Hank Marino

Enrico Salvano Marino, known as Hank (1889 to 1976), was one of the world's top ten-pin bowling champions of the 1930s, with a career that lasted half a century. Born in Palermo, Sicily, he came to Chicago at age eleven, started bowling in 1912 while working as a barber and within four years won the 1916 American Bowling Congress Doubles, which made him known as the Italian Wonder of Bowling. He moved to Milwaukee in 1930, joined the Heil Products team and held the BPAA national match game singles title for two and a half years until he retired undefeated in January 1938. In 1936 he took the All Events title at the International Bowling Association Tournament in Berlin. He rolled five 800 series and eleven 300 games, was a charter member of the bowling Hall of Fame in 1941, was named Bowler of the Half-Century in a 1951 newspaper poll, and ranked fourth among twentieth century bowlers in the 1999 Bowlers Journal list.