Show GREAT V EVENT IS BEGUN Thompson Rolls First Ball and Makes Strike With Aid of Boy V REGULAR PLAY COMMENCES CROWD WITNESSES START OF GREAT TOURNEY TO DAYS 2 p m Man Teams Alley Seattle cap tam Sheffer Alley Angeles Los An Angeles n geles captain Dysinger Alley Butte captain Sheehan Alley Salt Lake captain Krouse p m woMan Teams Team Alley and Partner San FrancIsco t Alley and El EI 1 w wrt rt Denver Alley Smith and McLeod Salt Lake V Alley and Baker Denver p m Teams Alley and Downing Denver V Alley tt and Brew Brewerton Brewerton erton Salt Lake Alley and Sliver SIlver nale Los Angeles Alley and Sheffer Seattle S 8 p Teams Alley Dev Denver r captain Gaston Alley association Ogden captain Camp L Alley Salt Lake cap captain tain tam A W Smith Alley Ogden cap captain tain tam Leedon V 1030 p Teams V Alley and Merrill San Francisco Alley and Jenkins Seattle V Alley and Gilman V Los Angeles V Alley 4 and Ellis Butte V A crash tops tur t tumbling ot of a full or of ten tevi plus pins a 9 wild yoU yell from j nearly 1000 and a 3 dull boomIng sound followed by a blinding bUnding flame of oC oCa ofa a the Bowling congress tournament was on E Ezra ra Thom on of Salt Lake was the bo bowler ler who the sixteen pounds or of lignum vitae down the alle alloys s the cheers came from a house to suffocation and the b and sud sudden sudden den flame was a flashlight picture taken of the greatest event ever undertaken by western bowlers A clean strike resulted from the first ball The mayor surprised every one by sending the ban ball straight at the bead 1 pin ln It hit sqUare and was what a bowler wOUld call a strike Caviling said the reason the fine record V was as made was because a 0 boy pulled a string At any rate ball baU and pins tumbled Into one conglomerate mass at atthe atthe the bottom of the pit And the V ment was on V anti Mayor Welcome Y Vice President W S on be behalf halt half ot the Salt Lake bowl rs r welcomed the visiting ton ten ln in men to Salt Lake Mayor Thompson was then Introduced d dand and he be likewise welcomed the visitors V j only that the m mayor went a little fur further furI i I ther and turned over the Keys of the I to the visitors f Then c came me th tie tedious job of weigh weighing IL ing each eRch ball The crowd of may have wondered what was for forand and for their V It should I be said sald that the rules regulate th the V weIght of the balls to sixteen pounds bach pach Each ball therefore had to e officially weIghed before the tourney was allowed to proceed The officers of the tournament to together gother gether with the visiting players were lined up for a photograph and the al alte alleys te leys s were cl cleared for fot business After each team had been awarded Its place Captain I 1 M Barratt official referee asked if all was ready and then gave gaye the signal to begin the struggle for th the western bowling championship Stage Fright t First With a feeling of what appeared to tobe tobe be stage fright the four leading men menI I of the Denver the San Francisco Imps the Salt Lake Tux rux Tuxedos edos and the Salt Lake Crystals stepp stepped d forward to cast the first ball Leaving the head of the alleys almost simultaneously there were four crashes and on each alley pins were left stand standIng standIng Ing The second ban ball was sent after the first and of the four men Gyllen Gyllenswan swan of the Crystals was the only one oneto oneto to get a spare It did not look Jook good for Cor bIg scores with this kind of a starter and the crowd picking its favorites began to coach the men to tobe tobe be stead steady The second round of bowlers faced the pins Again there was a crash and JImmy Collins one of the youngsters of the Crystal team swept the alley clear cicar of pins Dins It was the first strike of the tournament and like the first spare went to the same team The crowd brOks forth with cheers fiB as the youngest team In the tournament started with a lead Then the bans balls flew fiew thick and fast but the pins refused to fall faU as they are wont to do In the league g games mes held in the city every night The local men seemed to fare better than the visitors clearly outclassed in the records made this winter Trouble in Runways The trouble seemed to lie in the run runways runways ways which had been planed for the occasion and there was a quick chan chanIng Ing ot of shoes and sliding of feet over the floor in an endeavor to get the proper slide before delivering the ball baIt Mc McLeod Ic Leod of the Tuxedos was the first to get next and made several passes with the ball before letting It go Walton Valton of the same