Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judged by numbers, the U. S. Congress at Washington is a drop in the bucket compared to the Congress that assembled last week in New York. The American Bowling Congress is not only the biggest Congress in the U. S. but also the biggest sport event in the world. In the A. B. C. tournament, 22,000 bowlers, representing the cream of the country's crop of 9,000,000, bowl for eight weeks to determine five-man, two-man and individual U. S. bowling championships. The Congress costs $100,000. Entry fees total $218,000 ($5 apiece from...
Congress Week. Not all of the 22,000 delegates to the American Bowling Congress bowl at the same time. They arrive in installments, bowl, post scores and depart. Until bowling alleys-pine, shellacked seven times-have been used for a fortnight or more, experts find them unsatisfactory. Consequently, earliest events scheduled at the Congress are those for the least competent entrants. Last week's competitors were mostly "booster" teams, from in or near New York. Best individual score of the week was 690, posted by one Jim Reinsmith of Syracuse...
...bowler properly registered with the A. B. C. can bowl in the tournament by paying an entrance fee. If bowlers were allowed more than three games in each event the Congress would probably never adjourn. Since three games do not permit any more thorough demonstration of skill than nine holes of golf or half an hour of poker, a member of the small company of really top-class bowlers in the U. S. is not much more likely to win the individual championship than a member of the large class of able bowlers who can average 200 points a game...
Eminently successful was Mr. Babst, for American Sugar in 59 grades and 269 different kinds of packages now sells around one-third of all sugar in the big U. S. bowl. Nevertheless, while Mr. Babst has changed U. S. sugar from a bulk to a packaged commodity in his long patriarchal rule, he has not forgotten his early law. Last week he mailed to his 21,000 stockholders an annual report which looked and read like a legal brief...
...hitchhike on the farm relief wagon, although all refiners of sugar are solely middlemen who have no more to do with production than laundrymen have to do with cotton planting,'' cried Chocolateer Staples. "For the domestic refiners to dramatize themselves as doughty defenders of the American sugar bowl is child's play. Mr. Babst, head of the largest American refinery concern, complains about a loophole in the tariff. It is also a loophole through which the American people can shoot at the target of monopoly...