Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-13

such close lines that no detail like this will be overlooked
 There can be little but scorn for the unsportsman1ike bowIers who at tended the championship, participated in the sport of the week, and rolled on all of the six especially built al- leys, and returned to their homes but to fill the papers with their com paints about the alleys and the win ners. The Standard Bowling club of the North Chicago league, one of the pioneer clubs of the west entered a five-man team, and it easily captured the first honors. Nearly all of the defeated competitors freely compli- mented the team on it's showing. and acknowledged that it had won cham pionship honors. But the real test of bowling came in the individual championship contest. A field of 116 of the best bowle-s in the country entered and rolled. Frank Brill, a former member of the Greater New York team, but now a Chicago bowler, won the championship. There was no dispute about hls supremacy. His games were carefully, but not bril- liantly bowled, and he made the very good figures of PIP, 237 and 1o9, total of GAS. J. Roster, or New York, has scores of 224, POT and 190, and was sec ond in the long list. Brill made IS strikes in the three games, ten spares and erred but once. Upon one oc- casion he had ''railroad' that was impossible to execute.
 Brill is 36 years old, and has had Q xvoplarf,11 reonrl in, hoxy-';rr tC, neys since 1SS9 He will not discuss his successes, but to a close friend he once said he had never been worse than third in any tourney in which he had participated. A strange thing about him is his readiness to roll, whether in an exhibition or league game, without bit of practice.
 Perhaps no roller of prominence in the United States takes so little practice as Brill. I have known the champion for three years and in that time I never saw him practice before playing in an important game. He was busy man with a number of details of his business up to a few minutes before his name was called to go on the alleys to play for the championship. The total score of COG was the mark he had to beat. ''If I have luck l can get close to that" was all Brill would say.
 Styles in bowling as exhibited by the expert rollers from all over the country show that many of the bowlers are impressed with the curve delivery. On new alleys, freshly treated with shellac, this curve de- oh CT has perfect command of the ball. Nearly every bowler started the baD from the side and only a few deliv- cred the lignum vitae from the left hand side. Nick" Thyme, the man who began to bowl for prizes 25 years ago, when he wagered his horse and wagon against S25 that he would win, was the -Nestor among the rollers. In the team work he had no trouble in getting above the 200 mark, but his total in the individual championship was disappointing. The grip, which confined many of the visitors to the congress tourney to their rooms, affected Thyne's work. He was far from himself. Speed tells with these experts. They get all there is out of the collision between the balls and the pins and often, by a stoP>watch, they put the bal; down the alley in trif1e over two seconds. Elwood Silver and Fred Clich. New York rollers, did not do their best in the individual contests, but the conservative expert would pick these men as the bowlers with the most ef- fective style. The holding of the A. B. c. tournament in the west un- doubtedly resulted in mtch good for the game. EG. wEsTLAKE.