Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-21
Many Seek Title
Candlepin CHAMP

Preston FdrfaF, tne crack bdth
cAndleptn sharpshooter, who electri-
fed Portland fans when he travelled
a 1o-string gait of 1113 and stripped
the State championship title from
Ralph Pearson of that city. is being
swaniped with challenges for title
matches, and the Shipping City star
who earned the Maine title by one
of the finest exhibitions of timber
wrecking ever seen on Portland lanes.
is perfectly willing to defend his
crown, but with the close of the sea-
son drawing near realizes that it
would be impossible for any bowler
to take on the whole wide world in
challenge matches. Maurice Reynolds
of Bath was the first under the wire
with a challenge when Farrar came
through ins his match with Pearson;
then Pearson challenged the winner
of the Farrar- Reynolds match for
chance to regain his lost title. Fol-
lowing Pearson have come a string
of challengers, including Divide Ca
ron, the Westbrook star, and Emery
Russell, the Lewiston small ball
king.
Farrar was in Portland the past
week getting a line on the proposed
State championship tournament, ten
tative plans for which were an
nounced last Sunday. The State
champion does not see why he
should enter such a tournament
against all corners on Portland alleys
but suggests what. looks like a
square $3.50 proposition in announ-
cling that he would gladly take on
the winner of such a tournament in
20-string duel to a decision with
suitable purse AID the State title at
stake.
Such a tournament. Farrar be-
lieves, would be an honest elimina-
ton race, in which all of the bowl
ers who have rushed at him with
challenges would have a chance to
settle the question of who is really
entitled to a chance at the candle
pin title and the siZeable pot which
would go to the winner on a take
all" proposition.
Farrar, of course as owner of the
State championship is surely entitled
to have something to say about any
State tournament that may be staged
and he is also, perfectly within his
rights when he contends that. Bath
bowling fans are entitled to half of
the decisive match on Shipping City
alleys. The Bath bowler travelled to
Portland and lugged home the bacon,
n 70 deY 70
invade the Shipping City and take
away the title if they can turn the
trick, is the way many fair minded
fans sized up the proposition in nH-
n,erous bowling bees the past week.
The Bowlodrome announcement. of
he proposed gold medal State title
tournament has also started lively
argument in Portland bowling circles,
and q Number of bowiers eligible no
such a tournament in discussing the
matter believed that to be a success
the tourney should be split up into
sections and contested on different
lanes or on alleys which would be
represented in the competition. The
BOWlodromc alleys are the home of
some of the pin shooters who would
enter the skinny stick tussle but at
the same time Monument Square
and Pines have some talent which
cannot see the proposition of travel
ing the whole journey on foreign
alleys. There would doubtless also
be number of entrants from out of
town, but to these the matter of
alleys would probably not make
much material difference.
Whatever may he the outcome of
the discussion, Fafrars proposal
seems to be o square and sportsman
like solution and should the tourna-
ment be conducted on an elimina-
ton basis with the Bath champion
taking on the winner it is II sure
gamble that the decisive match would
be a fitting climax TO the present
bowling season.