The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-05-21
NAT. DUCK PIN CONGRESS
STARTED WITH GREAT ECLAT

Last evening at the Washington street
alleys the National Duck and Candle Pin
Bowling congress made its initial bow to
the city OF Providence before large
and enthusiastic crowd.
For weeks the directors and other of
flcers OF the association have been hard
at work In preparing for the event, and
last evening they saw the fufllment Of
their work. when leading local experts
rolled before a crowd which taxed the
seating capacity of the spacious galleries
and ''bleachers" to their utmost, and
which vociferously cheered their favor
ties
The events were appropriately opened
by Mayor +. j. Mccarthy who rolled the
first three balls down the alleys and
made a clever little speech appropriate
TO the occasion. Several snappy contests
took place, among them being the
matches between Donnelly and Cahill and
the two-men teams. comprising Besser
and Vickers and Mckenzie and Kelly,
both of which combinations the first
named team defeated. Individual duck
ana candle pin events were also held.
The Randall Square five-men team be-
gan like Trojans by defeating the Wash
ington team, and piling UP total of 1924
pins.
The hall last evening was tastefully
decorated with flags. and red, white and
blue bells The alleys had been all
planed and new rows OF bleachers have
been built on the sides with a large seat
Ing capacity. on the Washington street
exterior two large American flags foated
TO the breeze
Long before the scheduled time of the
rolling OF the events large throngs OF
local and out-of-town bowling enthusiasts
gathered at the resort, expressing them
selves as well pleased with the arrange
ments made for the grand event.
Mayor Mccarthy before rolling the
balls, made an appropriate speech In
which he stated that although IT was not
generally known among the local bowling
enthusiasts, many or the leading expon-
ents OF the sphere twirling art I'm this
vicinity undoubtedly owed their success
In the game TO some fine points that
he had casually suggested TO them from
time to time free gratis.
The mayor then proceeded to send the
first ball rolled in the events down No. 3
alley part way. for it took n little too
much OF the left hook and met the gut
ter for the rest OF the trip pinward. The
second delivery was more successful, as
two pins met their fate on this trial. on
the third send-off he did the trick amid
long applause from the fans by knock
ing all the remaining pins on the alley
but two.
The first events rolled were by the
flve-men teams from the Randall Square
alleys. the No | Washington alley team
and the No. Bullock's Temple combina-
tion. Randall Square was a strong lead
er I'm this fight across the boards with an
elegant showing OF 1924 pins for a team
total, and n team string or $50 pins.
Greenup starred In these events with
SS total including two singles OF I20
pins each. Jack Wallace was second with
a 800 total and two singles OF 100 pins
each
The No. 1 Washington team and the
Bullock's No. 1 quintette secured team
totals OF laos and 1906 pins. respectively.
In the two-men duck pin trials, A. Nc
Qulston and n. Gerry rolled high with a
el2 total. Il. Kelly OF the Bullock's Tenn
pie landed the highest three-string total
I'm these events OF 80 pins, including one
dnc single of ll9. only one team went
across I'm the two-man candle pin series.
j. Wallace and +. Holt. with result OF
5l1 pins.
Three individual duck entries and two
candle pins were scheduled Charles
Forbes rolled the leading duck total OF
2a5 pins. while Tom Whiteley put up the
premier candle pin total OF 2i2 pins.
The feature event OF the evening was
the special match game between the w.
Cahill- Donnelly team and the NiCkers-
Besser combination. I'm which the first
named team won by margin OF S pins.
A complete schedule OF tonights events
has been prepared by the schedule com
mittce The champion Auburn team of
the City league and the champion River