South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-04-06
STATE TOURNEY
BIG BOWLING
EVENT Of WEEK
First Teams viii Bowl at Gary
Wednesday Night-MiSha-
Waka is Making a Bid For
the 1915 Contests.

Next Wednesday, April s, the sixth
annual Indiana State Bowling tourna-
ment will De ushered in at Gary. The
steel town officials have hustled and
were rewarded with 1O6 hve-men
teams, the largest number, by nearly
4 O teams. than any previous tourna-
ment. With SO many entries or good
teams, some fine scores should be
posted and some records may go by
the board. Last year, owning TO the
floods. TT. Wayne did not have an en-
try but this year four teams have en-
tered from that city.
Nishawaka sends her bowlers to-
Gary next Saturday and Sunday, our
neighbors having seven tive-men teams
entered in the event. Mishawaka is
hot after next years state tOurna-
ment with a fine prospect of landing
the juicy plum. Mishawaka has one
of the finest bowling plants in the
country, by all odds the best in the
state, and, there is no reason why the
tournament of 1915 should not be
awarded them. They have bunch
Of hustling young bowleTs and while
they may not come up 10 the high
water marx Gary set in the point of
entries this year it is believed, with
the assistance of South Bend they can
come mighty close TO ii.
South Bend bowlers do not go TO
Gary until Saturday and Sunday. April
is and 10 Fourteen five-men teams,
most of whom being entered in the
singles and doubles, is a delegation
any city can be proud of. The local
delegation will travel in a special train
over the South Shore line with every
indication of a greater body of root
ers than bowlers acting as an escort.
Great preparations are making for
entertainment. including a big booster
band and next Sunday all Elks are
going to have q full dress rehearsal
20 put the finishing touches on their
songs with band accompaniment.
Studebakers TO Close Season.
The Studebaker league IS the first
IL the local organizations TO close their
schedules. the curtain being rung on
the close of this weeks games. How
ever il is not expected that every
thing Will have been concluded at
that time because usually there are a
number OF tied teams to decide posi-
tons for prizes The Reaches and
SpOkes have been tied for first place
for the past seven weeks and the
Skeins have been two games behind
them almost constantly. Just how
these teams Will finish during the
weeks play no one is able 10 determ-
inc but the prospects are splendid.
At the conclusion of the fall sched-
ule in the Studebaker league the Boil
sterS and AXleS were tied when all
regular games had been played and
the Bolsters won in the roll-Off. Dur
ing the spring tournament these two
teams lowered in the cellar together
for the greater part of the season but
the Axles severed their ties and are
now we'll lodged in a first division
berth while the Bolsters only got out
of the rut last week. There are some
prospects for three teams being tied
at the close of the week. for should
each and the SkeinS win the entire
series il is put over.
League Leaders All Fall.
A splendid event was noted during
the week in the Antlers league IN
that all of the second division teams
won the majority OF their games from
their opponents higher up in the per-
Centage column. While this did not
make any serious difference TO the
leading Antlers at this time there is
sufficient time intervening before the
schedule is concluded, which result
is very disastrous 10 them. There are
but five games difference between the
first five teams and the schedule still
has three weeks 20 run.
one OF the most danterOuS teams
10 be feared are the Tails. who won
the championship OF the league last
fall after lettering about the tail end
OF the procession for the greater part
of the season. But once they got un-
der way there was no stopping them
and they never quit until they landed
way out in front. The Tails are one
grand fghtinS machine, who do not
know hard luck and defeat. Just now
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