The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-02

C. J. Smith gets more splits than
George. Loomis. There worse than
Red Ravens" too.
Ben Moody, of the jewelers. team
keeps so far away from the foul line
that he has to rool his ball almost
twice the prescribed distance. At that
he hits EN- on the head pin" and
what would he do if he only rolled as
far as he had to?
"Swede" Carlson OF the Seibert
inal ideas. His bowling shoes are
simply the ordinary every day shoe
with most of the sole cut out. He also
gets results.
Ray Trump who bowls with the Le-
bron bunch every once in a while is
one of the noisest members Of the
league. However, he practices what
lie breaches, one OF his strongest texts
being Keep your score down" And
down come the scores. both his and
the rest of the bunch.
Without doubt the high age
honors of the bowling fraternity fall
to Mr. Frankenfield of the Well team
And by the way he don't. bowl, the
'owest game either. Although some
think that there are others in the run
for membership In the ancient order, .
the writer thinks that the gentleman
just mentioned wins by several pins
Or years.
1t is said that there is plot on
root to wrest from Willie Powell, 50
far holder of high three game average
his "Meerschaum" pipe, which is com.
rosed of a corn cob bowl and a stem
made out of piece of kindling. Some
of his opponents think that it is either
the pipe or the blend of tobacco which
he uses that enables him to make
such high scores. Thinking himself
that this is the case the writer sim
ply takes this means to warn Mr.
Powell.
Whether Clyde Schwite wears his
hat when he bowls because he fears
he may catch cold or whether he is
afraid that he can't get it on straight
again for the homeward journey, is
matter of much speculation among
the members of the bowling fraterni
ty. Anyone who has ever watched the
Lebron team, of which he is mem
Der, bowl has no doubt noticed that
although the other knights perform
1 ed with heads uncovered, Clyde stuck
to his derby. But then he hits the
] pins.
! In Oryille Publisky the bowling
/ ague has man who, although he
! takes the game seriously does no
neglect to recognize the fact that
little art can be introduced. Immedi
ately before delivering ball, as he
stands at the edge OF the approach, h.
gives his audience such an artistic
pose that they marvel at it. som
think that he is regular Venus
while others are reminded of the sta,
ute of liberty. IT ose whose soul cor
tains none of the artistic instinct
simply lock at him and hope that h
does not injure his bead by allowing
the heavy sphere to fall ON 1t.
With the age honors settled, tn
next thing open for discussion is as t,
who throws the speediest ball. Their,
are several in line for this honor AM
1t is expectedingly difficult to Pick til,
winner as the stop watch has neve
i been used. Captain Wolf of the Crane
Leaders does not attempt to make tn,
( sphere which he rolls run as slow as
North road train nor does Arthur Eric
son of the Seibert aggregation. Hen
ry Cook of the Olympia bunch is ais.
numbered among the lightning spec,
artists, while Hitler, Griffey an,
Il O'Blennis are also in the running
With this array to be considered th
choice viii not be made until late
date.