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MAMA’S GOING BOWLING
“Unlimber the can opener, Junior. Mama’s going bowling.” The 1952 Women’s International Bowling Congress in St. Louis attracted women from all over the country, including 90 from Minneapolis alone. Th ...
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MICHIGAN AND ILLINOIS DOMINATE
The 1955 Women’s International Bowling Congress met in Omaha, Nebraska, at the Omaha Music Box Lanes. Michigan and Illinois bowlers swept the individual titles, with Marion Ladewig, a grandmother from ...
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NEW MEXICO IN OMAHA
The 19th annual Women’s International Bowling Congress in Omaha attracted bowlers from near and far, including a team from Las Vegas, New Mexico (yes, you read that correctly) that became the first te ...
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NO SHORTS IN DETROIT
Detroit was rolling in 1953, and so was the Women’s International Bowling Congress, which met there for their annual tournament. The tournament did not conclude until June 8, at which point even Detro ...
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PIN BOYS ON STRIKE IN GRAND RAPIDS
Grand Rapids proudly advertised the city’s chief industry, furniture-making, on the membership ribbons for the 17th annual international tournament of the American Bowling Congress. The tournament was ...
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PIN-KNIGHTS ROLL IN CHICAGO
The Windy City hosted the 12th annual American Bowling Congress tournament in 1912, billed as “the greatest tournament of the decade.” Over the tournament’s three weeks, “pin-knights” rolled 30,000 ga ...
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PIN-SETTING MACHINES IN CLEVELAND
Upon arrival, members of the Milwaukee delegation to the 1930 American Bowling Congress tournament would have found 32 brand-new alleys and hundreds of pin boys, foul men and scorers at the Public Hal ...
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POSTWAR BOWLING
The 29th Women’s International Bowling Congress met in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1946. For the first time since 1942, the WIBC held elections for officers, a sign that Americans were turning their att ...
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RECORD CROWD IN TOLEDO
Bowling steadily grew in popularity through the early 1900s, and the 16th annual international tournament of the American Bowling Congress broke records for numbers of entries and number of cities rep ...
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RECORDS IN FROG TOWN
The 1922 American Bowling Congress tournament in Toledo, Ohio, shattered records set in 1921 by the annual tournament in Buffalo, furthering a long-running rivalry between Steel Belt cities. Toledo wa ...
