The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-15
BOWLERS OF STATE
PREPARING TO
ORGANIZE
Promoters Of the Minnesota
Bowling Association Con
fident Their Plans Will Be
Crowned With Success
Minneapolis Is to Have
the First Tournament.

The plans Of the promoters of the
Minnesota State Bowling association
have met with considerable success to
date. BowlerS from different cities of
the state have written that they are
heartily in favor of assisting towards
making q state association a huge sue
cess, and that clubs from their re-
spectiVe cities will take part in the
tournament to be held some time next
month.
The leaders in the bowling world in
the Twin Cities favor holding tour
nament in the cooperative alleys
about April Is. The eleven cooperative
alleys with the amphitheater seating
arrangement furnish about the only
suitable place for conducting a state
tournament, affording ample accom-
modations for spectators, and it is quite
probable that the tournament will be
held on these alleys.
1t has been rumOred that the Still
water bOWlers would not participate in
the state tournament, should the games
be bowled on Minneapolis alleys, but as
this report comes from those of doubt
fuI authority no credence is given to
the rumOr. it being believed that the
Saltwater bowlers have sportsmen-like
qualities enough to participate in the
tournament, whether it be held in st.
Paul or Minneapolis.
The majority of prominent st. Paul
bOWlerS heartily favor the Minneapolis
location. By some it is argued that
Minneapolis will have an advantage
over their Out-of-town competitors
when bowling on the home alleys. This
is true to a certain extent, neverthe-
less, bowler who styles himself a
bowler of ability should be prepared to
go into bowling contest on most any
alley and give 4 good account Of him
self
1t has been suggested that the en-
trance fee for fiVe-men teams be SIS
for St Paul, Minneapolis and Stillwa-
ter bowlers, and $40 each five-men
teams from the smaller cities through
out the state. This suggestion is made
SO that the bowlers from the out-of-
town cities who are not as expert at
the game as those Of the three cities
mentioned, will not feel that they are
contributing towards prizes for their
more expert brothers.
May Secure Free Alleys.
The Wisconsin state tournament. re-
GENTLY conducted in Milwaukee, had
forty eight fiVe-men team entries and a
cash prize list of $3.50, which was dis
tributed fairly among the five, two and
one-man teams. The expenses of the
Wisconsin tournament was very light
Dn account of the Milwaukee alley own
ers donating the use of their alleys to
the state association for the bowling
of all the tournament games. It is not
known at this day whether the Coop
eratve Bowling Association of Mime
apOlis will donate the use of their al
legs for the rolling of the tournament
games, and also give the state associa-
ton the privilege of charging an ad-
mission fee to the amphitheater seats,
but 1t IS understood that some effort
along this line will be made
saltwater has two or three very
strong teams, st. Paul six to ten teams
who make a good showing, and Mime
apoliS tbout ten to fifteen. Considering
the number of available teams to enter
from saltwater, st. Paul and Mime
apolis, and those that can be reason
ably expected to enter from the smaller
towns of the state, the ffve-men team
entries should be about sixty. In ad-
dition to this there will be the two and
one-man team entries, at a proposed
rate Of So per man, which will swell the
amount of the prize list 1t is conf
IDENTIFY expected that the sum total Of
the prize list will amount to at least
$1,000, which will be distributed in five.
two and one-man team prizes.
Minnesota bowlers are one wear late
with their state association, Iowa and
Wisconsin bOwlerS having organized a
little over year ago.
II. N. Fowler, the instigator Of the
Minnesota State association, is we'll
known in bowling circles, having been
identified with the game in the state
for the past three years. Mr.. Fowler
is the president of the Minneapolis
Bowling league, which he organized.
and is also president of the st. Paul
commercial Bowling league of eigh-
teen clubs, promoted and organized bv
him last fall, along lines quite different
from the plan of organization of any
other bowling league in the country.
This league commenced the season
with sixteen clubs, rolling a schedule
of games ending Dec. 15 Then two
more clubs were admitted, making the
total eighteen clubs, which were d.
Vided into three classes, A, B and c, the
clubs being placed according to their
strength and ability. A separate prize
list was made up for each class. in
Guiding team individual prizes, and the
plan throughout has worked to perfec-
ton and has been the means of in
creasing the interest in bowling ten
fold in st. Paul