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History

When ten-pin bowling was introduced to Toronto in 1905, it became a lunch-time recreation for many people. To speed up the game, they frequently had only five pins set up.

Thomas F. Ryan, owner of the Temperance Street Bowling Club, in 1909 was inspired to create a new sport based on that idea. He had five pins whittled down and he set up a system in which each pin was assigned a number of points from 1 to 5.

Tommy Ryan

Five-pin bowling caught on quickly. The first league was formed in Toronto in 1910. Two years later, a rubber band circling the throat of the pins was added to increase the amount of action.

The first women's league was established in Toronto in 1921 and two years later the sport was introduced to Western Canada. That resulted in the founding of the Canadian Bowling Association, based in Toronto, 1927. However, bowlers in Western Canada adopted their own scoring system in 1930. Ryan's original system had assigned the values 4, 2, 1, 3, and 5 to the 1 through 5 pins respectively. The Western system used the values 1, 4, 5, 3, and 2.

In 1944, the Western Canadian Five-Pin Bowling Assocation was founded in Regina, Saskatchewan. The two areas of the country continued with their own scoring systems until 1952, when a new national system was established, assigning the values 2, 3, 5, 3 and 2 to the five pins. Most of Ontario stuck to the old scoring system until 1959. Five-pin bowling throughout Canada was brought under a single governing body, the Canadian Bowling Congress, in 1965. The CBC was replaced by the Canadian 5-Pin Bowlers Association in 1978.

Although five-pin bowling has been played, at times, in Scotland, the British West Indies, the Phillipines, Argentina, and small areas of the United States, it now seems to be confined entirely to Canada, where there are more than 500,000 participants.

Five-pin bowling will be celebrating it's 100th anniversary in 2009 and has recently been ranked #4 in Canada's top inventions www.cbc.ca/inventions/.

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