The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31

in banquet. Starr asked Cap fUw
would like to roll his champions againE
the New Workers in a match series
Arson said he was willing, but woul
make one change in his team.
What change is that?" said Starr.
WELL" said Arson, IT guess I wi
put Flenner in instead of Stein"
Right back came Starr. DO 20
think FTenner IS a better man tina
Stein?"
yes" said Cap.
We'll, I'll tell you what III d,
Cap" replied Starr. "T'n take Stei
and match him against F7enner for
big bunch of money"
If ever there was a superstition
bowler-and there are quite a few c
them in the game-that man is Pm
Wolf, who has one OF the best average
of any bowler in the country just nov
Wolf, while bowling in New Yorl
where he was considered one Of III
best in the business, pulled of sewers
stunts that showed how superstition
he was. But not long ago he encoun
tered a streak of hard luck. and de
cided to get a rabbits foot to kill o
the hoodoo. He was told 10 get on
from a long ways off. and so he sent
New York state, and he did not TO
HIS usual game until that rabbits foe
had Travelled more than 1000 miles an
was lodged in his hip pocket.
On another occasion, in the middle
a match contest with another Chicag
bowler, some one told Wolf TO chapg
his clothes OF he would be beaten. Th
big fellow threw a couple OF balls sAn
finally decided to take the hunch a
disappeared. When he reappearedH 2
was all logged out in another suit, al
he went ahead and won, after maxim
his opponent wait for him to make tn
change.
Several years ago a weird series wa
rolled in the Athletic Club league, tn
like Of which do not expect to gaz
on for a long time. I was bowling wit
the Roseland team, and after We ha
! finished the second frame Of the thir
game Of the series, something wen
wrong with the electric light syster
and all the lights went out. It was a
| important series and we decided 10 I'm
/ ish IL If we had to roll il in the darh
| Finally. after some tall hustling, "
| secured a lot of candles and some bee
bottles. We lighted the candles. stucl
/ them in the necks of the bottles, an
J set them down near the pins. Then "
started TO shoot. We didn't know hoy
many pins we got after humping int
the bunch. and it became a weird gam
| in the semi-darkness. Every time
/ boys to find out how many we ha,
| tOppIed over.
| One of the toughest matches I eve
/ saw or took part in was contested il
| Buffalo just after the Buffalo tourney
1t was a two-men team match and
was on one side. We were bowling /;
! series Of seven games, the best four n
/ that number winning. 1t was tn
hardest match imaginable all the way
and when it finally came down to IN,
seventh and deciding game each team
! had scored victories in three games
Then came the struggle. Frame efte
/ frame ii was a strike or a spare, bu
an even thing all the time. When ",
came up for the tenth frame my part
ner and the man opposing him sho
their finish and came out on evel
| terms. Then 1t was up to Joe Engl'
of Buffalo TO beat me and capture tn
! s., 900 which we were betting. I sho
and got strike.
Engle threw his ball at almost tn
same time and he got strike, and W
| still were tied. On my next bah I onl,
got nine pins and thought it was al
off, but the best Engle could do wa
nine and the tie still stood. The biz
crowd watching the match jumped VI
and yelled for Engle, but I did nc
waste any time, and the first ball
could grab I shot down the alley an
! got a spare. Bngle saw me get it ar
I guess he thought 1t was all of, 10
he seemed nervous. The crowd becakn
/ so quiet that a pin could be heard Z
| drop. He walked up to the foul lin
on one corner then went to the middl'
and then finally back and let his bal
go from the right-hand corner. n
missed the pin-the 4, which was tn
same I got-by two feet, and we VOL
| the match by Just that one pin.