Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1900 — All Bowling Records Busted. [ARTICLE]

All Bowling Records Busted.

Force of circumstances have again impelled The Repulican to apply the euphonious and expressive though, we admit, not authoritatively reoognized term,“ Boss Bowler Roller” to a Rensselaer citizenjbut with due apologies to our somewhat critical friend F. A, R. The man who has not only plnoked the laurels from the absent Uncle Bill N’s noble brow but has, so far as known, set the highest bowling mark of the season, in Indiana, is Joe Lewis, of our city. Tuesday night, at the Striokfaden bowling alley, made k soore of 280 points out of a possible 300. This is the best record in the state, this season, so far as known, and one point better than the best made in Chicago. Lewis rolled his first ball and made a strike. Then his second and made a spare. The next eight were as many successive strikes, and this gave him two extra balls, and with both of theseezte=made strikes. Thus he made ten strikes hand running. If he had made a strike with his second roll he Would have scored the full three hundred, which is all that mortal man can make in ten pins. And really, he did make the twelve successive strikes, for the two first balls in his next game were also strikes. Thus if his luck had been as good as his playing he would have scored the full 300 and have made a record that was only "made five times last year,* in the whole United States of North America.