The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-13
Jay Gould and G. F. Convey To
Meet in Unique Contest to Decide
international Court Tennis Title

1919 to 1929 the championship was
held by an Englishman. odd" Cox.
from 1879 to 1852 J. Edmond Barre
was supreme and unchallenged. and
the championship rested in France.
In 1862 Edmund Tompkins and Barre
played a draw at. London. In 1885
there was another International
match, when George Lambert of Eng
land was defeated by Tom Petit Of
America. The championship thus for
the first time came TO America. it
remained here until 1890, when Petit
after beating Charles Saunders of
Dublin, resigned. Since then it has
left England. Up to 1896 every
match had been internationally; since
then. when Peter Latham beat
Saunders, there have been nine
VS.. Petit in 1898 and e. Punch"
Fairs vs. Ferdinand Carton of France
in l906-were International.
Another International Contest.
Another International competition
for 1914 OF unusual type ia that Of
the United Bowling club of New York
Nhlch VIII send a large team of ex-
pert bowlers to the great German
championship tournament to be held
in Berlin during. the week of August
2-S. All details of the trip have been
\ toA sc patty VI Dill 1RQIS
have chartered the steamer Barba-
rosa, and will embark at this port
July ?. arriving in Bremen on July
IL. The fourteenth of July will be
spent at Hanover. the fifteenth in
Cassel; the sixteenth and seventeenth
IN Frankfort: eighteenth in Heidle.
berg; nineteenth In Baselbern: TWEEN.
tleth and twenty-tIrst in Interlucken:
Lucern Risi; tWsSay fourth @t In .In n
bruck: twenty-ffth in SalzberE-
Berchtergarden; twenty-seyenth.
twenty-eighth' and twenty-ninth in
Wien:. thirtieth in Prague: thirty. first
IN Dresden and the first to the fifth
OF August In Berlin. where the bowl
ing tournament will be held on forty.
two new alleys that will be construct
others will be modelled after the
style alleys.
This will be the fourth trip of the
U. B. c. of New York to Germany to
take part in bowling tournaments. In
all OF the previous invasions they
nave come out victorious. In 1891
they went to Hanover and beat the
they. made another trip and had no
trouble in beating the best bowlers the
country could produce at Solingen.
Their last trip was in 1908 when they
went to Dresden and again won the
chief bowling honors.
British Golfers Coming.
According to private advices from
England a trio of the best Of the
British professional golfers will com.
pete In the United States open cham
pionship at the Midlothian Country
club near Chicago, next summer.
George Duncan. James Braid and j..
G. Taylor are named as the possible
invaders. although the personnel is
still subject to change. Taylor and
Braid together with Harry Vardon
nave each won the English omen
championship five times and it is ex.
pected tina the open championship to
be held at Prestwich will break this
triangular tie. Duncan holds the
worlds record for both thirty-six and
seventy-two holes, made in the same
tournament last year. The occasion
the championship Of Lucerne
lakes, which is played over two
courses. the first thirty-s holes at
Axenfels and the second thirty-six
at Llcerne. Duncan's scores were e.
5S at Axenfels and II and ~ at
Lucerne. The Sc Ia a worlds record
for 1s, the lis for the two rounds at
Axenfels a worlds record for 36 and
the total Of 263 broke the worlds
for four rounds.