The
surroundings of an A.B.C. bowling centre incorporate snack
bars at which the public can have light refreshments and
watch play at the same time, seating and lockers for personal
belongings and bowling equipment, while many centres have
licenced club rooms.
The A.B.C. Bowl at Litherland has twenty-three
bowling lanes distributed over two floors. Automatic pin-spotters
sweep away the fallen pins and replace them, and automatically
register the pins left standing after the first ball in each
frame is rolled.
The centre will be open daily at 10 a.m.
from Sunday next. Patrons are allowed in free of charge and
if they wish to play they pay on booking a lane.
It is anticipated that within a few weeks
of opening, league bowling will be form an important part of
the new centre's activities.
To encourage an even higher degree of skill
and competitive spirit, A.B.C. are offering £500 to the
first player to roll a sanctioned 300 score - a perfect game
- in recognised league or torunament play. |
A game for everyone |
Tenpin bowling can
be played not only by skilled enthusiasts, but by people
in all age groups.
At the Litherland centre, in addition to
a snack bar, cloakrooms, offices and a control centre operating
the eleven lanes are situated on the ground floor. A licensed
clubroom for members of the centre's Tenpin Bowling Club overlooks
the first floor's twelve lanes and control centre. The centre
also has a store where bowling equipment and clothing can be
bought. |
Governing body |
Like all other sports,
Tenpin Bowling has its governing body. Set up in 1961, the
B.T.B.A. (British Tenpin Bowling Association), under the presidency
of Lord Essenden, have 7000 members, which sets up area associations
wherever tenpin bowling is played. The secretary of the Liverpool
Area Association is Mr Frank Smith, who will be at the opening.
Main contractor for the building was J. Gerrard
and Sons., Ltd of Swinton, Manchester, and the architect was
Mr C. J. Foster, of London.
There are car parking facilities for fifty-four
cars. |
LOCAL CIVIC
HEAD TO OPEN CENTRE |
How
not to Bowl
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A.B.C's new £205,000
Tenpin Bowling Centre, built on the site of the Regal cinema,
Litherland, is to be offically opened by the Chairman of
Litherland Urban Council, Councillor R. F. Williams, tomorrow
evening.
Celebrities from film, stage and sport will
be present, including Mario Fabrizi and Liverpool television
star Norman Rossington. Among the sportsmen will be middleweight
boxer Tony Smith, Alan Prescott of the Leigh Rugby Football
Club, Billy Bingham of Everton, and Billy Liddell, the ex-Liverpool
and Scotland international.
Civic dignitaries present will include the
Mayor of Bootle, Alderman Simon Mahon, M.P., the chairman of
Kirkby Urban Council, Councillor J. Nugent, and the Chairman
of Ormskirk Urban Council, Councillor A. P. Lea.
Mario Fabrizi
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Left:
Norman Rossington, the Liverpool stage
and television actor shows how not to bowl. he will be at the
opening to-morrow. |
LIVERPOOL
DAILY POST 25TH JANUARY 1963 |
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