The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31
II. =. WHITE r,s On
STRIKES AND SPARES
BY FRANK BRILL,
Bowling Champion of the United States.

When IL comes to bowling, Chicago is
! about the best city in the country. If
person does not believe it, let him
look up the dope" With such men as
Phil Wolf, the former Gothamite; Gus
Steele, Charley Mountain, Ben Smell,
Harry Steers. yours truly, and others
of more or less repute, this city has
an array Of stars seldom drawn to-
gether. OF course. New York has a
great many rollers who can hit the pins
and hit them right, but that is to be
expected, with such men as Charley
Starr, Vorhies, Jimmy Smith, Roster.
and more of like calibre ready to slip
up to the foul line and let the ball go.
The natural rivalry which has existed
for years between Chicago and New
York boWlerS, just at IT has in other
things, is stronger than ever this year.
There have been few chances to decide
just which town can put the stronger
bowlers on the line, and in those few
times the Gothamites have shown what
they could do. and have demonstrated
that when II comes to match bowling
they can go fast. The last meeting of
note between the east and west was
that almost two years ago. when Char
ley Starr. leading his band Of New
Workers. invaded Chicago and tackled
the Ansons, the champion five men
team, in a match series. The eastern
ers won, and Chicago bowiers have
been anxious to even up that score ever
since.
There is a possibility that something
may happen this season. and that, too,
in the near future. And if it does I
expect to see some OF the Chicagoans
show their real speed after all of these
big averages rolled up so far IN the
league games.
! San Francisco and almost all of the
western states can boast of a few
bowlers of the real sort, as has been
| demonstrated by the visits of the tour
lists who have made trips from Chi
cago. Last winter when Gus Steele
and myself made a long trip, going all
the way to the coast, we discovered
some fine bowlers in several cities In
San Francisco we played seven series
of games. We dropped three series in
a hurry as the "all star two men
team" but managed to pull out the
/ other four, which was just enough to
give us the majority.
|
| We encountered lot of funny things
in some Of those towns in the far west
l was rolling a match game against
one of the star rollers In Seattle He
was pretty good and things were going
along we'll until near the end of the
game, when / left up the 10 I de-
cided to take one of those hit or miss
chances and picked up a small ball.
shot it down the alley with all kinds
OF speed. It rammed against the side
Of the alley, kicked back and bank
went the over to the 10, giving me a
spare. 1t so happened that a man
from Spokane who was anxious to have
Steele and myself bowl in that town,
was watching the game. When he
saw the play he cornered Steele. 'How
did he get it?" asked the Spokane man.
do the Chicago bowlers make it
often?'
Steele smothered a grin and replied:
why, yes. We pull off half a dozen
Of them every week, but don't make
ii that way. I slide IT over"
The last we heard Of that Spokane
fellow he was staying awake nights
trying to figure out the dope on how
to slide 1t over"
We bumped into a referee In one Of
the northwestern towns who was a
wonder. We were bowling a match
series and one of the opposing rollers
was going over the foul line repeatedly.
Finally after he had showed both feet
over for the fourth time. Steele called
TO the referee: Say, don't you see
that man is fouling all the timer"
The referee waited a moment and
said: "Oh, that's all right. I'm keep
ing track of them and will tell him
about 1t after awhile"
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A funny match was nearly made aft
| er the national bowling tourney which
was won by Captain Anson's team at
Cleveland. After the Ansons had won.
Charley Starr of New York and nu-
merous other notables of the tenptn
game were present at an early morn