Exhibit 24


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned officer or director
of AMF BOWLING, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), hereby
constitutes and appoints Roland C. Smith and Stephen E. Hare, and each of them
acting individually, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign and file a Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (or other appropriate form) for filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any other documents
in support thereof or supplemental or amendatory thereto (including
post-effective amendments), with respect to the issuance of shares of common
stock of the Corporation pursuant to the AMF Bowling, Inc. 1998 Stock Incentive
Plan, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their
substitutes or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney
this 30th day of July, 1999.



/s/               Richard A. Friedman
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                  Richard A. Friedman


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned officer or director
of AMF BOWLING, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), hereby
constitutes and appoints Roland C. Smith and Stephen E. Hare, and each of them
acting individually, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign and file a Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (or other appropriate form) for filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any other documents
in support thereof or supplemental or amendatory thereto (including
post-effective amendments), with respect to the issuance of shares of common
stock of the Corporation pursuant to the AMF Bowling, Inc. 1998 Stock Incentive
Plan, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their
substitutes or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney
this 30th day of July, 1999.



/s/               Terence M. O'Toole
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                  Terence M. O'Toole


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned officer or director
of AMF BOWLING, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), hereby
constitutes and appoints Roland C. Smith and Stephen E. Hare, and each of them
acting individually, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign and file a Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (or other appropriate form) for filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any other documents
in support thereof or supplemental or amendatory thereto (including
post-effective amendments), with respect to the issuance of shares of common
stock of the Corporation pursuant to the AMF Bowling, Inc. 1998 Stock Incentive
Plan, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their
substitutes or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney
this 30th day of July, 1999.



/s/               Peter M. Sacerdote
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                  Peter M. Sacerdote


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned officer or director
of AMF BOWLING, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), hereby
constitutes and appoints Roland C. Smith and Stephen E. Hare, and each of them
acting individually, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign and file a Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (or other appropriate form) for filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any other documents
in support thereof or supplemental or amendatory thereto (including
post-effective amendments), with respect to the issuance of shares of common
stock of the Corporation pursuant to the AMF Bowling, Inc. 1998 Stock Incentive
Plan, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their
substitutes or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney
this 30th day of July, 1999.



/s/                 Roland C. Smith
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                    Roland C. Smith


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned officer or director
of AMF BOWLING, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), hereby
constitutes and appoints Roland C. Smith and Stephen E. Hare, and each of them
acting individually, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign and file a Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (or other appropriate form) for filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any other documents
in support thereof or supplemental or amendatory thereto (including
post-effective amendments), with respect to the issuance of shares of common
stock of the Corporation pursuant to the AMF Bowling, Inc. 1998 Stock Incentive
Plan, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their
substitutes or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney
this 30th day of July, 1999.



/s/                 Stephen E. Hare
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                    Stephen E. Hare


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned officer or director
of AMF BOWLING, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), hereby
constitutes and appoints Roland C. Smith and Stephen E. Hare, and each of them
acting individually, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign and file a Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (or other appropriate form) for filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any other documents
in support thereof or supplemental or amendatory thereto (including
post-effective amendments), with respect to the issuance of shares of common
stock of the Corporation pursuant to the AMF Bowling, Inc. 1998 Stock Incentive
Plan, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their
substitutes or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney
this 30th day of July, 1999.



/s/                Charles M. Diker
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                   Charles M. Diker


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned officer or director
of AMF BOWLING, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), hereby
constitutes and appoints Roland C. Smith and Stephen E. Hare, and each of them
acting individually, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign and file a Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (or other appropriate form) for filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any other documents
in support thereof or supplemental or amendatory thereto (including
post-effective amendments), with respect to the issuance of shares of common
stock of the Corporation pursuant to the AMF Bowling, Inc. 1998 Stock Incentive
Plan, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their
substitutes or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney
this 30th day of July, 1999.



/s/                Paul B. Edgerley
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                   Paul B. Edgerley


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned officer or director
of AMF BOWLING, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), hereby
constitutes and appoints Roland C. Smith and Stephen E. Hare, and each of them
acting individually, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign and file a Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (or other appropriate form) for filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any other documents
in support thereof or supplemental or amendatory thereto (including
post-effective amendments), with respect to the issuance of shares of common
stock of the Corporation pursuant to the AMF Bowling, Inc. 1998 Stock Incentive
Plan, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their
substitutes or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney
this 30th day of July, 1999.



/s/                Howard A. Lipson
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                   Howard A. Lipson


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned officer or director
of AMF BOWLING, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), hereby
constitutes and appoints Roland C. Smith and Stephen E. Hare, and each of them
acting individually, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign and file a Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (or other appropriate form) for filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any other documents
in support thereof or supplemental or amendatory thereto (including
post-effective amendments), with respect to the issuance of shares of common
stock of the Corporation pursuant to the AMF Bowling, Inc. 1998 Stock Incentive
Plan, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their
substitutes or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney
this 30th day of July, 1999.



/s/               Thomas R. Wall, IV
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                  Thomas R. Wall, IV


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned officer or director
of AMF BOWLING, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), hereby
constitutes and appoints Roland C. Smith and Stephen E. Hare, and each of them
acting individually, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign and file a Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (or other appropriate form) for filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any other documents
in support thereof or supplemental or amendatory thereto (including
post-effective amendments), with respect to the issuance of shares of common
stock of the Corporation pursuant to the AMF Bowling, Inc. 1998 Stock Incentive
Plan, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their
substitutes or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney
this 30th day of July, 1999.



/s/               Michael P. Bardaro
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                  Michael P. Bardaro