The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-29
E,IIY ISM OUR ALLEY.
o,,vv HAVE INVADED CLUBDOM
.RNED WITH TENPNS.

-.,.5ing Social Developments
aNa-,i,ed From the Present Bowling
o-o-a-an Ancient and Honorable
Zine Again Wins Favor-Ger-
,,ans in the Alley.
Copyright, 1s9Ll
Wv YORK, March 2s.-Just now we
some of US shoot, some ride. some
Ut everybody who aspires to be ''In
1 !, TEs Robert Rowley, roll the round roll
Is The laundering whir of the big
/ 20, balls as they snin down the long
and the sharp cracking of the scat
= tsnpins are heard in the land. Groups
-,ilv sttired girls chatter about STRIKES"
..nares. !" 'steams" and tournaments, :"
Nv gather in early morning at
5,crs Of the big new atheletic clubs. If
80 any anatomical defect attributable
I'TIiDg, like the tennis elbow" the doc
ara going to find it out very soon.
awhile. some hundreds of thousands of
~ Workers of both sexes attribute to It q
|.,tbv color and hearty appetite.
Tssre are probably FIVE men to-day who
nm a score of 240 in a ten-frame game
,na who could do it ten years ago. There
tan women who can make a score of $50
Ial0 m one who could do it even five years
|, The bowling clubs have multiplied
microbes in milk and their members
As the sands of the sea.
[1d New Workers come honestly enough
| ! taste for bowling; it runs in the bloom !;
i,sscends from a long line of ancestors
| Il boyled on green English turf or on the
Eker.p4ved towpaths of Dutch canals. 1t
Inas from colonial ancestors who met of
Inmer evenings at the Bowling Green
[ier the equestrian statue of King George.
4 all that, it was the Germans who chung
bowling through good repute and evil
[1te. in fashion and out of fashion, aud
Eo can fairly be thanked for the present
|srp revival Of interest i'll it. This revival
4 tribute to the German influence in the
immunity. There are some people who
I've cherished a sneaking fondness for
Wing even when it was questionable
bo are now immensely relieved to find
cir skill appreciated. A gentleman well
own in the city told me the other even
!. while we were watching a party Of
sn working away at the alleys, that he,
Tia number of friends, had for years
ne once a week to German beer saloon
the east side whose proprietor kept
wing alley, and reserved it on
gular evening for their exclusive
E. At first there was no entrance
it except through the saloon. but the
embers of the party persuaded the pro-
betor BY liberal advance upon the rental
lieut. an outside door for their less con-
(cuous egress and ingress. There were
Irgymen and deacons among this group of
befatig bic bowlers behind the beer
loon, but their wives did not and could
II take part. Now there is scarcely an
blehc club in the city whose alleys are not
'en to women some portion of nearly
ery day. The new 'millionaires' club"
kich mas had such difficulty in securing an
|propriate name, will have the finest alleys
the city when its splendid new clubhouse
Surprising the Union League-is built.
e newest semi-political club in BROOKLYN.
+ Eushwick. has just adopted
Eign for its proposed club house,
{tl splendid bowling alleys in
Basement Nearly all the members of
i Bushwick club are Germans and men of
lhe physical as well as financial solidity.
tey will use the very biggest of the big
Ills and make ten strikes with astonishing
|quency. The clubhouse is to be situated
the edge of the beer making district, and
good proportion of the members
broad-teamed and well-bal-
ted brewers. Bowling is, in
I'd, essentially the fat mans game.