[MR] DuckPins

[Kynnyth Pyke]

When I was in England, there was a game much like duck
pins, but played with a wooden ball, wooden pins and
much less polished alleys.  I think it was called
Skittles...if you're looking for an excuse to knock
things over with a ball, that might be a good bet.

Kynny

--- Duke Galmr Ingolfsson <dukegalmr at wayneprecht.org>
wrote:

> Achbar ibn Ali wrote:
> 
> >How Period are they?
> >  
> >
> You mean bowling with 6" balls and smaller pins than
> regular bowling?  
> It's not period at all.  Duckpin bowling was
> inventing in Baltimore, MD 
> around 1900 by adapting a small ball that was used
> for variations on the 
> 10 pin bowling game to the more standard rule set. 
> It quicly became 
> popular and was a great excuse to keep the bowling
> alleys open in the 
> spring and summer (10pin leagues were tradidtionally
> a fall/winter 
> thing). Duckpins started being used for league play
> in 1903. 
> 
> So the roots of the game go back further, the balls
> had already existed 
> at the time and had been used for variations of 10
> pin bowling that are 
> no long played today.  But I couldn't imagine it
> going back too far as a 
> recognizable game.
> 
> Duckpins is mostly a regional thing, I haven't met
> many people outside 
> Maryland who has ever heard of it.
> 
> Galmr (a Baltimore native)
> 
>
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