The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-22
IN. B. A. TOURNEY
| ATTRACTS MANY

! With the closing or tho entries only
two weeks away. tho campaign In DO.
| hair OF tho annual tournament OF tha
| National Bowling Association at At
lantic City, Aprli to %. has gore TO
anchor on tho team. AS the tlGurative
\ ball approaches the wooden triangle It
| begins to looe moro and more iileo q
| hit In the pocket for n ten strike.
the anchor In tho person Of Major
NJ. w. Gage, tho natiopa! secretary,
| leaves to-day for Atlantic City TO bo
actively on tho ground from now until
| tho end of tho tournament Evcry day
| during the last week entries were re-
! ceived from cities never before rcpre-
!, scented In n national turnainent for In
| stance. from Nashua. \. II. Everitt
oucetion and Harry Whipple sent In
| their applications. Herman Walker.
| former champion OF philadelphia, will
head n team from Egg Harbor. ~ r.
In those cities which usually have
team or two each in n tournament OF
| this kind. there Is remarkable activity.
DIR. =. NJ. Tate. OF Albany. announces
| there will be from Ave 10 eight teams
| from the New York capital william
| White. OF Long Branch. VIII onca
more lead the Overland. ON the Morse
alleys. In Schenectady. elimination con-
! tests have been run ror the last six
weeks to determine tho personnel OF
| three or four teams to enter tho ma
| tional competition The individual reg
tstrat!on In the New York Bowling As
/ ISOLATION Is now over the 1000 mark,
and is SO rapidly increasing that 1t
/ looks like 800 before many more days
/ have passed. There are some New York
/ bowlers who are ION tho fence" as to
! whether they can take tho trip or
/ not but tho outlook is for New York
/ TO produce all that has been expected
I OF II.
4 The National Bowling Association
board Of governors held meeting this
week at the Hotel Imperial, and ac-
cepted the gift OF Its president, Elmer
/ II. DUNCAN. OF Philadelphia, of a ma
chine to determine to fraction OF an
/ ounce how much over the centre n
/ bowling ball was balanced No Leg
/ tslation may be taken with regard to
the loaded or unbalanced ball until an
the national convention on April IS.
which means that tho same spheres
| which were used last year at Rochester,
may be used again this time In Atlantic
4 city, though 1t Is hardly likely thae
the performance can DC repeated a year
! hence.
President DUNCAN took occasion to
call attention to the effort being made
TO correct several shortcomings In tho
rules and regulations. declaring that In
timo the playing rules would be more
perfect and that tho Implements OF
play would be more uniform. In other
| words IL will mean closer regulation
or all bowling equipment. He urged
tho whole souled support for the ma
tional tournament. I'm other sports
the biz shows arc all or quality, but In
this game of tenpins custom seems to
call especially for quantity. 1t NAV
or may not he good Judgment, but IL
Is tho present view and though out
side the Importance or the association
IS weighed md measured by the size
rather than quality OF bowling at this
annual tournament. For this reason
any indecision as to whether to go or.
not to go 70 Atlantic City this year
should be quickly decided In the ar
frmative by every member OF the loval
iegions OF the National Bowling Asso
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