Bowfint Malted in by Egyptians 7,000 Years Ato
Interest ia Gene Keen Tkroathont the United States
The new bowling alleys, though
offering this form of recreation to
many Kod iakans for the first time,
doesn't, however, offer a new
game. Bowling may be traced back
more than 7000 years.
Evidence of the game having
been played in Egypt 5200 B.C.
has been uncovered in ancient
vwns. The Polynesians participat
ed m an ancient game of bowling
in which small elliptical balls and
round, flat disks of stone were
wsed. One rule of this game,, called
IHa Maika, set the distance the
stones were to be bowled at 00
feet, the same specifications used
in ten pin bowling.
For the uninitiated, it might be
said, bowling is an indoor game
played upon an alley with com
position balls and ten maple pins.
It has been played for centuries
in Germany and the Low Count
ries, where it is still in high favor,
but attains its greatest popularity
in the United States, where it was
introduced in colonial times from
Holland.
The first covered alleys were
made of hardened clay or of slate,,
but modern alleys are built up of
strips of pine and maple wood,
about 1x3 in. in size, set on edge,
and fastened together, the strips
constituting the alley bed, the sur
face being carefully levelled, shel
lacked or lacquered and polished.
The distance from the centre of
the head or apex pin to the foul
line is 60 ft. On each side of the
alley is a 9 to 9% in. “gutter”
which may be no less than 3 Vi in.
below the alley surface. The ten
pins are set up at the end of the
alley in the form of a triangle—
four pins at the back, then three,
then two and one as headpin.
The pins are made of hard
maple and are 15 in. high, 2V« in.
in diameter at their base and ,15
in. in circumference at the thick
est point. The balls, which are
made of composition* may be of
any size not exceeding 27 in. in
circumference and 16 lbs in
weight. They are provided with
fingerholes. As many as wish may
play on a side, five being the num
ber on league and championship
teams.
Two balls are rolled in each
frame. Ten frames constitute a
game. If all ten pins are knocked
down by the first ball, the player
makes a strike, which counts him
10 plus whatever he may make on
the two balls of his next frame.
Scoring in bowling sounds compli
cated from then on, but it actually
is comparatively simple when
playing.
The tens of thousands of bowl
ing clubs throughout the United
States attest to the popularity of
this game. Competition, however
is stiff. The highest score rolled
by a five-man team was made by
Birk Brothers Brewing Company
team of Chicago with 3,234 pins
in 1938. / "
The highest score rolled by air
ifrdividuafl ABC. chamjpipn \ was
that of Larry Shot well of Covings
ton, Ky., with 774 pins in 1930.
At the 40th ABC national chanr
pionships held in Detroit, Mich.,
in 1940 there were 6,073 five-mao?
teams, 10,404 doubles and 20,884
individuals, a total of 32,74ft
bowlers representing 46 states.
CONGRATNLATIONS : ^ ' x:
Elks Club
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On tht opening of the
ELIS BOWLING LANES i
Your MW and nwd.rn bawling facUWaa will furnlah whalaaama recreation all
Compli marts
CURLY WILSON
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