The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-28
won IN SINGLE AND TEAM
Score Made Ranks Next to Chicago
and Leads for Tri-State
Prize.
Fridays Daily Gazette.


: be truly said that Billings has great
reasons for feeling proud at the show
ing made.
Not only did the local bowlers de-
feat the crack team in the first game
of the series of five, but they made a
score that ranked next to Chicago for
the tour prizes and for. the tri-state
prize offered by an eastern sporting
goods firm reached and passed the
record cf the Pfisters of St. Paul by
n pinss. They are now the leaders
for that prize with but small chances
of losing it. In addition to these
honors the averages of the entire pro-
fessional team, save one member,
were topped by Tschudy of the local
team land the one lone mar that best
ed him on averages, Vorheis, did SO
by only a margin of four-ffths of one
point. Tschudy's average for the SER
les was 210, while that of Vorheis was
210 As. On top of this Corey, the
state champion of Montana, for a
single game record, defeated Wolf,
one of the All-Americans, in the one
man contest. In consequence of all
this the Billings boys feel that they
got more out of the contest by far
than they are entitled to, and in addi-
ton the healthful clean sport of bowl
ing will receive an impetus in Bill
ings never before enjoyed.
The preliminary games began at
$3.50 yesterday afternoon. The first
was a one-man contest between Corey
and Wolf, which resulted in the fol-
lowing score: Corey 233, Wolf 1913.
Corey won by 35 pins.
Next came a two-men contest be-
tween Babcock and Corey for the
locals and Setback and Vorheis for
the All-Americans resulting as fol-
lows: Babcock IT'S, Corey III. Sci
bach 1872, ,Vorheis 100. Won by ALL
Americans by 80 pins.
A second one-man contest was be-
tween Tschudy and Wolf with the
following scores: Wolf It's, Tschudy
1877, Wolf winning by 9 pins.
The pins of the All-Americans
were then set up and the contest for
blood began. Two games were play
ed before supper and three after.
A good crowd was present both af-
ternoon and evening and the interest
woo ntopcn Tho honn o111h uoc
cheered Justify for every good play
and the visitors good-naturedly chat
fed when a bad shot was made, which
was a very rare thing. The profess
SIGNALS soon showed how they man
aged to win all series that they have
SO far played en- tour. Their second
or spare ball is always a sure shot.
In fact the instances were very rare
during the entire five games when
a spare was missed. A count would
probably show that the home players
made as many strikes as did the pro-
%fessionals, but the game was won
on the sure shots IN spares. AS Man
ager Karph says, "a professional
bowler has no more right to miss a
spare, providing it isn't a split, than
a ball player has to miss a fly that
comes within his reach
The score of the big contest was
as follows:
AIl-Americans.
Wolf, 175, 208, 161, 1873, III.
Setback, 179, 164, 226, 100, PIP.
Vorheis, 1870, 226, 1855, 213, 233.
Total, 1889.
Billings.
Tschudy, POI, 2O2, 225, 203, 219.
Elliott, IT'S, 100, 1876, 1856, 1872.
Daniels, ITS, 179, 1853, 1870, 172.
Total, 2,747.
The averages of all the players were
as follows:
Wolf, 1870 4-5; Setback, 1S9 4-5
Vorheis, 210 As.
Tschudy, 21O; Elliott, 1854 20; Dan
iels, IT'S.
The score of the Billings club, 2
TAT, as before stated, leads for the tri
state prize, the next one to it bein,
the Pfister clubs of st. Paul, which i
2,67O.
After the big contest was fnishe'
and the results announced there wa
another two men contest between
Ovren and Salisbury of Billings an
Wolf and Setback, resulting in tn
All-Americans winning by ten pins.
The visitors and local bowlers thel
repaired to the Cottage Inn where il
homer to teh visiting team a fine lunch
con was served and a happy hou
spent.
The All-Americans departed thi
morning for Big Timber with thu
best of feeling for the Billings boy
and the deeneSt resDect for their abb