, 1923-02-12
AMERICAN BOWLERS WILL
HOLD BIG TOURNAMENT IN
SPRING, SUCCESS ASSURED
Ey A. L. LANGTRY

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MILWAUKEE, Feb. 1.-THE sue
cess of the coming tournament of the
american Bowling Congress, to be
neId in Milwaukee from March 10 to
April s, is now assured, and an entry
Of fully 1900 to 1000 teams is antiC.
| + ated by the congress officials. who
are preparing to handle the greatest
bowling tournament OF the decade,
and in fact the greatest athletic earn.
iva that the country has eve wit
messed.
Milwaukee and the entire state Of
Wisconsin are greatly enthused over
he prospects of n record breaker and
entries are pouring into the office of
secretary Langtry at Milwaukee
bringing the positive assurance of
success.
The building in which the tourna.
mem. is to be held in ons of the great.
est convention halls in the country,
so the bowlers have picked this year
a building hat will far outshIne any
former building that they have ever
been entertained in for 20 years.
There are few buildings in the
country that are spacI' us enough to
AAO ~ "a N"NAANs ASNA
alleys. side by side. without an OBJ
structIon, and still rave room for an.
other eight or ten mort alleys II
needed, and 1t Is beginning to look as
though eight more alleys will be in.
stalled, making the total battery 80,
instead of % as originally anticipated.
This is being contemplated on ac-
&C unit of the flood of early entries and
tie many reservations which ara to
be filled later by teams from all sec
ion of the country and Canada
500 Milwaukee Teams
Milwaukee with their loca! entry Of
five hundred teams will lead the 4
Of cities to enter fives. which VIII be
followed by Chicago with an entry of
Boz cams. These two cities alone Will
enter enough teams to make n huge
tournament. Wisconsin will con.
tribute another 200 teams in addition
to the five hundred from their met.
ropolls, while Illinois will have anoth.
er fifty outside OF Chicago.
Indians will have about so teams
With indianapolis being the big cen.
or OF contribution with 25 teams.
Ohio is coming strong, and will prob
ably have $50 teams, with Cleveland
leading the Buckeyes with rs quints.
Michigan will come in good style,
with Detroit leading the Wolverines
with fifty teams. and other cities in
that state following along with an.
other fifty. This will DO the first
year that Upper Michigan will have
teams, and they will be represented
with teams from Escanaba, Charming
and Marquette.
st, Paul and Minneapolis arc fiEur.
ing on thirty.five teams and n few
more from Minnesota will join the
ranks. while Iowa Will have about
fifteen, Missouri thirty.five, and a
few points like Salt Lake. Frisco,
Los Angeles and Tulsa, Okla, will be
represented.
From the East
The eastern delegation will be head.
cd by Buffalo with an entry OF forty
teams, and New York city with ten,
Pennsylvania with forty teams. SYRIA.
cuse. Rochester. Albany and other
New York state cities will come along
us there are many tournament bowl.
ers in h a section Of the country.
New Haven, Conn, is the farthest
east with two teams, md Jackson.
vile. Fla. is the farthest south with
two teams,
Winnipeg. Toronto, Montreal. Lon.
don, Hamilton and st. GATHERINGS, all
Canadian cities will represent the
Dominion at the tournament.
Milwaukee intends TO be n real host,
and will show the BOWERS Of the coun.
try the greatest bowling city in the
world.