New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-07
BOwlers from Canada
Show Way in Tourney
J.B. PeIletier, of Montreal,
Takes Lead in Singles
with COZ.
HOBBS AN ADEPT
IN HITTING SPARES
Major Gage Pleased with the
Entry and Says II Marks
New Era In the Sport.

the Canadian bowlers came TO the fore
with a vengeance during the FIRST TWEEN
ty-four hours of competition In the Ma
tional tournament at the Grand Cen
trail Palace. Everything is Canada in the
doubles and singles, with few excep-
tions. and, taken all in all, it was TO be
expected. The Canadians have estab-
lished pace.
J. b. Pelletier, OF Montreal, was the
first man to average the double century
in the singles, getting total OF 6OI.
With the tournament 70 run the great
or part of two weeks, one may well
imagine what will happen 70 that total
ere the schedule Is com pleted. Pelletler
rolled 1888, PIG and 2C3, with only one
break, that being a single pin missed
spare in the first frame Of the hrst
game.
The more spectacular performance
was that OF Frederick II. Hobbs, whose
affiliations embrace two clubs-the Al
gonqun and the Mohawk. "Hobbsie'
first tailed 200, followed with 1879 and
1874 during the making Of which he ne
gotiated no less than four difficult
spares. In the first game Hobbs made
the 5-6-10. In the second attempt no
tore off the T--8 combination, as well
as the left hand baby" while in the
final he did the best work Of the az
tcrnoon with the 81 as clean as
whistle. Hobbs's total Of $50 took sec
ond place.
In the doubles the leaders proved 20
be J. Cattaranich and \. La Belle, ot
Montreal, while their fellow country
men. K. J. Walker and V. Sparey, OF
the same city. mustered l,lA7 for sec
ond position.
Walker and SpayzY found Dame For
tune considerably r. ainst them. Each
man in the progress of the games on
slippery alleys foulsd, and II so hap
pened that at the time they were work
ing on strings of strikes. IL was esti-
mated that the pins lost and also the
moral effect of fouling meant at least
eighty pins TO the total. This number
would have given them wsil over ]. 2T.
or within few pins OF the score which
won the doubles championship for
Walter Tuthill and Johnny Nelson in
that memorable first tournament at At
lantic City nine years ago.
William II. Valentine, president OF
the New York Bowling Association.
was completely of his game. 10 was
| impossible for him 10 settle down, with
the result that he ball slid shy OF the
| head pin with scarcely a semblance OF
, a hook. His total in the singles was
modest 493, a total somewhat different
from his average.
Major NJ. W. Gage. secretary Ct the
National Bowling Association. called
attention to the fact that in all of the
one hundred teams entered for the
championships not one was what might
be termed an all star combination.
/ Thus the tournament resolves itself
into a competition in which the men
with "aXes to grind" have been quite
well eliminated, and the entry repre-
sents that element which, for the want
OF better designation, might be called
amateur"
This tournament marks a new era
in tenpins,' said President Valentine
yesterday. at means that the days OF
the all star combinations are done and
that the man who rolls for the fun OF
the game has come into his own.
There are those who are surprised
that the National Bowling Association,
through its local organization, the New
York Bowling Association, could mus
ter the number of teams and obtain
the splendid equipment we have here
without the financial aid OF business
interests or even the help OF the alley
owners in obtaining teams for this
tournament.
1T is a decisive victory for all that
is good in teEpins We are little be-
hind our last tournament in point OK
entry, but that makes no difference
when it is taken into consideration
that we had no support but that of the
bowlers themselves, and still we are
only few teams short
at shows what the bowlers can do
il they will only organize themselves
and control the game on their own ac-
count Personally, am very happy at
the result, especially when the brief
time in which this tournament was
arranged is taken into consideration"
After the games in the fvemen fxt-
ure it was found that the Canadians, OF
Montreal, lead, with 2,S05, within nine
pins of the score which won the first
championship nine years ago.
The Nationals, of Montreal, retained
second place, but the Broadway Palace
combination, Of this city, came into
third, with 2.73O, and the Elks. of Jer-
sey City, went into fourth, with 2,699.
The first Philadelphia team 70 take
the alleys was the Al Baltz outfit,
which mustered a total Of 1903.
The leaders in the tiye-man event fol-