"The Bowling Tournament"

One day someone gets the bright idea to start a Bowling League for the afternoon shift at Bathurst St. For the most part it was the Car Department and Office Staff that participated. I was never a great bowler and my brother was so strong he seemed to knock the pins into the adjoining alley as much as his own, but his accuracy was not much either. This was 5 pins and before the advent of automatic pin setters, so we were always afraid of Max killing some pin boy. As is usual I guess we charged a little extra so that at the end of the season, they could have a Tournament where prizes could be handed out to the best bowlers. The end of the season came and the prizes would be handed out to the best individual bowlers, and it would be three turkeys to the three best bowlers. Well because it was the end of the season most of the guys brought Mickeys with them, or fifths, to those Americans who might read this. Some of the guys had started drinking early, and were already half hammered when they got there, so this did a great deal for my accuracy, or more correctly, their inaccuracy this day. I got a turkey for first prize, Max got a turkey for second prize and Cecil S. got one for third prize, Cecil being another non drinker, William D got 4th prize, William working in the office with us, who drank but watched himself. By the time we were ready to go to work I became very worried about these guys who were all smashed but had their cars to drive to work. What could we do. We all headed out and went to work. The Car Department guys started straggling in and staggering across the tracks, it was a sad picture, one guy stumbled and fell across the main line with the GYM watching shaking his head as Max and I rushed out to help the guy up and into the Car Department. The almost whole crew of the eight or ten guys were smashed and staggering across the tracks. We were wondering how anything was going to get done that night. There was a bit of a Jog on Front St. and one on the Carmen never made the jog and got into a head on and wound up in jail for the night. We had to take up a collection to bail him out. I guess that very little got really checked that night for at least four hours anyway. I guess the only funny part to this story was watching the GYM, Elmer H. with the stunned look on his face wondering how he was going to get through the night with almost the entire Car Department hammered.
They did and no one was injured, even in the collision.