Evening star., 1926-04-04

Yes, sir, stated the Ola Iltnef
positively, ''if that mystery is really
solved, bowlers with averages around
120 will be as thick as the dandruff on
your coat collar"
Yes, YES" said the Kid. go on.
Your story interests me strangely"
Calls 1t Sprained Ankle.
DO YOU remember when Harry
Armiger sprained his ankle trying to
hook that 9-I0 break in the Lafayette
odd Fellows match and had to
taken from the game?" asked the
Old Timer
Il know that he stopped after TIL
third game" said the Kid, 'and was
muttering something about a com
plex' whatever that is, but the
sprained ankle stuff is new to me-" Fl
Never mind" comforted the OLD
Timer. lots of things are new to yoa.
And it's a mean trick they play on
Armiger, persuading him to get into
the lineup and then making the al
leys so fast that his great curve ball
Is useless Anyway, the conventional,
thing in these degenerate bowling
days would have been to send in as
relief man for Armiger some young
ster like John Pinspiller Evans,
strong on brute force but a trif1e shy
on the scientific angles of the bowling
game. Fortunately the big boss o
Lafayette Lodge was there that eve
ming, and he proceeded to show VIII.
he is the big boss. Surveying the
available reserve talent. he concluded
that j. Pinspiller, despite his lack OF
thatch adornment, was too young and
inexperienced to intrust with so re
sponsible a burden, with a lead of but
130 pins and two games still to co.
Williams Comes to Rescue.
Well" continued the Old Timer
solemnly, after a period of tense de-
liberation. during which you could
hear pins falling, so to speak, Arinl-
gers relief man made ms appear
ance-Jack Williams. Yes, sir, Jack
Williams, who made his first appear
ance on the old Palace alleys years
ago at so young an age that he step
ned on the runWayS with Il milk DOT
lie in one hand and a bowling ball In
The other. The same Jack Williams
whose pep was so abundant that IL
is asserted that he flavors his taoascp
with INT, whose years are SO many
that he was made historian OF ooWi,
ing association because events OF ~
wears ago are but as of yesterday 70
him lack Williams, who back IN
1904 helped Harry Krauss unpack IL
the old Palace subway alleys the frst
set of duckpins ever brought into the
city soo,orod
..He certainly did his stuff, declared
the Kid. They were kidding him at
first. but as soon as he got started
he sure made 'em fold up their maps.
..You bet he did, exclaimed the
Old Timer. "Ah, there were bowlers
in his day Naturally, 1t took JACK
little while to get the old wing zoos
ened up. You youngsters sometimes
get a little edge on us veterans IN
that way. His first game, you refheI1-
her. was 10. He followed THIS with
a count of SO, and then, as you know
the police were called in to stop the
slaughter. 1t is rumored that Glenn
Wolstenholme sent for the coppers TO
keep Jack from beating his 173 count,
which Williams certainly would nave
done in his next effort.
II don't believe Glenn would do any
thing like that" insisted the Kid.
Vile Accusation Denied. !
at is a vile accusation" admitted
the Old Timer, and Williams himself
declares that there is nothing to 1t.
But you can just picture what he
would have done in couple Of more
games, going the way he was"
Yes" admitted the Kid, land all
this is very interesting; but, just
where does the great bottle-label mys-
terry come imp
I'm getting around to that" de-
clared the Old Timer. Did you no
lice that when they decided to call
on Williams to save the day they
found him over there at the soda foun-
tain with Al Gardner?'
Yes" said the Kid, that's true /
noticed that. What ahout it?''
We'll" continued TIE Old Timer
they had to drag Jack away from the
fountain to get him into the game at
all; and they almost had to resort to
violence to get him on the alleys foI
that 139 game. Don't you remember
how the game was held up until they
could lead him out on the funways?
Well, I'm inclined to think that right
there at that soda fountain is the solu
ton of the great bowling mystery"
I'm listening" announced the Kid,
unravel the mystery
Fail to Solve Mystery.
Ten or twelve years ago-how time
flies-Earry krauss was bowling with
the old Royals think--up at Joe
Thum's alleys in New York City. 1t
musta been the Eastern State bowling
tourney, and, say, now that ! think
of it, Armiger was the big money win
ner on that trip: had the old curve
working great, and things were break
ing badly for Harry krauss' team
l think they were shooting at the rub
berbanded pins They were so far
behind in the final game that it looked
like they were In the second race, if
YOU get what | mean? Harry had
registered a spare in his ninth box
When his turn came to shoot they
couldn't locate him at first. Finally
he was discovered, like Jack Williams,
over at the fountain, opening bottle
of mineral water He finished it and
hurdled the spectators to take his
place on the alleys. The smoke was
so thick that he could not see the
score sheet, so he asked how many
pins the team needed TO win Just
as a joke, some guy called cut Fifty
Harrys first shot was 4 strike. giving
him 20 in the ninth box. The next
two shots We're strikes, also. counting
so in the tenth-and he had the so
pins. What ruar went up from the
boys. who had heard that guy call for
the so. They all congratulated Harry
on his shooting and then broke the
news to him gently that the team was
still plenty pins in the rear Harry
didn't seem to mind. All he said was,
Gimme another bottle of that mineral
water, and I'll shoot nothing but
strikes all evening"
Efforts Prove Futile.
We'll, sir" went on the Old Timer.
at that the whole bunch made a
sprint 20, the fountain and h wled
for som, of the stuff that Harry
krauss .lad leen drinking. The gay
selling the dGnks did not remember
what Ii was. Finally they located the
hottie that Harry had thrown aside
Ssut tbs lahel was gona The boys tried