Sport: Twinkle’s Gold

For the past six months, a six-year-old moppet named Twinkle Watts has humiliated thousands of husky U.S. bowlers. Her high game: 218. Last week, during a cross-country barnstorming tour, bowling’s tiniest demonstrated her skill in Manhattan for the benefit of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Using a regulation 10½lb. ball, just one-fourth her own weight, Twinkle bowled three games, averaged 150.

Bowling is not Twinkle’s only talent. The other is figure skating, which she picked up two years ago, about the same time that she learned to bowl. Three months after lacing on her first skate, Twinkle gave an exhibition in Hollywood, was soon in demand as an entertainer (especially for her rumba number) between the periods of hockey games. Last summer Paramount hired her to make a Technicolor short. Today little Twinkle earns about $500 a month, is nearly worth her weight in gold.