The Washington herald., 1911-01-03
By "LEN" COLLINS.

BY "LEN" COLLlNS.
st. Louis bowlers are preparing a warm
reception for any of the visiting pin
knights who may wish to measure their
ability alongside that of the Mound City
| cracks. At the present time they are
| framing up special matches between Al
| JellisOn, their local pride, and Jimmy
Smith, Alec Dunbar. Louh Branz. Jimmy
Blouin, an ,ther national cracks.
The writer has seen all Of these men In
| action, and while they are stars Of the
first rank. the local ranks possess . man
who is able to hold his own with any
one of them. provided he meets them on
tournament alleys. He is none other
than Harry krauss. the well-known and
popular manager Of the Palace alleys.
Strange AS it may seem. Krauss has
never had the chance to spring into ma
tional prominence like these other men,
for no other reason than the cracks fight
shy of him at the big tournaments. An
example of this can be seen in his match
with Jimmy Watt at Pittsburg twoIears
ago. After the money had been posted
Watt refused to roll the match before
two days had elapsed, and while Krauss
was idling away the time by sightseeing.
waiting for the date of the match, Watt
was at the Arcade alleys in the Smoky
City rolling his head of. trying to find
the grooves. After the completion Of the
match. which Watt won by a narrow
margin of twenty-four pins. he refused
to meet Krauss again on the same al
leys. This only goes to show the respect
ut-of-town bowlers have for the WASH
ington boy.
When Krauss' ability is brought up for
discussion among local bowlers. the ar
gument is always advanced that he does
not possess the strike ball that these
other cracks do While it Is admitted
that Krauss fails to register the number
of strikes which these others do, his
spare bowling more than offsets his lack
Of strikes. In his match with Watt, the
New Yorker started his first game with
count Of 279. and some Of the falls he
got in that game would have made the
rankeSt kind Of an amateur blush. OF
course that is all in the game. but it can
be further said that he missed spares in
his remaining games that were on the
rankest kind of order. This old gush
about the cracks never crossing the head
pin sounds childish. Go to one of these
national tournaments and take a seat
back of Smith, voorhees,. Dunbar. Trucks.
Franz. Kern, or any of the others and
watch how consistent they put 'em in be-
tween 1 and 3, Take it from US. Bo. they
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just the same as the average bowler.
Should the st. Louis Tournament Com
pany schedule a special event between
the cracks from the different cities, the
local bowlers should see to it that Krauss
is entered.
Maybe the Mound City is not taking
some notice Of the coming A. B. c. tour
nament. The 5000 reserved seats have all
been taken for the opening night and the
reports are that the attendance will be
larger than at any other meet.
The decorations are nearly completed
and the myriads of electric lights which
will adorn the pillars and ceiling are rap
idly being put up. Cincinnati was given
and still is given credit for having the
most magnificent hall, but the St. Louis
delegation promises to surpass anything
which they had.
Charley Salb, the weil-known amateur
ball player. copped the cash prize at the
Northeast alleys yesterday by turning,
of sss in three games. Charley is bios
Soming forth as one of our leading duck
pinners. He can be found nearly every
night on the alleys III company with Ed
dy Handiboe. Cy Mcdonald. Dolly Gray.
and others.
Following will be found list OF some
Of the notable achievements performed
on the alleys during the year just closed:
December 10. 1909. at Newark. N. J..
Lee Johns established worlds record
for six games by rolling an average Of
N1.3 against Jimmie Watt.
December IA. 1903, at St Louis, Mo-.
the ReGals broke the five-man team
score by pObting LBS.
February II. 1910. at Kansas City. Mo-.
w. F. Laidlaw and William Bauer broke
the worlds record for two-man team
by rolling 1871.
February q. 1910. at Detroit, the Cadil-
lacs broke the American Bowling Con-
gress' record Of 2,962. held by the Lip
marns, Of Chicago, by rolling 3.006.
March 16 1919. at Detroit, Tom Haley
established an A. B. c. record by piling
up 7O5 pins in the individuals. He also
totaled 1.o61 in the nine-game event. an
other record.
April Is, 1910. at Baltimore. Nd. Fred
and George Burdine. Of WASH |
ington. broke the National Bowling As
sociation's record by scoring 1.36 pins
in the two-man event.