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Show I Outdoor Pastime of Kings Becomes I an Indoor Game of the iVlodern I Business Man, Who Needs and Finds a Cure in It for His I Shattered Nerves, Sleepless I Nights, Rheumatism and Lack of Appetite H Nearly Every H Muscle of the H Body Benefited. IT IS bowling that keeps me In good health, despite tlic rigor of my confinement and the mental anguish which 1 suffer," declared King Charles I. to a visitor visi-tor who commented on his healthy appearance while the monarch ' was imprisoned impris-oned at Ilolmby, Northamptonshire. North-amptonshire. "I forget my borrows and the daik clouJs hanging o'er mo fl "while engaged In the merry game, and the cx-H cx-H crtion gives me hearty appetlto and health H brings me gentle slumber at night " H Tlie unfortunate Charles was noL the only H monarch who was a howler. King Henry VIII.' H was fond of tho sport, "and It is related that H ' Queen Anno Bolcyn first incurred lus dis-H dis-H pleasure by accidentally winning a game from M him on tho alleys at Whitehall. A few days 1 later the king revived an order against tho H game, which shows that he was not a true j aport, being unablo to take Ills defeat In a H Bportsmanlikc spirit. And it was only a few M onths later that the fair Anne died upon the H ucaffold. Whether " was her success at bowls H that led to her death cannot, of course, bo said. H But It is said that when at noon of the day H of her execution tho cannon sounded in T.on- j don. announcing tho news of her death, Henry, 1 who. twenty miles away at Windsor, had been B awaiting Impatiently the signal, turned to his j courtiers and exclaimed, "Let us lilo to the M bowling green and leain who still Uvea who M can beat hia monarch at bowl3." History does H not recount who won tho game on the Wlnd- H tor greens, but It Is a safe shot that Henry did. m Tho deadly foe of appendicitis, rheumatism H and insomnia, tho Injector of "pepper" into the tired and Jaded body, the reducer of the wais line and the upbuilder of the physical system these are some of tho compliments paid the game by Its devotees. It is a sort of indoor golf, a panacea for all physical ills and a remedy for mental worries Like golf It is a game for the weak and the strong, for men and women, and the more ono plays it the more he becomes Infatuated with it For nearly a thousand years the game has been popular in England, Scotland, Franco, Germany and Holland, but It appears that It llrst was played in England, out-of-doors, and In parts of Britain it is still played on tho turf. The Dutch founders of N'ew York had their bowling green, which Is still ono of the parks of tho lower part of Manhattan Island. In England tho ban was first placed upon It because it was found that the men who had been practicing at archery had deserted tho bow and arrow for bowls. Later, when tho bowling alleys were covered and numerous ones sprang up outside London, there were brawls which caused the law to frown on the game, or at least the public game. Persons with Incomes In-comes exceeding 100 pounds were allowed to maintain their private alleys on payment of a license The old game, of course, was much different from the modern game, and It appears that In the twelfth century there were no pins at all, the players merely trying to sec who could cast round stones nearest a mark. But in the following fol-lowing centuries, tho present day gamo was evolved, Theie are bowlers who bowl the year round, but it is in the cold, disagreeable weather of midwinter that the sport reaches its height There is practically no other winter athletic gamo In reach of the masses, and from early morning until after midnight the bowling alloys al-loys are thronged. There are, too, alleys which never close, and all through tho early hours of the morning the night workers will be found heie bowling. During tho summer months, duckpins, played with smaller balls than the regulation 1G-pounder, 1G-pounder, Is played, but along the middle of September the league bowlers tcgin practice for the opening of the season, which opens early in September. Then when the weather pormits no outdoor sport the real season for the general public is on. It Is the ono outdoor I sport which has been tiansplanteu successfully ' indoors Howling is not a matter of strength, although, al-though, as in golf, one can bowl aa strenuously or as gently as he iMeares. It Is a scientific game. It Is like billiards in a way. It Is tho curve one puts on the ball which really counts. The bowler who gets a strike has the same feeling of elation as docs the golfer whose drive lands upon tho green. And the bowler who disposes of a split is as proud as tho golfer who runs down a long, dJfllcult putt. It's an easy game to learn, like golf. That is, It Is easy to learn the position, tho way to throw the ball and something about the hook. Constant practice for a year will mako one a good 100 bowler, but it takes about three years to make a 200 bowlei, which means a good bowler But there is pleasure In the learning, and week by week, as the learner's average Increases, In-creases, so does his pride grow. The pleasure arising from his first 100 score will last through a dozen misses. He Is like the golfer who for the first time makes a holo In bogey. Every golfer knows and understands that feeling. And In the meantime the bowler's physical being is benefited. "You never saw a bowler who had appendicitis, appendi-citis, rheumatism or suffered, from insomnia," declares Jake Pfieuger, known for,' the last fifteen fif-teen j cars In bowling circles all over the country. coun-try. "Before I took up bowling I had rheumatism rheuma-tism