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...festooned Syracuse Armory, equipped with the 24 brand new alleys which Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. builds each year for the event, the Congress began to assemble last fortnight. It will adjourn the third week in April, when entrance fees and admissions are redistributed in prizes of which Bowler Mensenberg is unlikely to receive any but his medal. Most Congressmen bring their own bowling balls, of lignum vitae or composition rubber, in specially tailored leather cases. Since it is easy to cheat by putting lead in the finger-holes, each ball is carefully weighed before its owner uses it to make...
...Syracuse, early one morning last week, affable Carl Mensenberg took his stance to bowl his first singles game in the annual American Bowling Congress. Fifteen minutes later, Bowler Mensenberg had done the thing that most bowlers do only in their dreams. Handicapped by an arm injury, using a borrowed ball, watched by his best girl, he had bowled a perfect game...
Chances against a perfect game-300 for 12 strikes-under the circumstances in which Bowler Mensenberg made his, at the No. 1 event of the year for U. S. bowlers, were 400,000 to 1. In the 35-year history of the Congress, only three bowlers in some 1,250,000 games have ever done it before.* Bowler Mensenberg. of Scranton, Pa., competent enough to have made one other perfect game in informal competition, responded politely to the cheers of his gallery, learned that he would get a special gold medal with two diamonds, told reporters he felt "swell." Then...
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