Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-09
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STAR HEADPIN TOURNEY
OPENS. TWO REACH THE
CENTURY MARK. WEINY WINS.
TWO BOWLERS OUT OF FORTY
GET STAR FOBS At HEAD-PIN
BIazberg, OF Insurance Big Five, and Denbigh, Of Monroe Coun-
Gil, Jr. {. L. A.. NJ, the Successful 0nes-The Elusive
Teadpin Causes Good BOwlers Heaps of Trouble.
Second Batch Bowl Tomorrow Night.

ability Of the bowlers last night. At
the ordinary gafae ,Ifey would UNI
deubtedIy haye put UP good scores. The
mere fac that there was q primary
need OF hitting that hesd-pin had the
effect of making them fail TO hit it. OF
the two score who bowled but two got
20 the century mark. and thus an
nexed the watch fobs which the STAR
has offered TO those who get to that
figure or above it. Blazherg. Of the
Insurance Big Five. and Denbigh. OF
the Monroe Council team, OF the Jr. o.
L.. a. NJ. League, we're the fortunate
and clever ones. Louis Teller, of the
Fire Insurance team, came as near as
possible without doing the trick. stop
ping at 80. He hit the head-pin every
time, but got but six pins in the first
frame and failed to fill well in some
others.
There we're some ludicrous efforts,
too. Lehman, Of the Seth Boy6en
Council team. got Z score Of but p.
He started with a miss, got five on his
next try and then missed again. With
eight n the fourth frame he boosted
his score 10 1S. but followed with seven
straight misses and wound up with
nine "a the twelfth frame. Frank
Heller, CT the Fire Insurance team.
missed in the first five frames. but nm
ished with a score of 81 Wilson. Of
the Seth Boydens. was another with a
bad habit Of missing the hesd-pin. His
tally was %. which everybody declared
just let him out at the expense Of Leh-
man. with his tally Of %.
The Crown bowlers of Vailsburg, with
the Iroquois c team, were the first to
go on the alleys. McChesney, for the
Crowns, and Risden, for the ~1roqueis
team. rolled first. and zach got nine
pins on the first ball. After that there
were plenty of misses. Carrie. of the
Crowns. went along nicely until the
eighth frame. when ne missed. This
got him a little nervous. so he missed
again. His mark Of o. under the cir
cumstances. was good, Griffith was
there for 50. Walthers had 50, McChes-
ney II and Christensen n. The total
OF 413 was high for the night. the Fire
Insurance team being second with an
even 400.
In the second squad were the two
bowlers 10 get their 100 scores. Blaz-
berg had. no misses. but filed rather
poorly at times and mad a narrow es-
cape in the tenth frame when he got
but five pins. It happened, however.
that that was just the number that he
needed. Fred Ryerson had a bad first
half. but came strong in the last part
of the game. finishing with 70. Rich
ardson, of the Monroe Council FIVE.
which rolled with the Fire Insurance
team. did well until toward the end Of
the affair when a couple Of misses put
him out of the running.
There was plenty of roofing when the
Tuesday Night Bowling Club, made up
of ~pin-knights from the tax office, went
on with. the Postoffice Bowling Club
There was some class to this aggre-
cation, but a large portion, apparently,
might have been designated as belong
ing in the kindergarten class, as far as
knowing anything about the head-pin
game was concerned. But there were
not a few that could roll some at h
Burgesser did some good pinning for
the Tuesday team. filling in well. A
couple Of misses however, held him
down to SO. Eellweiler, too. had two
misses. finishing with IS. Boehme got
81 with two errors.
The Seth Boyden Council five went on
with the Sunflowcrs in the last series.
Reillyis 81 was the best for the Sun
flowers. and Whitten's 50 was the high
est for the Seth Boydens. The detailed
scores are shown below.