every winter, but after I had bowled a while it disappeared. Once, seven years ago, I stopped bowling all of one winter, and tho I rheumatism came back on me. And you bet I & started in again." j? 1 -FOSX BY- . I 07YH OFZ,M)tfY&- I AWM I &QJVZ&Q? ImM&jm &!TO xmMtm The bending over of th0 body, the steps, the bending of the knees, and finally the cast of tho ball, bring into play nearly everv 'muscle of the body. At first there may be a fow stiff joints and muscles, but the soreness quickly disappears, and the bodily benefits begin lo make themselves felt. There havo always been women bowlers, but the number fs increasing year by year. Women have found that it is a game for them as well as for men, and while the stars of the game are men, it mar be merely because they arc numerically stronger than women. It Is said sometimes by those who have never played the same and who have little first-hand ' ''?- ' ' knowledge of It that it has a tendency to cle-volop cle-volop only one side of the body. But this statement state-ment In refuted by tho appearanco and tho physical development of any one who has followed fol-lowed the game for years. For. while the ball usuuliy is thrown w 1th the right hand, the entire en-tire left sido of the hody Is brought Into action as well as the right side. The flrst muscles affected In bowling arc those of the entire left leg and hip. It Is the left leg which Is bont when the ball leaves the bowler's hand, and with part of tho strain borne by the right arm the left leg bears tho other. One might at well say that golf or tennis or 4 baseball or billiards will develop the right side Instead of the left because the throws or shots 1 aio made with the light hand. But the principal prin-cipal foico In bowling Is not in the cast of the bull Comparatively littlo strength Is neede I to cast the ball after one learns how It should be donc.x and tho entire body, not meicly tho right arm. furnishes what force Is nccessarj. There aro bowlers who will play as ninny as a thousand games a year, and yet they show no signs of being overdeveloped on tho right side. Rudl Meyer, who posed for the accompanying accompany-ing photographs, has bowled In cities all over the country for tho last five or six years. lie Is a good standard bowler, a tournament player who will show wcli in any company, and ho plays probably a thousand games a year. Ho Is about 5 feet 10 Inches in height and his "physical "phys-ical development Is perfect. Likewise his health, since ho has been a devotee of tho game, has' been perfect. Ho Is not unusually strong, but his entire body Is well developed, and no one sot of muscles mus-cles is more developed than another. Of course, as In the average man, the right arm has more strength than tho left, but In tho caso of tho bowler the difference is no moro marked than In the average man. Meyer sometimes plays tennis or handball, but nlno-tcnths of the cx-ciclsc cx-ciclsc he takes is bowling. And his physical condition is a proof of what bowlers claim for the game. However, it Is not wise for a person who has not reached his full physical development to bowl too much. Most good bowlers aro able to bowl with either hand, the 200 bowler generally averaging about half that much when using tho left hand. Theie ar.c some, however, who averago 200 with tho right hand and sometimes go as high as 150 or oven 175 when using the left. Nearly any ono who bowls constantly, however, can change hands, although It Is seldom done. Sometimes the 200 bowler, playing against a hundred man. will use his loft hand as a handicap. handi-cap. But as a rule tho ordinary bowler only uses the one hand. Formerly the "loaded" ball was allowed,- but In recent years this has becomo almost obsolete, obso-lete, and it Is barred from all Important tournaments. tour-naments. Tn ths early stages of the game the ball was "loaded," so to speak. That Is, tho first balls, which were of stone-, were nol'por- fectly round, but were heavier on one side than j tho other. This difference gave the ball tti j twist which corresponds to the "cngllsh" in bll- f K liaids, j K' In modern days the ball is "loaded" by mak- j Mf ing one aide heavier than tho other, which Js ; B dono by putting lead inside. When a ball like this Is used it takes a wide twist when shot i' W down the alley. But crack bowlers can develop K and control a twist of their own. which works I R better than the "loaded" ball, which is not al- j. K ways under perfect control. W' Most bowlers shoot the ball dbwn the right h W edge of the alley, and they try to work It so f ' lhat as It ncars the pins It curves In toward .'V, the middle of tho alley to strike tho apex pin I W diagonally or as nearly as possible on a right I K angle. ' The further the ball can bo rolled In a ! straight line beforo taking this twist tho bet- ' W tor are tho results. If the ball bo rolled in a 'I straight lino down the center of the alley to M the apex pin a "split" Is the usual result, th M P ns In tho middle being bowled over, leavlnir M Pins on both sides of tho alley, all of which J W ennnot bo Knocked down In the next shot. With K a twist tho chances are much better of knock- R' ing over tho entire ten pins. This is -whore th ,' W science of the gamo comes in. B Then after tho first shot, if there be plna fe left on tho alley, especially if there be a "split IW a different cast Is rcqub,odr perhap8 more -' J, R tiVf L gCL tho lnlng pins, or less of i" ' nrThcro a,ro ?,,,most a niany dlfterenT ' I casts or ways of rolling the ball as there ar I W a S ? SOlf' nnd' ,,k6 th0 0lfer' the bowl" 1 I ri,i r f3somoth,n to learn, which is th K real fascination of the .same. i Wk |