| How to hit every spare dead centre,using the best | | | | Control and consistency give bowling improvement. |
| angle to get strikes and spares, how to improve with | | | | Even the poorest bowlers sometimes roll a 200 game, |
| your control and consistency, etc. are some of the | | | | but the better bowlers, and in particular the experts, do |
| things that we tried to help gives more clarification. | | | | it often. The star bowler depends upon his control and |
| Try to hit every spare "dead center." Do not be | | | | consistency to keep his average high. But he wasn't |
| satisfied with merely converting the spare in any | | | | born with either. He had to develop both over a long |
| fashion at all. Concentrate on the exact spot you wish | | | | period of time and through plenty of practice. Actually, |
| to hit. It stands to reason that if you are hitting the key | | | | consistency means the ability to use your control time |
| pin on the wrong side and still managing to convert the | | | | after time. So keep after your game and be willing to |
| spare through a lucky bounce off the kickback or in | | | | practice. It will pay dividends in higher scores. |
| some other fashion, you are courting disaster. Bowling | | | | Overturning a ball is easier than turning it properly If you |
| is a game in which the law of averages inevitably | | | | observe the topnotchers closely, you will see that they |
| takes its toll. You cannot keep on being lucky forever. | | | | try to put just as much "stuff" on the ball as possible |
| So shoot to make your spares correctly. "Cover" your | | | | without losing control. It is unfortunately true that all too |
| pins. | | | | many low-average bowlers simply try to put a lot of |
| Finishing properly is just as important as starting | | | | "stuff" on the ball without regard for control of the |
| properly. Getting started on the correct foot, using a | | | | tricky delivery. The fallacy of this lies in their trying to |
| smooth push away to get the ball in motion, timing the | | | | impress their friends or in seeking to take a "short cut" |
| movement of your hands and body, and other such | | | | to high scoring by trying to master this difficult delivery |
| procedures do little good if you suddenly decide at the | | | | before they have even come close to mastering the |
| last second to "overpower the pins." You might | | | | simple fundamentals of approach and delivery. |
| succeed in getting a strike on that particular throw (you | | | | Perfection in fundamentals means higher scores The |
| will note I didn't say "roll"), but in so doing you are asking | | | | success of one very famous collegiate football team |
| for trouble in succeeding frames, for you have thrown | | | | may be traced, in part, to the idea of its coaches that |
| your timing off and may find it difficult to regain it. | | | | a team well versed in fundamentals can beat the |
| Remember to check yourself occasionally on the | | | | biggest or trickiest of foes. Consequently, when this |
| various phases of finishing properly making sure that | | | | school's first football practice is called each season, |
| you are not falling into bad habits. | | | | every man, regardless of his ability in high school or in |
| Use the best angle to get strikes and spares Because | | | | previous college years, is given a thorough and |
| of the angle at which the ball strikes the pins, it would | | | | painstaking grounding in such fundamentals as blocking |
| not do for the average bowler rolling a hook or curve | | | | and tackling. Bowling is exactly the same. The more |
| to start his delivery from the extreme left side of the | | | | perfect your grasp of fundamentals, the more |
| approach. On the other hand, a bowler using a backup | | | | consistently high scores you will roll, for you are then |
| delivery (one that fades to the right), should not begin | | | | repeating, time after time after time, the same exact |
| from the middle. In shooting at spares, remember to | | | | steps, the same swing of the ball in rhythm with the |
| "give the ball all the alley space possible." For the 7-pin, | | | | hands, body and feet, the same backswing and the |
| you should begin your roll from the right-hand side. For | | | | same release. You will be as close to a machine as it |
| the 10-pin, start from the left-hand side, and so on. The | | | | is possible to get. |
| 6-10 spare, for instance, should be played from the | | | | It is very important to keeps your basics right when |
| left-hand side so that the ball not only takes advantage | | | | playing the bowling game. And perfecting the |
| of the width of the lane but also comes into the pins at | | | | fundamentals could means higher scores. So makes it |
| a better angle to topple the 10-pin after hitting the 6-pin. | | | | sure that you are well aware of the basic tricks of the |
| Always bear in mind that your percentage of scoring | | | | game of bowling to score high points when the next |
| is increased when you play from the proper angle. | | | | time you go for playing it. |