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Show LOCAL TEAM WILL BOWL Congress at Spokane Awakeos Interest Salt Lake Bowlers to Call Meeting Regarding New League. Offers Great Chnnce, Which Will Be Eagerly Accepted by En-x En-x thusiasts. SPOKANE. Wash., March 21. .V Western West-ern bowling' meet, with a four-day tournament, tour-nament, Is. announced to bo held In this city begMinlne; April 111. Invitations will be sent to Snlt L-nkf, Portland, ttuiti;. Mlssouln, Seattle, Tacoma nnd other Western towns. At ,the closo of the tournament a banquet ban-quet Is to be hold, nnd the matter of forming a congress of Western bowlers Independent of the American Bowling congress Is to be dlscunsed. Strong sentiment sen-timent In favor of. such an Independent movement exists among bowlers here. Local Bowlers Interested. Salt Lake bowlers wore much Interested when this news was given them last evening. even-ing. Sentiment favors sending a strong local delegation to uttend the tournament and congress. TI1U4 city already, has two good leagues. The City league, tlio older of the organizations, or-ganizations, has Just finished a strong season, and Its scores will average well with those of any Western aggregation. The Commercial league Is still young, but already its players are rolling up some very creditable scoreo, and by next year It flhould be able to sejid a team to tho league tournament which would In Itself do credit to the city It would represent. Offers Good Chance. Tasl fall considerable agitation started over the question of sending a local bowling bowl-ing team to compete ut the Milwaukee tournament The Commercial elub was on tho. point of taking up the matter and giving help. This was not done, largely because of tho expense and the comparative compara-tive newness of our own league. Now things uro different. The local leagues arc strong, and the Western league will offer a much more favorable Held for competition with honors for Salt Lake, bowlerti. Meeting to Be Called. As a consequence of all these things, local bowling enthusiasts are eager to see Salt Lake City represented at Spokane next month. In all probability a meeting will bo called within a few davs to arrange ar-range details toward this end." Ono of the consequences of this meeting will bo a call for funds. And funds probably will be easy to raise The advertisement which a competing team wotdd give this city Is In Itself recognized by many business busi-ness men as n good Inducement, and It will go a long way toward getting tho money. Association Football Game. The Salt Lake Association football team will moot this ovenlng for a practice game at tho rvcnlnr L-mnndd Imhlti.l (I... ...i tower, Seventh and B streets. A full attend-ence attend-ence Is desired. The team has now sover.il dates with other S"tato teams, including a return match with Eureka. Prospects for association as-sociation football from now on look bright. Tho Interest In the game Is Increasing a great deal and the numtwr of candidates for team jKsltIons are alRo on the Increase. From tho point of view of a spectator the game Is ono of tho prettiest In the calendar of out-of-doors siKrts. Just now It Ih getting much nttentlon all over America nnd It promises within a yenr or two to becomo a favorite national sport. Arrange for Field Meet. George Riser, graduate manager, will meet with representatives of tho four high schools of tho Stato today for tho purpoxe of determining deter-mining on n date for the Inlci scholastic Held and track meet nnd arranging necessary details. de-tails. Much business will bo transacted at thu meeting. |