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Most early bowling alleys were small, and pin boys were used to reset the pins after each frame. Several bowling organizations were launched, beginning as early as to establish bowling as a standardized sport. It eventually became a ten pin sport. In New York City, the American Bowling Congress founded in , established uniform rules and equipment so they could be the same nationwide.

Once rules were standardized, the popularity of the game spread. The invention and use of the automatic pinsetter pushed pin boys out of the employment market, but it enhanced the game.

A painting from around shows British bowlers playing a bowling sport outdoors. It shows a triangular formation of ten pins chronologically before it appeared in the United States. In , the state of Connecticut banned nine-pin bowling to stop gambling, causing ten-pin bowling to be created to get around the law [6] — some 31 years after the aforementioned British outdoor ten-pin bowling painting was dated.

In , the oldest surviving bowling lanes in the United States were built as part of Roseland Cottage , the summer estate of Henry Chandler Bowen in Woodstock, Connecticut. The lanes, now part of Historic New England's Roseland Cottage House Museum contain Gothic Revival architectural elements in keeping with the style of the entire estate. In , the Revolutions of resulted in accelerated German immigration to the U.

In , the Scottish Bowling Association for lawn bowling was founded in Scotland by clubs; it was dissolved then refounded in In , Glasgow cotton merchant William Wallace Mitchell —84 published Manual of Bowls Playing , which became a standard reference for lawn bowling in Scotland. In , the National Bowling Association NBA was founded by 27 local clubs in New York City to standardize rules for ten-pin bowling, setting the ball size and the distance between the foul line and the pins, but failing to agree on other rules; it was superseded in by the American Bowling Congress.

In the s, Brunswick Corporation founded of Chicago , Illinois , maker of billiard tables began making bowling balls, pins, and wooden lanes to sell to taverns installing bowling alleys. On 9 September , the modern standardized rules for ten-pin bowling were established in New York City by the new American Bowling Congress ABC later the United States Bowling Congress , who changed the scoring system from a maximum points for 20 balls to a maximum points for 10 balls, and set the maximum ball weight at 16 lbs.

Floretta "Doty" McCutcheon defeated Smith in an exhibition match, founding a school that taught , women how to bowl. The ABC initially used bowling balls made of Lignum vitae hardwood from the Caribbean , which were eventually supplanted by the Ebonite rubber bowling ball and the Brunswick Mineralite rubber ball In urethane-shell bowling balls were introduced by Ebonite. In the early s, Duckpin bowling was invented in Boston, Massachusetts , spreading to Baltimore, Maryland about In the English Bowling Association was founded by cricketer W.

Peifer of Chicago, Illinois invented a handicap method for bowling. Rules for target bowls evolved separately in each of the other countries that adopted the predominantly British game. In the International Bowling Board was formed; [27] its constitution adopted the laws of the Scottish Bowling Association, with variations allowed at the individual country level. In September the Victorian Ladies' Bowling Association was founded in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , becoming the world's first women's lawn bowling association. In , the now-oldest surviving bowling alley for the tenpin sport was opened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - in the basement of the Holler House tavern, containing the oldest sanctioned lanes in the United States.

In the first ten-pin bowling alley in Europe was installed in Sweden, but the game failed to catch on in the rest of Europe until after World War II.

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Meanwhile, ten-pin bowling caught on in Great Britain after hundreds of bowling lanes were installed on U. In the monthly Bowlers Journal was founded in Chicago, Illinois, continuing to publish to the present day. In Prohibition in the U. The Pete was first held in Chicago, Ill. In it was taken over by AMF. On August , the National Negro Bowling Association was founded in Detroit , Michigan , dropping Negro from the title in and opening membership to all races, reaching 30, members in In the Australian Women's Bowling Council was founded, holding the first Australian women's national lawn bowling championship in Sydney in , which was won by Mrs.

About the Golden Age of Ten-Pin Bowling began, in which professional bowlers made salaries rivaling those of baseball, football, and hockey players; it ended in the late s. In the first ABC Masters tournament was held, becoming one of the four majors in In the International Olympic Committee recognized it as the official world governing body for bowling. In it changed its name to World Bowling. In the U. Open was founded by the PBA.

In the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia added women's bowls to the events.

On 18 September the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea featured ten-pin bowling as a demonstration sport. On 2 August in Havana, Cuba , tenpin bowling became an international medal-level sport for the first time at the Pan American Games , and continues to this day. On 2 February Jeremy Sonnenfeld bowled the first officially sanctioned series of three straight perfect games at Sun Valley Lanes in Lincoln, Nebraska , becoming known as "Mr.