The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-03-13
That Little Game

one legged burgomaster Of OLD
1 New York who lead the big
LEAGUES way back in 1647, and
the dwarfs who entertained Kip
! Van Wrinkle with ten pins be-
fore the aforesaid Rip hit the
| hay for score Of years, must
have TUNED over in their graves
last Monday night when they
heard that game between two
teams of the Y. M. =. "A. league
was being played. The game
could not have been more holly
contested had it been for the
i Championship Of the FIJI islands
winner take all, 143 ringside,
and no hitting in the clinches.
The team, captioned by j. 5.
/ Fletcher. who handles old man
/ Pillsbury's -four for the Wash
burn trade, walloped the aggre.
CATION lead by Gray Thompson,
the heavy hardware man, to the
tune of III pins in the three
games. All the injured are ex-
i pected to recover as are the
i alleys.
Up until this time Gray
i Thompson and his gang bad
! been ''cock of the walk with
their 1000 per cent marked up
on the score card, and they
i brought along their Slaughter
ing bloch, prepared to hang up.
the carcass of the Fletcher
lambs, who are new in TING
league series. 1t bad been
Inoised about that 500 had been
| bet on the game, but this proved
10 be erroneous and the only
money said to have changed
Hands was when Roy Markham
made difficult spare for which
John Gibson tossed him ten
cents with which to buy cigar
4 Thompson s colts began slip.
ping with the very FIRST game
rolled and this gave Fletcher's
Ham bs courage. Thompson
started tie use Of the Australian
crawl stroke and the balls start
led making curves down the
alleys, going mighty close to tie
ditch. This 50 excited 1'homl-
son THAT hesforgot all<about the
foul line, thinking tie black
mark was being thrown at
lhim like q red flag TO a bull.
Thompson lost a pants button
Land when this gave way the bal
loon went up. The rest Of his
team went up also, with the ex
ceplion of Waters, who tried TO
+. to reach the 200 mark on the
score sheet. jimmie Cook be-
gan looking for place in the
cellar and came close with a
score Of less than 100. Larson's
average went down like Their
momeior on cold morning.
MARKHAM thought he was trow-
Ing pills to dying. calf and he
kept tbespectators rOaflng when
he picked cherries a number OF
/ times.
.Fletcher's lambs acted like
unlon gang. They did not be-
lieve in strikes, but they wanted
| every thing 10 spare. Geiser',
who has more steam than a big
IOmaha mogul engine, made
| everyone believe that he ate and
| sIept.in a bowling alley, because
this baby rolled close to the 200
mark and helped pull the fetch
Ter bunch off theirs 666 mark.
! Meskiine almost spilled the
beans for tile lambs, but came
! back in Lie third Ike priz
! lighter after he had received the
lc0nnt Of seven by a referee.
| Lund blowed in the holes Oh the
! balls and likewise "blowed'
number OF easy spares. Olson
was overturned and it took him
| some time to lind that he was
really in a championshipcontest
| Fletcher cut clrcles around tie
alleys, put the reverse english
| on his balls, but finally got 20
placing them about right. and
when the final scores were
totaled it was found that the
! Thompson giants had been
brought down to defeat. There