The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-04-01
City League Will Finish Its
List Of Games Within
Short Time.
PROVES A BIG SUCCESS
Much Interest Aroused in
Game Extinct in Garden
City for Years.

SAS AA1PsO 0h10ouCA0 d00VNAussSs
ends on April Is. The revival Of
bowling in the Garden city has beer
attended with magnificent success and
It seems certain that the interest In
bowling will not die during the COM
ing summer. but will merely lie dor
mant until along in October or Novem-
Der when the indoor form Of amuse-
ment and exercise will again become
popular. Bowling died out in the
Garden. city about nine or ten years
ago. a. enough an occasional tin
Grant made an attempt to revive inter-
est, none met with success until Jim
my Piquett. for years Missoula's FORE
most sport promoter. decided to aban-
don his fight game. through which
many classy boxing exhibitions were
put on in this city, and put his heart
into the bowling alleys which he had
built as the main feature Of his cs-
Enlistment on West Main street.
Through the efforts of Piquett and a
number of bowling enthusiasts, who
worked conscientiously on the propo.
sition for some time an eight club
league was organized last November
and has proved an immense success.
Bowling is clean, healthy sport,
which gives the most neglected mus
Giles free play and much needed exer-
else. and is to be recommended to ev-
erybody from the Tired Business
Man" to the callow youth who wishes
to build UP a strong and healthy ply
sique.
The season started with eight clubs
on November 20. The schedule calls
Tor p matches for each team as every
team In the league plays three matches
with every other member of the
league, each match consisting of three
games. The schedule will end on
April 49,.
Eight Teams start.
The eight teams that started in the
league race were the Missoula Mer-
camille company, the Farleys, the
Highlanders, Bonner, the Chicago Ca
rage, Dentists, the Muscular and the
Forest Service. During January the
Chicago Garage, which was in last
place by big margin, threw up the
ghost, being replaced Immediately by
the Phoenix team, members of which
We're mainly from the same line of
endeavor as their predecessors.
The Phoenix team took over the
Chicago Garage teams record and in
cidentally the cellar position, when
they took over the franchise in the |
league, but the rise OF the team has
been steady and the Phoenix crew is |
now resting in fourth place and look
ing forward to a squirt which they hope !
will bring them into the first division.
However. as the Bonner team is six
games ahead of the Phoenix, with only
nine games left, while the auto men
have the same number of games
against good teams left, the chances
are that the millmen will be able to
hold their position.
Aighlanders Start We'll.
The Highlanders held the league
for the initial weeks of the
race. but were finally crowded out by
the Missoula Mercantile team, which
has been playing very consistent
game since 1t arrived at the top Of
the ladder. The Farleys have ~been
grating around the first division, but
seem to have settled down into sec
ond place, with an excellent oppor-
unity of climbing into first place If
he leaders slump just for a night or
,wo. The Highlanders have dropped
INTO third place, while the Bonner
who held second place
or quite awhile, are in fourth place.
With a chance of climbing higher II
hey regain their early season form.
rhe Phoenix are next, with the Den.
lists, for long time, a first division
cam, in sixth place. The Dentists
ave changed personnel oftener than
my other team in the league, and it
S mostly due to that fact that the
cam has dropped into the second IL
ision. The Forest Service and the
teams hold seventh and
ighth places. The Muscular team
tarted off well and for a month was
p among the contestants for first
lace. but although there are some in
ividual stars on the team, the fall
the Fourth Estate has been rapid
nough monotonous. during the last
aw weeks. The Forest Service has
uttered from change of personnel,
20. but there are some good players
n the team and they may climb high
: before the season ends.
For individual work the nonors must
o to DR.. Anderson, Of the Dentists,
no for several months has possessed
he highest average per game. An
erson has varied from ia to 17s, his
resent mark. for the last three
onths. Farley. of the Farleys. had
a average of 172 for several weeks,
ut later dropped a couple pins below
lat mark. Other men who have held
p their averages steadily are Lar
IN, Lundwall. Ashbrook. Gibney, Mil.
r, Swartz and Buckley.
The record for single game Is held
Y Stadler. who rolled 236 Monday
light. breaking record of 1913 estab.
shed just week before by Larson.
, rlav with 090 held tho hopor <>ra