Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-10-04
HANDSOME PRIZES FOR BOWLING
 CHAMPIONS.
(From Thursdays Daily.)

It was decidedly jolly affair all around that took place at the Yavapai Club Tuesday evening, when the prizes to the victors in the recent bowling tournament were awarded. The sue cessful bowlers were Miss Helen Bur mister in the ladies' class, and MT. G. A. Bray in the gentlemen's divi- sion.
 The prizes were presented by John Nj. Ross in speech that bubbled over with humor, and aroused much merri- ment by his allusions as to the pos abilities of the handsome silver-mount- ed decanter that was given to Mr. Bray. Miss Burmister's trophy was a silver decorated bonbon dish.
 Everyone expected that Mir. Bray in making his response would give an exhibit of his well known propensities for wit, and especially on this occasion, for it was considered a joke that he
 
 for the tournament was framed, Bray's name was put somewhere around the bottom of the list, being given 100 points advantage over his expert riv- als. He was a neophyte at the game, and the committee considered him sim ply as "fller.'' Hence Bray was tossed in with the lightweight division, as a sort of "selling plater," accord ing to turf parlance.
 But the B.-B. man had latent talent, and feeling the slight that had been placed upon his skill, or rather lack of it, commenced to drill like a new re- cruit in the army. One by one he bowled his competitors out of the race, always having, of course, those hun dred points up his sleeve like an extra pair of aces in a poker game. In the finals he put Fred Moore out of com mission, and it was then demonstrated that Bray was "no joke
 It was in this happy spirit that MT. Bray drew out of his pocket his speech, in making his response. The docu- ment was rolled like a girl graduate s diploma, and was tied with blue rib bon. The audience was in laughter be- fore Bray began for it anticipated a series of witticisms like a string of dia- monds, and it was not disappointed.
 Seriously speaking, it was clever effort, and the finale was expressive and apropos, as the readers of the Journal | Miner may observe by reading the following:
 If I were a lawyer should com mence my speech by saying, ''Know an | men by these presents" But I am only an orator and champion bowler.
 When I learned that I had to make speech tonight, naturally thought of the first name of my fair partner. But I couldn t make the Burmister part of it fit in. As a speechmaker I'm It. As soon as MT. Edwards told me that Miss Burmister and I were to be given these trophies in token of our skill as bOwiers, I commenced studying the speeches of great orators-like my self-that they might learn how they expressed themselves under similar cir cumstances. I find that none of them except myself have been good at bowl ing. But it seems that most of them, when taken wholly unawares, as have been, start out by saying that they are "too full for utterance.' If am not too full for utterance when I start to make speech, ought to be. That would be at least one good excuse for what l might say.
 But T judge from the result of this tournament that our opponents must have been in that condition, or we wouldn't have won. The right way to bOwl-Miss Burmister and I know all about it-is to bowl down, and not bowl up. If the amateurs who tried to bowl against us will remember this