The Daring Book for Girls - Andrea J. Buchanan [46]
If you bowl a spare in the tenth frame, you get an extra ball. If you bowl a strike in the tenth frame, you get two extra balls. If you happen to bowl a strike in the tenth frame, and then score a spare with your two extra balls, you’re awarded a score of 20 for the tenth frame, and your game is over. If you bowl a spare in frame ten, and then a strike with your additional ball, you get a score of 20 for frame ten, and your game is over. If you bowl a strike in the tenth frame, and then get two additional strikes with your two extra balls, you get a score of 30 for the tenth frame, and your game is over.
BOWLING TERMINOLOGY
Approach
This 15-foot-long area is where bowlers start. The approach ends at the foul line, which marks the start of the bowling lane. Your feet cannot cross the foul line, or even touch it, not even after you’ve released the ball.
Average
This is the sum of all a bowler’s games divided by the number of games played.
Bowling shoes
These are shoes with special soles to help a bowler glide across the floor during her approach. Street shoes are not allowed on bowling alleys.
Clean Sheet
This means making all the spares in the game.
Dutch 200
Scoring spare-strike-spare-strike for the entire game, resulting in a score of 200.
Foul
The foul line separates the approach from the start of the lane. When a bowler steps on or over the foul line, she doesn’t get the score for that attempt. A foul is marked on the score sheet with an “F.”
Frame
Each game of bowling consists of ten frames for each bowler, who has two chances to knock down the ten pins in each frame.
Lane
The narrow stretch where the ball rolls toward the pins. Lanes are usually about 60 feet long and 42 inches wide. Gutters, two lower rounded areas alongside the lane about 9½ inches wide, are there to catch balls that stray to the left or right. When a ball rolls into the gutter, it’s called a “gutter ball” and gets zero points.
Open Frame
This is when a bowler fails to knock down all ten pins in both tries.
Perfect Game
A perfect game is when a bowler scores twelve strikes in a row in the same game. The resulting score is 300, the highest possible score for a bowler in any one game.
Pin Deck
The place where bowling pins are set at the end of the lane. The pins are set a foot apart from each other to form a 3-foot triangle. Pins, which are 15 inches tall, are usually made of wood and plastic, and weigh about 3½ pounds. The widest part of the pin is called the belly.
Sleeper
When you have a spare with one pin standing directly behind another, the back pin is called a “sleeper.”
Spare
If one or more pins are standing after a bowler’s first try, the bowler gets a second chance to knock all the pins down—a “spare” shot. If the bowler knocks the rest of the pins down on her second try, she has made a spare. A spare is marked on the score sheet by a slash (/).
Split
This is when two or more pins remain standing with a gap between them. A split that is left can be marked on the score sheet by drawing a circle around the pin-count for that frame.
Strike
This is when a bowler knocks down all ten pins on her first try. When a bowler gets a strike, her score goes up by 10, and in addition the score of her next two turns gets added to the strike score. A strike is marked on the score sheet by an X.
Turkey
Getting three strikes in a row. Each “turkey” (group of three strikes in a row) is worth 30 pins a frame.
Queens of the Ancient World II
Salome Alexandra of Judea
SALOME’S STORY is a tale of diplomacy, of managing the constant challenges of royal leadership, and of resisting attacks from outside armies as well as from members of her own family. She is remembered as the last independent ruler of her country, Judea, during the period just before the countries of the Mediterranean were conquered