The Washington herald., 1911-12-29
PIN KNIGHTS WILL
HAYETOWORKHARD
Competitors in the National
Tourney Booked TO Labor.
STRENUOUS TINE AHEAD
Paterson Tournament Company is
FIustIinE All the Time to Make
the Sixth Annual Classic of Nn-
tional Bowling Association sus-
cess-Expect to Break Records.

Paterson. N. J., Dec. 2S.-christmas
holidays are no interruption to the plans
Of the promoters OF the sixth annual
tournament Of the National Bowling As4
ISOLATION. Every day is labor day for
these ambitious gentlemen. and con-
sequently they have scheduled another
board of directors meeting for Sis O'Clock
this evening. in the board of trade rooms
at the city hall.
Last Tuesday night the board held
it's first meeting in over month and
there was so much to be done in the
line Of routine business. that the worthy
gentlemen became weary OF their own
exertions in passing resolutions. and ap-
proving the paying OF bills. Consequently
II was decided to adjourn the meeting for
one week. and II is expected that the
board will continue with its afduops
labor tonight
Speaking of arduous labor naturally
brings up the subject OF the amount Of
work that the combined efforts OF the
bowlers, who are expected to take part
in the national tournament, would repre-
sent IL ii were reduced to figures.
To begin with the most conservative
estimates that can be made on the prob
able entry list at the Paterson tourna-
ment provide for at least 800 five-men
teams, 800 two-men teams, and loo in
dividuals. Three games are bowled in
each event. This means that in the five
men team tournament there will be 1,500
individuals to bowl three games apiece,
making an aggregate of 4.5o0 games; 300
men will roll three games apiece in the
two-men, for a total of 1900 games, while
the loo individuals will knock OF 5000
games. The total of all these figures rep
resents n,100 games that will be rolled
between March and March 3O irrespec.
tive of match contests.
900 Frames.
Eleven thousand one hundred games
represent 1l1,0oO frames, and making the
most liberal allowance possible and figur-
ing that on an average a man will make
at least five strikes a game it will re-
quire the rolling of at least one and a
half balls per frame. or fifteen balls a
game, to complete these contests. That
means that the bowlers will deliver 1s6, 500
balls down the Alleys during the course
of the tournament ~
Now, the standard weight OF a bowl
ing ball is sixteen pounds, and this
weight has to be lifted 16s, 500 times dur
Ing the tournament. That represents an
aggregate weight of 2.664OOo pounds, or
1,S22 tons. A weight greater than an
ocean liner.
In delivering his ball the average
bowler takes at least three steps, and
each step will average nearly three feet.
which means that each man is going to
run nine feet before he throws his ball,
and in rolling 1885, 500 balls during the
tournament all the bowlers together will
cover 1,49S,50O feet, or nearly 2S4 miles.
II this distance could be covered in a
straight line a message could be carried
nearly to Buffalo.
So much for the labor from the run
away end, and now think for moment
OF the boy in the pit. Each pin weighs
three pounds, four ounces, and he has to
set up ten pins for each frame, or a total
weight of thirty-two and one-half pounds.
which has to be lifted 111.00o times during
the tournament, making a total OF 1852, 900
pounds that the pin boys will pick up the
last three weeks in March.
Now, when all the totals are consid-
cred from a standpoint of physics, and
one starts to figure out the amount Of
energy required to raise one pound one
foot, and TO propel the body forward al
any time, the size and Importance Of the
national tournament is onlyN dimly real.
lied. All bowlers should put their shoul.
ders to the wheel and help make this
National Bowling Association tournament
the success that 1t and plucky little Pat.
erson deserves to be.