Bowling ball to skid longer before reacting (hooking). Reactive cover stocks finishes include "matte" (aggressive reaction), "shiny" (longer skid distance than matte finish), "pearl" (greatest skid distance among reactive cover stocks), and "hybrid" (combination of skid distance and back end reaction). Duckpin balls weigh each, with up to three balls delivered per round (or "frame") of bowling for one bowler. The duckpin ball has a maximum diameter of , slightly larger than a candlepin ball but, like a candlepin ball, contains no finger holes. Duckpins are correspondingly shorter and lighter than their ten-pin equivalents and it is more difficult to knock them
Ten-pin bowling ABC's sports lineup by the early 1960s, airing through 1997. Ten-pin bowling was introduced in the United Kingdom in 1960. This was driven by the opening of the Stamford Hill and Golders Green bowling alleys in London. Ten-pin bowling took the UK by storm, with alleys opening up one after the other. At its peak, there were over 160 bowling alleys in the UK, but a lack of re-investment and waning interest left the fad in a sorry state. This led to a general deterioration of bowling alleys, with a commensurate decline in their image. In the 1970s a major