The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-23
FINE QUARRELs
| At LOUISVILLE
Jealousies, Bickering and Poor
Management of Tourney Wor-
! .Ez. rying the Bowlers.
Journal special Service.

Journal Special Service.
louisville March 23.--Two tournaments of the
national bowling championship of the country
appear to be the way the delegates to the
A. B. c.. are working in this city today, one
of them in Philadelphia and the other in st.
Louis Only New Yorks refusal TO bolt ut yes
terday's secret meeting of the fasteners saved
formal announcement of the split being made,
and they understood to favor the split, but
will wait until their home association passes on
the proposition their return east. r. ---
Mike Costa of Philadelphia claims to have Gre
dentials from five eastern cities in his pocket
with power to vote for split. : He has gone to
far ahead with his plans that he announces that
the name of the new association will be the
American Bowling association, or the United
States congress, and it's tournament Will be ma
tional III scope instead of eastern. r. -.
. Prominent A. B. C.: officials, who are clearly
worried over the outlook. stated today that If it
became necessary to avoid two contending bodies
they could rescind the action OF the congress
and take the tourney away from ST. LOUIS
giving it to any city they saw fit.
Former President Joseph ]. Rowe OF the CleVe-
land tournament tied up the prize list FOR sew
eral hours yesterday by filing protest aga'nst
all scores made by men in the doubles ana
singles who had not already rolled In the hVe-
man event He demanded the congress throw
out the scores. and only. pached by grant
ing him some favors on the schedules.
His action was due to sights put upon his
Clevelanders, who had been changed In the
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the A. B. c. threatened to take the running
Of the tournament out Of the hands OF the
Louisville men, and the thing was only eompro
missed when Secretary Smithers promised to ad
here strictly to the schedule in the future. =
The armory building was crowded with people
last night who saw some of the. most sensa
tional bowling of the week. In the team even
| the Algonquins of New York. rolling In .th'
first squad, tied the score OF the Peoria Lelsy
| made in the early hour of the morning witt
26S1, and are now tied for second place Wit
! Them Costly misses lost the Peorians tn
, chance to 60 into the lead.
! The competition in the. two minor events wa
keen most of the New York cracks like Iimm
| Smith, John Roster and others being on tn
| firing line. In the last squad of singles. tn
supper show. two men passed the totals of Var
| dersyde of Chicago Walter Tuthil. Brookly
man, rolling 675 and p. Myers of Detroit max
| ing $50. Ttlthilrs score probably will not b
allowed by the A p C., as he was not reSt
larly entered in the tournament and was oblie
ingly allowed by the local officials to fill til
! place Of CharlesyE Carlson of Chicago. who hs
/ left for home with a broken hand
| i Secretary Snlithers says he will stand by Tu
hill, but :. the national Officers probably wi
throw out, his work. Should this be done tt
detroit man will. occupy first place temperate!
The 675 IS the second highest in the histoI
Of the congress.
, Eleven men went over, the 100 mark in ii
doubles. Schleman and Koengshoff of Clev
1und getting the best with In and going In
second, place. ,-s