May 16, 2020
How Bowling Bounced Back from Spanish Flu
BY J.R. SCHMIDTIn September
1918, as the new bowling season got underway, sports in America faced an
uncertain future. The United States had been pulled into the Great War in
Europe. The government was curtailing all activities that didn’t further the
war effort. “Work or fight!” the order went. Thousands of young men had already
been drafted into military service. The last month of the
