  The runs are low with a low post placed inside of the scratch line. These alleys conform in every detail to the Regulations of the Massachusetts Amateur Bowling League, which are generally adopted by other Eastern organizations. The pit is four feet wide and is dropped well below the beds so that balls go over pins or balls lying in the pit. The swinging bunters are large, heavy, and well padded with a durable palm fibre, the padding being in sections to prevent its packing down in the bottom of the bunter. The bottom and sides of the pit are padded, and from opposite the head-pin to one foot beyond the beds, the sides, where the flying pins strike, are covered with sole leather. The ball cage and the first section of the runs are made of hickory to stand the severe use. Tonguing and grooving alley stock is a feature we introduced several years ago—long enough to have given it a good test. A bed built this way, especially when glued and well nailed with cut steel nails, as ours are, is a solid plank from end to end with the tendency to warp removed by the strips having their grain in various directions. Loose or split ends that rise up and turn balls aside are an impossibility, and so close are the boards drawn to each other that it is almost impossible to find the joints. Thus the dirt is kept from working between the boards and forming unsightly cracks which let in water, when the alleys are washed, to work still more destruction. |
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