Writing this book has been a source of great personal pleasure. It has also been somewhat of a professional triumph, for ever since I first took up the sport back in the 1930's, one of my supreme ambitions has been to present my bowling instruction methods in book form.

Bowling wasn't always as it is today. It wasn't too long ago that the sport—with its unreliable pin boys and its dark and cloistered settings—was on a social par with love-making on the front stoop. In Old Forge, Pennsylvania (my home town), and in just about every other small American town, one never bowled if he valued his reputation. Pursuing the sport was particularly difficult for me, for I was a school teacher in the local high school and in that position, I was regarded as one of the social pacesetters of our small community. But I bowled; the criticism came, and it wasn't very pleasant.

As the years passed the criticism waned a bit, and the sport came to have the high degree of social acceptability it enjoys today.
This is why this book is a source of great personal pride. It's a kind of literary "I told you so."

I hope, in taking up the views on bowling instruction pre­sented in this book, that the reader will attain some of the supreme enjoyment from the sport that I have. I first took up bowling in 1935 when I was a frustrated student at the University of Scranton. I say frustrated because I stood only 5'1" and my prowess as an athlete in basketball and football in that sports-minded town could be compared to that of Fanny Brice.

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