Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-01-05 | Page 15 | War Causes Increased Interest in Bowling

War Causes Increased interest in Bowling By JACK CUDDY i NEW YORK Jan 5 UP The UP-The The war has hag rolled a money strike for bowling providing the crashing pins game me with m participants who spent approximately during the past season These totals for 1912 1942 represent an increase of or about 35 5 per er cenlIn cent centi i In all aU departments over ever 1941 according according ac ac- ac- ac cording g to to Al AI Cirillo managing editor of the national weekly pictorial pic plc- tonal Bowling News Newt Cirillo who h has s just completed a a. national survey smiles c condescendingly condescendingly con con- n- n upon the other popular las lar n national sports sports like like baseball baseball base base- ball football and basketball Never in the history of the game have bowlers taken the sport so SQ seriously he e said Even Kven with the cancellation n of the American Bowling congress for or the first time sin since e i its inception th the craze has continued on on all fronts frontS' War Workers Play lay With bowlers in the armed services one ne would exp expect ct that the game would be hurt to toa toa a a. certain extent but th that's ts t's not so according to Cirillo vho who emphasis that the stream of dollars pouring into the pockets of war workers workers- men and women women means means more games rolled throughout the country country coun coun- try at all hours of the day or night The big contribution is being made by women defense workers who have provided about new bowlers since Pearl Harbor Meanwhile service men on leave from their posts bowl in the cities and towns At some of these municipal municipal municipal mu mu- alleys the owners arrange for uniformed men to roll free realizing that they will wiIl more than pay their way by bringing in ci civilians civilians civilians ci- ci to bowl with them i Editor Cirillo says that the bowling year year- is is' restricted to about days eliminating the hot period period pe pe- pe- pe nod from mid-June mid to Sep mid During the season he claims the average bowler spends approximately a week week not not including refreshments ments Concerning priorities for bowling bowling bowling bowl bowl- ing equipment Cirillo explains that Virtually none of the regular bowling balls with balls with their two inch hard rubber shell are manufactured manufactured manufactured any more although most mose dealers have them on hand because wholesalers stocked up when they saw war wa coming Pin rin Boy Shortage No more setting pin machines are being manufactured because of priorities and the accent is on human pin stickers ers But there is isa a a. shortage here too because so many of the young alley hoppers have lave joi joined d the service There is isa isa a a. movement afoot now to bring in n girl pin setters but they must be husky to stand the work Major league ball players and managers continue to enter the bowling game just as they did didIn didin didn in n the past Som Some of the well well- known operators are Freddie Fitzsimmons Fitzsimmons Fitz Fitz- simmons Jimmy Dykes Lefty Grove Ray Schalk Bob OFarrell Red Hed Faber and Everett Scott Dykes operates on a a. large scale according to Cirillo owning a large arge chain of alleys in Philadel Philadel- phia hia