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                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

                                       of

                             JT BOWLING ENTERPRISES

                                state OF DELEWARE

                               Secretary OF STATE

                            DIVISION Of' CORPORATIONS

                            FILED 09:00 AM 07/75/1998

                               981?74?56 - ?9?1063

         The  undersigned  a natural  person,  for the  purpose f  organizing  a
corporation for conducting the business,  and promoting the purposes Hereinafter
stated,  under the provisions and subject to the requirements of the la's of the
State of Delaware  (particularly  Chapter 1, Title 8 of the Delaware Cods as the
acts amendatory thereof and supplemental  thereto,  and known,  identified,  and
referred  to as the  "General  Corporation  law aw of the  State of  Delaware"),
hereby certifies that:

FIRST The name of the corporation  (hereinafter  celled the "Corporation") is JT
BOWLING ENTERPRISES, INC.

SECOND:  The  address,  including  street,  nun  ber  city  and  county,  of the
registered  office of the  Corporation in the State of Delaware 3 is 1013 Centre
Road,  City of  Wilmington,  County of New  Castle  19805;  and the names )f the
registered  agent of the Corporation in the State of Delaware at such address is
0: Corporation Service Company.

THIRD:  The  purpose  of the  Corporation  is to  engage in any  lawful.  set or
activity for which  corporations may be organized under the General  Corporation
Law of the State of Delaware.

FOURTH:  The aggregate  number of shares of stock k which the  Corporation  shah
have  authority to issue is 1,500,000  which are divided into 500,000  Preferred
Shares  with a par value of $.01 each and  1,000,000  Common  Shares  with a par
value of $.A1 each,  amounting in the  aggregate to Fifteen  Thousand  ($15,000)
Dollars.

Each issued and  outstanding  Common Share shall  entitle the holder  thereof to
full voting power.

The Board of Directors is authorized,  subject to limitations prescribed by law,
to provide  for the  issuance of the  Preferred  Shares in as 3s, and by fling a
certificate pursuant to the applicable law of the State of Delaware, o establish
from time to time the number of shares to be included in each such  series,  and
to fix the  designation,  powers,  preferences  and rights of the shares of each
such series and any  qualifications  limitations or  restrictions  thereof.  The
number of authorized  (zed  Preferred  Shares may be increased or decreased (but
not below the number o! Am s thereof then  outstanding) by the affirmative  vote
of the holders of a majority of the outstanding Common.  Shares,  without a vote
of the holders of the Preferred  Shares or of any series thereof,  unless a vote
of any such  holders is required  pursuant to the  certificate  or  certificates
establishing any series of Preferred Shares.

The name and the mailing address of the incorporator:

Name

Thomas E. Jones

Mailing Address

1094 Easy Street ; Grapevine. Texas

The Corporation is to have perpetual exist

BE: Whenever a compromise or arrange:  Corporation and its creditors or any loss
of them and/or its  stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable of
Delaware  may,  on the  application  in a summary way  creditor  or  stockholder
thereof or on the application  appointed for this Corporation  under Section 291
of Title  the  application  of  trustees  in  dissolution  or of any  receive  c
Corporation  under  Section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware  creditors or loss of
creditors,  and/or of the  stockholders  the stockholders or class of creditors,
and/or the stockholders this Corporation,  as the case may be, to be summoned in
directs.  If a majority in number  representing  three four class of  creditors,
and/or  of the  stockholders  of class  of sty as the case may be,  agree to any
compromise or  arrangements  this  Corporation as consequence of such compromise
compromise  or  arrangement  and the  said  reorganization  to  which  the  said
application has been made, be binding creditors,  and/or on all the stockholders
or class of stock t the case may be, and also on this Corporation.

This  Agreement  is  proposed  between  this  Between  this  Corporation  and  s
jurisdiction  within the State of this  Corporation or of any )f any receiver or
receivers  3 of the  Delaware  Code  receivers  appointed  for this Code order a
meeting  of  the  class  of  creditors,  and/or  of  stockholders  or  class  of
stockholders of Lich manner as the said court .s in value of the creditors or of
this Corporation,  t and to any reorganization of or arrangement,  the said all,
if  sanctioned  by the court n all the  creditors  or class of  holders  of this
Corporation, as

EIGHTH: For the management of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of
the Corporation,  and in further definition,  limitation,  d and d regulation of
the powers of the Corporation. and of its directors and of its stockholders ; or
any class thereof, as the case may be, it is further provided: '

1.  The  management  of the  business  any the  conduct  of the  affairs  of the
Corporation  shall be vested in its Board of Direr Drs.  The number of directors
which shall constitute the whole Board of Directs a shall be faced by, or in the
manner  provided in, the Bylaws.  The phrase "whole Board" and the phrase "total
number of  directors"  shall be deemed to have the s same  meaning,  to wit, the
total number of directors which the  Corporation  would is have if there were no
vacancies. No election of directors need be by written ballot.

2. After the  original  or other  Bylaws ( the  Corporation  have been  adopted,
amended,  or repealed,  as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of
Section 109 of the General Corp, Canon Law of the State of Delaware,  and, after
the  Corporation  has  receive!  any payment for any of its stock,  the power to
adopt,  amend,  or repeat the power  exercised  by the Board of Directors of the
Corporation

3. Whenever the corporation  shall be au of stock,  each outstanding share shall
entitle the 1 the right to vote at, any meeting of  stockholders I be authorized
to issue  more than one  class of stogy  class of stock  which is denied  voting
power  under  t of  Incorporation  shall  entitle  the  holder  thereof  to t of
stockholders  except as the  provisions of paragraph  Section 242 of the General
Corporation  Law of  otherwise  require;  provided,  that no share of any denied
voting power shall entitle the holder there decrease in the number of authorized
shares of said.

The  personal  liability  of the,  directors  eliminated  to the fullest  extent
permitted by  paragraph.  102 of the General  Corporation  Law of the State of D
amended and supplemented.

Laws of the Corporation may be not.

authorized to issue only one class holder  thereof to notice of and whenever the
Corporation  shall no outstanding share of any e provisions of the Certificate e
right to vote at any meeting  paragraph (2) of  subsection  (b) of :.he State of
Delaware  shall such class which is otherwise to vote upon the increase or less.
f the  Corporation is hereby I of subsection  (b) of Section aware,  as the same
may be
The  Corporation  shall,  to the fullest extent  permitted by Section 145 of the
General  Corporation  Law of the State of Delaware,  as, the same may be amended
and  supplemented,  indemnify  any and all  persons  whom it s ill have power to
indemnify  under  said  section  from  and  against  any and all of the  expense
liabilities, or other matters referred to is or covered by said section, and the
indemnification  provided for herein shall not be deemed  exclusive of any other
rights W which those  indemnified  may be entitled  under any Bylaw,  agreement,
vote of  stockholders  ; or  disinterested  directors or  otherwise,  both as to
action in his  official  capacity  and as n action  in  another  capacity  while
holding such office, and shall continue as to a pension .on who has ceased to be
a  director,  officer,  employee  or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the
heirs, executors and administrators of such person.

ELEVENTH:  From  tame to time  any of the  provisions  of  this  Certificate  of
Incorporation  may be  amended,  altered,  or  repealed,  and r. per  provisions
authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware at the time in force ma be added
or  inserted  in the manner  and at the time  prescribed  by said laws,  and all
rights a at any time conferred upon the  stockholders of the Corporation by this
Certificate  '  Incorporation  are  granted  subject to the  provisions  of this
Article ELEVEN.

Signed on June 7, 1998.

THOMAS E. JONES INCORPORATOR



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