December 2, 1898 – The Waco Times Herald – This Day in Bowling History
ALVARADO, Texas. Ben Coleman and Sam Lane have just concluded a game of ten-pins here that is believed to be without a precedent in the history of the state.
The game lasted 25 hours without intermission, except five or six minutes at meal time. It began as such games usually do, but soon drifted into a test of physical endurance. When twenty-five hours had elapsed, friends intervened and prevailed upon the players to desist. They rolled 930 games and made over 2,300 ten-strikes.
Good feeling prevailed throughout. There was nothing at stake but the fees. Lane won about 65 percent of the games. Coleman is 51 years old and Lane is 38. There was no sign of weakening on either side and how long the game would have continued if the friends had not interfered, nobody knows. The staying qualities of both men are above par just now.