Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-14
BOWLING NOTES.

BOWLING NOTES.
Saengerbund Team Has Pulled Down
the Fat Mems Team.
All of the leagues Of the District are now
under full sway for the 1906 schedule
The Saengerbund quint. champions of the
District League. have pulled the Fat Men
down a few pegs in their last three games.
The Saengerbund boys are hitting up fast
pace, and II the Fat Men hope to get the
championship honors they will have to show
better work than they have done In recent
contests.
Field of the Sixth Presbyterian Sunday
school team Of the INSTRUMENTATION
League, in the contests Wednesday night on
the Y. M. c. A. alleys against the st. John .
team, rolled a phenomenal score of 25f-
which is the highest that has been attained
in the league this season.
The Commissioners have taken a fine
squirt in the Departmental League during
the past two weeks, having passed the
Bureau team, and are now leading them bv
IS pins.
A special three-men match has been ar
ranged to take place on the Palace alleys
tomorrow night between the Palace three
man team, consisting Of Campbell, krauss
and Brown, and the Market House team.
The match is to be decided by rolling seven
games. The Palace alley team has come
out with a challenge to roll any three nan
team in the District in series of five or
seven games, total pins to count and con-
tests to take place the Palace alleys.
The Chicago bowlers. after reviewing the
situation from all angles and taking coun-
sci with the other western associations,
hox, 44.g Al tt,a+ ~ II.
fighting chance for the next national bowl
ing tournament, and are going after it with
vengeance. At present Philadelphia
seems to have the best chance, with st.
Louis taking the dark horse position. Not
all of the western cities are in favor of
Chicago getting the meeting, as Cleveland,
Milwaukee and Buffalo are strongly OPP
posed to the windy city.
Wooden bowling balls are becoming
scarcer every year. West Indies lignum-
vitae, from which the balls are manufac
tured, is worth from SO to 800 a ton, and
the price is fast going up. When the logs
are received In this country they are cut
into cubical shaped clocks and then sea-
that the spheres are turned when they are
green. AS the wood Is sensitive to- the heat
and cold, they soon crack and become
National championships in the American
bowling congress have been won as fol-
lows: Frank Brill, Chicago. 1901; Frederick
Strong, Chicago 1902; D. A. Jones, Mil
waukee, 1903; Martin Kern. ST. Louis, 1904,
and c. M. Anderson, ST. Paul 1905.
The Interior team of the Departmental
League set new high mark during the
past week for total pins when they toppled
1923, the former high mark being $50,
which was held by the Navy Yard men.
The standing of the teams in the District
League is:
Eat Msn. = ! sss Market H.. Il i i i: rs s
AGNES Is II .556l Florists. -. % Is;
The standing of the teams in the Govern
ment Printing Office League is:
Eennary... g i .ese sereseo. y % r e
Reserves ISae4 g g g M aGmmsreas 3 81 I
Cowboys. 81 20 .517'Press Room. 20 81 a5l
The standing of teams in the Plate Prin-
ters League is:
EEs sW 4a4s 8 Sc sh'f f,. g s
washington d Il .5s s Boston Is s is!
The schedule for the week in the Depart
mental League is. Monday, Bureau vs.
Treasury; Tuesday Navy VS.. Agriculture:
Wednesday, Interior VS.. Government Print
ing Office; Thursday Post Office vs. War;
Friday, Commissioners VS.. Commerce ana
Labor.
The schedule for the coming week In the
Real Estate League is: Monday Assessors
vs.. Columbias; Wednesday. City Hall VS..
LAWYERS: Friday, Harrison, Browning Co.
VS.. District.
The District League schedule for the
coming week is: Monday, Florists VS.. Bank
Clerks; Wednesday, Saengerbund VS..
Acmes; Friday, Bank Clerks VS.. Saenger-
burd.
The Sunday School League schedule for
the week is; Tuesday. Gurleys VS.. Mt.
Pleasant; Thursday, Western VS.. Union;
Saturday. Mt Vernon VS.. Calvary.