St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-10
GREAT BOWLING TOURNEY.
EVERYTHING IN READINESS FOR N0R-
DsY RfGHE,
THE ARRAY OF CAPTAINS.

Clear Description Of the Game of
BowIing-it Was the Amnse-
ment of the Knickerbockers-
PLAYED Out of Doors In New
York Two Hundred Years
Ago.
Those who are familiar with the
Broadway of New York city of today,
all b,istle and activity. bearing the i'm
press of American restlessness, would
hardly believe that the Broadway of the
Dutch burghers and this were one and
the same. Time metamorphoses every
Il ing. The Dutch burghers Of early
New York, intent as they were on lucre-
getting, still devoted some of theirspar
time to the game of bowling. At the
lower end of Broadway they staked off
the smoothly cropped turf, which
afforded them an ideal place for their
favorite game. Bowling Green is sig
nificant name. 1t marks the introduce
ton into America of the bowling game,
and there it was that the original
Gothamite first raised havoc among the
pins. In ST. Paul the bowler arranges
his games without regard to the signals
of the weather burea, not even consult
ing Local Forecast Official Lyons, for at
Foley's he finds comfortable and we'll
sheltered alleys, where he can spin the
polished globes of wOJd along the level
alleys, regardless of the skrieking blasts
of BOreaS or the floods poured down
without by Jupiter Pluyius.
Our German fellow citizens are justly
credited with making bowling popular,
though people of other nationalities are
equally as strongly interested as they
liz the game. 1t is only few years
back that Americans began to take all
interest in this matter, but they are now
as enthusiastic as any one. The absence
of all elements of danger or rOughneSS
makes it a safe form of recreation, and
it is, too, healthful and invlgorating.
The dimentions of the regulation alley
are siXty-fve feet in length by three
feet in width. The floor is of polished
maple. and at The further end stand the
large wooden pins, so placed that they
occupy the form of triangle. Toward
there the bowler hurls his polished
spheres. Nowadays ten pins are used,
but formerly there were but nine.- In
the old DAYS the balls were were with
out finger NOTES.-The same rule prevails
at Foley's. With the old smooth ball
the player held it i'll the right palm, and
retreatIng from the alley short dis
lance, he swung the hand containing
the ball behind his back with mighty
force. and then, suddenly swinging his
hand. back again he sent the ball
adown the alley as though from cata-
pult.
Expert bowlers consider that greater
force is obtained by the descent of the
ball from the shoulder than from be-
hind the back.
Tenpins is the popular American
form of the game, from which pin
pool" cooked hat" etc., are the out
growths. 1t takes ten innings to make
a game. Each player bowls thirty balls
in the course of a game-thlee balls to
all inning. These are bowled in sue
cessioH, and the player scores by the
number of pins he knocks down alto
gether. Should all the pins 60 down
with the first bail this marks "a strike;"
If all the pins do not go down till the
third ball has been bowled he counts
just as many as are BOWED down.
The regulation ball is generally
twenty-seven inches in circumference,
weighing about fifteen pounds. The
pins are fifteen inches in circumference
and fifteen inches high. Sixty feet up
the alley from the head pin Chalk line
is drawn, called the delivery line. 1t is
necessary, in order 10 knock all the
Fins down, to hit the head pin
on either side, similar to making
car0m III billiards. Should the bail
strike the head PIN directly in front, it
will go through the center, upsettIng
but two or three. But where the head
PIN is struck on the side it kocks down,
in falling, the pins on the side to which
those on the other side. Two styles of
delivery are knOwn-the "center" and
side" balls. The CENTER ball is
started down almost in the alleys CELL
ter-just right to catch the head pin OH
the side. Tie .'side" ball is started from
one corner at the delivery line. This
ball is favorite with expert bowlers.
VIVA: is known as Twist" ball is de-
livered at the side of the alley, and,
owing to the twist given it by the bowl
CT, when about half way down, curves
out to the center and strikes the head
pin. The main point is to always hit the
slow. The amateur or novice should
not try to pitch a bigger ball than he
can control. Good players do not run
six or eight yards i'll pitching the balls,
as many do.
The above has been written with a
view 10 make the bowling game better
understood. Ii is peculiarly apropos at
this time. inaSmuch as the Foley bowl
ing tourney is to begin tomorrow, and
will continue, probably, the balance of
the winter. The clubs constituting the
tournament are given in the comments
upon the captains, following:
a little general gossip relating to the
several captains who will have clubs in
the Foley bowling tournament may be
of general interest, inasmuch as the
GLOBE today presents their familiar
countenanceS to its readers.
HENRY CLAYTON
is captain of the Summit club. AS he
has long been connected with the whole
sale dry goods interests of the city, it is
natural that his club should be made up
of men i'll tile same line. In their hours
of ease they forget for the time all
about outing tannelS. lawns, bomba-