New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-14
DISTRICT LIMITS
HAMPER BOWLERS
Need of Eliminating Pay
ment of Extra Duties in
Various Bodies.
WESTERN BODY BARS
NEW YORK PIN MEN
Watt Rolls Five Games with an
Injured, Bleeding Thumb,
Test of Gameness.

one more question with which the Ma
tonal Bowling Association will have to
deal ere long is that pertaining to the
limitation of the Jurisdiction of its vari-
Gus district assertions. At present Sec
ton Of Article III of the constitution
gives territorial limitations as being in
any city county or district"
In the course of last week il developed
that the bowlers of Hudson County, in
New Jersey. were DESTROYS Of forming a
district association as subsidiary body
TO the National Bowling Association.
Moreover, the Long Island Bowling As
ISOLATION. which heretofore has been
without recognition from the national
body because OF a suspected domineering
influence in the person Of one Brooklyn
alley owner. has gone on record as being
DESTROYS Of becoming the local governing
body throughout Brooklyn and other parts
of Long Island.
While these announcements show that
the game of tenpins is advancing rapidly
from a governmental standpoint and is
becoming more thoroughly organized.
there is still the influence of the New
York Bowling Association 1t has been the
custom Of the local association to recruit
IT'S members from among the bowlers OF
the greater city and those from the sur
rounding territory who compete either in
various local tournaments or in metro
politan championships.
For example, the Roseville Athletic As
ISOLATION. of Newark finds IT necessary
10 be a member of the Newark Bowling
Association If the team would compete
In Newark tournaments. and at the same
time must also pay extra dues TO the
New York Bowling Association for the
privilege Of competing in the American
national tournament at Thum's. II any
Of the New Jersey teams desire 20 roll in
the metropolitan championships they
must Join the local body. irrespective or
any other association.
Scarcely had the national association
been organized, back in 1906, when it was
suggested that rule be adopted provid-
ing that the membership card Of any dis
trict association of the National Bowling
Association must be recognized by any
other district association Of the national
body
To take the same illustration Of the
Roseville A. A., the cards Of the members
Of this team, showing them to be in good
standing In the Newark Bowling Associ-
alton. ought TO be quite enough recon-
mendation to the New York Bowling As
sociation or any other district associ-
alton Of the National Bowling Association
under the jurisdiction Of which these men
might wish 10 roll
There can be no question that many
more district associations would be
formed If it were not for this dog-in-the-
,nanger attitude Of the local body. Inter
CITY competitions would be encouraged and
the national formation greatly strength
ened
The individual holding card Of dis
trict association of the y. 3. A. ought 20
be eligible not only TO compete in the ma
tional tournament but in any other tour
nament throughout that section of the
United States under the jurisdiction Of
the y. B. A. just the same as a card in
one lodge Of = fraternal body gains ad-
mission and immediate standing in any
other lodge Of the order in the country.
There can be no doubt that there are
members enough within the confines Of
greater New York, or even in the Bor-
oughs OF Manhattan and The Bronx, 10
furnish the New York Bowling Associa-
ton with all the numerical strength il
would need TO bring about the objects for
which II was originally organized. 1t is
evident that, good though the y. b. A.
rules and regulations are, there are still
grounds to be covered with either new
rules or the old ones amended
The American Bowling Congress. the
association in power IN the West, main
tains its partisanship in the newly adopt
ed Section of it's rules. For the first
time since the y. b. A. was organized as
protest TO these methods the Western
body has gone on record as being openly
opposed TO the bowlers Of the East.
In other words, the bowlers OF New
York and vicinity are barred from the
tournament at Buffalo, where the A. B. C.
took pains to locate its tournament fol-
this year despite the insurgency of the
Ohio bowlers The new section of the
A. B. c. rules is as follows:
Section 3. In the City OF New York
and adjacent cities, regardless whether
situated in the State OF New York or the
State OF New Jersey. or on Long Island
a city association shall not be recognized
by the A. Il. G. until such time as q
proper organization can be formed and
accepted by the executive committee: and
be IL further provided that persons resid-
ing or employed within the said cities
shall not be eligible TO membership of a
city association of any other town or
city that is now or may hereafter become
member Of the A. B. c."
An illustration OF how much influence
the quality of pluck has in a bowling
match was related in these columns last
week, but in the course Of the last few
days one OF the most unusual incidents
took place. II seems that Frank Bruno
visited the Columbia alleys to roll one
Of the inter-city matches with James S.
Watt. the home representative.
At the end OF the fifth game the series
stood 3 10 in Watts favor. In the
course OF the sixth game Watts thumb
developed a crack, which proved exceed
ingly painful. but, despite this handicap,
he continued pluckily. He won the sew
enth and lost the next two, his thumb
becoming so badly injured that the skin
over the whole top Of the digit was torn
loose. The cuticle was cut away, and,
despite the urging of the spectators that
ne give up the series. Watt refused.