Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-17
PLAN A SECOND
BOWLING LEAGUE
Revival of Sport in Tri-iCties
Following the Commercial
League Season.
BANQUET TO CELEBRATE
Diamond Medal Presented to Arthur
Salzmann for Record
Scores.
BANQUET TO CELEBRATE


the tri-city bowIers who participated
in the Commercial League games that
made the season which has just come
to a close the most successful in the
annals of local bowling, according
to the president of the club, Otto
Patting. This was the statement
which he made last night when call
ed upon for a speech at the first an
nual banquet of the league bowlers.
Mr.. Patting went on to state that
the harmony among the teams as
we'll as between the team members
was noticeable factor. He looks
forward to an, even better season
hext year and expects that around
the nucleus of the present league
there will be two organizations, the
one to include the present teams and
the other to include new teams which
are DESTROYS of entering.
TWENTY-EIGHT ATTEND.
The first annual banquet of the
league was held at the Hotel Harms
and under the stewardship of Arthur
Harms, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the or
ganization, a splendid supper was
served. Seated around the tables
were % of the bowlers and several
of their friends who followed the
game closely through the season. DR..
G. w. Mueller acted as POSTMASTER.
The officers of the league, the cap
tainS of the teams, and the larger
number of the team members each
replied briefly when called upon by
DR.. Mueller. The evening was a
pleasant one throughout Musical
numbers were furnished by an or
chestra.
The feature of the evening was
the presentation by President Pat
ting to Arthur Salzmann of a gold
medal with a diamond setting The
inscription on the medal told of the
proves of Mr.. Salzmann as a bowl
er. He it was who carried off all
honors for high scores and besides
captained his team to an easy vic
tory.
MAY DIVIDE STAR TEAM.
Medals were also presented to the
members of the Colts team. The |
Colts won first place and carried off
the high team score for the season. |
1t was suggested last evening by a
number of the speakers that the
members of the Colts team during
the coming season be distributed
among the other teams so that the
race for honors will be more evenly
divided All claimed that Captain
Salzmann's success was due to his
early activities, for before the other
captains had awakened to their re-
spoEsibilities he had picked out the
best bowlers in Rock Island.
The next season will begin prob |
ably in October, a month earlier than
last year The bowlers, are already |
looking forward to it as there is
much enjoyment in the weekly con- /
tests The Harms and Patting al |
leys will be the battling grounds |
again next season.
THOSE AT THE FEAST.
Those who were present last night /
were Harry Hansen, Otto Meisner, /
H. F. Voss, William Brandt, Edward |
Sullivan, William Hansen, George |
NJ. Hueckstedt, Will Toal, o. B.
Hampton, Louis L. Harms, T. C.. !
Roantree, C. w. Hueller, Oscar o.
Lift, Fred Patting, Otto Patting e.
A. WITCH, John WITCH. A. w. Salz-
mann, E. P, Ames, H. F. Winkler, /
H. H. Ruths, w. H. Akeman, F.. ].
Van Etten, w H Huston, E. A.
Soule. Arthur Harms, George Schnie-
der, Jr. E. L. Fulmer.