New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-27
SMITHS SUCCESS A
RARITY IN BOWLING
Few LONG Distance" Stars
Have Ever Captured a
National Title.
BROOKLYN MAN HOLDS TWO
His Performance at Rochester
Stamps Him as Leader-Local
Teams Captured Many
Prizes in Tourney.

As II not satisfied with winning such
epithets as Peerless Jimmy" worlds
champion" and the like. James Smith.
Of Brooklyn. must needs add national
titles 10 his list at bowling.
Rolling an average Of 2142. Smith won
the national all around championship
last week at Rochester and in partner
ship with the redoubtable Glenn Riddell
captured the national two-man title.
Smiths record is perhaps more brilliant
than that Of any other man who ever lived
and bowled but he has never been sue
cess at winning national championships
until now. In fast. well known Tong
distance" bowlers have rarely done any
thing worth while in national tourna-
ment
backward glance over the list of
bowling champions reveals the fact that
since the time John Roster won the title.
in 1902. few bowlers of the highest rank
have ever figured prominently among the
champions. II was a different story.
however when long distances were nee
essary or actual matches were to be
pulled out of the fire.
Smith broke the ice last year in the
Canadian championships in Toronto.
when he rolled a worlds record of
1850 for nine games. winning the all
around championship and total Of III
in the singles, and annexed that plum
as well. Outside of being four times the
interclty champion, Smith had never won
an actual title up 10 that time. despite
the fact that he was consistently ranked
as the best of all bowlers and had con-
quered nearly every man OF Importance
ne had ever met
The latest performance OF the little
Brooklynite leaves no doubt about his be
ing head and shoulders over any other
man who occupies the limelight of bowl
ingdom. lie rolled as anchor for the Cor
des- Riddel team I'm Rochester. which
finished thirteenth with 276l. His part
nership with Riddel formed one of the
strongest two-man combinations possible
to put on the alleys, for Riddell must he
ranked a good second TO Smith. and in
class fully equal TO John Roster or Alec
Dunbar Moreover. Smith and Riddell
are adept in the art of working together
The result was / $50. sufficient TO win
the title by seven pins.
Individually, Smiths average for all
nine games was PAP. IS pins better than
the youthful George Anderson. the Pat
erson schoOlboy. In the singles Smith
finished fifth with e53, an average of 2l72.
He is. incidentally. the first man who
has been twice national champion in
one year. His bowling. as usual, was
consistently good.
New York and Brooklyn bowlers, on
the whole. Jared quite well indeed in
Rochester. Less than half the expected
number of teams made the trip, but those
who went brought home something 10
remember. Three out OF the four cham
plonships were gathered in by the New
Workers. for the Bronx Centrals. cap
fained by John Roster. holder Of many
a record. are the national hve-man cham
plons. Then there are the performances
of Smith and Riddell. Newark came near
20 having the national singles champion,
IS was beaten by the 712 Of George
Kumpf, of Buffalo, who set up a new
y. 3. A. record
After the Bronx Centrals came the
Gotham Palace Club, of Brooklyn. fin
fishing sixth. with 2.S2l the Cordes-
Riddell five, of New York, thirteenth,
with 2.761; the Metropolitan No. ! COM
binatio of New York. twentieth. with
e,734. and the Germanias of Brooklyn,
thirty-third. with 2,635. All these teams
were prize winners.
There were 100 prize winning two-man
teams in all. the New York and Brooklyn
duos finishing as follows: Smith and
Riddell. first; Reed and Cohn, eighth;
Perkl and Doerzaph. twenty-frst; Helms
and Roster. twenty-seventh; Lankenau
and Goodman. thirtieth; Byrne and
Meyer, thirty-frst; Amundsen and Cook.
thirty-eighth; Quinn and Newman, for
tieth: Roberts and Gerdes, forty-second;
Wulff and Lehrbach. forty-third: Wink
Ter and Bruno, forty-fourth; Schlueter
and VOORHEES,, sixty-thrd; Steiner and
MacCauley, seventy-ffth; LANCE and
Mackay, seventy-seventh; Cordes and
Horton, ninetieth and Kehoe and p. j.
Riddell, ninety-ffth.
All of the members of the Bronx Cen
trails are well known tournament bowlers
and include Arthur Hoffman, John NAL
zacher, John Keller. Billy Helms and
John Roster. Philip Leonhardt was a
substitute.
Thum's White Elephant alleys will be
IN animated scene tomorrow night,
when bowling officials. both national and
local, will formally open the third an
nual metropolitan championship tourna-
ment There are ninety-eight TENS en-
rolled, with corresponding entry in the
doubles and singles.
There were 147 teams last year.
Elmer r. DUNCAN. the new president of
the National Bowling Association. and
William Kirk. former chief executive.
are expected TO be present while the
past presidents Of the New York bowl
ing associations have been invited. and
include Charles III. Ebbets. Frank NJ.
Clute, Jacob Leuly, John j. Clingen, J.
T. Hardenbergh, DR.. Stratford +. Cor
bett and c. Leslie Milford. William H.
Valentine, present presiding officer. will
daliver ono NJ tho 0nening SDeecheS