Word: thum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bowling is almost as old as history. Ten pins, which is modern U. S. bowling, started when nine pins was declared illegal in 1875. Father of U. S. bowling was Joseph ("Uncle Joe") Thum, whose two alleys under the German restaurant he ran on New York's Greenwich Street in 1880 comprised the first U. S. "bowling academy." He was the organizer and perennial president of the United Bowling Clubs which formed the American Bowling Congress in 1895. He died last January, just too soon to witness the first Bowling Congress ever held where U. S. bowling started...