We had a singles league years ago when I was in the military. It’s really hard for most guys to make it every week with all the additional duties required.
Bear in mind this was on base where linage was cheap at the time ($.30 a ganme).
$10 league fees,
$.90 lineage
$.10 Secry salary
$1 x participant each week hi game, each game
$.50 x participant 2d place hi game, each game
$.25 x particpant 3rd place hi game each week
$1 x participant hi series each week
$.50 x participant 2d hi series each week.
$.25 x participant 3rd hi series each week
$2 x participant each week EOY tournament paid out 1:3, must have had 21 games in during the year.
Space available for lanes, seniority first, IE, all last years entrants of 21 games got first choice to bowl, if lanes still available, most games so far during the year. New bowlers only if lane is available.
24 lane house, usually had a full house every Sat afternoon.
If you have a hot nite, your $10 investment could turn into $480 each week, not to mention the end of the year tournament where we normally had a $7,000 prize fund to win.
Basically, it was just a rolling pot game, guys could come and bowl as often/less as they wanted, just had to make sure they had the 21 games in to qualify for the year end. Miss too many weeks though and you may lose your seniority and get shut out of the weekly guarantee to bowl.
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~~~SrK - Have balls, will travel
Spending the kids inheritance one tournament at a time.
