Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bowden ya sanya hannu don Herbert Chapman's Arsenal a watan Maris na 1933 don £ 4,500, a matsayin mai maye gurbin David Jack. Ya zira kwallaye a farkon wasanni biyu na wasanni bakwai na farko da ya buga a cikin abin da ya rage na wannan kakar, wanda bai isa ba don lashe gasar zakarun Turai, amma ya kasance na yau da kullum don yakin basasa biyu masu zuwa, yayin da Arsenal ta lashe wasu sunayen sarauta biyu. Yana wasa galibi a matsayin dan gaba na ciki, a bayan Ted Drake, har yanzu ya ci rabonsa mai kyau duk da ƙarancin gininsa a cikin abin da ya kasance a lokacin wasan jiki ne sosai. Gwanin da ya zira ya hada da zira kwallaye 13 a 1933 <unk> 34, wanda ya sanya shi dan wasan Arsenal a gasar, tare da Cliff Bastin, da 14 a 1934 <unk> 35, wanda ya hada da hat-trick a wasan 8 <unk> 1 da Liverpool. Bowden ya lashe gasar farko a Ingila a wannan kakar, a kan Wales a ranar 29 ga Satumba, 1934. Watanni biyu bayan haka, ya kasance daya daga cikin 'yan wasan Arsenal bakwai da suka taka leda a wasan da Ingila ta yi nasara da 3-2.
1934 Gasar cin Kofin Duniya ta Italiya a cikin abin da ake kira "Battle of Highbury", lokacin da ya ji rauni a idon sawunsa. A cikin duka Bowden ya wakilci kasarsa sau shida kuma ya zira kwallaye sau daya, a kan Wales a watan Fabrairun 1936; ya kuma buga wasanni biyu a gasar League XI.