of 10 Million
Nears Another
By JOSEPH
W. LaBINE
ticipants.
genteel folk began kegling
participants.
As early as 1900 the more
sweepstakes and the thirtieth®
annual tournament of the |
American Bowling Congress, |
governing body of bowling.
The sweepstakes, with week-
ly prizes totaling $24,600 and
grand prizes of $9,400, has |
brought out 232,000 enthusi-
asts, a world record for any
sports event. These people are now
chalking up competitive scores in
1,500 towns all over the country.
Winners of grand prizes will be an-
nounced shortly after March 6.
Competition Grows.
Five thousand teams will enter
the ABC tourney at Chicago during
March and April. Something like
$200,000 in prizes furnishes incentive
here. Figures may bore you but
ABC membership spurted from 10,-
000 teams in 1936 to 60,000 in 1937,
a pretty good indication of the trend. |
Why this popularity?
One of the best reasons for en- |
joying the game was given by Jack |
Dempsey, once prominent in anoth- |
er field of sports. Said Mr. Demp- |
sey: ‘The main thing I like about |
bowling is that when you knock the |
pins down they stay down.” i
Dempsey, you may recall, had a
little trouble keeping a fellow named
Tunney down in a Chicago ring a
few years back.
The satisfaction of knocking the
stuffings out of ten innocent pins at
the other end of the alley undoubted-
ly accounts for much of bowling's |
popularity. Unlike other sports, any- |
body can be nominally successful on
the alleys, which also helps.
Women like it for several reasons. |
They're deserting bridge clubs be- |
cause one can make more social
contacts on the alleys. They find |
the game ‘fascinating,’ and it's
one of the few winter sports open |
to women. Anyway, it's being |
“done” nowadays so why not join |
the crowd?
Exercise and Relaxation.
an even more important factor for
tired business men who can't in- |
dulge in strenuous athletics.
tion between bouts with the ball.
Historians tell us bowling is the |
dinosaur days.
purpose being to sharpen one’s aim
before going hunting.
turies later Sir Francis Drake
supposed to have defeated the Span-
ish Armada and saved England be-
cause he was filled with confidence—
game of bowling just before he took
to sea.
The modern game is related to
nine-pins, originated by the Dutch
and brought by them to Manhattan
island in 1623. New York's famous
Bowling Green was their first rendez-
vous before nine-pins became a
year-round game and had to be
moved indoors.
Paradoxically, bowling took a new
lease on life through legislation
aimed to stamp it out. In the Sev-
enteenth century New England Pil-
grim fathers banned nine-pins be-
cause it wasn't elevating. So the
boys decided to add another pin and
beat the law.
Toss It and Wait,
The game is really simple and
you can leave your inferiority com-
plex at home. It’s merely a mat-
ter of tossing a 16-pound mineralite
ball down a glass-smooth alley at
ten neatly arranged pins that are
just waiting to be knocked down the
gutter. Your first m
possibly be as successful as that of
a seasoned player.
toss
There is no physical hazard. Bar-
ing any exertion, there is no muscu-
lar prerequisite. Often people with
physical handicaps become amaz-
ingly proficient and blind bowlers
are far from uncommon. In a re-
cent New York match between a
blind team and another group with
normal vision, the blind bowlers lost
by a mere 16 points.
Balls are fashioned to fit any
a thumb hole and two finger grips.
Primo Carnera’s ball carries
largest grip ever made; the finger
span is five and one-eighth inches.
quiring 12 successive ‘‘strikes.”” A
“strike” is made by knocking all
ten pins down with the first ball
thrown in each “frame.” Try it
some time-—or try getting ten suc-
cessive holes-in-one on the golf
course. Less than 20 per cent of
America's good bowlers can boast
an average score of more than 180.
If you don’t make a strike you
get another shot at the remaining
pins, constituting a “spare” if you
succeed in knocking them down. The
two rolls constitute a “frame.” On
a strike the total of the succeeding
two rolls is added to the ten scored
for the strike; on a spare the pins
felled on the next single roll are
added.
Stay Away From “Splits”!
Failure to get all ten pins with two
rolis constitutes an error unless a
split occurred on the first roll. A
split is the sad fate of a man who
019
leaves two or more pins standing
with the intervening pins knocked
down.
You needn't develop a “form” to
look at home on the alleys. Some
people walk up to the line, take a
couple of weak swings and let their
ball roll slowly down the alley; oth-
bowlers—
ball
the
the
of
slam
te end
then
the
try to
opposi
building.
