ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I wish to thank the following people for their help in gathering together much of the editorial material and photo­graphs featured in this book:
Frank Baker, Executive Secretary of the American Bowl­ing Congress; George Burton, Director of Public Relations, Bowling Proprietors' Association of America; Alberta Crowe, President, Women's International Bowling Congress; Eleanor Debus, Director of Public Relations, WIBC; Jerry Donovan, Vice-President and Director of Public Relations, American Machine & Foundry Pinspotters, Inc.; Eddie Elias, Executive Director, Professional Bowlers Association; Max Frankeil, Skytop Lanes, Elmsford, New York; Homer Klene, Executive Vice-President, National Bowling Council; Dick Millais, Jay Seymour and Ed Burns, Wagner International Photos; Bob Olen, Bob Olen Studios; Bowling Magazine, official publica­tion of the American Bowling Congress; Joe Paulus, Presi­dent, National Bowling Congress; Bruce Pluckhahn, Public Relations Director, American Bowling Congress; Howard Seehausen, Executive Director, Bowling Proprietors' Associa­tion of America; Henry Weyl, Skytop Lanes, Elmsford, New York; and, finally, my energetic friend, George Sullivan.