The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11
BIG TENP|N CONTEST
Women BoWlers to Compete For
Worlds Championship.
NEED NOT BE CLUB MEMBERS.

i Be Conducted Under Rules OF East
Il ern Ladies' Bowling Contest--Fis-
ures For National Bowling Tourna-
ment Reach Hugo Proportions.
Every woman bowler In America In
Invited to enter the individual compe-
tition for the worlds championship to
be held In Madison Square Garden. In
| New York. on May "a to June ~, dur
Ing the three weeks given to the ma
tional championships for men by the
National Bowling association. Final
arrangements for the tournament have
been perfected with the United Tour
nament company. which has been or
4 ganlzed to handle the National Bowl
Ing association events
This is the only tournament for wo-
men that Will be held In the big gar
den, There viii be no entry or other
fees Of any kind, and every competitor
will have free admission to the garden
during the tournament Club member
ship Is unnecessary, MS the entries are
all made by individual registration. lp
recognition If the eastern ladies' bowl
Ing congress, an organization of 300 or
more members, that has done so much
for bowling among women In the east
the garden event will he conducted
under Its rules. which are the same as
those OF the New York Bowling asso-.
citation.
The first prize will be valuable
diamond emblem probably in the form a
Of a brooch or locket suitably engrav- 4.
ed. This trophy will be recognized as s,
, emblemntic Of the worlds champion
ship Other medals Of gold. silver andia
bronze are for second, third and fourth "
prizes. Each woman will roll three
games, total pins to count, as In the
individual competition for the men
, and boys, Games will be rolled only
In the afternoon.
) Quite as much interest has been
|, awakened among the women In the
west over this tournament as among
those in the east and In Greater New
York Miss Gertrude Hull Of Chicago,
{ who won the Olympic championship
at st. Louis; Miss Birdie Kern, daugh--
ter of Martin Kern Of st. Louis the
{ former national champion; Miss Herr
mann. daughter Of Garry Hermann OF
4 Cincinnati. chairman of the national
baseball commission: Miss Bergman of
: Philadelphia and many women bowl
, ers of note will all be competitors for
, the diamond medal.
In the garden they will meet for the
:, first time the best of the east, among
them Mrs F. j. Riddell, who defeated
/ Mrs. Hull at Rochester last year. and
all the stars of the eastern ladies',
bowling congress.
, In this competition, as in that for
, the men and boys, where tournament
conditions make the result extremely
open. every woman bowler will have
an equal chance to win the diamond
trophy and the worlds championship.
, Rather remarkable are the results
when person with an inclination for
, mathematics delves into figures per-
2 tanning TO the national bowling cham
, pionShip tournament
! On the basis that 800 Eve man teams
will compete. there will be 10000
games rolled 100000 frames Figur-
, ing on eighteen balls to a game. 540.-
600 deliveries will be made.
, With each bali travelling eighty-five
feet and back. or ITO feet to each de-
, livery. means that 01.S0O.O00 feet. or
!
lance covered by bowling balls in the
garden This Is six times the distance
between New York and San Francisco.
Each ball weighing sixteen pounds,
total weight of S.640.0O0 pounds will
be lifted, or about 1920 tons. the
weight of an ocean steamship Each
bowler will lift and handle nearly half
ton.
Approximately 5.4000O0 pins will be-
, knocked down. weight Of II 550.00O
, pounds. or S.IT5 tons The combined
weight of the balls delivered and the
pins knocked down will be greater
than the weight Of the steamship st.
, Louis
The time for bowling will extend
over eighteen days. There will be
I $4,000 In prizes. $1,000 of which will
, be given to the winning FIVE man team.
There will be three distinct titular
, comprehensive man, two man and
, individual
Eighty.fve per cent of all the en-
trance fees are returned to the bowl
, ers in prizes
Thirty thousand score sheets will be
|
sheet having room for three games
and being issued In triplicate The
aerial scoring system. by which every
person In the garden may follow tho
I progress of each ball rolled, will cost
$500 to install.
One team will enter from Germany
. and one or more teams from the Pa
/ cific coast The tournament will be the
} largest bowling event ever held. both
In point of entries and spectators or
! course mathematical person. fond OF
research to an exhaustive degree,
might attempt to ascertain the amount
of skin worn or the fingers Of the
bowlers or the amount of nervous en-
ergy wasted In expressing the feeling
of man who has just missed a spare
In the tournament or encountered I'm
impossible split