Karl Keyerleber of the Clevel
Plain Dealer recently
turned to
visited a
compile
of bowl-
re
sification
ing forms:
“They include the dy
who collapse on the alley
roll, the kickers who almost lose
swans
ing
after ea
who make alley
by dro
ball on the middle of the alle;
who try to sweep the
over by remote co 1
mighty thrashing }
delivering the ball, the
with
1A:
aaaid
the bouncers
wavers who
their hands,
straight-ball ts, the boy
who ‘bend’ them and those who back
Vs
Cleveland, incidentally, is among
top-rank bowling
boasting Harvey Braatz and Mrs,
Joan Radtkin, holders, respectively
of men's and women’s world
pionships for three games.
Pressure Is Heavy.
Braatz made his record by roll
ing 276, 300 and 288, the h
cities,
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league
standards.
competition under ABC
We mentioned awhile
Score is
The perfect score is “par” to a
bowler, but it's much harder than
par in golf. On the links you can
slip now and then, recouping your
losses with a few exceptional shots.
But “par” bowling must be per-
fect bowling from start to finish;
the kegler must toss 12 straight
balls correctly and the pre:
gets pretty strong about
or tenth ball!
Bowling is m
appeal to your ‘‘never-say-die
After a few of po
Al
trundling you may throw five or six
300
uch
like golf ir
stincts weeks
Comely Alice Faye is reputed to
be one of Hollywood's most enthusi-
astic bowlers, but the press agent
who arranged this picture neglect.
ed to remind Alice that she shouldn't
step over the black line. Below:
Mont Lindsey of New Haven, Conn.,
one of the all-time high ABC bowl
ers, talks it over with Jack Demp-
sey of heavyweight fame, also a
trundling expert.
straight strikes.
massacre those elusive pins,
alleys and they play no favorites.
Maybe down your way the fa.
vorite is candle-pins, tall and less
robust than the regular ten-pin, for
which a smaller ball is used. Or
maybe it's duck pins, choice of the
South and Southeast, where much
outdoor bowling is done. But it's
still bowling, the favorite sport of
10,000,000 Americans.
You'll never appreciate it until
you feel that ball jump from your
hand and thunder down the glisten-
ing maple, eventually crashing peil-
mell into a neatly arranged bunch
of pirs. It's a real thrill, Mr. and
Mrs. \merica!
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crazy patch quilt is a simply
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the moment you start collecting
bits of silk and satin and velvet
until the second you invent your
last combination of
stitches it holds your interest.
do.
after piecing, but tied like a com-
forter.
soft warm material is used for the
foundation. The pieces are always
in irregular very
tiny and Id
more than
ong. They
a foundation of Ii
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to use. One patch shown here is
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are not turned or covered
best to arrange a num!
patches before y
them in place v
stitches.
The embroidery is really used
to give balance and unity to the
whole design. If a patch seems
too light make it darke
broidering it in dark
it seems too plain you
the little forget-me-r
shown here onto it and
it in natural colors or
of the n
here as
shapes—often
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of
wore simp
fillers.
Many more
work stitches
authentic old patch-
are in a new leaflet
which is now included with the
book offered herewith. This book
also tells you how the draperies in
today's sketch are interlined.
Every Homemaker should have
a copy of Mrs. Spears’
SEWING Forty-eight pages of
step-by-step directions for making
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Favorite Recipe
of the Week ~
For Winter Meals,
CALLOPED dishes are favor-
“J ites for cold weather because
it is a pleasure to use the oven,
and because the blended flavor of
foods makes such delicious fin-
ished products. The of
tomatoes complements most any
meat that is being served, and
while there are almost unlimited
ways of making the dish, you may
enjoy trying the following recipe:
tartness
Scalloped Tomatoes,
1 thsp, sugar
2 cups bread
on 4 thsp. butler
1 No. 2'4 can
tomatoes
1 tbsp need or
1 tsp. salt
crumbs
ombine the
onion and arrange a layer a
baking dish } salt and
sugar with the bread crumbs and
blend with melted butter. Place
a layer of crumbs the to-
matoes, add another layer of to-
matoes, crumbs, and so on until
the dish is filled and ingredients
used. Leave crumbs on top. Bake
about 30 minutes in a moderate
oven (350 degrees).
If you
with the
over
have some
pickles on hand,
three and add them
0 the above ingredients.
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a teaspoo nia to a pint |
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appear.
linen
water
waler,
Peruse the Seed Catalog.—This
» 10 check over the
seed catalog and send in your or- |
der for spring planting. Remem-
ber, there are many new varie- |
Cane
seats occasion
It will tighten
up and prevent sagging.
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Treating
off
Seats. —Sponge
: lly with
them
cane
salt water.
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The best new garden is one
planned first
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