Show COWLING IS STRENUOUS WORK in fifty games a man lifts a attal of si i tons bowlers declare that it is a more severe physical strain to bowl fifty games than to play lilay ono one game ot of foot ball it does not seem as hard bar ot of course to shoot balls down an all a iley alley as to tackle pounds ot of live beef but it Is the game that makes the work easier and the results result s far more satisfactory the fitly fifty games to be rolled Is equal to frames or innings for each bowler bovier in this number of frames not figuring the added balls tor for strikes in every tenth there would probably be an average of IGO strikes for strikes the bowling ball is handled once ard for the spares twice a total of times that the ball Is sent down the alleys A regulation bowling ball weighs lg pounds when handled times the total weight is 13 1 pounds or moro than six tons the time in which the 50 game match Is to ba played is variously esti mated at from six to eight hours figured at seven hours which is about the maximum and conservative conserva tivo estimate it wl be seen that the bowlers handle the weight of nearly seven tons at the rate of a ton toil an hour or more than pounds every minute the runway over which the bowler moves to tile the foul line is nearly 20 feet in length and the times in which each delivers the ball makes a total of nearly feet to to this must be added the further distance to the ball rack to the seats seat ot players and to the mahogany ly for bowle 3 s have been known to crook an elbow tor for other things than delivering a ball adding enough in distance to make a grand total ot of more than five miles ot of liodes work in the seven hours on the alleys |