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Show BOWLINC 13 8TRENUOU3 WORK, In Fifty Game a Man Lltts a Total of Six Tons. fiowlcrs declnto that It la a more Before physical atrnln to bowl fifty games than to play ono gamo of football. foot-ball. It docs not seem as hard, of course, to shoot balls down an alloy as to tncklo 200 pounds of live bcof, but It la tho gamo that makes tho work easier and the results far more aatlHfnctory. Tho fifty games to bo rolled is equal to COO frames or Innings for each bow' r, in this numbor of frames, not figuring the ndded bnlla for strikes In ovory tenth, thero would probably bo au avcrago of ICO strikes. For strikes tho bowling ball la handled once, nnd for tho 300 spares twlco, a total of 810 times that tho ball is sent clown the nllcyB. A regulation bowling ball weighs 1C-pounds. 1C-pounds. When handled 840 times tho j total weight Is 13,410 pounds, or moro , thnn six tons, Tho time In which tho GO-gnmo match Is to b-i played la variously estimated esti-mated at from six to olsht hours. Figured at seven hours, which U about the maximum and conservative; estimate it wl" bo seou that tho bowl-srs bowl-srs handlo tho weight, of nearly seven tons at the rato of a ton an hour, or moro thnn 300 pounds every mlnuto. Tho runway over which tho bowler moves to the foul lino is nearly 20 root in length, nnd tho 840 times in which each delivers tho ball makes a total of nearly 17,000 foot. To this ; must be added tho further dlatanco to the ball rack, to tho scats of tho playeis and r-sslbly to tho mahogany for bowlo ' havo been known to crook nn elbow for othor things than doliverlng a ball adding enough in distance to mnko a grand total of uioro than flvo miles of pedestrian work in tho seven hours on tho alloys. |
