Elks Bowling Lanes Offer Fine Recreation
Facilities Open to Leagues and Individuals
Opening of the Elks Bowling
Lanes this week brings to Kodiak
for the first time a form of recrea
tion that is gaining in popularity
everywhere.
Interest is high among local
keglers. From all reports, there
will be league competitions as
well as individual play. The ladies,
too, will be in there bowling.
Filling a long felt need, the Elks
Bowling Lanes provide ample
room for large groups to engage
in bowling competition. Equipped
with six alleys, the Lanes will be
the scene of much stiff competi
tion among local and Naval Sta
tion keglers.
The beautiful new alleys, re
cently completed, are of laminated
hard core maple and also pine
strips, smoothed down and polish
ed to an even surface, offering
the bowler every advantage in his
quest for a “strike.”
His strike and other scores are
tabulated, and the pins placed
into position for his next ball, with
out the touch of a human hand.
All pit services, formerly done by
hand, are now done automatically.
The new alleys are fully equipped
with the AMF Automatic Pinspot
ter, which is fully approved by
the American Bowling Congress.
Pindicator in Pinvisor (both
trade names) screen indicates
first* second ball, strike, foul, pins
standing after first ball. A mech
anical system controlled by elec
trical circuits, the machine is set
into motion when a ball hits the
pit cushion on which a switch is
installed. Ball is returned, stand
ing pins lifted arid reset after
deadwood is cleared. Two sets of
pins are used. At no time does any
part of the Pinspotter ever touch
the alley bed.
One of the Pinspotter’s most
amazing features is its handling
of “off-spot” pins, conforming
with one of the ABC’s most rigid
rules. Pins offspotted by the first
ball are replaced precisely in
their offspot positions.
Game speed varies from seven
and-a-half to nine games per hour
depending upon the bowler.
The AMF’s machines, according
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to the manufacturers, have gen
erally been credited with improv
ing not only bowling scores, but
bowler form.
According to them, the rhyth
mic regularity of the Pinspotter
in setting the pins and returning
the ball has invariably induced a
clockwork-like bowling action that
has resulted in improving bowler
performance. With the machines
no chance is allowed for any
erratic activity in the pits. Thus
the bowler reacts to the Pinspotter
as automatically as the machine
does to him.
Workmen put the finishing
touches to the alleys and equip
ment this week. The pinspotting
machines received their first try
outs Wednesday and Thursday.
These fabulous machines are al
most uncanny as they perform
their task of clearing the alleys
and spotting the pins.
Ole Johnson will have charge
of the machines after the AMF
representatives turn them over to
the club. He took a short course
at the factory, and learned some
of their intricacies.
Tex Rickard will be in charge
of the alleys, overseeing their
use and maintenance, and arrang
ing team schedules.
Completion of the alleys is but
the first step in the construction
of the new Elks Lodge. They are
located underground at Mill Bay
Road and Marine Way. Entrance
is by way of steps in the small
box-like structure atop the con
crete floor.
Another storey is expected to be
built this coining summer for
lod^t purposes. In the meantime
bowers can enjoy the playing of
same in the finest of sur
roundings.
Dazzling Eva Lynd is a little dazzled herself at the iagemous opera
lion of American Machine & Foundry Company’* Automatic Fin*
spotter, k has revolutionised the bowling industry.
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♦ Bowler's eye view of the pit end of lanes outfitted with AMF Auto
matic Pinspotters. Product of American Machine A Foundry Company,
makers of high speed, precision equipment for industry and the Armed
Forces, the Pinspotter employs electrical and mechanical principles
and electronics to perform automatically all pit services previously
done by hand in the game of ten pin bowling. Only parts of the equip
ment ever seen by the bowler are the sweeper bar in its task of clear
ing dead wood from the alley, and the spotting table (when it descends
to pick up standing pins to permit the sweeper to carry out its work,
or descends to spot a new set of pins). _
Shielding the machine from the bowler** view it the Plnvieor aereea
Inset with A lire "Magic Triangle** Pindicstor. The Plndkator lights
«p la indicate s strike, first and ascend haU, a foal and pint left
RHYTHM BOWLINQ*
with AMF
Automatic
Pinspotters..."
ELKS
Bowling Lanes
For particulars
CALL
5222 or 2044
Opon Cvory Day
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