Show i SEES FUTURE FOR BO S HAS SPLENDID MI RI HIGH SPOTS OF SMITHS SMITH'S CAREER Bowled 16 perfect games Holds world tournament rec rec- record record ord for three games Holds world record for 30 consecutive games games- s averaging Only bowler to win all at A B C twice Rolled for three games In exhibition match On alleys 25 years age 43 going strong Averages 10 games daily By ART CARLSON CHICAGO Jan lIas 25 25 Has the bowling game reached Far from it The rosy era ra has Just begun The resources possibilities ol or this splendid recreation have hardly been touched upon A grent future tor Cor tho sport Is certain tain You lire are listening to Jimmy Smith worlds world's most famous faLIous maple mauler the tellow who has hul rolled IG perfect games who for tor the thelast 25 years has averaged a 10 games a day who has never ne had hada hada a sore arm or known a sick day and who at 43 Is as frisky ky as the pro cot on the far Car west western ern ern plains What strides has the game made madeo ot recent years I 1 aske asked this stocky smiling 61 of pins as aaI 1 watched him roll a In that graceful easy manner so characteristic of his play pIny In the last decade it has doubled in III popularity ho he contin continued I know ot of no other game fam oC o golf perhaps that gained so In public lavor Cavor And dont don't think me prejudiced when 1 say I doubt It If even en the tho Scot Scottish tish pastime has grown as rapid ly rapidly of late years YE-ars as has bowling Bowling Dowling as lIS you OU may knoIs know kno Is a business a profession with Jimmy Smith He makes his living lh-Ing that way has for tor a quarter ot oC a cen cen- century century tury But Dut you dont don't have havo to chat him long to learn Its It's more than Just a bank account to him Bowling Dowling means menns far more to Jim Jimmy my than that Its It's Ills hIs hobby his only hobby In act its it's his ex- ex exercise ex exercise Ills his enjoyment It Jt leeps him healthy and happy to him Its It's fM He The Pineapple that's what he calls his ball like a mother docs loes her Its my pal h hi shyly ou as lie he rubs the big black shiny object around In his lap I 1 mention mentioned cd that bowling was becoming quite a n popular game Cor women true Indeed he agreed DeUer equipment nicer locations and a more refined atmosphere have tended to make bowling devotees out ot of the tho fair sex It ItI i I wasn't so long ago that a woman a bowling alley was an oddity She looked out or o place But Dut to today day things are vastly different Bowling Is a family game no It Is played by husbands and i wins sens and daughters litany I get their recreation by I going to the alleys a couple ot I a week Its It's a real outing Cor them a It regular home af a I Calr Moreover Its It's beneficial I IFor For thero theres there's no better exercise bowling Smith Is now touring the coun country try meeting all comers In tho larger cities from coast to coast He started last September Up to the first week In January he had rolled games tor Cor a pin total ol ot That's an a av average lust just a It traction fraction short of or On strange boards too On his western trip he games getting 2970 strikes 2286 spares splits and Over that stretch he threw more than thousand pounds cf d bowling ball balland balland and ran approximately 19 miles lIe traveled close to miles during the first tour four months ot the jaunt What Cobb Is to baseball Grange to the gridiron to swimming and so on through curriculum so curriculum so Is Jim Jimmy my Smith to bowling To be more explicit hes he's the king the pin pin leader ot of the toppling timber tribe What more cnn can one say |