{"id":17474,"date":"2017-02-16T19:35:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T00:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=17474"},"modified":"2021-05-20T17:10:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T22:10:44","slug":"duckpins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/duckpins\/","title":{"rendered":"Duckpins!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An interesting conversation took place on Twitter recently between two regular Twelve Mile Circle readers, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTMQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@CTMQ<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oxwof\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@oxwof<\/a>. They linked me in at the tail-end of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oxwof\/status\/827728463503167489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">their friendly discussion<\/a> about two unusual and quite rare variations of <a href=\"https:\/\/bowling.sport\/\">Ten-pin bowling<\/a>: Duckpins and Candlepins. They&#8217;d answered most of their questions by the time I arrived on the scene. I still had something to add about Duckpin bowling although it took me a few days to get back to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Duckpin Bowling?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Duckpin Bowling in Baltimore\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G2GH_jZ-TqU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a vague recollection of playing Duckpins at a friend&#8217;s birthday party somewhere in the hazy past. I couldn&#8217;t have been more than seven or eight years old. Maybe I dreamed it. I&#8217;m not sure. It always seemed to be a &#8220;Maryland Thing.&#8221; We Virginia folks didn&#8217;t like to cross the river into Maryland much except maybe to watch the <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17467\">Orioles play baseball<\/a> a couple times a summer. I knew Duckpins existed although it always seemed so mysterious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duckpin bowling concentrated in the northeastern United States, in places like Maryland of course, and also in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. A few lanes existed as outliers here-and-there in other places as well. Nobody knew how Duckpins began with any degree of certainty. Some sources pegged Massachusetts as its birthplace, and others said Maryland, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duckpins.com\/history.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">happening somewhere around 1900<\/a>. Either way it retained a nostalgic popularity in its tiny enclaves. The sport even supported a governing body, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ndbc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Duckpin Bowling Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I&#8217;m on the Case<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!4v1575076200307!6m8!1m7!1sBB2r_hs79FtC2jy0hEv7gw!2m2!1d39.04063882302736!2d-76.98997622423009!3f105.24008109626351!4f10.324391685861613!5f0.7820865974627469\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I needed to try Duckpin bowling for myself. Most of the Maryland lanes clustered near Baltimore although a few straggled towards the District of Columbia border. One alley nearly penetrated the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inside_the_Beltway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beltway<\/a>, only about a half-hour drive from my home. That fortunate placement convinced me to drag my wife and my younger son up to Silver Spring, Maryland (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/?mlat=39.0407&amp;mlon=-76.9897#map=15\/39.0407\/-76.9897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>) on a fine Saturday morning, to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whiteoakduckpins.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White Oak Bowling Lanes<\/a>. My older son decided he&#8217;d rather stay at home and sleep until noon like any other Saturday. His loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Anachronism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/32690048422\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2768\/32690048422_5c0d97f3ce_b.jpg\" alt=\"Duckpin Bowling ball return. Photo by howderfamily.com\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>White Oak Lanes described itself as,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;&#8230; Virtually Unchanged Since It Opened Way Back in 1959. There Are Still No Computers, All Scores Are Kept By Hand. If You Came Here As A Kid And Return As An Adult, It Will Feel Like You Never Left.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the equipment! I think they were entirely serious about the 1959 reference. Nothing seemed to have been swapped-out or replaced in the last half-century. It made sense the more I thought about it. There couldn&#8217;t possibly be much of a market for new Duckpin bowling alley equipment anymore. They probably needed to improvise their own parts just to keep those ancient machines running. I noticed that they used an old doorbell ringer as a reset button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was another interesting feature; nothing on these lanes happened automatically except for the ball return. Players had to get fresh pins after each frame by pressing the reset button. A little marker farther down to the left (along the rail by the balls) said &#8220;Deadwood.&#8221; That cleared away any knocked-over pins remaining on the lane during a player&#8217;s turn. Players got up to three balls for each turn &#8212; not two &#8212; so the deadwood button got some use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Giving it a Try<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/32719912151\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3824\/32719912151_b9605fd782_b.jpg\" alt=\"Duckpin Bowling in action. Photo by howderfamily.com\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I rolled my first Duckpin ball in decades. The lane seemed normal. The balls, however, differed greatly from anything I&#8217;d ever experienced in Ten-pin bowling. They fit into the palm of my hand and they didn&#8217;t have any finger holes. Also they weighed a lot less, generally between 3 pounds 6 ounces (1.5 kg) to 3 pounds 12 ounces (1.7 kg). My son liked them a lot. He found them much easier to control. Actually we saw a lot of younger kids there, perhaps for the same reason. Duckpin bowling seemed well suited to their little arms and hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Those Tiny Pins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/32690047502\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/314\/32690047502_7247df0d54_b.jpg\" alt=\"Duckpin Bowling pins. Photo by howderfamily.com\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have my good camera with me so I took photos with my outdated mobile phone with a lousy zoom. Nonetheless I think the photo gave an appreciation of the pin size. They were a lot smaller and more squat than traditional Ten-pin. Combining small balls with small pins created a devilishly difficult game. I threw a number of balls that would have been easy strikes or spares in Ten-pin that barely knocked anything over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, I could throw a ball directly into the middle of the pins and sometimes knock down only one or two of them. Duckpin balls carried significantly less force than Ten-pin balls and the pins didn&#8217;t bounce as much. It required much greater precision. That&#8217;s why players got three balls per turn, although it didn&#8217;t make much of a difference for me because I lacked any skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theoretically a player could score 300 points just like in Ten-pin. However, even after more than a century of continuous play, nobody has ever <a href=\"https:\/\/ndbc.org\/world_records_men.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">officially<\/a> bowled a perfect Duckpin game. The highest score ever recorded remained at 279.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The duckpins.com website described an even more rare version called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duckpins.com\/rules.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rubber band duckpins<\/a> found basically only in Qu\u00e9bec. A rubber band circled the pin so they bounced more, creating higher scores. I don&#8217;t think even that would have helped me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keeping Score<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/32719911591\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/476\/32719911591_00a7ba1cd7_b.jpg\" alt=\"Duckpin Scoring. Photo by howderfamily.com\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I lost, and I got robbed in the final frame of the second game too. I threw the ball perfectly and it knocked down only a single pin on my final try. Not that I&#8217;m bitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keeping score was a little different because of the three balls per turn. Strikes and spares were recorded exactly like Ten-pin. Knocking down all remaining pins on the third turn just counted as ten though, with no bonus. It wasn&#8217;t like we had to worry about a lot of strikes and spares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll probably try it again someday. Actually now I want to try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.candlepin.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Candlepin bowling<\/a>. It seems to overlap with Duckpins in parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut. I wondered if there was a place in New England were someone could find Candlepin, Duckpin and Ten-pin bowling all in the same town! That might be my quest the next time I go up there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting conversation took place on Twitter recently between two regular Twelve Mile Circle readers, @CTMQ and @oxwof. They linked me in at the tail-end of their friendly discussion about two unusual and quite rare variations of Ten-pin bowling: Duckpins and Candlepins. 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