Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-28
Awards Will Be Larger Than Last
Year at Cincinnati.
ALL BIG TEAMS WILL BE IN
Total Entries Now Amount to 37e
Five.Men Teams.
MANY Ross-CHAILEEGEs on
Special Contests Outside of Regular
Games Add Unusual
Interest 20 Assembly of
Alley Experts.

PITrsBURG. Pa. Feb. 27.-(special) y
fPittsburg greeted the bowlers In attendance
al the ninth annual tournament of the
American Bowling congress here tonight,
oves S.00e spectators crowding the spacious
DuQuesne gardens, where the meet will be
run for three weeks. Alley experts from all
over the country and Canada have filed en-
tries and THE present meet has set a new
record both in point OF numbers and d.
verslty Of representation over any former
bowling tournaments.
An enormous prize list Of some s25.Oo
In cash has been hung UP for the players,
a gain OF some 5000 over the magnificent
prize list distributed at Garry Herrmann's
Cincinnati gathering a year ago. To gather
this enormous prize fund the cities of the
east and west. from Greater New York to
Omaha. have been combed OF their experts
and the class OF men shooting this year Is
easily the best that has ever tried for alley
honors. q Pittsburg and its surrounding
towns have contributed III teams to the
great showing OF S7s five-men teams In the
meet. Cincinnati Is second with thirty-two,
while Chicago. usually first in outside rep
resentation. has thirty.
All Big Cities Are In.
All of the other big cities have sent big
representations and most OF them have ap-
piled for special night on which their total
representation will occupy the boards to the
almost complete exclusion of teams from
other cities. Among the special nights al
ready allotted are the opening night, Feb
ruary "a; o'Leary night. March g. Detroit
night. March s: Cincinnati night, March 10;
Chicago night. March ~; st. Louis night,
March 70: Elks night. March Is; Wheeling
night, Match Is; Cleveland and Youngs-
town night. March Is. and Beaver Valley
night. March 10. ~
The total number Of entries at the meet
is now s7s five-men teams. so7 doubles and
1866 singles. Hardly a bowler of high class
In the country is missing from the list.
Such famous stars as Jimmy Smith, Johnny
VOORHEES,. Louis Franz, Charley Gilbert.
yfFrank Brill. Phil Wolf. VIII F1enner,
Jimmy Biouin, Louis Jesselson. Herman
Collin. Martin Kern. Al selbach. Bob
Matsk. Louis Hellhake. Bob Menninger,
Marshall Levey. Lee Graft and other men
OF national reputation arO ali listed to
shoot.
Many CrOss-ChaIIeHKes.
THESE men have been hurting chsl-
lengcs at each other for weeks and a host
Of special contests outside Of the big toArn-
sment arc certain to be played. A Cleye-
iand-chicago special two-men match be-
tween Frank Brill and Phil Wolf on one
side and Charley Gilbert and Louis Frars
is already aligned up for 81 .Oo with others
with Kew York Is q contender listed.
DaQuesne Gardens. where the tourna.
ment will be held. is the largest hall ever
secured for a bowling meet, being larger
than the famous Madison Square Garden in
New York. An immense stand has beer
AraaeeA for unarfoso~s whAfa the hall q
filled with booths dr. the business special
ties Of the game.
Politically the coming congress, which
is to be held March 9 to 70. is the leas
Interesting OF any OF the meets. No elite,
have as Yet asked for the 1910 meet. al
though Washington. Detroit and Chicago
have all been mentioned as prospects. TIL,
Immense sire of the meets together witt
it's continuous growth Is making bidders
fight shy OF Il and there is an under
current OF sentiment advocating the doub
ling OF the entry fee so as to keep out thu
bulk of the clubs which usually enter from
q complimentary purpose.
HntsIaR the Entry Fee.
should the coming congress fail to develoi
bidder for the 1910 meet II Is likely tina
this radical action of raising the entry fe
to SO . mar in ali three events will h
taken and the bidding again opened. Presi
dent Garry Hermann. the owner Of tn
Cincinnati Reds base ball team and tn
head OF the American Bowling congress
the past two years viii again be electe,
In all probability. his able work in hand
ling the congress having established hin
firm in the favor OF the bowlers. Tn
rest OF the officers VIII probably also b
continued although some minor changes Il