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Show BOWLINQ 18 STRENUOUS WORK, In Fifty Games a Man Lilts a Total of Six Tons. Bowlors doclnro thnt it Is n moro Bovoro physical strnln to bowl fifty games than to piny ono gamo of football. foot-ball. It does not seem as hard, of course, to shoot balls down an alloy as to tacklo 200 pounds of llvo beef, but It Is tho gamo that makes tho work easier and tho rosults far moro satisfactory- Tho fifty immcs to bo rolled Is equal to COO frames or Innings for each bov r, In this number of frames, not, figuring tho ndded balls for strikes In evory tenth, thoro would probably bo nn nvorago of 1C0 strikes. For strikes the bowling ball Is handled onco, and for tho 300 sparos t,w!co, n total or 840 times that tho ball Is Bent down tho alleys. A regulation bowling hall weighs 1C pounds. Whon handled 810 times tho total wolght Is 13,-140 pounds, or moro than six tons. Tho tlmo In which tho C0-gamo match Is to b" played Is variously estimated esti-mated at from six to olght hours. Figured at soven hours, which Is about tho maximum and conservative estimate, It wl": be Been that tho bowlors bowl-ors handlo tho weight of nearly soven tons at tho rnlo of a ton nn hour, or more than 300 pounds ovcry mtmito. Tho runway ovor which tho bowlor moves to tho foul lino Is nearly 20 foot In length, nnd tho 810 times in which each delivers tho ball makes a total of nearly 17,000 foot. To this must bo added tho further dlstanco to tho ball rack, to tho seats of tho playors and p'sslbly to tho mahogany for bowlo 1 havo boon known to crook nn elbow for othor things than delivering a ball adding enough In distance to mnko n grand total of moro than five miles of pedestrian work In tho Boven hours on tho alloys. |