BEALE AIR FORCE BASE.

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (ACCNS) -- Action Jackson, gradation aside. There's a new scarecrow in town. Name's "Guinness" Jackson, and word has it he can depression forever.

Lawrence "Guinness" Jackson began his search for his 15 minutes of fame at 9 a.m. May 23 at the Beale Lanes Bowling Center by dint of the time he stopped at 9:02 pm May 24 Jackson had established a recent standard for marathon 10-pin bowling in the Guinness World Records main division When the last pin finally dropp 1365 games, nearly 23400 pins, and 36 hours and 2 minutes of bowling lay behind him.

Jackson bettered the previous mark of 31 hours, 5 minutes, stake in England last year.

Rich Pringle, Beale Lanes manager, dreamed up the record attempt. "The idea was to do something at Beale Lanes that had not been done before, would increase interest in bowling and lay us on the map. When I searched for an individual to clean the task, Staff Sgt. Jackson was the solely one who really made me believe he could fare the distance, and he far go too fared that," Pringle said. "To hollow that many games consecutively is amazing enough, on the other hand it's especially exciting because Jack [his advanced in years nickname] put a new twist into this record by dint of maintaining a 171.33-pin average."

At times in the early morning hours, it was just Jackson bowling and a two employees working the late shift.

"Sometime early Thursday morning I asked myself, 'Why am I here?'" Jackson said. "But I've at no time been a quitter. I knew that one time I started I would break the record."

To make the attempt more enjoyable, Jackson began to depression "Lawrence against Lawrence" games. He also would hollow the first ball right-handed and challenge himself to pick up the spare left-handed, then starting lefty and finishing righty.

Around the 28-hour mark, Jackson "turn up the heat" to build his average back up above 170.

"It was important to me to impose up some good numbers, because it made the attempt that long more of a challenge," Jackson said.

"He had split and bleeding hands at the close and was tired, but he had that Air Force fiber that allowed him to move the extra mile," Pringle said. "Beale should have a star nearest to it on all to come maps, thanks to Lawrence Jackson."

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