Did you know that your local bowling alley is carrying on a tradition that has spanned multiple millennia? The history of bowling is long, interesting, and full of amazing twists and turns. From Ancient Egypt through the Roman Empire, and withstanding the ire of King Henry III on its way to becoming one of the most played sports in the world today, bowling has taken a turbulent road over thousands of years to get here.
Hieroglyphics and art pieces have been discovered which depict early bowling games played by the people of Egypt. But, the invention of bowling likely had a simple aim that we all can relate with — to simply have fun knocking things down with friends.
Rather than a ball, most Germans used a rock to knock down kegels wooden pins used to protect themselves and play with in hopes of absolving their sins. Of all the ways to find salvation, a bowling competition sure does seem like the way to go! However, the going theory is that the word is German in origin. Knowing where the history of the modern sport got its start, that makes perfect sense! As time went on, new categories of the sport of bowling began to crop up in other parts of Europe.
While the introduction of bowling to English shores is a topic of much debate the first evidence of lawn bowling lanes dates all the way back to in Southhampton. Well, bowling distracted his soldiers from their archery practice!
Bowling pins were cooler than arrows, it appears. It still had a long way to go towards becoming the tenpin game we know and love, and there were plenty more royal obstacles to come. In the s, legal bowling returned to England. And it was then that the modern bowling alley started taking shape. Before bowling balls had finger holes and reactive coverstocks, lawn bowling was all the rage in England.
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All of this, according to the findings of Pehle, had its origins as early as the third or fourth centuries AD.
In only 3 pins were used in some parts of Germany: in others the number scaled as high as 17, which was the rule on Silesia for many generations. Martin Luther was an enthusiastic bowler. Experiments convinced him that nine pins made an ideal game and this finally settled upon as the standard for the game in Germany. When played indoors, the ball was rolled at the pins; when played outdoors, if the surface was rough, a player was permitted to choose between rolling and throwing at the pins.
Although all these games had their part in the development of the modern game, it is probable that the one to which the sport of today is most closely allied is the ancient game of ninepins.
This game, originally played by the Dutch as well as the Germans and the Swiss, was bowled upon beds of clay cinders.
It is certain that originally all these games were outdoor pastimes, played in the open air. Later about AD as the game became more popular, a single board about 12 to 18 inches wide and about twenty or thirty yards in length was used as the lane bed.
Pins were set up, three pins in each of three rows, on a board platform from 36 to 48 inches square. It was naturally impossible to hit any of the corner pins, so the pins were respotted after each ball was delivered. From time to time various improvements were made, such as providing a shelter over each end of the lane for the participants and spectators on one end, and for the individual or boy who stood by the frame to set up the pins which were bowled down.
Later a small trough was placed on one side of the lane with a gradual descent from the pins to the bowlers. The pin-boy called out the number of pins beaten down which was credited to the score of the bowler.
Here we find the origin of the ball return. Finally many decided to enclose the entire lane, so here we have the origin of the indoor bowling lane, the first of which is understood to have opened in London in AD. Whilst the game, through its different forms, continued to be developed in many in many countries the first evidence of bowling in the Americas is c by the findings of a reproduction of a painting in the Bettimann Archives in New York City which depicts the Dutch bowling at pins on Bowling Green, New York.
In an enclosure was reserved as a green for the officers if the garrison of Annapolis Port Royal.
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