The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-02
NEWARK LEADS
 THE INTERSTATE Last Years Champion Looks Forward to Similar Sue
 cess This Year.
OTTO HELITAs HIGH MAN
Brooklyn Man Has Average of 2OO.17-smith, of Brook
 lyn, is Second.

Newark has 8 good lead in the Ma tional Interstate Bowling league and the general impression is that the locals will win the championship again The individual average race Is decidedly closer, Otto Helitas of Brooklyn is the leader. He has a mark of 2OO.17 for eighteen games. Jimmy Smith of Brooklyn comes next with 199.15, and Lee Johns of New ark is third with 1881.
 1 Records of the last years interstate teams acquired from the Newark News would tend to show that the 1 individual averages this year are bet ter than those of last year Of course only several weeks of the season has thus far elapsed and the bowlers have not yet reached their real average Some are at their maximum point and some at their minimum, but within a few weeks they will be shaken into their respective and proper situations
 The local interstate bowlers as a team are not in the class with the last years team, but they have shown a steady improvement during the past three weeks. Frank Beecher has shown up we'll. He is the high aver age man for the New Haven aggrega- | tian. Last year he worked part of ! the season on the Brooklyn team and finished in fourth place. He Is now in ' fifteenth place. The average for Jean Swift and Leon Swift for this season thus far show Leon to be rolling bet ter than his brother, but the person who got out those averages must have mixed the two names, for Jean, &C., 4 cording to our averages, has been rolling much better than his brother. 1 New Haven's interstate teams aver age for last year was 900.32, and this year Is S9019. Last year at the close of the season they had lost but one more game than they have thus far this season and won ten more.
 The teams last year were better bal ancef than they are this year This year Newark is still known as the best team in the east, and although they are not rolling as well they are easily high in the interstate league.
 Brooklyn added Jimmie Smith this l year, but otherwise their team is the same as last years They have been weakened somewhat by losing Harry Cohn, the best roller in the east. Brooklyn started in like lion this season, but they are steadily dropping.
 Jersey City is weakened, but are, however, putting up a splendid fight for honors this season.
 New Brunswick lost Stevens and Mccormick. Stevens was the indi- vidual champion in 1896, but they are making fair showing this season.
 New York lost Jimmie Smith, the eastern champion; Billie Noach, Rand, Otto Strenquest and Douglass. Stren- quest is the man who trimmed sb many New Haven bowlers last year.
 Elizabeth has shown the best ifn- provement over the last years rolling. They ended at the bottom of the heap last year, but sixth place at present. | Trenton has been weakened by the | loss of Tommy Curtis. They are, how ever, rolling about the same as they did last year
 New Haven, who fought out an ex- tra series with Newark last year for the championship last year, are at present located at the bottom of the ladder. They lost Steel, Janswick and Huber, three good bowlers. Char lie Johnson, who rolled on last years team, is again rolling this year, as is Beecher. Johnson is cratic this sea- son, but will probably settle down when the final grind comes.
 The averages and standing up to date in the Interstate league follows; |