The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-30
VOORHEES, DETECTED
USING LARGE BALL
New York Bowler Asked to
Resign From Metro
eoe poiitan

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-Bowlers are just
at present interested in the maximum
shrinkage of lignum vitae. The partlcu-s
lar case in point is that of ball with
circumference of .2SS4 inches, belonging to
Johnny. VOORHEES,, one of the leading and
best known players in the country. This
is 1s4 inches over the regular measure
ment. and the. question confronting the
bowlers is: "SNill bowling BALI shrink
~ inches?''
There may be some experts who think
such. a thing possible, but others deem 1t
an impossibility. Among the latter is the
metropolitan club, of which VOORHEES, was.
until the shrinkage problem came up,
member. Believing it was asking too
much of a lignum vitae ball to lose Ia
inches of its girth, the officials Of the club
asked the resignation of the owner.
VOORHEES, placed an order for four balls
with a factory, two to be of regulation
size and two to be 1az inches over. He
was detected using one of the big balls
in match, and admitted he knew it was
over size. The manufacturer of the balls
confirmed the size of the irregular balls.
Going. over the evidence carefully, the
officials of the Metropolitan club decided
the offense was too serious to overlook,
and the vote asking for VOORHEES, resigna-
ton was said to be nearly unanimous. 1t
is now up to the New York Bowling as
sociation to take action on the matter,
and Western players are anxious to know
what punishment Will be meted out to the
offender
Vindicates chicago's Protest
VOORHEES, and Starr, it will be recalled,
won the two men championship in the
first national tournament of the A. B. c.
at Chicago. At this time it was asserted
it fell to the duty of Secretary Kiene to
lodge a complaint with the protest commit
tee. His action opened up the vials of
the wrath of the New York players and
the protest committee juggled the matter
along in a manner which clearly indicat-
ed they did not like to probe too deeply:
Nothing definite was done, and Starr and
VOORHEES, got the money.
VOORHEES, action has resulted in the
determination of the Eastern Alley Own
ers' association to have all balls measured
and weighed in future. The fact that
this has not been done in the past was
matter of great surprise to Chicago play
erS, where the practice has been in vogue
for some time.
Advance estimates of most of the big
tournaments are generally optimistic, but
Secretary Langtry, of the Milwaukee
Tournament association has been some
what conservative. Now, however, he
realizes the affair is going to exceed his
expectations and his late estimate is that
200 five-men teams will be in attendance.
OF this number 120 are looked for from
Wisconsin and Chicago alone. the figures
being as follows: Chicago, 40 teams; Mil
waukee, 40; Oshkosh, Z; Appleton, Fond
du Lac. Eau Claire, Chippewa Falls and
Lake Falls, each; Two Rivers, Green
Day w duhSSliet, touillllSlOI I1uStiS-
ford, one each; Port Washington, four;
Madison. five; La Crosse, four, and the
Copper Country, four.
Entries from other points which are
looked upon as certain are:
Duluth saltwater, Rock Island, Clinton.
Des Moines, An1es (Ia.1. Dyersvflle (Ia.l,
Doe Run, Bloomington, Fort Wayne, Bald
winsville IN. Y.) and Dayton, one each;
ST. Paul and Minneapolis, ten Omaha, st.
Joseph (Mo) Cleveland, Erie and Great
er New York two each; Kansas City, In
dianapolis, Toledo, Columbus: Louisville;
Pittsburg Baltimore, Washington and
Philadelphia, three each; St. Louis Pc
oria, Cincinnati and Buffalo, four each;
Detroit eight.
No teams from far western points are
included in this list, and, as several are
expected from there and from smaller
towns in the middle west. it seems prob
able the double century mark will at least
be approached.
The entry list will close on Feb. 10 and
the tournament will start on Saturday
night, Feb. IS. Material for the alleys has
arrived and the workmen to lay them are
already at Milwaukee ready to begin as
soon as the tournament company gets
possession of the exposition building.
Fourteen alleys will be put in without a
post to obStruct the view of the 1000
seats which are to be installed.
A week ago it looked as if the annual