Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-11
GAME YANKS PLAY
OF GERMAN ORIGIN
Sunday 0kay on Sport Here
Recalls Conflicts of Old
With Law.
vEW YORK C1TY's sport thun-

derstorm Is over. Recently
VI completed Is the mammoth
4 tenpin bout of the American
Bowling Congress, which for 56 con-
secutive days rumbled along to some
what OF = record With about 10000
entrants and almost 1000 hours du-
ration, this national contest set new
nigh score for size.
Bowling now may be ranked as a
major sport from the point of view
OF numbers participating 1t is eSti-
mated that 100000 Americans take
part in the sport.
Bowling en over is not the same
sport which absorbed Sir Francis
brakes mind and muscle at Plymouth
while the Spanish armada sailed into
the English Channel" says bulletin
from the Washington, D. c., head
quarters OF the National Geographic
Society. He and his officers were
Willing away that fateful hour with
bowls, still a popular British pas
time. It is an outdoor activity, and
consists of hopefully rolling lop-
sided wooden ball across the green
sward in the direction of a white
target bowl. Since the bowl is de-
signed oblate for bias rolling, for
'obliquely waddling to the mark in
view, control OF its swerving course
requires skill.
keKelspiel Is Direct Ancestor.
I'm THE United States this is called
lawn bowls. Bowling is only
Its f1rst cousin, for it stems not from
England but from the continent. It's
direct ancestor is the German YER
sion Of ninepins, kegelspiel, from
which bowlers take their nickname
OF keglers. Bowling now is an in
door game of bombarding bottle
shaped maple pins with fat, bake
lite ball. The miniature field of bat
tie Is 4 60-foot glass smooth alley
OF maple or pine, shellacked and pol
bhed seven times for dazzling slick
ness.
"All New York City's rank growth
Of skyscrapers has not been able to
crowd out bowling's traditional Amer
lean birthplace Bowling Green Park
This tiny green oval, from which
Broadway plunges into its noisy and
dazzling career. three centuries ago
served New Netherlanders as a village
green just outside the red cedar
palisade OF Fort Amsterdam 1t was
their outdoor market and the sup
posed site Of New York's foremost
swindle-Peter Minuit's purchase, for
$24 worth OF dry goods, of all Man
haitian Island from Indians who may
not have had title to it.
Wears Track Across Map.
PRESUMABLY, the space already
had proved satisfactory for bowl
ing when it was inclosed, in 1892, for
the yearly rent OF one peppercorn-
any tr1fling sum-as a private green.
The iron fence, brought from Eng
hand, could not protect this early
sports center from violence. Here in
1865 riotous citizens protested against
the stamp act. On July 8, 1776, when
the Declaration Of Independence had
Just been read to the Continental
Army, = mob tore down the fine new
leaden statue of George III on horse
back and reduced it to good repub-
lican bullets.
Bowls and bowling are pastimes of
such long standing that they have
worn . track across the map Bowl
ing Green is the name of eight towns
and localities in the United States,
. bay and cape in Australia and two
villages in England. American vari-
ants are Bowlington, KY, and Bowl
ers Wharf, Va. The Bowling Greens
are towns OF Florida, Indiana, Mis-
souri,, South Carolina, Virginia, Ohio
and Kentucky, and a mountain in
New Jersey. Wales has = Bowling
Bank.
Scotland has its Bowling, 4 town
~ miles down the Clyde River from
Glasgow; because 50 many steamers
put into Bowling Harbor for Winter
repairs, 1t Is nicknamed Clyde In.
Urinary