The Washington herald., 1912-02-04
Nv AL MGCHLER.

tournament, to be held at Paterson, N
J., next March. are going to make ever
effort to have President Taft as theii
guest OF honor present on the opening
night of the Eastern bowling classic
With this object in view, a letter was
sent to Congressman William Hughe;
asking him to set date with the Presi'
dent. and a committee, consisting oi
Ralph Baer, Edward Keller. and John
Fitzgerald, will wait on the Chiet ENecu-
tive and extend personal lnNltai'ol' m
Incidentally, the committee VIII sIso az
some missionary work mere anu ia
timore. 60.
The efforts OF the Passsic County
Bowling Association. Snder whose aus
pices the sixth annual National bowling
Association tournament Will be held are
going to be crowned with success beyond
their Yondest expectations, II present IN
dIcstions count for anything. Work Is
going IN be started in the very near iu-
ture on grand stands, lighting s!sten'
and alterations in the auditorium Where
the tournament will be held. The con-
tract for building the alleys has. as pre-
viousIy. been given to the Brunswick
-CoIIender Company, the foremost
alley builders In the country, which TACT,
in itself, is a guarantee OF their being
perfection. Admission will be charged as
usual but all bowlers entering will De
given n card EnlllliUB LIltlA ~ +ANS -
mission for three consecutive days start
ing from the first night he bowls.
Canada will also be represented at
this meet by the College Club OF Toronto
which has sent in its application ior
March 2S and .. 1t is also expected that
other Canadian cities viii be represented
With set Of 800, Baum. of the Bills.
made a good start for the winning ot
the gold medal Iered by The Washing
ton Herald for the best total in three
events with Jack Loveless, OF the Ben
nett uuint a close second. with 525-eVery
game being over the century mark.
George Shaffer will now have full op-
portunities to exercise his skill as decor
ator in mourning events when he helped
bury the hopes Of the Saengers for an
other pennant in the District League
The funeral OF the Saengers' hopes took
place last -Ionday at the Royal alleys
when the Chamber of Commerce team
rUdely trampled on the aforesaid hope,
causing it to kick the bucket" as some
one inelegantIy but forcefully, expressed
himself. As soon as George and his
crew have sufficiently recovered from
this terrible shock, the last sad rites will
he performed. Meantime the Bund will
he draned in black, while the pinboys
will he Of the same funeral hue. The
gloom pervadIng atmosphere of the Ger
man teams home may be temporarily
lifted later on, as the Saengers still have
a chance 10 win at least one set from
the leaders when the last match be- |
tween these two +eams is rolled on the |
BUnd alleys on February 19. And dy |
ing mules kick is apt TO be painful, too |
Thus far the Germans have lost seven /
out OF nine games to the Chamber Of
Commerce team. while last season the
standing was just reversed.
If the Saengers could have made a |
clean up, they would have had an eX-
CelIent change TO win out again, but /
OFeranXiety caused their downfall. The |
first game was won by the Chamberites |
by twenty-One pins, owing to breaks in \
the tenth frame by Auguste and Dick /
BuTdine. The second was never in doubt |
after the fifth frame, while the last was /
again won by the same 2l-pin margin as |
the first setto. Redecker says that If he !
had been in the game there would have |
been a different story TO tell. Sure thing /
The games would have then never been /
in doubt, and the winning margin would !
have been about fifty pins more.
1t was lucky for the Royals that the
Toledos, in the District Duckpin League,
could only present four men in their
lineup, and thereby forfeited the three
games. The four Toledo bowIers were
doing good work. and did not have to
have an extra strong man to come out |
on top. seven of the twelve individual |
games being over the century mark. For
the winners Dunn turned in the best
and most consistent set, with scores Of
leJ, 105 and 1O7, while Keeler for the
losers had a pretty set, with scores OF
lo2, los, and los.
The Blues, in the Westminster League,
finally broke their long losing streak by
heating the Whites in the last game Of
their set by three pins.
1t is pretty tough to lose with SIS, but
that's what the Fat Men, in the Ma
tional Capital League, were up against
when they met the strong Palace uuint
in their last set. Palace lost the first
game, 52S to 534; won the second. 5O4 to
4S, and came out on top in the last
tussle with the splendid score of $50
against the Fats 57S For the winners
Harley, with $50, and L. Krauss. with
S4i, carried off the individual honors
In the first game of the Iroquois-Con-
tinental set, in the Colonial League. Bin
ley spoiled what would have been in all
probability a Loo game by l51 score.
every other man on the team having a
double century game to his credit
Brown, OF the IrOquois, missed a fine I
NndnCe lot a DlE SET "he0. dIleT rolling 1
291 and 319, he slid into a 1S5 game.
In the Greater New York individual
championship tournament, Glenn Rid
dell now stands a good change to tie ;
Long John Koster for premier honors.
Glenn won his series last Tuesday with ,
Harry Cohn, whom several local bowlers
still remember TO their financial sorrow,
and has but one more series-@with Billy
Heins-to roll. Should he win this he and
Roster will be tied for first place. Strange : !
10 relate Cohn out-averaged Riddell by
ten pins TO the game. having an average
Of go, against Riddell's 30 for the series
of. ten games. In one Of the games Rid
dell lost with 2J5 against COINS 269. The
aforementioned bowler came near rolling !
a perfect 800 game when. in the seventh J
session. he started of with ten strikes, y
but only got nine on the eleventh ball, {
finishing the game with 2S9. The much v
toUted Lee Johns finished ninth in this d
tourney, having won only eight series Of b
the twenty-one the schedules called for. 1
The last weeks bowling In the Colo
NAL League was productive of a number Z
of high scores and sets, Robinette, Of C
the Manhattans, doing by far the best O
work, with q set Of $50, made by scores s.
of 1s1, pa and 245, while Barclay, OF the il
Continentals, had scores of 2i9 and 906; Il
McKnew. "a, and Parker, Of the Knicker- u
bockers, 23s and 2O6.