The Washington times., 1914-02-08
KILTIES TO BOWL
IN NATIVE DRESS
Canadian HighIanders Send En-
try to Officials Of Buffalo
Tournament. "~ ---- --F To-.

NO ord eminates from Buffalo. y. Y,
that the bowlers of the East are going
TO help the A. E. c. tournament with an
entry that will surprise the general run
of bowling promoters, and when the bell
rings for the closing of entries for the
big show it will be found that many
teams have entered from the Atlantic
seaboard. and these will be teams and
cities that never have been represented
at an American Bowling Congress
tournament since tournaments began
fourteen years ago. The great building
up of the bowling game by the organi-
zation and holding of tournaments is
still reaching for new territory and a
glance at what has already been ac-
compIshed shows that this country has
yet in the building up of the bowling
game.
A huge field is open in Canada. and
great interest is being manifested in
that district by the general trend to-
ward Buffalo for the coming bowling
classic. From Hamilton, Ontario, comes
an entry Of Kilties. a team that will
appear and bowl in their Highland uni
iorms. 1t has been generally pre-
sumed that bowling is an exclusive
game. but it seems all nationalities are
interested. and from year to year when
the big affairs are held, champions pop
up from different nations, including
Irish. French, Italian, Swedes, Germans
and Scotch, however they are of course
american by birth which demonstrates
that bowling IS more of an American
game than il * OF German.
Take Jimmy Smith, the greatest bowl
er OF the age. he is an Italian: Jimmy
BlOuin, the greatest OF the West, and
d rival of Smiths. he is of French eN-
traction: Tcm HALEY. Of Detroit. who
TOPS the high individuals Of the big
tournament champions. and no one nee6
say that he is from the Isle of Erin.
and Larry Sutton. vino was tFsice indi-
EldUal champion Of the world. and is
also Irish. Sutton was one of the great
est loaded ball bOWleTs that ever used
doctoTe4 sphere. and his team mates
Oh the famous MaltoD team Of ROches-
ter were also loaded ball experts. prob
ABLY the best In the world, but vbeT, the
pan vas placed on the loaded ball.
these spCTtsmen came to the front ami
S@ic whatever was good enough for the
majority was good enough for them and
ne Iodded OaN was passed by them to
,.L ',te GlScstIu' ana strange 10 say. they
are shoounE better scores this year than
even before with a fair bowling bali
FRANK Paterson, OF Columbus oI,io
represents the swedish nation. he hcii,G
idSS season world champion at Toledo
and We also have another SWede 40 a.
champion bowler. Charley Anderson oF
-. paul, VINO Won the chafupiODshiT, a.
Milwaukee some years ago. Every orI
asks where the German cbamnionS arn U-te
aud we have one who won the cham,
plOnship at Cincinnati in 1903 Arclio
WenSIeT, OF Chicago: also Martin Kern
OF ST. Louis. who was one Of rb. logt
and was the champion 1t Cleveland in
1905: Dan Jones, Of Milwaukee. a Welsh
man. represents another natinn of
champions, and Frank Brill, who is noyr,
bowling star game in Chicago. was
the first worlds champion, and is .,
regular true blue Yankee. So down tho
line of bowling champions il is clearly
shown that bowling is one of the most
popular ard cosmopolitan games eTliovl
ed by the masses, So it is really not
queer that the "Eilties'' Of Hamilton
Ontario. will appear at the Buffa'o
tournament, and the fact that thev will
appear in uniform may lead TO other
natiOnalities appearing in their ma
tiOnal costume, which would give the
tournament officials an opportunity of
holding an all nation" night at the big
show.
From now until February IS, when
the entries close. the officials of the
Buffalo tourney will be buried by de-
tails, and the bowlers Of the country
who are going to enter are asked 10
hurry along their entries early in order
that the officials will not be swamped
completely the last few days That
500 teams will enter the tournament is
freely predicted, and the officials are
straining every effort to make 1t 600,
which would be the greatest bowling
tournament ever held.