Henderson Daily Dispatch

Endorses Bowling
as Healthy Sport

By Logan Clendening, M. D.

Bowling is a healthy sport for women: thoroughly good for women, for men and men. As a form of recreation it has psychological features. In sustaining the game males people they are doing exercise and are, therefore, not likely to apparently, when they would do bedroom exercises or walking.

but which get somewhat monotonous.

Bowling is splendid exercise for the back, the thighs and the forelegs, and it cultivates coordination of the muscle with the eyes and the sense of equilibrium.

It is good for a problem child of any age because it promotes companionship and good sportsmanship.

Dr. Clendening will answer questions of general interest only, and then only through his column.

Bowling. It should appeal to women because it is a good way to streamline the body, and it stretches many muscles which otherwise would not be used.

Curiously enough, it reduces fat people and increases the weight of thin people. Neck, chest, back; and thigh muscles that becoming stringy and unbecoming will out into rounded contours. It improves carriage and complexion.

That women themselves are finding it valuable is shown by the fact that there are 500 women bowling teams in the country, and that nearly one-fifth of all bowlers are women; I am told that there are over 75,000 women bowlers in the United States.