The morning times., 1895-12-08

is an understood thing, however, that no
member will send out more than three Of
his invitations for any one afternoon.
his Invitations for any one afternoon.
The day of the bowling match the MEM
bers arrive In carriages or on FOOT, usu-
ally IN carriages, on account OF their attire,
and are assisted to Gltght by footnan
in white gloves at the carriage door.
At the club door another footman takes
up the gilt invitations, which you must
present, unless you are known as a MEM
ber, 10 which case you show large jew
ellcd badge, and you are inside the door.
Here perfumed sight awaits you. Upon
large round table there stands pyramid
of flowers reaching almost to the ceiling.
BY the side OF 1t is a man servant. As
you pass him he gently tugs at your
sleeve and begins 10 disarrange portion
OF the bouquet. This means that you are
to select a flower-a boutoDniere If you
are q man, a corsage II you are woman.
The dresSing-rocm has all things for com
fort, but you do not tarry there only long
enough for the attendants 20 disengage
your wraps. Out into the large reception
room you hasten, where the distant thud
OF the striking balls tells you that some
Deophyte is getting a first lesson In the
balls.
Here the scene around is very gay. 1t
is da ytime, but the lectric arcs are lighted
and the room is ablaze with color and light,
for in bowling the faintest shadow Is
opposed to success.
The game consists of ten Innings, three
balls to an innings. A multiplication of
this makes thirty balls for each player
during a game, and II he knocks down
ten pins each time he sets a ball rolling
he will have taken down 800 pins. This
is the highest possible score, but IT has
been reached only few times 10 the
history of bowling.
COL. GRANT BOWLING.
An experienced bowler Is Col. Fred
Grant, who bowls with his daughter,
Miss Julia. The two are welcome at all
the private bowling clubs of New York
and Washington. And during the winter
there is scarcely bowling day that
does not find them shaking bands with
the bowling contingent and measuring
ekill with them.
Miss Grant Is very accomplished
bowler. She uses the new balls with
holes for the fingers and her ohoice is .
small ball, which she sends down the
alley With great speed. She is a big.
heavy-looking girl, but most graceful
bowler. Few have equaled her ecore,
which runs from ITO to 200, which is very
high for lady. A score of goo means that
the bowler has knocked down 200 Plus
out OF @ possible 300.
Two other accomplished bowlers are Miss
Elsie Clews and her father, j. Pierpont
Morgan and his daughters bowl ard a
very familiar sight used to be Elliott F.
Shepard and bis tall girls at the bowling
afternoons. Bowling seems to be not only
the sport OF diplomats, but of families az
well.
There is a bowling club of New York of
which Mrs. Columbus Oliver Iselin Is a
member that has one afternoon for I'M
married women. The only married ones
allowed are those who Joined when they
were single, and even these are expected
to resign. 1t ie as much matchmaking
afternoon as ever was planned by mammas
with daughters. The pater goes to these
afternoons and, strange to say, he is not de-
barred from playing, but the pretty matron
who steps up the alley, ball in hand, puts
down a great mark for herself on the side of
unpopularity.
The verbal etiquette of the alley is singu-
lar. 1t is both refined and coarse. But
common use in stately mouths give 1t the
sanction of good English. "A strike" is
where all the pins go down at once before
the first ball. "A spare" takes two balls.
After that the pins are counted as they 60
down.
BOWLING LANGUAGE.
dead wood" are balls and pins that lie
down in the pin pit. "A gut" is Q hole
through the middle Of the pins, where all the
central ones are taken down and the side
ones left standing. This is dreaded, even
by experienced bowiers. "A southpaw
swinger" Ia a left-banded player. and there
Is ono well-known lady so deft With the
"southpaw" that q spectator would not
notice that she was left.handed.
These are . few Of the wsu-hnown terms Of