Show EGYPTIANS KNEW BOWLING Discovery of Nino Pins and Balls in Ancient Ruins If there Is any bowler who can trace his ancestry back some 6100 years he may find upon Investigation that he Is descended from the champion nlncpln player of that time y While tho few treatises written on the sport of tenpins generally credit the game of bowls as having been started early In the middle ages an old New York bowler now calls attention to the fact that the game was known many years before that Recent explorations by Dr Pctrlc one of the highest authorities on early Egyptian history have brought to light the fact which proves that the game of ninepins was known to the Egyptians Egyp-tians 1 While Inspecting the tombs of the Kings of the first Egyptian dynasty which arc known as the Menes group Dr Petrie discovered a set of ninepins and balls tastefully carved The tomb had been rifled probably many yeara before this by the Arabs but some of the contents had been overlooked With the pins were found an arm of the Queen with armlets and bracelets and other pieces of feminine Jewelry From this It Is Inferred the game was patronized pat-ronized by royalty and was played by the women of the court The period of the Menes dynasty Is i reckoned as beginning from 1700 to 1500 yearn before Christ Tel < ing the lowest figures and adding the present anno domlnl gives the age of bowling as ClOO years Just what style of game the Egyptians Egyp-tians played Is merely a matter of conjecture con-jecture and as they had no bowling I congress to prcccrvc their records their II scores have not been handed down Possibly they were poor players and like many bowlers of the present day I did not like to see their names In print In the royal bowling column Evidently AI ly the sport as played by the Egyptians passed out of existence The history oC the modern game of tenpins Is well known to most bowlers All of the va ilous games now played on the alleys originated from bowls on tho green 01 lawn howls 1 The first move towards covered alleys wu < the skittle alleys In which a sort of discus was thrown nt the pins Later on the round ball was introduced and the alleys lengthened length-ened i J |