Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-02-06
GRAND RAP IDS
BOWLING TEAM
DID FINE WORK
At TOURNAMENT
:. Mathis Makes Highest In
dividuaI Score Made so Far
May Get Gold Medal--LocaI
BOWIers are all Pleased.

Inc GfdnQ RAPIDS BOWllnS L cam re
turned to the city Friday evening and
were the guests of Charles Dixon at
the Dixon House for supper Every
mody returned in good spirits and hap
py at the showing made. More abou1
the showing later Just here the sub
ject of getting the next tournament
for Grand Rapids is what is upper
most in the minds of the bowling
fans And WHY NOT? When the
Grand Rapids five man tealD finished
be E-s, William F. Gle e, sto. / u
on the top OF the bleachers and made
a speech in which he told the several
hundred people present that Grand
Rapids, the Heart of Wisconsin, was.
the place to hold the next tournament
Mr.. Glaue went into details and told
Of the central location Of the city,
of its four railroads and other advan-
tages. When he finished his speech,
some one yelled, What's the matter
With Grand Rapids?" and the re-
ing the bowling of the team, the
crowd was roofing for the Grand Raj
ids team. The Horizon Outlaws oc-
cupied the adjoining alleys during the
Rapids playing time and even they
became enthusiastic at some of the
phenomenal plays made and especial
ly when hard spares were cleaned up
And those Horizon men were right
there to advertise their town, too.
Ribbons across the backs of these
bCwlers proclaimed the fact that they
if You Live In He'll Boost For Your
Own Town" was the slogan under
meath the name ribbon. ALI during
the play of the Grand Rapids men,
the crowd was with them and when
difficult shots We're in order the crowd
would yell, Come on Grand Rap
ids. Just sending this team to
Beaver Dam has given Grand Rap
ids lot of good wholesome advertis-
ing and getting the pext tournament
here would bring over two thousand
live wire business men members of
the bowling teams from all over the
state, to this city for a period of sew
enteen days. It's worth getting and
the local boWlers expect the support
of the citizens in helping them land
it. And if not in 1914, then in 1915.
Sheboygan has made a strong bid for
next years tournament. Had our
men been on the scene earlier in the
tournament, Grand Rapids could ea-
silly have beaten Sheboygan out. But,
even as it is, we still have a chance
and by making fight for it this year
it will put us into position to land
it the year following even if not for
1914 The boys are going to work hard
to get it and the slogan of the Hori-
con Outlaws could be well adopted
by our citizens. The Wisconsin as
ISOLATION is anxious to have the next
tournament held in this part of the
state for the reasons first, that it
Will develope the bowling interests
in this section, and second, that Wis
consin is second in membership nov
in the American Bowling Congress,
illinois being the only state that
leads it. With the awakening Of in
terest in this northern part of the
state and the enrolling of the addi-
tional membership which would fol-
low, it would put Wisconsin in the
front rank. So you see, we have two
things to work for, Our City and
Our State If the local men could
have arranged to stay, it would have
helped some, but most of them had
arranged to be away for the speci-
fed time and business demanded
that they return, still Tony Peeren-
boom has been left on the job to
fight for Grand Rapids and he will
do all that one man can to pull it
through. The local bowlers Will keep
Tony supplied with ammunition in
the way of banners, reading matter
and a good line of hot arguments
| as to why the next tournament should
be held in Grand Rapids.
AN ERROR CORRECTED.
| In taking the scores over the phone
from Beaver Dam Thursday, the score
made by Gleue in the first game was
received as III instead Of 10, which
| it should have been. Even in re-
peating back the score, the error was
not discovered until the official
scores were received which was too
late for Friday nights paper. This
correction makes a difference OF So
pins in the total in the five man e.
vent and gives Gleue an average of
| 175 for the three games.
SOME CLASSY BOWLING.
Mathis score Of 267 in the double
event is the highest score made so
far in the tournament by any indi-
vidual A man who was cheering for
Grand Rapids offered to bet $50 that
this tournament He could not find
any one to cover the money Other
bets were offered Of a similar nature
The highest individual score made
in the tournament last year was 269
If this score is not equalled Mathis
will be in for a prize of a $40 gold
piece and a gold medal. The history
Of Mathis high score is. First frame,
spare, next five frames, strikes.
seventh frame spare and out on four
strikes getting eight ON last ball. The