as Chicago, and
five teams have already announced
their intention to compete. These are
the Empires, Corinthians, spartans,
Manhattans and Fideii2s. Brooklyn
will send a club called the Echo and
the Monarchs.
The East will have some strong en-
tries in the two-man eveat, howevef.
Some of the men who ere expecaed to
enter in this are Cords, Roemer.nann,
Thyme, Curtis, Sohl, Hammer, Silver,
Kiefer, Jackson, Phirpard, Moore and
Albert Many of these men aaye
achieved national fame already IS mem
bers of winning teams. The four first
named were members of the aaver2l
All-Star teams which proved so strong
an attraction in Chicago in past years,
All of the Chicago's cracks will enter
the individual Championship, including
w. V. Thompson, Brill. Worden, Bang
art, Steele, Kenna, Weber, Birren, Bill
lie Lee, Hanna, DsPpoft. Ed. Custom
and hundred others equally we'll
known
George Kuppinger is the first man to
form a team outside of the big bowling
centers He Will enter team from
Belleville, H., besides which he will
play in the individual championships.
Brooklyn is raising a popular sub
scription to send teams and the re-
Spouse has been hearty. Everything
appears encouraging for the success Of
the tournament and TO serious hitch
has yet occurred in the management.
BOWLING.