Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-23

TT is curious to note the number Of
i things that the average bowler can
do with ball. This is especially APP
plicable to those young men who are just
learning the game. They succeed in doing
things that are beyond the ken of the
ordinary citizen.
When you start to bowl the thing looks
simple. In the first place. you've appa-
underhand in a slow, determined way. II
it is a big ball and you are using big
pins you can't figure out how you car
them.
But just wait until you try.
There was one young man in a we'll
known bowling alley the other night who
was practicing by himself He was an
ball that would hardly have fitted the
business end of a thirteen-inch gun.
YEARLY he would lift the ball and aim
it, Then he would give 1t careful
start and begin to watch while it wendell
its way toward the pins.
Half way down the alley the bal. would
begin to wobble. Apparently it would
lose it's spirit and decide to give up the
whole thing. Then it would make an
other tired effort, run heavily against the
end pin and drop sluggishly on the mat
and the end Of the alley. Every time the
young man got the ball back he would
try a new theory of bowling. And each
time he would carefully clip off one Of the
end pins.
This case is one that stands an ex-
ample for the futility of science in
bowling where. women are concerneo.
The manager of the bowling department
of this amusement place stated on his
word OF honor as gentleman and
bowler that he had seen a young Wom-
an come into his place and toss the bali
down the alley with both hands-and
heat a Young man who had been practic-
ing for months and months.
aDon't tell me-" said the manager IL
amt Just luck. It's something that
comes natural to EN-; IKE naking Dr sa1,.,
ing. history shows that the game or
skittles from which bowling was evolved.
has always been a tavern game. played
by men and
.IIistory." said the manager, can go
hang. rye watched 'ern and know what
I'm talking about. 1t is going to be
great day for bowling when the suf
fragtsts organize their clubs and bowl
against each other.
X X
Far from the spot where the student
assisted at the making of history there
Is another bowling alley, which, for want
Of a better name will be called the SOL
emnest Alley in Town" 1t is down in a
basement and near it is a refreshment
BOOTH Its visitors are mostly men of
solemn countenance, business men who
come In during the evening. Their theory
Is q wonderful one from the standpoint
Of exercise. They bowl until they have
tired themselves. Then they go back and
have something to eat and drink. Then
they bowl again and again return to their
'ood There is one man who must have
lad three meals before he finally went
away.
In this bowling alley the lightsomeness
# the younger generation hardly pene-
rates. Any man who cheered would
probably be put out instantly by the out
aged proprietor. The best you can get
tut Of q seasoned bowler here is good
hot" well placed" or something like
hat. And from the faces of the bowl
RS one would assume that they were at
ending the funeral services of the pin
oy. or something like that.
Speaking of pinboys, the student of
owing managed to talk to one of them
hen he came up from the back. Pin
oys usually relieve each other, first one
nd then another taking a turn at the