New-York tribune., 1901-10-21
AMONG THE BOWLERS
CLERKS FROM MANY UVnr-Sr,,
LEAGUES BEGIN THEIR SEA
SONS TOURNAMENTS.

'he merry chorus of rumbling balls and topnI,au
pms Will be kept up until spring There are bsIs
score Oh new bowling academies open this wip,..
and the number of leagues organized for +o '
ment games is nearly double that of former Ina S1Ha
ana half as many again as on last wears Hs,
new feature has been added also by the onanI \
the new White Elephant alleys in Broadway ~
town, which have been started on the site 90 -
old White Elephant bowling and billiard - u0
which stood at the corner of Thirty-frst-s4
many years Joe Thum who also eontro1 - %
Harlem Palace and the Cermana in the BoSvtne SS tne
has put in dozen high class alleys al tba TVWyssry
Elephant, and by transferring the Americ.W c W nte
tional tournament matches from the Germani,n GI9 ns
nus uptown place he has succeeded in rnakine 40 %
new alleys popular al once. tne
Tue commercial League tournament has swsrAs
TO formidable proportions this season. and no few.
than nineteen business houses are represented :.
bowling teams of five men each The cbar,r,.,s
series has been in progress now for two weeLs -
series Is rolled every Tuesday Wednesda, -
friday evening AS only six series have -
place so far. it is not time YET to weed o,t -
stronger Iron the weaker teams or to nlake a.,
predictions as TO the CHAMPIONSHIP nosz5b;r.,
ou' the team representing F. Victor & Acbsris -
already developed formidable strength Tba s-S
schedule includes these teams: America, W.,
company. A Benjamin Company F. ButterAs11
Co. Arnold Print Works. Calhoun. Robbins e =. :"
i'll Z: =; Dun & Co. New-York Edison Compsnv
Ren4Remer % ne Levy Passavant < Co Rogers , PsD, Sp
IIri n 80, =. victor & Achelis. Joseph Wild & a.
uS oTiIll.SAS gus q curtis. BOrgfeld & Co. Mason 4
EaaIso EHansons; SSchafer. S Schramm VogeI and Fl a
the clubs in the order of their finish @ @prizes @ Ior
me pest individual averages and prize aacS sor
score. ei' Nie4'es1 individual
Twelve teams are entered this season for ~.
championship of the Life Insurance Ror,'-
League hve more than last winter. and officers 1o
the season have been elected as follows. -
thomson, president; r. d. CIuff vics-prAst5an,.
W. ID. Ferres. secretary; c. Olozaga. treasurer Tra
league championship series began last Wedness.v
evening at Ehler's alleys. Each OF the twslvs
teams VIII play three games with the Others max
ing the schedule for each club include thirty-bras
games Six teams are scheduled for each bowling
Equitable Mutual PRUDENTIAL Fideltv s1d IN. [ne
9alty, Metropolitan. Germania, Mutual Benefit and
hrst four by two teams each
The fire Insurance clerks have also organized for
the season. and they opened their championship
series last Tuesday evening with the first games
between the German-American. Northern and Pho
nix companies The Cierman-American bowIers won
two games in this first series. the Northern COM
panys team lost twice. while Phcenix won and
lost same each. The rolling OF Ormslee one Of
the stars OF this tournament last season. was again
the feature of the evening. and his good scores
materially helped his side to victory for he rolled
up totals of 1S2 and 2O2 in the two games AS the
cermar-American team won the hrst game by only
shrty-ons pins and the second by thirty-six pins
they might have lost either both If Ormslee's
scores had been as low some of his partners.
There bank clerks leagues for bowling IN
beth Manhattan and Brooklyn. ard each has its
championship tournament The elder Of these Is
made OF clerks from Manhattan banks and
they have reorganized again this fall a stronger
basis than before a change has been made this
year in the programme of this league. and there
will be Only fifteen teams. with ca 10 meet the
others twice. instead of once. as in the big open
tournaments The schedule includes only TUESDAYS
an5 Saturdays. and it will take most OF the winter
TO complete Il; in fact. the last games hardy
be rolled before early spring at this rate For this
week the games are: TUeSday-C0dTnan. Sa chs <
Co, Union Square and Western National teams;
Sa aturday-Colonial Seaboard National and Kountzs
Brothers.
The Wholesale Drug Trade Association has been
reorganized again this fan a stronger basis. It
has engaged Reids alleys for Saturday afternoons.
and it's games will be the only daytime tournament
ones rolled this winter. Four alleys used and
a double series IS rolled each week. The opening
games were rolled last Saturday afternoon, and
the champions of last year, Ses5uTy & Johnson.
lost their first game TO Powers & Wightman. new
team in the league. which was beaten in turn later
in the afternoon by Johnson & Johnson