Judge — September 22, 1923 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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IME was when a poolroom was a poolroom: but those days are no Some astute member of more. the Amalgamated Poolroom Owners of America realized that something had to be done to take the curse off their business. Too many parents were begin- ning to think of poolrooms as gathering places for the shiftless. So poolrooms became billiard academies. A doting father might object to his son hanging out in a poolroom. An academy is some- She may stoop to conquer. All swearing at co-ed alleys will be done in whispers and with unusual proficiency, SALLY OF OUR BOWLING ALLEY by Edward Anthony thing else again. The educational note is unmistakable. Don't worry if: your son doesn’t. care for college; there are other ways of becoming academic. four- year course in billiards and bowling is not to be sneezed at. The bowling course, it seems to us, is the most important thing on the curri ulum of the billiard academy. At ar rate, to-day no academy is complete without an alley. A more rounded education is the result. The academician may now become more than a mere pool shark: he may also become an alley cat. When summer begins to do a fadeout the alley cat purrs blissfully as he thinks of the joyous days ahead (though some of ‘em purr and play the year ‘round), and this is as good a time as any to call attention to an item, culled from a Western newspaper, that may revo- lutionize the bowling — profession. The item bears the head: Pin Girls Supplant Boys in Boul- ing Alley. This has a double significance. Obviously here is another way for girls to make pin money; and—what is more important—here is an answer to the young men whose only objection to. the study of howling is that the academies are not run on the co-ed plan. It will not be long before bowling stu- dents, returning from school with their books under their arms, will be heard singing (with apologies to the author of an English cla: the words of a new song. ly of Our Bowling Alley”: academic. Sketches by Oscar Howard Of all the girls that Tadore There's none like pretty Sally, ‘The clever lass that lives next: door And works in Murphy's Alley. She is the darling of my heart And she works in Murphy's Alley! She is so fair (excuse the wheeze) Her glances bowl me over: I've never seen such qualities And Tam quelque rover Oh, [am chucking Beatrice Binns And Eleanor MeNally For the lovely fay that rights the pins In Murphy's Bowling Alley! (Continued on page 28) There are other ways of becoming