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Show S. L. BOWLERS GET. AWAY TO, GOOD START FOR PROSPEROUS SEASON Telegram State Tournament Objective of Year's Play; A. B .0. Recognition Assured Local Alleys May Be Licensed by American Bowling Bowl-ing Congress and Give National Recognition to Telegram Tournament for Bowling Bowl-ing Titles of Entire State By Steve Moloney WITH the second annual Telegram state bowling tournament a the objective, more than a thousand Salt Lake bowlers are opening the season at the local bowling alleys this week and starting the regular winter league competition. Just as soon as the world's series wss tucked away in moth balls, and th Pacific Coast Baseball tragus sea ao n began to fag and lag towards Its finish this week, tht-bnwtlng tht-bnwtlng gents began to practice up. talking about strikes and spares and turkeys and things Ilk that. VAsXIOL S IJCAGL-KS TtMT. Then, with the beginning of the f i resent week they got away to a fly-ng fly-ng start, and now every league In the ' state Is hitting on high and hundreds . of unattached bowlers are rolling way to get their scores high enough to mske one of the various leaguee. With the starting ef the leagues, the paramount Issue, equal In Intereet who will win the league flaga, la what each team and each Individual wilt be able to do neit February when the time rolls around for the second annual an-nual tournament conducted by The . Telegram to determine the state bowl-lug bowl-lug champions. After the arguments were over end calmness descended upon the bowling world last spring, all of the ! entries In the tournament decided that It wea iuet about the best thing that ever appened to bowling In Bait Lke. It was the first big competition held In the state for more than nine years. TO mm AftMCAE, AFFAIR. Ho great was the success of The Telegram's first tournament, that It hae been decided to make It an annual an-nual affair, and again in February ur March The Telegram will give the details de-tails of the tournament and gather the bowler In for the competition. There will re added Intereet In the affair this season, for In addition to the state-wide recognition a cham- f 1 lone at the game, the winner of the ournament this ysar will get national recognition as the champions of I'tah. Last year, while Th. Telegram tournament tour-nament was conducted under the A. B. C. rule. It was not a sanctioned tournament tour-nament of the American Bowling con- Erese. Th alley were not licensed y that body, and consequently the tournament could got be held under Ita auspice. IKKKI RATIONAL RBCOORTTIOR. This year Jack Qulnn. manager of the Orpheum alley, plan to have them agoge44 by the A. R, and in the prlng the tournament will be give the official sanction ef that body. The entrance fee t The Telegram tournament tour-nament will be made to cover membership mem-bership fee for the year In th A. B. C. and thn th I'tah chamnlon will be nationally recognised. The effect of the first Telegram tournament was aeen thla year at the beginning of tha league season. La year there were but four league, the I'lty, Commercial. Telephone and Tele- gram league. Thla year. bealde team being added to the league already al-ready In existence, the Utah Qa and Coke company ha catered a league, lad plan have been made by tha O. aV U to enter another. OODffi WAKINO Ur. Ogdea, tea. according to word received re-ceived from Jim Ixwntng. cretery sf th W aaatch Athletic club of that tlty, la enthuaed over th proapect of the gam tht s eaeon. Another alley nae bee a added to th club' collection, eeveral new league have got spilng. and It I believed that the Ogden entry en-try to th etat tournament will be loubled this year, with a possibility of having; em of tha bt team in th tate, Spanish Tor and Prova ar also planning on th tournament, and It is possible that they will have a larger! ntry this ysar. Altogether It looka as though The Telegram tournament thie winter will be one of th really big, iportlag vata of th year. |