Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-30

DETROIT READY TO PLAY HOST
Bowlers Prepare to Flock to Amer
lean Bowling Congress.
PRIZE LIST Is LARGEST EVER
Al Sections of the Country VIII he
Represented Mt the Big TOurnn-
ment, which Promises to
Eclipse All Others.

A CNaEAa
DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 2s.-Less than
two weeks remain in which bowIers have
time to mail their entries to the tenth
annual tournament Of the American Bowl
ing congress, to be held in the Wayne
pavilion in this city starting February
"a and running two full weeks. Secre-
tary Abe Langtry of Milwaukee wired
the local committee today that he would
reach Detroit early the coming week and
open offices. His coming is usually the
signal for the big flow Of mail entries
and the tournament will begin to assume
definite shape with his arrival. Predic-
lions this year favor a total of 425 five
men teams in the main event and a cor
responding number in the singles and
doubles. This expected entry will give a
prize list of over 825, 900. against some
S21, 900 last year in Pittsburg.
Last year the officials running the
meet figured on an entry of 400 clubs at
this time OF the year and were disap-
pointed by only twenty-siX clubs. There
were several reasons then, however, to
keep back the entries, chief of which was
the fact that the country was just get
ting over a bad year-190S-in which the
usual depression in business attendant
upon a national tltCllOh AOOh PhNCSs ~
last year has been a banner one in BUSH
ness. with everybody working full time,
and the bowlers now have the money to
spend for the annual junket. ?
Another point that is drawing the en-
tries this year is the uearness of the
tournament to the center of population,
Detroit's location being far ahead of any
place where the meet had been held as
yet. The heaviest gains are expected to
come from Cleveland n points in north
ern Ohio, western New York, including
Buffalo and Rochester; Chicago and Illi-
nois points, eighty clubs alone being ex-
pected from the Windy City and suburbs,
and from Canada, nearly every city and
ktown in Ontario being banked on Tor at
least one team entry.
Accommodations at Detroit will be away
ahead of anything the bowlers have had
before, not even excepting Garry -Ierr-
mann's big Cincinnati meet. TIE pro-
moters of the Detroit meet I've made
better terms with the AmersSa Bowling
congress than have ever been granted
any city association before, and 1t looks
as though Detroit will join Cincinnati In
making the big meet a financial as Wen
as a bowling success, the other eight
meets all having cost their promoters
money.
Fourteen New Alleys.
Fourteen alleys will be laid for the big
tournament which will be devoted entirely
to the American Bowling congress meet,
no special matches or "women's champion
ships being allowed ON them this year.
The workmen will start laying the drives
a week from tomorrow, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
continuous alleys being Installed, along
with the same equipment of pin-spot tiers
- 49,. .aoaeaawioa that Xyera naR0 with
such marked success at Pittsburg. In ad-
dition to the tournament drives there
will be six additional alleys on the floor
below which will be available for prac-
tice before the regular games by all en-
trants, as we'll as for special matches. At
no other meet have the bowlers bean acle
to get practice in the same building as
they rolled their American Bowling con-
Rress games in and this feature is ex-
pected to prove the feature of the present
meet.
Wayne pavilion. where the alleys are
TO be held, is within ten minutes walk OF
the heart of the city where the big stores
4 heaters and banks are located, while
many OF the leading hotels are from one
to five minutes walk, the two largest
railroad stations being almost alongside
Of the drives. Not even Milwaukee had
a more convenient location for the nall.
R~ound-trip railroad rates to the big
meet will be a fare and a third from all
points In the United States, while the
Canadian entries will probably get a one
fare for the round trip, the cheapest rate
ever granted the bowlers. Louisville sent
in the first entry two months ago. while
Ell Paso, Tex, expects to hold the long
distance record at the present meet, one
club having paid it's entrance Zee kan
sas, Nebraska, Minnesota and Colorado
are all expected to enter teams, while
the eastern teams, New York, Phtladel
phia, Baltimore and washington, should
contribute between thirty and fifty from
the seaboard.
Even with the tenth meet still in EN-
bryo the alley sharps are already dis
cussing the 1911 meet and indications
point to the fight for the next gather
ing being between Rochester, N. T.; To
ronto. Ont. and Columbus. o. Log rolling
will not start actively until the END o.
next month when the advance guard o.
the delegates will show uD at Detroit.