Persons setting pins should examine the condition of the pin to determine if it remains satisfactory for further use.

"I had set pins to make money as a kid, but I had never bowled before."

I worked in a hotel, driving a cab, setting pins in a bowling alley.

To supplement his family's income, he worked at odd jobs, including picking cherries, selling magazines and setting pins in a bowling alley.

At 8, he was setting pins by hand for 3 cents a game and worked himself up to 5 cents a game.

During the day he was a bus boy and in the evenings he set pins at a local bowling alley.

At the age fourteen March went to work setting pins at a local bowling alley.

He worked several jobs during this time, including setting pins at the bowling alley, delivering newspapers and working as a farm hand.

They did everything from setting pins in the bowling alley to cooking, washing dishes and, when they grew old enough, tending bar.

There were six alleys and it was necessary to set pins on two alleys at the same time - quite a challenge.