New-York tribune., 1914-03-01
CALIFORNIA TRIO
TO BOWL IN EAST
Will Meet Selected Teams
in Brooklyn and
New York.
WANT ENTRIES FOR
EXPOSITION TOURNEY
United Gibbs an Object Lesson in
Successful Control of Sport
on Alleys.

California against New York is a bowl
Ing trea, soon 10 be seen on local alleys
A three-nen team OF bowlers from San
Francisco Is on its way here, stopping at
various cities en- route. and this comoina-
ton from the Far West will roll against
selected ,ea~as OF ttc Grand Central al
lcys. BrooSlyn, or Thursday evening
March Y. and on tie Riverside alleys N
na.qcn,. the following evenins.
California heretofore has never oeen
tourosehted IN a bowling way In tn's sec
lion OF tire country In 1909, when the
national tournaTent was held in Madlsoh
souare Garden, there wss a promise u
fye-men team coming East 10 'ahe
part. but II never ma:erialised' HoWeVe!'
these three bowlers are touring the cou!l-
try for the purpose or interesting the Uo"F
ers I'm an international tournament 10 ne
held al San Francisco in conjunction Win
the Panama Pacific Exposition next yea
Heading the team is +. ID. Bush pEesl-
dent OF the San Francisco BoWhhs As9o-
citation. and with him are h. w IRWIN,
the Individual champion of the city anu
Il. w Scott. formerly one OF thompson
cite of Chicago. who is now on the
coas, They are declared TO Oe aois
bowlers. and will find themselves oppose1
,o a team like Glenn Riddell' fOflher III
tercity champion: Larry krdlnahh' eiS'
while national all around champion anu
Iouis Schaffner. one OF the local hs"''
in Brooklyn. ,,.,,-
Bush and his companions left san / ran
cisco on February -. and haze ehsas'
msnts TO roll in Syracuse Hoches'e''
WASHINGTON. Buffalo and many Oh ''1
lo.d,ne cities in the West Ihey WI"
inter the national bowling championships
., Atlantic city in April, rolling IN the
doub,es and singles fixtures. 1t may De
,ba, ;wo team mates will be fouHu io'
them and a five-men team ehleleu
Billy Cordes, treasurer oi the Nd''0"'
Rowling Association, is planning 10
together An all-star three-men team i0'
tine purpose of visiting San frdho'S0o
nay, wear. rolling exhibition matches ("
route. ,,. b,.
on only one OCCASION in years gone u'
HIS a team of New Workers visited '"0
Pacific Coast That was more una" q"
decade ago. when Samuel karpi' theh
sacrstarv of the American bowling OoH
,,,a.s cot together a star three-men team
cd toured the country. The memoe''
,,.ars Phil Wolf of Brooklyn, and lalei
of Chicago; AL Selbach, a FAMOUS o"i'
p,aver in his day, and Johnny Nooi "'io
The little wizard OF the alleys inns wv
nroved almost invincible, aitnoush tnVs
rolled under almost every cohceNa az
,a;,ion VOORHEES, tells Of how theS
once had to roll on alleys exposed 10 'he
weather and covered with sahu'
An organization which has such goou
aims and objects as the United bo"ii"o
c,ubs of New York deserves the success
nth which il is meeting. Two or three
,ors gro there were cnly fifteen cluo'
.h. or.,anization, one of the condluohS
of membership being that 10 De eils'oie
club must not only be regularly organ,
;zed but must rent or lease alie!S an
,old q weekly club night. the huihoe'
., nresent is thirty-two. or totai lhoi-
,iduaI membership OF about hVe nun
dred. .. n,hicb
The .r,niteds" is an organization "hion
- .x;stod for twenty-ninc years anu
,,eat will be the celebration or the I'M!
.;.,h .rniyersary. year from 'ii'
,,h II WAS formed long before t'o
,u.r,can Bowling Congress, the ~"
-, por,,inR Association or any othel
...a, and "a a result is calieu
,,,r.er bowling association OF Amer
I,s activities consist of running o,i
ssv.ral competitions for the various OiuO
members. in addition TO heaopih 'o"-
r.ment open TO any team OIL "'e
RI. latter competition Is held eh'u"i'''
- ,a.t v,.r no less than eight nun
- combinations took part, total Oh
,han four thousand bowlers. hach
80 there are an outing and ana an
excursion. ,,..a poul-
a. p, organization, the United BOW
c,ub. will conduct tour or Europe
I'D. sumuer. the prime object being u
an,.r team. in the German champion
.hirs a, Berlin IN July. The steamship
pa,barossa has been chartered 10 san on
June . and IL is likely that TWO hu""' 'N
or more will form the party
This organization can do Things !" US
wav because the unit idea is paramount
There is a system OF penalzihs 'no'o
tat IN attend the meetings or 10 90 u'e
a,,,.s ,hev assume. on the other manu.
rsrfec, attendance is rewarded D! t'o
rr.senta,ion OF gold watchfoDs ne
,,.r,h.ps o, the United Bowling CiuoS
are one organization, pulling the same
way and all together
Vo,hing IN the way Of detail is iei'
,,.do,s and az a result. the interest III
"a. organization Is rapidly increasing
snd rho association itself IS in hourish-
,rr condition. Joseph Thum mas oeen
n,..lasut for ten successive terms the
r,orcv heing 10 let well enough alone
The "r-nlteds" rarely change officers.
when the governing bodies In ten pins
es, together. 81 wopd be well TO look
,,non the example OF the United Bo"lng
club,. for. as an illustration OF unison
r.rs.eted formation, and patriotic enort "
xo,id be dificult 30 Ind it's equal II
,he National or New York Bowling as
socta,ions could have such unity ana
s,ooo,hness what wonderful governing
l,ody bowling would have.
A national champion twelve years ago
Iohn Roster exhibited All the remark
abIe ability which made him famous
vhen he appeared recently az member
OF IN. Bergman team % New York In the
OHIO e,ate championship ~ Toledo. The
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