Evening journal., 1909-03-20
Sports
''DUBS" HAVE
GOOD CHANCES
On New Alleys all Necessary
is TO Roll for the
Pocket

An appropriate question that has
been asked many times and even now
is pozzilnr the minds Of those bowlcrs
who are not classed as expert is. what
chance has a team of 'dubs' in a ma
tional bowling tournaments"
The answer is quite easy indeed. A
team Of so-callod "dubs'' has every
chance in tho world: moreover. an un-
pretentious bowler has every oppor-
tunity 60 win the individual champion
ship. This may be considered a re-
markahlc statement, but past records
have proven il TO bo true. Nor has
this proof been shown in national
touinaments alone. but in many other
competitions. A little bit OF luck goes
a long way in bowling, and the game
OF ten pins Is such that any man has
an equal chance in a series OF three
games with the most accomplished
pinknight. Any man who can bowl at
all has q very good chance in a big
national tournament, such as viii be
held in Madison Square Garden from
May "A TO June Il. under the auspices
of the National Bowling Association.
IN the first place. il takes a few
games before an expert bowler can get
on to" an alley, that is to say. to find
its peculiaritics and suit his delivery
to the existing conditions. An ordin-
airy bowler will simply shoot away at
the head pin, trusting TO luck. and ten
chances TO one he viii be far ahead
in the first three games. A total dis
regard FOR alley peculiarities in ma
tional tournament has brought home
.rIr ion rtrl4t Al
man not classod as an expert while
the cracks were trying hard to "hnd
a spot that was not TO be found.
The alleys in national tournament
are brand now, consequently having
never been rolled on. there is only
the rolling for the pocket 20 be done
ii ono would win. Therefore, a bowler
who rolls with only one idea in mind
70 hit the head pin whore It ought
10 be hit-stands an even chance with
any crack.
In the Greater New York individual
championship. tho most popular event
IN Greater New York and the one In
which the cream Of the great city's
rinknights are entered. has an unusu-
ally long series. six out Of eleven
games, and many times a high class
man will lose the first four or hve
games before he gets into his stride,
sometimes too late to win the series.
In a long series. an unpretentious
bowler has very little chance. but a.
short series of three games. it has
been shown time and again that he
has an excellent chance.
Ia the y. b. A. tournament in
Rochester last year. John McGuirlS and
John Grady OF Paterson, n. j., rolled
r >sorid's tWo-mcn record and won tho
championship. Neither man Is an ox-
l.,lt In fact. they were both scout
ing around FOR partners and teamed up
ont OF sympathy Grady with his sixty
years and AlcGuirk With his twenty
three forming the youth and old age
duo. And the result was 1913. a record
that still stands M this kind of "A
tournament.
The so-called dub has every chance
in tho world and it is safe TO predict
that tho team that wins the guaran-
ttrd first prize Of one thousand dollars
VIII be a team that viii not be made
up Of stars, nor will the winning two
men team be composed OF cracks. nor
the individual champion an expert
Of any degree. The weakest team or
bowler on paper has a dandy chance
TO capture the championship.
II was this week that several we'll
known bowlers were talking of thc
Madison Square Garden tournament.
ono remarked that il would be great
thing II some combination of sociablc
fellows who care nothing OF their own
glory, simply for that of their club.
could win the handsome prize offered
FOR the n. b. A. tournament. The reply
10 that was that il stood ten TO ono
that just such a club would take home
the honors. and the foregoing reasons
were put forward. IL is ridiculous te
say that anybody has no chance. There
viii be more than a hundred prizes in
tho flve-men event. fully two hundred
and fifty in the two-men competition
and a Thousand or more in the indi
Viduais. Bowling records show tha
there has been many a crack who fail
cd 20 get any prize in a nationa
tournament.