The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-29
BOTH. SIDES ARE FIRM
No DEVELOPMENTS in Contest for
Sixth Place on Indianapolis
Bowling Team. Y
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Matter Will Go by Default Unless
Brought Before the Associa-i
ton in Two Days.

No developments occurred yesterday or
to-day In the contest between Apall and
Farr for the sixth place on the bowling
team which will represent this city at
Indiapalois Unless the matter is settled
within the next two days. it will go by
default, and Farr will retain his place. as
alternate on the team, for the entries
must be mailed to Secretary Karpf Of the
American Bowling congress Saturday at
the latest.
The schedule committee of the tourna-
ment association stands firm in its de-.
cision not to. accept the scores made by
Apau Monday afternoon, while Apall and
his: friends are just as determined in in
sisting that Apall shall be given place
on the team. meeting of the tourna
but President Fsuge failed to issue a cali
yesterday, and SO far he has not called
a meeting for any date. Members of the
| schedule committee say that a majority
| OF the men who entered for the trial tour
nament have announced their intention to
support the committee if the matter is
brought up. - 80 -. -
l. The authenticity of Apall's scores is not
questioned, but the members of the sclled-
ule committee insist that they gave ApaH
no permission to roll Monday and that
| therefore his scores cannot be accepted.
Jed Olness, chairman of the committee,
| said this morning: a, 1:
None of the members of the committee
made out a schedule for Apall to roll his
games Monday, nor did any member OF the
committee know that he intended to- roll
at that time. called up Woolley by
! phone Monday at Kings alleys, and then
heard that Apall was bowling there. Apall
| came to the phone and asked me il 1t
would be all right for him to keep on.
He was then on the sixth frame of his
fourth game, and told him he might as
We'll finish the game, and that meanwhile
~
committee: Upon finishing his four games
lat Kings alleys he went up to the Co
operative, and rolled four games there.
| Meanwhile I spoke to Mueller and Sand
blom, the other members of the schedule
committee, and both said that they had
made out no schedule for Apall, nor did
either one know that he intended to roll
at that time. Accordingly we refused to
accept the scores.
| If we allowed men to roll at any time
| they pleased, it would arouse all sorts of
complications. There are seven men be-
(sides Apall who did not finish their twenty
4 games in the trial tournament. TWP or
three Of them spoke to me Monday night,
protesting against allowing Apall a place
on the team, and insisting that if they
were allowed to finish. their schedules I'M
I der the same conditions, rolling at any
time they felt able to make good scpres,
II they rStoods a chance Of: dtSpla cling. el Their
I Apall or. FAIR. We cannot establish such
Eas precedent. have talked with two
| thirds Of the men who paid entrance fees
| for the tournament, and nearly all of them
have Endorsed the committees action; ~.
| 1.-THE Minneapolis entries for the Ind liam
apolis tournament must be mailed Sat-
| urday, according to my understanding of
the conditions; that is to say, the en-
velop must be stamped at the Minneapolis
postoffice Jan. 81. If a meeting Of the
association is called to take up the Dues
ton, it must be before that time; other
wise, the team must remain as it u.s., and
the six men originally announced as the
team must be entered
"A remarkable bunch of scores was made
yesterday afternoon at the Cooperative
alleys. Con Sandblom, Joe Apall Osborn,
G. w. Godfrey, Parker and Aalbu bowled
half a dozen friendly games. Parker was
badly off his form, but the other five men
lset a hot clip, and made scores away
above the northwestern records. -. - :
In the first game the total score for
Apall, Aalbu, Sandblom, Godfrey and Os-
born was 1868 pins better than the
northwestern five-man team record held
by the courts of st. Paul, and As pins
better than the Minneapolis league record
held by the Tasmos. The total score OF
the. five for three games .2;996-107 pins
better than the northwestern record, ifleld
by the Tasmos of the Minneapolis league
The Individual score for the three games