Show BOWLERS TAKE CHARGE OF TOWN Every Train Bringing to toI I Compete Lake Tour Tournament I CONGRESS TO OPEN TODAY Bps BUSINESS NESS MEETING THIS MORN TONIGHT TO DAYS a meeting of delegates of W B C at club 8 p Thompson opens tournament by rolling first ball team champion championships championships ships start on four alleys Teams starting Alley No Den Denver Denver ver Captain Alley No Salt Lake Captain Alley No San Francis Francisco co Captain Martin MartinJ Alley No Salt Lake J 1 Captain G Smith From every train arriving yesterday esterday an observer would have noticed alight dozens of Individuals each carrying in his hs hand a round grip looking affair that closely resembled a dynamite bomb It ft had bad a Strong leather handle looked heavy and dl I in nce closely re resemble the instruments used by Russians to o gets get rid of their public officials Had the he same observer r read the sporting pages of the leading papers of the west of late he would have at once it was the horde of w tern bowling experts come cometo I to Zion to bowl with the Saints and the grip looking affairs each carried the own owners ers rs favorite ball with which he hoped to carry riy home the western bowling cham championship championship At Work on Alleys Last night had one visited the various bowling alleys in the city he would have en these same persons with the afore aforementioned aforementioned I mentioned balls knocking down ten pins as if their life depended upon seeing how many pieces could be made out of the stick of wood us used d as a ten Tin pin Crowds of s spectators packed the alleys and the play and many wondered what kind of a chan chance e Salt Lakes expert alley men would have In competition with the tho best there is in each of the large e I cities of the west those who keel the pin setters busy during the evening was T E Burke a member of the Imps of San Francisco team who leads the bowlers of the me metropolis of the Pacific coast with an aver average age ae of over O for the seasons bowling Mrs H C Scott the champion woman bowler of the Pacific coast d the j glad hand time and time after aUer strike showed she could bowl some som 4 on strange alleys Then there was er and his bunch of Denver cracks Who seemed to todeal deal in nothing but strikes A W V Mar Martin tin president of the Wi Yo B C and one of Oaklands leading bowlers gave a CO cor correct imitation of how the game was played across th bay Shee Uin an and a crowd of miners from Butte ave the Salt Lak Lakers rs an Intimation of hat they would have to do to beat na out It was an evening evenin of warmIng up of what ma may be expected for the remaInder of the week in Salt L Lake k while the bowl bowlers ors ers own the town Official Opening Today Today is the official opening or of the Western Bowling congress when Salt Lake and the west will see the greatest of bowlers which ever gath gathered gathered ered In the west in the fierce competition friendly yet et for championship honors At t this morning a meeting of the delegates will be hEld at the Corn Com club It Is then the business end of the tournament nt will re Ie attended to Lo Reports or of committees tIre the election of of officers and in all probability the selection o city for the next tournament a year from this date will be con eluded Fun Begins This Evening In the the real un begins At AtS S Mayor Ezra Thompson wIll 0 of fI open the congress b by sending ending the first ball baIl down the illey Then will wUl fol an address of welcome and ad addresses by offIcers rs of the organization By all will be ready for the real sport of the Four teams were cre selected last evening M as the first to begin ss on on the four alle alleys g this evening They are the Bruns s of Denver the lisps Imps of San Fran Franci ci circo co and the tIu Tu Tuxedos edos of the Salt SaIt Lake City league and the Crystals of the Corn Com nier mercial ial league of Salt Lake Each team t will bowl three games each which will end the first days eries on the second day the bowl bowling n will start at 1 p rn m and will continue until at night This will be the pro gramme each day unless it Is found necessary necessary essary to play games mes jn in the morning to tot t through In the five days Alleys Have Been Resurfaced i The Third South street alleys h hive e been fitted up for the tournament and seating arrangements have been made to accommodate accommodate about 1000 spectators The alleys have been resurfaced and will be like new when the fIrst boll ball is sent spinning down the narrow strip of smoothly laid boards Th The visIting bowlers who on an inspection Inspection tion trip saw the alleys last evening ex cx expressed pressed themselves as satisfied with them and said they could not have asked for better conditions Some of them were in attendance at the Milwaukee tournament last year and saId that Salt Lake for the size of the tournament was fully funy as well prepared to take care of the games gamest t More Teams Coming L Jenkins was a busy man last ev evening and could not give any positive 1 information as to the number of entries there would b be in the tout Many LUany t bowlers were due on the night traIns while some will not be here until this morning This ie could S say and that is every city of Importance in the west would be represented with the exception ot of Spokane At the last minute something 4 went wrong vong with the Inland Empire city 7 and a telegram was received stating that would not be represented ow II lug to a discord which had arIsen on the Spokane team This is regretted by Se Secretary Jenkins d well nell as those who ave known the Jr groat at Interest st taken In the congress by Spokane bowlers It was at Spokane a year ear ago the congress was organized awl 3 this town was looked upon as a possIble wInner or of the tournament this year Entries Coming In Among the outside bowlers who ho have registered as entrants In the tournament are the followIng N J L Shaffer Seattle N R B Warren Seattle S P Dysinger Los IdOS Angeles Forr Forrest t Gillman Giliman Santa Sana i R C Santa Monica A L Jenkins Seattle S L Brum San Francisco P R H P Seattle Wil WilHam Ham Brown S Seattle attle AndY Tacoma Mrs H c Scott Los Angeles R It O 0 Baker Denver H Gorsett Den Denver ver cr T J A Good Denver William El Elwert Elwert wert Pu bI George Georg l KUppinger Den vcr ocr M 11 T Sheehan Butte T T J Ellis Butte A Merkle But Butte eO 0 W Kirk Kirkpatrick Kirkpatrick patrick Butte L B ft A Perham Butte O 0 G Taylor Butte Themes Thomes E Burke Los Angeles I |