The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
.BOWLERS ARE HOME.
Team Returns From the National
Tournament Minneapolis Sur
prised the Eastern Men.
How the Chicago Bowlers Get Their
Big Averages Grooves on
the Alleys.

The Minneapolis bowling team arrived
home this morning, well satisfied with the
| result of its efforts In the national tourn
ament at indianapolis. The team won
more money in the three competitions
than all except two or three of the clubs
entered and took six prizes, more than
any other team. G.
1--WE did better than we expected" said
Ted Olness this morning, "but cs Aot help
feeling that we might have done still
better if we hadn't had bad luck in the
second game of the five-man competition.
| All the boys went off In their game, and
we lost chance for first Nor second place.
In the individual tournament Sallander bet
that he would beat out Fred Strong, and
he would have done so but for two or
three bad splits. .r.sZ
I'VE received royal treatment at Indi-
annapolis, and found a most congenal set
OF men there. We were the youngest
being about %, but we astonished them
all when we told them at the finish how
many prizes we had taken.
I'VE beat out the Milwaukee Free Press
team by one pin. any they were pretty
sore about it. l overheard a bunch of
them talking it over, and finally Jones,
the captain of the Free Press team, asked
If we would roll a match for $50. told
MIN there would be no trouble in getting
our men to go into the game and we
finally settled on Thursday afternoon
Then Jones told me that two of his men
We're not feeling well and asked if he
could use a couple of bowlers from out
side his club. OF course we would not
agree to this, and they were apparently
afraid to roll their regular team against
u.s. for we heard nothing more from them.
l. Big Scores Easy in Chicago.
I'VE stopped over Sunday in Chicago
and went down to the sbear pitt at Mus
sey's where the Chicago league rolls it's
games: 1t Is easy to understand how the
Colt team gets it's 9S2 average. If rolled
there right along, I would bet any money
l could average over 200. One of the Wor-
den Stars admitted that there was
groove on the alleys The O'Learys, who
won the five mans team championship,
were met at the depot in Chicago by
band and a crowd Of 200 people.
THE Wrigleys of Chicago, whom every
one expected to win the championship
lost 81 ,050 by one man blowing a spare III
the last game. They finished only six
pins behind the O'Learys, and Chalmers
one of their best men, blew one pin which
would have given him a spare and more
than made up the seven pins necessary
to take first place. There was $50 differ
ence between the first and second prizes
and Wrigley, the hacker of the team, had
promised them $1,000 if they won first
place. ., -.r
John Ruge corroborated. Oness' state
ment about the Chicago alleys. "There
is such a groove ontthe alleys at the bear
pitt he said. that all you need to do IS
to put your ball down in the right place,
and 1t can't go wrong You will hit the
right side of the head pin, and split is
almost Impossible. Steve Geroux has a
standing offer to bet that he will make 250
any game, .- -
: Strong a Star Bowler -. r..
Fired Strong of Chicago, is the star
bowler, thoughs without any question. He
didn't get first prize at Indianapolis, but
he averaged 21o and fraction for nine
games 1 think though, that our team
could beat nearly any Chicago bunch on
our own alleys. ~" ~. :.
t.The tournament was run off perfectly.
Mayor Bookwalter Is an ideal man to con-
duct a meet of that kind -. .s.,.
Most Of the Minneapolis bowlers re-
turned with a fatter purse than they took
away from Minneapolis. The $50 won BY
| the team was divided among the six men
Sandblom and Sallander, who bowled to-
gether in the doubles, agreed beforehand
to divide their winnings in the singles
equally. sandblom won $50 and Sallande1
$1O giving each $50. The total share OF
each man follows: Sandblom, s75.SS; Sal
| lander $75.83; Woolley, $65.S3; Olness
s55.ss; Fust, s13.33; Ruge. 1888. g.