Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-18 | Page 12 | A. B. C. Looking for 1600 Teams

RI A. 8 G. G LOOKING I FOR 1 1600 TEAMS Greatest Bowling Tourney in Decade Is Under Way WayBy By fly A. A L. L LANGTRY MILWAUKEE Feb 17 By U. U P. P P.- P. The success of ot the coming coming- tournament of ot the American Bowling congress to tobe tobe tobe be held In Milwaukee from March 10 to April fl 8 is s now assured from an entry of fully 1500 1600 to 1600 teams Is anticipated anticipated anticipated an an- b by br the congress officials who are preparing to handle the greatest bowling tournament of ot the decade and andIn andIn andin In fact tact the greatest athletic carnival that the country has haa ever witnessed Milwaukee and the entire state ot of Wisconsin are greatly enthused over the he prospects of ot f a record breaker and entire are pouring Into the office of Secretary Langtry at Milwaukee bringIng bring bring- ing the positive assurance of or success The building In which the ment Is s to be held In one of ot the greatest greatest great great- est convention halls In n the country so 80 the bowlers have picked this year a a. building that will far outshine any former for tor- mer building that they have ever been entertained In for 23 years There are few buildings In the country country coun coun- try that are spacious enough to allow the Installation of or twenty-four twenty alleys I side by side without an obstruction and still have room for tor another eight or ten more alleys If It needed and It is I b beginning to look as though eight more i alleys will be Installed making the total battery 32 Instead of or 24 as originally onig- onig anticipated This Is being conla contemplated con con- la on account of the 1 flood of early entries TI and OUt the te many reservations reserva reserva- which are to be filled later by teams from all sections of the country country coun coun- try and Canada GOO COO MILWAUKEE TEAMS Milwaukee with their local entry of five tive hundred teams will lead the van of cities 1 to enter fives V which I will be t followed by Chicago c with th an t entry of teams These two cities alone will enter enough teams to make a huge tournament Wisconsin will contribute another teams In addition to the five hundred from their metropolis while Illinois will have bave another fifty outside of ot Chicago Indiana will have about 80 teams with lt Indianapolis h I being the big lg center t of contribution with I 25 t teams ci Ohio Is coming strong and WIll nin probably have teams with Cleveland leading the Buckeyes with 25 Michigan will lna come e In good style fn with Detroit ol leading t the e Wolverines V with Ith fifty teams and other otner cities In that state following along with another an a 11 other fifty This will be the first year that Upper Michigan will win have teams and they will be represented with teams from Escanaba Channing V and Marquette St. St Paul and Minneapolis are figuring on thirty-five thirty teams and a a. few ew more from Minnesota will Join the ranks while white Iowa will have about fifteen Missouri five thirty and a few tow points like Salt Lake San Francisco Los Angeles Angeles An An- geles and Tulsa Okla OkIa will be l TIlE THE EAST FAST The Eastern delegation will be bo headed headed headed head head- ed by Buffalo With an ery cry or forty teams and New York City with ten Pennsylvania with forty teams Syracuse Syra Syra- cuse York Rochester state rS cities me-l me melI Albany will I r come and o eO other along niong Now New e ethere a as there are many man tournament bowlers In that section o of ol the country New Haven Conn Is the farthest East with two teams and Jacksonville Fla Is the farthest South with two teams Winnipeg Toronto Montreal Lon Lon- don Hamilton and St. St Catherines al all all L Canadian cities will represent the Dominion Dominion Dominion Do Do- minion at the tournament Milwaukee Intends to be a real host and will show the bowlers of ot the country country country coun coun- try the greatest bowling city In the i world