Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-24
Bowling Notes

President Strotz and Secretary Locker of
the Middlewest Bowling association were in
the lineup Of the Des Moines team which
took in the recent sweepstakes. Both were
full Of the last tournament news and con
versation and were bubbling over with ad-
vance dope on next seasons event, which
will be held in their home burg. They pre-
dict an entry OF 150 teams, which would
make 1t some tournament
Sellers, the mlddlewest bowling champion
who rolled with the Des Moines team in the
sweepstakes. rolled good average game, but
did not do any Of the sensational rolling the
large crowd expected of him.
Frank Middaugh, who did some sensa-
tional match game rolling during the
sweepstakes, had just returned from
Alaska. where he had been since last March
Frank hadn't rolled ball since this time
but Omaha bowlers will testify that It
didn't seem to make much difference, as
he managed to be just wild enough to
chalk up several 900 totals and carry away
the dough,
Fremont bowlers are boosting for the
state tournament to be held there next
April. The bowling game Is lively through
out the state and the Fremonters are pre-
dieting record breaking entry.
The Women's Toggery team in the Metro
politan Women's league should make 1t in
teresting for the A, b. Sweetshops this
season. They have a good lineup which has
been practicing steadily since the first of
the season.
BY winning the entire series while the
Clara Bellies were dropping the odd one to
the Cory Mckenzie team, the Home Res
taurant wrecking crew went into first place
in the Booster league.
Two or three Of the weak teams in the
Booster league have been adding players
to bring them up to the leagues standard.
Ralph Sciple has been added to the lineup
of the Raymond Furniture Co. team.
The women's team representing the
American State bank have three bowling
coaches who are lending their services with
out compensation on account of their per-
sonal interest nNthe team. They are Scip!e,
Edison and Kars.
The Columbia Fire Insurance team. Rad
ford, Gillham, Bowers. Griffin ct al, have
ceased hurting challenges, which was their
policy until things became too hot for them.
Ole johnson tried to do the comeback In
the sweepstakes and succeeded fairly we'll
He entered the singles and came out With
552 total
Ernie Christensen, who was one of the
best local bowlers a few years ago. was an
interested spectator and scorer during the
sweepstakes.
: The next big tournament to be held is
the International which will commence
February IL IN MINI 4apols, .a
President Red" Ratekin of the Booster
league appeared In the lineup Tuesday night.
He rolled In his old-tme form
The Raymond Furniture and Luxus teams
tied up their third game In the Omaha
ttdeue last week. NtH tht Eoli-OH pOtu ttdIus
tried to donate the game to their op-
ponents, but Frank Jarosh accidentally
picked up a spare, and the furniture men
won out. '.
AL Krue is still struggling for that come
back. .
The sweepstakes fve-men event was won
by Lincoln team. but even at that 1t was
necessary for an Omaha bowler in their
lineup to do the heavy scoring. However,
the Capital City bowlers won the singles
nd alt hky than,s aIv
will have to hang the jewelry on them for
that.
With Don Amsden out OF the lineup, the
Corey McKenzie team won series and from
the Clara Bellies at that We thought II
couldn't be done.
Cap" Holiday has discovered that 1t is
easy to roll l75 with four strikes in a row
for starter, He did this very thing in
two games last week
The rocent sweepstakes tournament re-
suits easily displays the remarkable strides
to the front the bowlers out in the state
have been making since their start In the
game. At first they were weak and unable
to stand chance when competing against
their superiors from Omaha But they stuck
with 1t, ofttimes contributing their money
to the pot which Omaha bowlers always
grabbed. Now things have changed. Some
excellent talent has been developed. espe-
cially in Lincoln, Fremont Columbus,
wahoo, Grand Island and Schuyler. Omaha
teams which play these teams on their home
drive now buy round trip tickets, to be sure
of having enough money to get home on,
and the results in the recent sweepstakes
show what the sharks from these burgs can
do away from home. Lincoln won three
firsts out OF four chances with Wahoo bowl
ers in their lineup. Schuyler and Fremont
were away up in the prize lists with good
scores. The Improvement Of the out in the
state bowlers will do much toward increas-
Ing the entry In the coming state tourna-
ment.
Schuyler boasts of a bowling team having
Ave brothers In the, lineup. II is good one,
too. This team entered In the sweep
stakes. although only three OF the Van Dusen
brothers were in the lineup.
Baker was out OF the c. c. C. Billiard
Parlors lineup Thursday night, consequently
they refused to play for any dough
With the Huntington league In the field.
several well known class rollers are again
actively participating in the game
The Women's league has taken another
step forward In the game and from now
on the foul line rule will be in force II
a player goes over the line they will hear
about II. Many will be on hand Monday
night to hear the fowls tfouls> called.
With the application Of the foul line rule.
several of the women will have to shorten
they run they take, or shorten their delivery.
The Home Restaurants and n Lincoln all
star team will roll series this afternoon
on the Omaha alleys