Evening star., 1915-01-31
identify OF STRANGE BOWLER
SEEMS TO BE VERY UNCERTAIN
Is He Really Herr Johann Gengler, Adven-
turer Extraordinary, or Keen
Witted American From Chicago?

and later roll Mr.. Aleck Dunbar, and
l peat him. Later l roll Mr.. Riddell
tfsiddell and Dunbar are two of the
pest tenpin bowlers in the country
and Mr.. Riddell wins from me $780, In
Luxembourg we have no finger holes in
the balls, and 1 do not like it, because
l lose.
Then Mr.. Ware and 1 go to Newark,
where we bowl against two good men
Mr.. Taylor and Mr. Finnegan. We were
best and we won," and here Herr Gensler
showed a clipping from Newark paper,
winch gave him an average of 214 for
| ten games In tenplns, a game with which
he claimed he was really not familiar,
While the scores of Mr.. Ware in duck
pins were 12s. 14S, 127, 10s, 131, ss, 1877,
80, 9S. 101. 146. 49,
we leave Newark to come to Wash
ington," continued Herr Gengler. .as a
| sister of Mr. Ware was playing at one
I of your theaters. ! bowled with your
excellent citizens, Mr. Krauss and Mr.
Hariey. Il was fortunate enough to win.
l po"led few games today in Balti-
more and from here we will go to the
exposition at San Francisco. Maybe I
VIII roll again before I leave-maybe for
sl9o, $500 or $500. If win. very WELL
and II lose. why-very we'll"
Ihis IS the story of Herr Johann Genglcr
, told OF himself, in part. Here is what
another man from New York, one closely
connected with that line of sport, had to
say after he had been told of the
phenomenal exploits of the stranger on
the local alleys and in Baltimore:
"A man of wonderful bowling abili-
| TIES has been making the rounds of
! the alleys in New York and has been
cleaning up d lot of money. He is one
Of the best men in the country and
mere are only three or four who can
| peat him at either ten or duckpns He
styles himself as :. German and tray-
els with a companion. who is nearly
! n not quite as good Il bowler as he
hlmself Is. Gengler Is the name he has
been rolling under, and he has really
oeen In Belgium, having been book
maker in that country. He lost a lot
OF money at Monte Carlo at one time
Chicago is the home city of the man /
have reference to, and think his name
is something like Hoffman.
u guess You have never seen any of
his trick stunts. Well, one he does is
70 set one pin twenty feet down the
aney' another twenty feet farther
lne and will curve the ball betws n
those two pins and get any pin yor
may set UP. l have seen him knock
down any pin of the ten time after
time IN THIS way He undoubtedly is
world" 'tto
whoever, or whatever he is the man
VINO styles himself as Johann GensIer
undoubtedly is the greatest bowler
Washington has ever known. He came
here and defeated the best the city al
lords ana he did it in a way that ad-
mltted OF no doubt as to his capabil-
tiles Whether he is really the Luxem
bourg citizen, forced by circumstance
to this country. or whether he is a
sharp Witted. brilliant Chica go bowler.
matters not. for he is one Of the best
performers in his line. 1t is to be
hoped that he will return properly
advertised-at some future date, for a
longer stay. in order that the bowling
fraternity at large may get an oppor-
tunlty to see feats with duckpins that
appear almost incredible from the
hearing of them.
Herr Gengler.: or whatever your
here put it, "our hats are Off to ro,,
ana we hope to see you again-but not
for a match at SO much per-