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A young boy five-pin bowling
A young boy five-pin bowling

Five-pin bowling is a bowling variant which is only played in Canada, where many bowling alleys offer it, either alone or in combination with ten-pin bowling. Bowling is a Game / Sport in which players attempt to score points by rolling a Bowling ball along a flat surface either into objects called pins Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Ten-pin bowling is a competitive Sport in which a player (the “bowler” rolls a Bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic ( Polyurethane It was devised around 1909 by Thomas F. Ryan in Toronto, Ontario, at his Toronto Bowling Club, in response to customers who complained that the ten-pin game was too strenuous. Thomas F Ryan, (1872 &ndash November 19 1961) was a Canadian sportsman and entrepreneur who created Five-pin bowling. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario He cut five tenpins down to about 75% of their size, and used hand-sized hard rubber balls, thus inventing the original version of five-pin bowling. [1]

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Gameplay

The world's first trackball invented by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor working on the Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR project in 1952. It used a standard Canadian five-pin bowling ball.
The world's first trackball invented by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor working on the Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR project in 1952. A trackball is a Pointing device consisting of a Ball housed in a socket containing sensors to detect rotation of the ball about two axes&mdashlike an upside-down Kenyon Taylor was a British electrical engineer and Inventor. For the history of Canada's naval forces after 1968 see Canadian Forces Maritime Command The Royal Canadian Navy ( RCN) was the DATAR, short for Digital Automated Tracking and Resolving, was a pioneering computerized battlefield information system It used a standard Canadian five-pin bowling ball.

The balls in five-pin are small enough to fit in the hand and therefore have no fingerholes. At the end of the lane there are five pins arranged in a V. In size they are midway between duckpins and ten-pins, and they have a heavy rubber band around their middles to make them move farther when struck. In duckpin Bowling, players attempt to knock over Bowling pins with a Bowling ball. The centre pin is worth five points if knocked down, those on either side, three each, and the outermost pins, two each, giving a total of 15 in each frame.

In each frame, each player gets three attempts to knock all five pins over. Knocking all five pins down with the first ball is a strike, worth 15 points, which means the score achieved by the player's first two balls of the next frame or frames are added to his or her score for the strike. They are also, of course, counted in their own frames, so in effect they count double. A player who takes two balls to knock all the pins down gets a spare, which means the first ball of the next frame counts double. When a bowler bowls two strikes in succession, within a game, the bowler has scored a "double". The count in the frame where the first strike was bowled is left blank until the bowler makes his or her first delivery of the next frame. When a double has been bowled, the count for the first strike is 30 points plus the value of the pins bowled down with the first ball of the frame following the second strike. When a bowler bowls three strikes in succession, within a game, the bowler has scored a "triple" (also called a "turkey"). In scoring three successive strikes, the bowler is credited with 45 points in the frame where the first strike was bowled. [2] As in ten-pin, if either of these happen in the last frame, the player gets to take one or two shots at a re-racked set of pins immediately. A perfect score is 450, which is probably attained less frequently than perfect tenpin scores are, because of the greater opportunity in five-pin for splits (arrangements of the remaining pins in which there are spaces large enough for a ball to pass through without touching a pin).

Until 1967, an eastern Canadian bowler was required to knock down the left corner ("counter") pin to score any points, while a western bowler was required to knock down the right corner pin. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The values of the pins were changed in the same year to the current values.

Five-pin Bowling Terminology

Five-pin bowlers use a number of terms to denote the results of a throw:

Mechanics of the Game (Pin-setting)

All modern bowling centres use automated pin-setting machines (first used in 1957) to reset the pins after each ball is thrown. In Bowling, a pinsetter, or pinspotter, was originally a person who would manually reset Bowling pins in their correct position clear fallen pins Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) In five-pin, two types of pinsetters are used - "string" and "free fall".

The "string" pinsetter is known for each pin having a string attached to the head. These pinsetters were first invented in 1963 and are characterized by a shield that descends and covers the pindeck while the pinsetter is working. This type of pinsetter has a low operating cost, so it is the most commonly used type of pinsetter. There are three families of string pinsetters.

The most common stop on string pinsetters is a string tangle.

The "free fall" pinsetter works like ten-pin. A reset is completed by sweeping the old pins off the pindeck and setting a fresh set of pins in its place. The swept pins are elevated back to the top to create the next setup. Free fall pinsetters for 5-pin are no longer made. There were three common types of free fall pinsetters.

Bowlers must initiate all free-fall pinsetter cycles. The five-pin free-fall pinsetter does not automatically react to a ball thrown or pin knocked down. When bowling on free fall pinsetters, the bowler would have to press a button to initiate a pick-up cycle to clear fallen pins lying on the pin deck. If automatic scoring is in use, all automatic resets are actually initiated by the scoring computers.

The success of the string pinsetter eventually led to the demise of free-fall. When a bowling centre retires free fall pinsetters, the old machines are usually bought by other free-fall equipped bowling centers and are disassembled for parts.

Free fall pinsetters are still in service in some bowling centres in BC, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec.

Major Tournaments

There are three groups overseeing the major tournaments in five pin bowling.

Qualifying for a national championship usually requires three qualifying rounds

Each province also offers a number of tournaments that conclude with the provincial finals. The tournaments, formats and prize offerings vary by province. Most of these tournaments are operated through the provincial bowling proprietors association.

Facts and Figures

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ C5PBA
  2. ^ Garside, Bert: "Official Rules and Regulations Governing the Sport of 5 Pin Bowling, 5th edition", page 24, Canadian 5 Pin Bowlers' Association, 1999
Bowling is a Game / Sport in which players attempt to score points by rolling a Bowling ball along a flat surface either into objects called pins Thomas F Ryan, (1872 &ndash November 19 1961) was a Canadian sportsman and entrepreneur who created Five-pin bowling. YBC or Youth Bowling Canada, (formerly known as the Youth Bowling Council is a non-profit sports organization with the mandate to promote organized 5 pin and 10 pin Bowling
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