New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
AMONG THE BONLERS.
CLOSE GAMES AND HIGH SCORES IN
MANY TOURNAMENTS

| The Life Insurance League bowlers resumed their
tournament last week at Stars alleys in West
Fifty-ninth-st. Contrary to the general custom
among the other tournament leagues a suspension
Of hostiliJes was arranged during the Christmas
holidays and for two weeks the schedule included
games at all Last Friday evening three games
We're played, the teams engaged representing the
New-Yor< Life. Fidelity and Casualty No. l and
the Prudential No / Christmas dinners and New
Lars ceISoratlons apparently dld noL nave a goo1
effect on the insurance men, and even the best Of
team was the only one TO turn IN high scores and
the team results were Below the Usual average
The Prudential men won both their games. while
the odd game fell TO the lot Of the Fidelity and
Casualty team.
The team representing Joseph Wild & Co. still
holds a splendid chance for the championship OF
the Commercial League this winter. despite its first
defeat last Friday evening at the hands OF Schefe
SchraInm & Vogel by narrow margin OF ten pins
This game was the more remarkable because Vree-
land Of the Wild & Co team. rolled total ot -
pins. MOntford. however, killed the leaders
chances by turning in score OF only 10 and the
Kept up his good work IN tas las{ game OF & the
score OF 2oo and his team retrieved their fallen
fortunes by burying the Arnold Print Works team
under a score Of SSl 10 75l-
| A return series OF match games were rolled last
| week between Joe" Thum and William Amann,
and the veteran intercity team man easily carried
off the honors by taking five out OF seven games
| rolled. 1t viii be remembered that when the two
! met before Arnann beat Thum- The scores OF last
Tium|1s5 195. iS5, ia "a. II, 100 Total 1871
Amann-5s iS2 1Fs ls4. 149 za. 1sS. Total. 1es4
Average 80 ~.
The Belvidere team managed to win the cham
pionship cf the Columbia League last Friday even
Ing. They were scheduled 70 roll series against
the Phoerix and RosedaIe teams with the sDurrtng
| knowledge that the tournament first prizes were
theirs II they could win both games. The Belv-
dere bowlers were n rare form, and they zoos no
t - ~ So, riisi ~, he bie scores until bo1h
games had been scored in their favor and both OF
] "a {o,a-s "a n ,1o ln r0 1ilze tbirtv rerts Tbeir 20
tails sor the two games were 925 and s54. and in
neither game were they ever in danger OF being
beaten.
When Fordham and Defeudham councils came
together last week in Section OF the New-York
Royal Arcanum League tournament one Of the
most exciting games OF the season was rolled
Cest, OF Fordham. put in a total OF 221. and It
looked easy for the team across the bridge But
the middle part OF the Defendham team made up
the lost ground and when II came the last turn OF
the respective anchors 70 roll their last frames
ffin Fl had hq been n CLOSE Struggle all through the game
between Cohn. OF Fordham, and Warner, Of De
ball rolling score Of zoo against l93 for his adver-
victors by Just one pin. S4 TO S7a
Freak games and freak scores often beat the
most consistent bowling, as was shown early IN the
season when the Newburg wheenen sprung their
high score one OF the strongest teams in the
American National Tournament. In the greater
New-York tournament last week the Excelsior
team. which had won ten consecutive games. struck
an unexpected suag when II met the rempletOu
five. With a score OF 236 by Cordes and a total of
9lS one would think they would have had little
difficulty IN taking the victory. but their opponents
were IN the luckiest kind of a winning streak and
their formidable opponents In the last game Of
the evening the EXcelsOrs kept their high aver
ages. and they pleased from very much
eas.er antagonists. beating the Montauk five by
977 70 100 Cordes added another double century
string TO his long record OF high games
The New-York Athletic Club and Rosevle Ath-
letic Association teams came together last Thurs
day evening a the New-York club alleys in the
athletic league tournament. and the outcome Of the
series was expected 10 have vital bearing on
championship struggle in this tournament The
Mediterranean have been rolling high scores this
season. and sensational rolling looked
for The excitement resulting from the importance
Of the series, however seemed TO be too much for
most OF the men, and the scores were correspond
fngly low, Not Of the six totals OF the evening
reached the go mark and only two individual
reached up the 200 standard. The New-York
Athletic Club men We're the winners Of the series,
taking the second and third games after losing the
first Clute. the home anchor came very close
TO losing the second game and the series for the
Mercury Foot bowlers for he fell down III. and
the 100 pins Of Meyer. his opponent, within
four pins OF winning the game for the visitors.