The Washington herald., 1914-01-11

shoots s-na.king the head pin, the out
!, come was in doubt until the last box
I when the Y street crew landed by foui
| pins, putting across the score Of 642 TO SSs
| Earl Lewis and Jim Dunn, for the Pal
ace and Brunswick quints. respectively
| led the Individual work of the evening
each putting across a good set, and Dunr
got the high game of the evening when
| in the opening contest. he toppied III pins
Earl got the best total for the evening
knocking down 352 pins. getting for hi,
games 121. 10 and 12l. while Dunn gol
! games OF 1sl. us. and 1o4, for total oi
3S
Nov that the association crew are but
two games ahead of the Palace quint. q
, hot race can be expected from now on. al.
though the Palace crew have a littit
harder road to travel in this weeks
schedule. the 4 streeters meeting the Fat
Men tomorrow right and the Y. N. C. A.
hooking up with the Co,umbians Friday
The Fifth Baptist quint, of the Inter
denominaticnaf Leagus. were handed
quite a setback Tuesday night when the
Bethany crew captured two Of the three
games. Tho Fifth outfi1 were leading the
churchmen's circuit by thres games. but
Bethany made easy work of them. pulling
them, dowa the ladder, with but one game
margin OF the St. Marks team, which is
leading.
The Royal outfit pulled away from the
other teams in the District League by de-
feating the Newcomers three games
Thursday, and now lead the league by a
safe margin. The individual work OF
Hank Bailey and Bill Rider in the
matches was good, and II was through
their efforts that the New York avenue
team was able to capture the trio OF
matches
waverleys. of the Northeast League,
were pulled out of firsS position in that
circuit Thursday night when the Allan
tics. who had occupied second place UP to
this time. anded two OF the three games.
In the opening contest Capt. Salb's out
fit won by a five-pin margin, and came
back in he second game and nosed out
the waverley's by on. pin. but in the
final game Manager Stanton's boys hit
their right stride and pulled the match
ont Of the fire. landing 1t by twenty-one
pins. .
II is interesting to note the high game
recently bowled In Wheeling, W. Va.
John Bray. of that city. IL given credit of
toppling % pins at the duckpin game.
ana inc 6DcS vi ~ say Niidl TINS
score broke the former record by eleven
pins. This is sure shooting some pins,
but when pne stops TO consider that dur
ing the rolling that Bray secured seven
strikes and followed each one up with a
good count, II can be seen how his tally
was piled up. Bray made his mark by
starting of with a strike in the first
frame. In the second and third he Sc
cured a break. This he followed with
three straight strikes. a break in the sew
enth, and strikes in the three final
frames.
Another record was broken during the
past Wee. when in a dispatch from Min
neapolis. JanieJ L. Garland, a noted bowl
er OF that city. is given credit for spilling
!. .73O tenpIns in seven consecutive games.
This mark Is very high for individual
rolling. and whether the American Bowl
ing Congress will recognize the feat or
not remains to be seen. but the bowlers
Of the Northwest section of the country
it the highest mark ever rolled
in that section.
81 am thoroughly Disguised with the
and pulling at cross-purposes
among the Rowing fraternity of the coun-
try. and q. will gladly step down and out
as soon as the congress finds man who
wants to take my Office" said Secretary
A. l. Langtry. while discussing a report
from Chicago that President Howard, of
the American Bowling Congress, and Mr..
Langtry had announced their intention Of
declining reelection at the coming ma
tional tournament in Buffalo, ". Y,
Mr.. Langt:~ says that on no less than
three different occasions he has asked
I. ..nrs- r.f he. So ,-uht ha,t
eyery time he has resigned heretofore,
pressure was brought to bear upon him
10 continue. ..
For TIL, good of the sport with which
I have been identified so many years 1
nave three times reconsidered my resig-
nation. I hope that the bowlers this time
will picRa man for the job. 1 have had
ny I'LL. The reason that no one is anxious
,or the office is because the salary is
smaIl in comparison with the work that
must be doEe. .- a,-
II receive $500 a year from the con-
yress ami actually spend at least $500
!. year a properly looking after the
luties. g the salary was, say, 5000 a
rear, there would be a mad scramble for
he Office but because the pay is insig-
1ifcant all the capable men fight shy of
he so-called honor. I have given my
line and spent my money to promote the
interests of the A. B. c.. and of the sport
n general, and in return am freely criti-
,ised The officers OF the A B. c. have
lad to struggle both against the bowlers
md the manufacturers of bowling equip
nent. It is a thankless fight for u.s."
John Koerner, Of Milwaukee, a member
" the national executive committee of
he American Bowling Congress. also in
ends to decline reelection.
According to Mr. Langtry, Robert w. |
Brown, of Louisville, and William Agnew, |
4 Cleveland, are being prominently men,
ioned as the prospective successor of |
Howard. Of the A. B. c.
BY setting the Toledos quint down in |
hree games Friday night the ]. z. d. 8. |
ook undisputed hold on first position In |
he District League. The Jeds are now |
opping the Royals by one game. and as |
9th clubs have easy sailing in next |
7eek's schedule, unless the unexpected |
appens no change will be seen in the |
rst three teams in that circuit for two
Teeks. >. -
Jim Hassett. of the Shop team. of the
.aiiroad Y. NJ. c. A. League, bowled the |
ighest game Of the week In the matches /
gainst the Auditors Wednesday night /
Ie toppled 1i1 pins in the opening frame.
Iassett also put over good set against |
be Auditors. topping soa pins in the