The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-11-06


Renewed Interest In the game has
taken concrete form AZ the Seattle
Athletic club. Fss.ginninw next Mon
day night ts-gnuns tourney Will
start. Pacing the foul line first wiil
be the owls and Eagles. The Pei
leans. Cranes Hawks and Ravens
will follow.
when this teams were Ia the form
alive period each captain claimed
his qulut Was a bird" In order 90
settle the nquabbie each team chose
the name ~ sosna member Of the
feathered family.
The Hawks hope TO swoop down
On the Ravens but the Owls are
looking wise and saving wood
The Cranes are standing around
and the Eagles expect 20 fly away
with first prize. Quoth the hayenN
~nofhin' doln'.- The Pclicans refuse
10 take water from any auint In the
east.
on the bismarck drives some top
py performers are on tap. When
tho 81 A. g. tournament H. conciud-
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stamping grounds viii be there with
a challenge for the club champions
Schmidt. Of the Peiicans. per-
formed up 10 the top notch early
this week when he banged the bass
wood for total ~ 2s7. the highest
scure made this week ON the club
alleys. Putnam was close up. with
a count 81 2ss. and ID. G. Conover.
the boy politician. came through
with double century OF the ss5
brand. Grinncil stepped into choice
company with :3s.
=. G. Pinkham. manager OF the
club drives. has whipped the maple
into good shape for thu tourney
Monday night. and II the rival roll
erS snag their scores II will NOT be
his fault.
What has become Of the small
hall game7 Time was when dew
otees OF this branch OF the sport
put up many fine struggles. Sew
en-up" takes deal more science
than "ten pinE." while duck pins
theilo. strangely is. n pretty match
TO follow. Three back" calls for
accuracy and it's wonder tina,
more attention Is not paid to the
small ball sport.
The first BAH in each tournament
game az the s. A. G. will be rolled
promptly az o'clock ON Monday.
Tuesday and Thursday nights Of
each week.
Sidney l.. Brunn. the match game
flend OF these parts two years ago.
Is I'm town. Sid used TO be n rather
betty wood walloper In those days
wonder II his whip has lost its
cunning.
A. l.. Jenkins. known 90 local
bowlers as "Oid Timer" Jenkins.
writes me that he Is In san Fran
cisco. framing for the next annual
tourney OF the Western Bowling
congress. "Old Timer" Is secretary
OF that organization. He says the
next tournament has rosy future.
Gardner, the cannon ball Kid" Is
one OF the mainstays OF the Pelioans.
His specially Is never stumbling his
toe when spares are To be garnered.
And that accounts for his usually
high average. The bowler who can
pluck spares consistently Is gcner-
ally the winner in the long run.
Take care OF the spares Ind the
strikes win take care OF themselves
see that McGregor is one-fifth
OF the Hawks Mac was once an
awful ounce ON the drives. but for
the past year he has been tucking
away the turkeys with clock-nke
regularity,
Wonder where Frank Scherrer fsG
When Frank shone on the old Mon
arch alleys he pulled n series one
day that believe has never been
duplicated anywhere. saw him
roll sixteen games to an average of
242 i-5. This sounds Incredible. but
was there as well as several others
During that series Frank came
within an ace OF shooting perfect
count OF 500. Had he cleaned up in
the final frame the coveted 500 must
have been his. AS IL was he stung
the uprights for 29a. II was a great
series.
Frank Enrich. who divides his
time between selling hardwood anal
rolling against the same stuff. is
another standby of the Pelican quInt
Francis says he viii 40 hunting and
bring back bag of ducks sufficient
To feed the entire push. That is, II
his team loses The members of
five other teams have hailed Franks
offer with giee. They all look for
ward to that duck dinner.