Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southwestern South Dakota knot of mountains called the Black Hills are the richest U. S. gold mines, the camp where President Coolidge said "I do not choose to run," the bowl-like mountain valley out of which Major Albert William Stevens sailed his stratosphere balloon in 1935, the outstanding granite mountain whose top Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is blasting into the shape of Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's and Roosevelt's heads, the Wind Cave National Monument whose ten underground square miles have never been well explored, and the Fossil Cycad National Monument whose 360 acres...
...sports are more ancient than lawn bowling. It was played in 12th-Century England and by the time of Henry VIII had provoked such a riotous fever of ambling that even that riotous monarch put it down by law. First notable U. S. player was George Washington, who had a bowling green* at Mount Vernon. A fresh-air cousin of indoor bowling, lawn bowling, recently revived, is nowadays a decorous game which appeals chiefly to oldsters, who find its 3½ lb. bowl (ball) easier to handle than the 16-lb. indoor ball. Last week 160 of its foremost enthusiasts...
Object of lawn bowling is to throw the bowl, which is weighted on one end to make it lopsided, down a green 120 ft. long to land as close as possible to a previously thrown white ball or "jack." Major tournament play is between teams consisting of four men-lead, second, third, and skip (captain)-each of whom throws two bowls. An opponent's bowl may be knocked away from the jack or a teammate's may be knocked closer. When all the bowls are played and an "end" is completed, it is scored like horseshoes, the closest...
...four-man teams from twelve clubs competing last week, strangest and best was that of the Chicago Lawn Bowling Club, all of whose members bore the name McArthur. Its skip, lean, 23-year-old Lachlan D. (for nothing) McArthur, created a sensation by his technique of swinging the bowl in a semicircle to warm up, following it anxiously down the green to encourage it by urgently waving his hands. Playing with his Uncles Duncan, Roger and James, young Bowler McArthur skipped Chicago Lawn successfully through the final against the Milwaukee Lawn Bowling Club...
...athletics at Cornell University. Rym Berry is about as much like Andy White as a polar bear is like an amoeba. Shy, smallish Mr. White first met big Mr. Berry, who is the equal of Editor Ross in sudden irascibility, at Cornell where both were members of Book & Bowl, beer-drinking literary society...