Tom Swift Writer’s Notebook

The Cleveland Public Library had a terrific photograph on display for the event on Friday — a shot of Charles Bender sitting on a chair being overwhelmed by fishing poles, golf clubs, bats, rifles, and so on. The tools of Bender’s ever-active life included more than one kind of ball. He was an avid bowler and not long after bowling’s most prominent offspring, Skee-Ball, was born in 1909 he gave that a whirl as well. Of course, he was good at that, too. According to a piece in the New York Times in 1915 Bender “rolled 3,500 in ten frames, and in one frame made the perfect score of 450.” Thanks to a fellow writer — I’ll leave his name out of it because he’s doing research he may not want the world to know about it just yet — who sent the article citation.

This post was added on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 by Tom Swift at 07:07 and is filed under Albert.