Evening star., 1913-01-19
BOWLERS ENTHUSIASTIC
OVER TOURNEY PROSPECTS
Baltimore and Richmond Representatives
Promise Entry Of Twenty-One
Five-Man Teams.

That the participation of the Baltimore
and Richmond bowlers in the coming ten
pin tournament is going to add greatly
to the interest of the affair seems
foregone conclusion and the enthusiasm
with which the pin knights of these two
cities are taking hold of their end or
the meet undoubtedly will go a long way
toward making the tourney the most
successful in the history OF the local city
association. All of the newspapers or
those cities are booming the event, and
daily articles in reference to the local
end of the meet find their way into the
columns of the press. In fact. II now
seems assured that the tenpin game Is 10
receive impetus from this tournament
such as it was. much in need of and the
like of which it has never before ex-
perienced. Washington. Baltimore and
Richmond were all falling away In the
support accorded the big pin sport, ana
the bowlers as a unit jumped at this OPP
portunity to get back of a movement 10
boom the game At the meeting at tue
Palace alleys, when the out-o1-toWn rep
resentatiVes TO the city association meet
ing were i'm attendance. a Set-together
spirit was the keynote of the assemblage.
Hermis Mcfarland and Jake Rousey, the
men present from the Virginia municl-
palty, expressed ii as their beief tnat
six teams from their city would be rep
resented at the meet. G.. r. Lee Scott.
president of the Garage League OF baitl-
more one of the Monumental citys rep
resentatives, was of the opinion that M
teen teams would shoot in the tourney
under the colOrs of his city He also re-
quested the meeting to arrange me
schedules that one night at least shai'
be set aside as Baltimore n1ght, at
which time the teams from his city alone
will take the alleys. His request will un-
doubtedly be complied with Meetings OF
the five bowling leagues OF bai,ls'ore ore
have been called and the number OF en-
trants will be determined Immediately, 10
the end that when the blanks are printed
application will be made without deiay-
Similar action has been taken at hich-
mond.
One of the points raised at the meeting
last week was in regard to the entrance
of all teams and individuals from the two
cities outside of Washington in class n.
1t was the consensus of oIinion at the
first meeting of the local body tnat IN
asmuch as the local committees WOuin
have no way of ascertaining the class the
Out-Of-town bOwlerS were TO ShOOt IN. it
would be necessary to assign all TO the
first classification, but when the visiting
delegates showed them that the Organiza-
fion of the tenpin men in their cities was
such to make it just as easy to CLASSIFY
their entrants according TO their nome
city averages as in Washington. II was
agreed that the three different grades
This classification is as follows: Five-man
teams-Class A, teams having an average
of SO and over: class b. teams having an
average of 500 to $40. and class Z. teams
having an average under 500 Two-man
teams@Class A, teams having an aver
age of $40 over: class b. teams having
average of 30 TO so. and class L.
teams having an average under 80 In
dividuals-Class A, bOwlers having an
average of 1.J and over; class B, bowlers
having an average of 1JJ to la. and
class c, bowlers having an average under
155.
Entrance blanks are in the hands of the
printer, and sheufd be Heady for distribu-
tion tomorrow. A word to the captains OF
the tenpin teams in this city perhaps
would not be amiss. Prompt filing of the
application blanks. together with requests |
for any desired dates on the schedule.
will greatly facilitate matters and aid in |
the prompt publication of tina list of en-
tries. BY every one working together 1t |
will be much easier to make this, as an
ticipated, the banner tourney Of the city |
history. Now. all together.
The Chamber of Commerce team. it is |
understood. will make trip to Toledo to |
represent this city In the American Bowl
ing Congress tourney. while scattered
few others may go as single and double |
entries. There does not seem a great
deal of enthusiasm over the big meets,
and far as the n. b. A Is concerned,
there is nothing at all being done in re-
gard to participation in this tournament.
The sum and substance of the situation.
apparently. is that the local tenpin men
are so deeply engrossed in the prospect
of tricity affair as to have little time
to think of the more remote, II more
comprehensive, events.
Washington chalks one more victory to
her credit In the case of the duckpin
match played with Morgan's Baltimore
outfit. 1t has grown to be such habit with
local quints to trim outsiders that 1t Is
small wonder the local pin knights have
good opinion of themselves.
The Baltimore Sun runs as daily fea-
ture the comments of pessmistic char
acter called Abe" Last week he de-
ole Baltimore bowlin grandads are gOin
over t Washington an take fling at
tn bowlin tourney They amt got no
more chance o. winnin anything than We
got o. gettin' smaller gas bills at tn
end of the month. Why? Cause some
of 'em can't stoop over an get up again
without help. an tn rest o them amt
never been so far from home before, an
they'll be so homesick they won't be able
Z tn pins for tn tears whatll be
fowin' from their eyes We will not
disillusion ourselves. however. by this
humorous bit of knocking. The Monu-
mental city contains some very good ten
pin men. and will undoubtedly have a
lot to say as to the disposition of the
Prize money
II is keenly to be regretted that Brown
the popular manager of the Palace was
taken sick in the midst of the individual
tournament He was rolling the strong
est game of any of the entrants in this
interesting event. having lost but one
game up to that time. Since he has been
able to be out. however. while he has
rolled his regularly scheduled games. he
has been of his stride. and As a result
has slipped to the rear of several men.
IL has proven big eXertiOn to him to
compete. and IL is not rash statement
10 say that he probably would have land
I'd ahead by a safe margin had illness
not forced him out when he was doing
his best work.
The event is proving one OF the most
interesting from a clOse-competition point
OF view that has ever been staged local
" and the caliber of rolling which is be-
ing done by the entrants is highly credi-
table. Since the compilation of the re-
suits of the first series, which shows
Brown the leader with II won and 2
lost. Van Buskirk has assumed the pre-
Inier position. having won Ii and lost <.
eddie Mcknew. with 13 Won and lost.
is second; while Lon krauss and Brown,
with u won and q lost are tied for third.
an Buskirk IL also leading the average
game column. with a mark of 1887 for
81 games. His bad set Wednesday night
lost Tor him two full points. Charlie
Miller Is second and Krauus third.