The Washington herald., 1916-10-29

. and 2l3. Upon only one occasion since
then has this mark of 719 beer in danger
Of being topped and that was during the
season Of 1901, when William f. War
ren, in a comeback stunt, in what then
was known as the New District League,
registered a set of 10, with games of
26S, 23S and 2O4. In this set Warren, up
until the fifth box Of his last game, bid
fair to set a mark that would be many
pins above that of Hardie's but bad
| breaks in three OF the last five boxes
| cost him what chance he had Of making
a new record.
To William L. Miller belongs the credit
and honor of having shot the highest
game ever bowled in a league match.
MiIler's mark of 2SS was made on the
night of January II, 1906, on the Saenger-
bund Alleys and again George Cox's
Acmes. as seemed to be the fate of that
sterling aggregation when records were
made, was the goat" In this record
game Miller started with ten straight
strikes each and every hit being in the
pocket, and there are many who wit
messed the game that believe had it not
been for an over and unnecessary amount
of enthusiasm displayed by one of the
Saengerbund roOters the German star
would have went all the way to a perfect
game. After making the tenth strike,
this rooter IS his ecstacy, unthinkingly
bodily from the floor started a Hull
Hull dance with him up and down the
runway. Cool as he was when under
fire or in a place where the wood was
needed to win a game, there is no doubt
IN 80 writer's mind, and the opinion is
probably shared by many others who
. ".,uCs,Jd the set, that this untimely dis
play Of enthusiasm distracted Miller, for
on his next shot he crossed the head pin
for the first time and on a light hit left
! the five pin standing. This he blew on
. his next shot, giving him a grand total
of 2S for the game, mark that has
never been eQualed or beaten in competi-
ton play.
While Miller's 2S8 is a record for league
match. his game has been passed several
times by bowlers in open games. Among
those who have topped MilIer's mark are
AL Rodrick, Bill Parker, Hank Bailey,
and one or two others The bunch beat
the competition mark by one pin, but as
stated above their games were not rolled
in match games and therefore can hard
ly be classed as records. The highest
game ever bowled in the District was
turned in by Bert De Yo, of the old
| Treasury quint. De YO in a match game
with Danny ODonnen on the Palace AL
| leys was trying out a new rubberball,
and starting with a spare in the first
/ frame he wound up with eleven straight
strikes for a total of go Rumor at one
| time-to be exact. March 25. 19O4-had
Hank Allen credited with a 29O game on
the Rathskeller Alleys, but the score was
never verified.
Another individual performance, that of
Harry Krauss reeling of an average of
over 200 for sixty games in the District
League, is probably only overshadowed
by Krauss own feat of shooting 118 con-
secutive games in twenty-fOur hours
without leaving the alleys, for an average
of 1s5 fiat This is undoubtedly the
greatest bowling feat ever pulled off in
the National Capital, or elsewhere. In
this time, it was figured out, Krauss
pegged the big sixteen-pound mineralite
to the pit no less than ,S47 times, or as
one bowler figured, he had hefted 29, ,952
pounds of dead weight a distance of over
twenty-one miles. Some days work,
even If it was a twenty-four-hour day
Job.
In the matter of consecutive games won
by team, there have been many bril-
liant spurts by quints in which as many
as fifteen, eighteen and on a few occa-
sions, twenty-one games have been gone
through without defeat, but the record
Of the Ambulance Corps, of the old Ma
tional Guard, in winning thirty-two
straight games, is a record that has
stood ever since its making and perhaps
will never be equaled. In this record
breaking drive the Ambulance Corps ag-
gregation. in a twelve-club circuit, start
ed the season with a clean sweep of its
first set and continued making pace
through the league until they encoun-
tered the last Quint in the league. In
this set they handily won the first two
games, but the last one went against
them, breaking their streak. It is need
less to say that after this performance
the league disbanded.
While the team scores of the next two
or three years, as a whole. were better
than ever before, the Saeugers' set of
S.lOS still remained supremey on February
l5 1909, the District Lezgue schedule
called for a set between the Jolly Fat Men
and Saenserbund. on ythe formers al
leys, and as considerable rivalry was
loose at that time. b tn teams fighting