New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
BOWLERS HOPE TO
SET new RECORDS
Entries for Big Meeting
Not Up to Estimate
Once Made.
CHICAGO FAILS TO
SEND ON A TEAM
Individual Contestants Help TO
Bring the Total Up to
Last Years Mark.

The eighth annual tournament OF the
National Bowling Association will begin
on Wednesday at Columbia Hail. at At
lantic City. 4 revision OF the entry lists
shows that the number OF ive-man teams
entered is il6 and that there are an even
thirty from New York.
II had been confidently expected ever
since work was begun in arranging this
tournament that at least two hundred
teams would respond TO the cali The
entry list shows that there are about
eighty promises untitled. Fifteen alone
are from New York and Brooklyn.
Rochester, Syracuse and Utica were ex-
peoted 70 send at least six teams each.
Rochester has none. not even the former
champions. the Grand Centrals, better
known as the Maltops. while Syracuse
and Utica have merely one each. For
the first time Chicago has no team Even
Judge" Howard failed 10 do his usual
stunt. The tournament. however, Will be
as larse as last year at Rochester. and
there Is more representative entry than
last season.
A feature brought out prominently this
year is the fact that many bowlers have
entered individually who will not go with
teams There are close to two hundred
individual entries from New York, but
thirty teams means only 100 men, indi-
eating that about fifty will SO indie
pendently.
This years tournament suggests inter-
esting "reminiscences, for at that first
meeting, seven years ago, there were
great happenings. John J. VOORHEES,. the
little wizard who won the ali-round title
that year and was the rival Of Jimmy
Smith then, was the real means Of the
Subways. OF Brooklyn. failing to win the
nve-man championship. 1t was the result
OF the failure Of VOORHEES, 10 get seven
pms out Of ten on a single ball.
The Corinthians. composed OF FIVE good
cidtmers. from this city, had rolled
their 2sls. IL was the last fve-man night
of the tournament when the Sideways
took the alleys. They had a mark 10
shoot at. There was only one bright STAG
on the team-Noorheis. Leading off
there was Al Robinson. then came Billy
Macdonald, George Johnson Al. Dins-
more and VOORHEES,. 1t was a great try.
Dinsmore in that last and all important
game was there with 24S Johnson had
PIP. Macdonald was a trifie off, but then
there was VOORHEES,, and he was in fine
fettle for he had already made 22S with
neither a split nor miss He was bowl
ing beautifully.
VOORHEES, spared in the tenth frame.
He needed seven pins and pandemonium
began 10 let loose. for where on earth
was there another man more sure OF
seven out of that wooden trianele than
that little wizard? VOORHEES, was plainly
nervous. He shot-a little too much
steam" The ball. instead Of the slight
nook II ought TO have taken. straight
cnsd out and struck the three pin full
OF He simply carried away just half
Of the number-five pins-and the headpin
stood shaking dehantly az him, for he
lad "feathered" it. Leaving five there
lost the championship for the Sideways
10y two pins, the total being 2.N2. Voor-
heiss game was 10. but his total for the
evening was 62o
Great could be the tales told OF ma
tional tournaments. The year following
at Rochester. Frederick Schwartz Of
fered to wager that he would take first
place in the singles. as if he had premo-
milton as 10 what he would do
Frederick toppled them over for 69i,
within two pins Of what was then the
worlds record. and captured the cham
pionship as a result. 1t was al that same
tournament that John McGuirk and
John Grady. two comparatively unknown
sseu from Paterson. broke through with
sensational 1918 i'm the doubles. a record
which stood until 1911 at Buffalo. when
George Kelsey and Charley Johnson, of
New Haven, hung up 1886, which still
is the top mark.
II was last year that George Kumpf.
Of Buffalo. broke that 7O5 record, held
Jointly by Tony Prio, OF Brooklyn, and
rom Haley. Of Detroit, by pounding out
7l2 at Rochester. What is 10 be done
TO these records in Atlantic City? They
say the boys" are shooting well
Following are the former champions.
their totals, the best performances and
the like:
TOURNAMENTS.
lao7--Young's New Pier Atlantic City.
IS0S-Gcnessee Hall, Rochester.
jsO9-Msdison SQUARE Garden, New York City.
l1i0-Cardge Academy, Baltimore
Igi-s5th Regiment Armory, Buffalo
jm2-The Auditorium, Paterson.
jsis--Genesee Hall. Rochester.
19i4-Columba Hall, Atlantic city.
ALL-ARoUND CHAMPIONS.
fiao--Iohn J VOORHEES, Brooklyn. s5s
faoS-W T. Erdmann Brooklyn ..............1,S3 5
i.Go-Frederick Hegemsn Brooklyn. ,90s
iai0-Georze Freeman Newark .............l,s o
leiI-sGeorge Brunt. Paterson. ...............l's%
sGeorge Bangart. Chicago. .............I,Ssi
istg-Mortimer Lindsey. New HaVen........z !, V5l
I.iS--James Smith Brooklyn.
each given medal.
INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS.
,.a7c Frank sauer, New York............ so
isoS-trrederick Schwartje. Brooklyn.."..... go
I,sn-Edward Thompson. Brooklyn.......... ess
iaiO-Antonfo Prio. Brooltlyn................. lo5
ja1f-Joseph West Buffalo................s... 0y4
iel2-L<o I.ucke Brooklyn. ............''''..' e,s
iels-George Kumpf Buffalo. ...'... az
FIVE-MEN CHAMPIONS.
iso7-Cornthisn, New York............'....e'SIi44
Brunswick, New York;. ...s..s.....z' osS
iena-(orinthian No. s, New York. ..........Z'es3
,si0-cbaimers- Detroit. Chicago .............2SlI
1gl1-f5onds Cleveland sys
sfi2-Grand Central, Rochester ~
i9ia-Bronx Central. New YORK;. '-'SSS
TWo-MEN CHAMPIONS.
1907 John !. Nelson and Walter Iuthili,
grooklyn 90: 1908. John McGulrk ana Jonn
Grady Paterson, .31s; 1909. Edward Satterth-
waite and S. Rodgers. Philadelphia L[sS. I9lV'
W Burdnc and +. A. Eckstein. washington
ia0s: 1911 George C.. Kelsey and Charles John-
son New Haven. 1850; 1912, Mortimer ldndsey
a,a charles Joi,pson. New Haven, l,SOi, 1913,