Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-05-09

thirty feet in the air. The lungs get
fnu breadth OF ozone and they give
strength TO the muscles.
Tn bowling you want an alley not more
than sixty feet long, if you play indoors.
Outdoors you can roll upon as long an al
lev as YOU can find, the longer the better,
provided you have the balls for carrying.
An alley eighty feet long and six feet wlue
was used with good effect by suburban
bowling club. One 100 feet in length, per-
fectly level without the slightest ala Tor
the bowlers, allowed the players to aver
age q high score. But that has nothing
TO do with the fact that you can make d
very good bowling alley in your front yard
Il YOU have enough space for any game at
all and the full width Of your house, say
fifty feet.
THE BALLS.
There is a great deal written about the
balls for bowling. Experts say they
should weigh from two and half to four
pounds. but you find some of the best wo"
men players rolling only two pound ball
II is all as you have accustomed your
hands to holding the bal. If you are
used 10 a big ball you can use 1t well, but
If you have handled only the little ones
YOU will do better execution with a two
pound than with Il four.
In indoor bowling the size of the ba'ls
should depend upon the length of the al
lev and its material. An outdoor bowling
alley may be Of grass and in that case
YOU want n very light ball of the most
elastic wood. You need a wood that VIII
rebound and skip along, not finding TOO
much resistance from the grass.
Most alleys are of wood in centre and
grass on each side: few are Of asphalt
With the asphalt you can use big heavy
ball of any material, the asphalt rolling IL
easily along until it reaches the pins. The
wooden alley has about the same resist
arce. and big ball can be used. They
are making very large balls now of a very
Fight wood. The fingers sink deeply into
tie holes and the ball can be aimed ana
flung with great force.
THE ALLEY.
The most rustic effects are aimed at IN
the outdoor alleys. In one the balls were
of hard wood. smoothed and polished to
bring out the grain. There was no at
trmpt made at staining or painting. The
natural color of the wood was preserved
and the players took their choice OF the
woods. They could have oak. cherry or
walnut; pine. ash or maple. The different
woods contrasted very prettily as they
TAPPED each other in the racks on the re-
turn trip.
The rack can be made of log cut in
two and followed out. and the railing
around the alley can be made OF small
round logs joined in rustic fashion. The
score board can be a piece of birch bark
covered with q square of celluloid fas-
toned neatly in the middle. or slate hung
TO the front of the board. Every effort
is made to have the alley rustic At
the same time it must be waterproof. Tor
ANYTHING that can spoil with rain is short
lived In the outdoor alley.
THE CADDY.
The post Of honor in an outdoor alley is
the corner occupied by the pin-boy, or
the bowling caddy," as he likes to call
himself This post is generally taken by
some small boy in the neighborhood who
combines business with pleasure in his
own way.In a certain suburb there is
boy of ter who printed his own cards and
sent them around bearing the following
legend:
Master Donald Gardiner, caGdy in gen
eral to Germantown and caddy in par;icu-
lar TO
Mrs. --,
announces that he can take few more
engagements to pick up bowling pins. He
can come mornings as soon as school clos
es. 2. S.-Don't make me work ith OF
July.
In the blank line he inserts the name
Of the lady whose patronage he desires
and sends her the card. If she accepts
she mails it back with her thanks and ac-
ceptance.
As several of Master Donald Gardeners
bowling patrons are people of taste, he
is obliged to wear IL suit TO match their
livery. and TO execute a lightning change
at certain hours.
BOWLING GOWNS.
Dresses for bowling are "a mixture of
free and easy and dressed up That Is
the way a young woman who is now haV-
ing an outdoor al!ey>built described them.
She meant that they were of conventional