The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-02-17
BIG TENP|N CONTEST
Women BoWIers to Compete For
Worlds Championship.
NEED NOT BE CLUB MEMBERS.
BE Conducted Under Rules of East
ern Ladies' Bowling Contest-Fis-
ures For National Bowling Tourna-
ment Reach Huce Proportions.

ern Ladies Bowling Contest-Fig-
ures For National Bowling Tourna-
ment Reach Huge Proportions.
Every woman bowler in America Is
invited to enter the individual compe
tition for the worlds cha ~mpionship to.
be held i'm Madison Square Garden, in
New York. on May - to June II. dur
ing the three weeks given to the ma
tionaI championships for men by the
National Bowling association. Final
arrangements for the have
beer perfected with the United Tour
nament company. which has been or
ranized to handle the National Bowl
Ing association events
This is the only tournament for wo-
men that VIII be held in the big gar
den. There will be no entry or other
fees of any kind. and every competitor
will have free admission TO the garden
during the tournament. Clu member
ship is unnecessary. as the entries are
all made by individual registration. In
recognition Of the eastern ladies' bowl
ing congress-. an o%rganiZat ton of 800 or
more members. that has done so much
for bowling among women in the east.
the garden event Will he conducted
uitltT u TultS. II arr the Sd 7 us
those of the New York Bowling asso-
citation.
The first prize will be a valuable
diamond emblem. probably in the form
of a brooch or locket suitably enGrav-
ed. This trophy will lie recognized as
emblematic of the worlds champion
ship. Other medals Of gold. silver and
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
I'm the afternoon.
Quite as much interest has been
awakened among the women in the
west over this ~toUrnament as anon"
those in the east ard 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
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. L. !. Riddell. who defeated
Mrs. Hull at Rochester last year. and
all the stars OF the eastern ladies'
bowling congress-.
In his competition. rs in that for
the men and boys. where
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 a person with an inclination for
mathematics delves into figures per
tanning to the national bowling cham
picnship tournament.
on the basis that O five man'teams
will compete. there viii be $1,000
games rolled-3O0.0Go frames. Figur-
Ing on eighteen balls TO a game. 30
000 deliveries viii be made.
With each ball travelling ~eighty-ive
feet and back. OF 40 feet to each de-
livery. means that 91.SO0.oO0 feet. or
about 1855 miles. will be the dis
tance covered by bowling balls in the
garden. This is six times the distance
between New York and San Francisco
Each ball weighing sixteen pounds.
a total weight of S.G40.000 pounds will
be lifted. or about 1920 tons. the
weight of an ocean steamship. Each
bowler will lift and handle nearly half
a ton.
Approximately 100000 pins will be
knocked down. a weight of ~17.55O.0Od
pounds. or S713 tons. The combined
weight Of the balls delivered and the
pins knocked down will be greater
than the weight of the steamship -.
Louis.
The time for bowling will extend
over eighteen days. There will be
$4,000 in prizes. $1,000 Of which will
be given to the winning five man |
There will be three distinct titular
comprehensive man. two nan and
individual.
E~iGhty-five per cent of all the en-
trance fees are ~eturn to the bowl
ers in prizes. |
Thirty thousand score sheets will be
to record the games. each
having room for three games
and being issued in t~riplicate. The
scoring system. by which every
person in the garden may follow the
of each ball rolled. will cost
s $500 to install.
One team will enter from Germany
and one or more teams from the Pa
cific coast. The tournament viii be the
bowling event ever held, both
In point of entries m spectators of
a mathematical person. fond of
to an degree.
might attempt TO ascertain the amount
Of skin worn of the fingers of the
or the amount of ervou en-
ergy wasted in expressing the feeling
Of a man who has just missed a spare
In the tournament or encountered an