Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-05
VICTORY FOR THE IN SIGHT
Erratic Work by sprague in Last
Game Costs Medals.
TNAL MARK STANDS AT 1918
Teams from Gate City Showing Up
Well in Tourney.
NEW YORK MEN Try A TRICK



COLISEUM St Louis. Feb. 4--CSpeciai
Telegram.)-A grand hid for the two-rnen
leadership Of the American Bowling con-
gress by two Omaha players and an at
tempted trick BY New York along the
lines OF the Sioux City proxy scandal OF
earlier in the week. proved the feature
events Of today's program at the Coliseum
here.
Nebraska had the bid ot Seller and Hart
ley I'm the doubles all but showed under
here until the middle OF the last game
but stopped at i,2is Tor sixth place.
The great work came from the efforts
OF Ted Neal and Mike Sprague, and Il
was only Sprague's hard luck In the last
game that cGst the team the medals. lie
opened with a turkey. but picked cherry
in the fifth after spare.
In the eighth he picked a railroad and
made It. but followed It with another split
and missed II. In the last frame. when
second place was a cinch. ne left No.
standing on a perfect hit, and blew II
foot.
Trick Turned Back.
Marty Quinn OF New York proved the
man TO try and work the Sioux City
trick by impersonating Albert schwebke.
! schwebke had entered the doubles as
"schwebke and Partner" Lindsay being
and Lindsay picked up Quinn and tried to
slip him past the vigliant Billy Becker.
The Chicago master OF ceremonies let the
man complete score OF LAG, but scrubbed
forfeit" across the sheet before handing
II to the supposed "Schewbke" 20 sign.
when the team admitted the trick
Reed and Lee OF Columbus were second
high In the doubles today with 100. Glenn
lRiddell. the sensational young New York
star, is seriously III with pneumonia and
win not compete in any of the events
Scores, two-men team events:
T. Neal. NJ. Sprague. Omaha. f.ais
J. Reed, Lee, Columbus. ................. 1000
! NJ. Paige, Il. Keruer. Cleveland. /, is6
Bsoa1rdmann' Mcpherson, LLouisyille."~ Z
Hammond, Anderson, Omaha......... ii.,
Omaha Tennis Howl.
Last night two Omaha men made their
/ bow on the early shift OF five-men teams
both Of them beating the 200 mark The
Storz Triumphs OF Omaha, regarded as
one OF the best teams in ahe west, rolled
the second high score OF the event OF 2. 7O7
The Brunswicks. New York's star team
bowled disappointing SERIES getting 1853
pins
The Triumphs led the Metz club by two
pins. An opening game Of $50 gave the
Iriumphs poor chance for anything good
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IN the middle and finished with az
Gjerde was shalSy In the first game with
three misses and railroad. while Ander-
son pulled two bad splits. Six railroads
and one error IN the middle game was
all the team got in the line Of trouble. but
IN the last, when It looked as though the
team was going to live up to It's name
fritscher got three mistakes and split.
Anderson led the team.
Four Errors for Nets.
The Metz club opened with four errors
and five railroads for s5s The going was
a lot better in the middle. with Denman
striking out for 2o4 after two open frames
Blakeney broke into three errors In the
final galne, while Huntington got two rail-
roads, one OF them ia the last frame on a
good hit, holding the team back OF the
rriumphs record.
letters Gold Tops rolled on the late
squad and totaled 25ls. The team warmed
up In the last game only with SIS. Dudley
and Briggs shot well at the finish Briggs
turkeying out after two errors.
The Old Landmarks OF Columbus led with
a total OF 2,72s Their mark, however.
places them far down In the list OF leaders.
Scores;