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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Toledo, Ohio, hosted the 19th annual American Bowling Congress tournament in 1919, against a backdrop of war. The tournament, which started on March 8, began less than four months after the end of Wor ...

Bowlers competed for $17,000 in prize money at the Women’s International Bowling Congress tournament in Cincinnati in 1938. In a dramatic conclusion, Nell Webster of Elgin, Illinois, and Rose Werner, ...

Peoria mailed 10,000 posters and entry blanks to bowling enthusiasts all over the country for the 15th annual international tournament of the American Bowling Congress. Organizers chose Peoria as a ho ...

In 1933, just days before the American Bowling Congress’s annual international tournament opened in Columbus, banks all over the country began failing as the Great Depression exploded into a full-blow ...

The 14th annual American Bowling Congress tournament was held in Buffalo, New York, in March 1914. Teams traveled to Buffalo from all over New York state, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. This pin was like ...

The 24th annual American Bowling Congress tournament in Chicago in 1924 saw a record-high 2,131 teams competing.