The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-07
BOWLING
NATIONS BEST TO BOWL.

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| picked bowlers, the nations best,
according to a compilation of tour
ney and match averages. will COM
pete in the first annual world 8
classic tournament here Feb. 8 to
! rs. The contestants have been Sc
| lected from large field. which was
narrowed to so and later to "a.
The selected competitors will
meet each in a series of five game
matches, making lis games for
| each of them. A combination of
total pins for the lis games and
the number of games won will
count in the final rating. A point
system of an accumulative nature
has been devised for the tourna-
ment. The man with the highest
standing at the end of the tourna-
ment will be declared the world s
| champion.
In the past, the winner of the all
events in the American Bowling
Congress tournament has been con-
sidered the leader in the bowling
world. There is a certain element
of duck in rolling a few games and
a man may roll below or above his
normal average The Marathon of
lis games, which will last for 10
consecutive days, is believed to be
by the tournament committee Il
test which will determine the actual
bowling champion.
Three stars are believed to be
outstanding contenders for the title.
Mort Lindsay, holder of the gen.
eral high average in the singles in
the A B. c. for the last five years
with 205 4145 pins is one of the
favorites Jimmy Smith of Milwau-
kee is another and the third is jim
ME Blouin of Chicago. AS the
tourney date draws near. specula-
ton is rife as to the possibilities
of any of this trio winning, al
though there are many who are
backing local favorites
Virtually all of the larger bowl
ing centers of the country are rep
resented in the big event, although
Chicago leads in the number of
bowlers selected. The fact that
five of the six leading bowlers from
the standpoint of composite aver
ages in A B. c. tournaments for
the last five years are Chicago men
shows that this city is a leader in
the pin sport.
The tournament will be an innov-
alton from more than one stand
| point. In the first place it has
! been arranged for the express pur-
pose of determining the one lead
ing pin getter in the country. The
second new feature is the method
/ Of scoring.
In the past, all championships
/ have been determined by either the
number of games won or total pins
! knocked down Louis P Peterson,
president of the tournament com
mittee, has %instituted a scoring
system in which both will count.
For each so pins one point will be
allowed and one point will be
counted for each game won. For
each pin more than a multiple OF
/ so picked, will be allowed frac-
I ton of point and fractions rs
we'll as the points made in one
match will be carried forward 10
! the next The grand total thus
made by each bowler will determine
his final rating.
! The new scoring system will be
used TO show the spectators the
progress of the contestants at all
times during the tournament. Each
man while bowling will not be com
| pet.ng only with his opponent but
also will be running competition
with the bowlers both below and
above him in the averages much
in the manner of a baseball race in
the summer as much of the inter
est being in the percentage columns
as in the performances of the teams
themselves.
Bowlers picked for the competi-
ton are getting in readiness for the
event Most of the "a selected have
averages of 200 or better for their
rolling this winter and a similar
high average is virtually insured
by the various competitors and the
incentives of more than $4,000 prize
money besides the championship
diamond medal, it is believed. will
be factors in raising the general
standard of the performers.