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  2. Ten-pin bowling - Wikipedia

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    Ten-pin bowling lanes are 60 feet (18.29 m) from the foul line to the center of the head pin (1-pin), with guide arrows (aiming targets) about 15 feet (4.57 m) from the foul line. [4] The lane is 41.5 inches (1.05 m) wide and has 39 wooden boards, or is made of a synthetic material with the 39 "boards" simulated using marking lines. [ 4 ]

  3. Automatic scorer - Wikipedia

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    Inside 1970s computer console apparatus. Automatic equipment is considered a cornerstone of the modern bowling center. The traditional bowling center of the early 20th century was advanced in automation when the pinsetter person ("pin boy"), who set back up by hand the bowled down pins, [1] was replaced by a machine that automatically replaced the pins in their proper play positions.

  4. Strike (bowling) - Wikipedia

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    A ten-pin bowling score sheet showing how a strike is scored The number of sanctioned perfect (300) games per league bowler has increased substantially since the 1990s. . Freeman and Hatfield posit that the increase in perfect games is due to factors such as the introduction of reactive resin coverstocks, asymmetric ball cores, synthetic lane surfaces, and precision lane oiling mach

  5. WTBA World Tenpin Bowling Championships - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in 2017, the five-person team event was modified. Qualifying was still all five players bowl ten frames each with their scores added together to determine the overall score. In the medal round, the five players bowl a best of 3 baker format, where players bowl in order one frame each (frames 1-5) and repeat the order from frames 6-10.

  6. Spare (bowling) - Wikipedia

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    However, splitting the 4-5 gap too evenly sends the 4-pin sideways toward the gutter without contacting the 7-pin. A ten-pin bowling score sheet showing how a spare is scored. A spare is a term used in bowling to indicate that all of the pins have been knocked down during the second ball of a frame when not all the pins were knocked down in the ...

  7. World Tenpin Masters - Wikipedia

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    It stands next to the Weber Cup and AMF World Cup as one of the world’s largest annual international sports Ten-pin bowling championships in terms of number of participating nations. In 2009/10 18-year-old Daniel Spencer & 19-year-old Matt Chamberlain of England became the youngest ever qualifiers of the event after winning the PTBC 2008/09 ...

  8. Perfect game (bowling) - Wikipedia

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    A perfect game is the highest score possible in a game of bowling, achieved by scoring a strike with every throw. [1] In bowling games that use 10 pins, such as ten-pin bowling , candlepin bowling , and duckpin bowling , the highest possible score is 300, achieved by bowling 12 strikes in a row in a traditional single game: one strike in each ...

  9. Sport bowling - Wikipedia

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    Sport Bowling is any form of ten pin bowling that uses patterns of lane oil to reduce the effectiveness of modern bowling balls. It was created by the United States Bowling Congress, the governing body of the sport of ten-pin bowling, to offer players the opportunity to bowl on exactly the same lane conditions and oil patterns that professional bowlers face while on the PBA Tour.