Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-03
PHILOSOPHY Of TEN PINS
Causes and Reasons, Powers and Laws
Cited by an Expert.
HARD FIR AN YTO BE CONSISTENT
one Game in which no Mar Dare
Boaat OF His Prowes for he
May Lose Any
Day.

who has a better show than your Mo-
body.
Who has as good a show as your Any
body.
That Is the ten pin game on the card. pro
vlded you have graduated into the pick
up-your-spare" class.
Have you heard men say John is 80
many pins better than Bll2" Such talk Is
foolish; record talk for nothing II a man
has q little grit, II does not matter what
a man has rolled, can he get tho pins when
he wants themH
Play him, let him prove that he lie better
thar you right now.
There ls certainly no gams that furnishes
SO much inconsistency as the bowling game.
The league records show II.
Don't fight shy Of the man who beat
you six straight games yesterday, your are
Just losing a chance TO get even with him
II you do. Feel like you surely can.
How many of the league top-notcherH
come out on top in an open game?
What figure does a high average margin
OF a few pins cut In an individual or a
three-Eame series? Cut out that error you
have been making about third game and
the edge In yours.
Never figure that you are not in the other
mans class; never look for an easy game.
Don't play the game az IL you couldn't
afford to lose. Go up against the hardest
there Is, no matter II you have never played
anywhere but on local alleys.
None Of these dope" or Windy City"
celebrities ever brought anything new to
town.
Don't Get Sore.
Always play your own game. Never get
sore or look disappointed because you didn't
get a strike. You can't gain anything by
calling your opponents attention to 1t. If
he didn't see It he probably won't believe
Il, and II he did he Is as good a Judge as
yourself.
Don't swell up II you have a stroke or two
OF rood ~luok-nobody ever gets very much
ahead Of the tonpin game and you are la
bio 20 have the laugh against you next
frame, and wonder how the bali ever got
through and left so many pms up On bo'A
sides Of the alley.
Don't say Hard luck" to your opponent
or "Pick It up. old fellow If you don't
mean It. any oftener than you can help.
Talk as little about the game as possible,
but keep your mind right on It.
II your man gets ahead Of you, remem-
Der that you can do in the last five frames
what ne ulu III nv AASA v WoSS sc
ure, as we have heard a bowler aptly re-
mark, mo matter how a bowler starts out.
he never gets many pins over 200" Shoot
for that mark yourself. and the first thing
you know you've got your man.
some interested bystander will remark,
81 don't see what license Bill has to be in
that game. He ought to be over there with
John Bill unoonsciously demonstrates
that he is not out OF place by being the
high man of the bunch. He may roll 100 or
so in his next game. but he was high once
and II there are ten men In the game, and
they roll as many as nine games, 1t is more
than all Of them can say.
How Scores F~luctuats.
IT'S really wonderful how tenpip scores
will f~luctuate. A mans average may be
100. and his games will run 300, 175, 1893, 1853,
ISL, 2lS. His average OF these six is 1856. You
ought to be able to beat him at least three
of the six games, unless you get poor
games when he gets his, That would be
poor Judgment. which some people. Of
course. have -
somstimes the harder q man 10 trying the
worse he gets. often he gets them and he
Just can't help 1t. He'll go along with that
now -do habit, every ball breaking
right into the spot and raising a panic in
the pit. That is when he is right. His eye
IA clear and carried q picture Of how that
ball is to set right along the line. He has
perfect control and at the psychological
moment It butts right into the one-three
for the turkey that gives him a twenty-pin
lead on the nearest man. There is no mis-
take in his swing. Tenpins then, to him Is
the only game.
But how about the other man.; Is he not
in the same class? He is probably a better
bowler. Tha is. he has q better record
and you probably could not get a dollar
10 a doughnut against HIN on the next
game. but how about him now? He Is
lust doing what the other fellow may be
doing next game. He simply Cant get
EN-"
Take a rear view OF the squirming and
the body english" as he approximates the
foul line, the abortive swing. It's almost
, pathetic. He can't get results at all. &c
down and walk around him. Get a few fee
ahead Of the foul line when he rolls thu
! next frame. Look back at the expression
What a face-glassy eyes and distorted
2 features. as II some atrocity was belni
perpetrated right in front OF him, and Their,
10 the ball won't come up"
: How Luck Changes.
4 Next time you see the same mar IN &C
! tion. what do you hear2 Something Xix
: this; Hes certainly hitting them today
= that's seven right in the spot. He SHOULD
! have had eight in a row-20l in the eighth
r 24s last game. He's right today. I wonde
why he never makes 800"
A There are days when you could beat tn
4 best bowler in the country and beat hin
A bad. There are days when q mar ha
a Just the right speed, perfect foot work, tn
q proper grip on the ball. when his eye ha
got the pin frame In focus and anythin
over 200 looks easy. II you are the ma
v you are unbeatable, but IL does not reauir
very much TO disturb such conditions.
There is very little difference between
perfect strike ball and a ball that wi
bring the impossible $40 split. If a ma
Is a little off in his foot work you ca
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