DCHP-3

fivepin bowling

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a game of bowls, first played in 1909, in which the players attempt to knock over five pins, each of different scoring value, by rolling three large balls, one at a time, down an alley.

Quotations

1929
A successful five pin bowling season was concluded at a banquet held in the Georgian Restaurant [...]
1957
An estimated 1,000,000 Canadian players are engaged in fivepin bowling as this truly native Canadian game gets into full swing on some 7,000 alleys across the country.