team could not get I his stride and dropped out after the first game Allen Ien taking his place Tren from the Denver contingent of rooters came caine a cOntinued series or of orY Y yells Captain and his Teen men had truck struck their Dace nace and began legan to out outstrip trip the rest The Imps of San Francisco were carefully picking their Way and were soon In hot pursuit of the leading Denver bunch while the Salt Lake teams began to get weaker as 8 the game progressed When final scores were were in it was seen the Denver te team m got away winner on the first nl nights series by over two hundred points When the games gaines for tor last night had finished one and all spoke in the high highest highest est terms of the condition of the al alle alleys le leys pS and the pins They did not hit the pins said Captain Gaston of the of who was an interested sp eta tor Another said it was stage fright but all agreed some high scores would be made as soon as the bowlers got down to business It was long before the gome began that the seating space was wag entirelY inadequate Every seat In Inthe Inthe the Crown alleys on West Third South street ws was taken long before the tour tourney tourney ney began and many were turned away lUay This was pleasIng to the pro promoters who have worked unceasingly t make the tournament a success and vas M frequently mentioned by the vis visitors visItors as showIng It a healthy condition for tor the sport in Salt Lake Woman Will Bowl Today Today greater things are promised One of the features of the tournament will be held this aft afternoon when Mrs H C Scott the woman champion from Los LOB Angeles will wUl compete with fo four r rm m men n In one or of the This match will take 2 In all eIght teams and andt twelve t elVe teams are scheduled for thIs afternoon and evening Ogden will have Its first in inthe inthe the game today while the L s Angeles Butte and of Seattle will make their first appear ab ahee ce V Secretary A A L last evening said the Salt SaU Lake bowlers made it extremely hard to schedule games by not responding to the demand for ar af afternoon games Some of the visitors are giving a week to the congress while a few of the local men Will not take the trouble to get away from business a couple of hours in the after n neon fn to help out the schedule com coin e eThe V The Portland team arrived in the city yesterday but does not come corne on until Friday This will give the men from the exposition city a chance chanco to limber up before the ordeal As yet it is hard to give a line of any kind of the winners of the tour The high score of the Bruns Brunswick Brunswick wick team last night it is thought will m not do at all as several of the teams are now ready to bet they will make a better mark The hope of SAlt Lake now rests on the Crescents and Acme team Both or of them are strong combinations who It Is expect expected ed will do better than the Salt Lake teams of last Jast night The end of the tournament Is V not yet in sight and Secretary Jenkins could not give a line last evening on when it would end Several match games are being arranged between the leading teams to be played after the tournament Business Meeting Held The last meeting the present members rs of the executive committee of the con congress congress gress was held yesterday morning at atthe atthe the club The business of the year was gone over and the officials ls appointed to take charge of the tournament tournament ment It was decIded at this meeting to hold the annual meeting ot of the delegates Friday morning at the Commercial club at which time the selection of n a I place to hold the next tournament wilL wilLbe willbe be brought up Denver and San Fran Francisco I cisco are the two only active candidates I for the tourney and the Ule Colorado 0 town seems to be doing the most hustling I At the close of the meeting the fol following i lowing were yere V named to take charge of I the Ule tournament Official umpire C J I I Nettleton official referee Captain I M Barratt official scorer W D Rishel lUshel official judge of pins Andrew Anderson official custodIan of pins Tack Jack Quinn I prize committee A L Jenkins of S Sat Sattie at I ItIe tIe A W Martin of San Francisco Dr i Merrill of Oakland I This committee held a meeting dur during during ing the afternoon and decided upon the prizes which would be given for the tournament These were post posted posted ed at the aJIe alleys s last evening before th tournament began as follows First second third i 15 fourth 50 fifth 25 The prizes for the th and single tournaments will be decided on toda today |