So I Missed A Perfect Game By a Pin Tonight

[TheRightSide]

I suck at bowling, but have a few friends who were great bowlers in the day and each of them have like 30 plus 300's in their lives ( according to them), and they claim that bowling now is far more eay than it was say about 10 years ago. Is this indeed the case?

Sidebar- Once lost 2k betting against Walter Ray Williams in horse shoes..... I have never seen anythong like it, the guy is a machine in that sport!

Yes today bowling is a completly different sport than it was 15 yrs ago.
The equipment is just so much better. The lanes hold the oil pattern so much longer in the old days. And now there is much more room to where you can throw the ball. Old days if you missed right it would be a bad shot, now if you miss right it still goes into the pocket.

 

[GoSooners]

279 is my high score. I don't throw a big winding curve, but the oil was set up just right that night to keep the ball in the pocket within the space of a foot all the way down the lane. I've never had those perfect of lane conditions before or since.

 

[Brewersin7]

I have 1 300, a 297 and a 296, i would love another 300, but i really would almost rather shoot a 800 series.. 791 is the closest i ve gotten

 

[TheRightSide]

I have 1 300, a 297 and a 296, i would love another 300, but i really would almost rather shoot a 800 series.. 791 is the closest i ve gotten

Any guy can do a 300


800 is a much much better achievement. I don't have on either.

 

[EasyMoney]

I had a 300 three years ago. Got a couple 299's a 298., and several 290's and 279's. But I was never as pissed as I was the night I had a 796 series. I needed the first two strikes in the 10th of the third game. Threw the first one buried the second and left a 7 pin.

 

[oldmanTED]

kidman232

Nice 279 young man. If you're going to get a 9 spare, better that it is in the 4th then the last ball in the 10th frame. I hate to lose a perfect game with a 299. Bowled for 41 years starting at 11 years old until I set the balls down in 1999 and never have picked them up since. Got burned out on leagues and weekend tournaments, besides having back issues that just made it too painful and not worth it anymore. Still love to watch and wish the PBA was on national television like it used to be. Grew up watching it in black and white on televison. Anybody remember Ray Bluth?

 

[Brewersin7]

Me too.
At Clark Lanes on lanes 5 and 6, I threw twelve shots, all solid 1-3 pocket freight trains, opened up with X X (solid ten pin 9 spare in the third) then went X X X X X X X X X = 279.

My highest game is 286, but that was ugly, that was game two of the county Masters qualifiying, lane conditions were impossible, I was all over the place, had like three strikes in the pocket, three right through the nose I got lucky on, two on crossover Brooklyns, for a real ugly 286.

Nice shooting Kidman. :toast:
Did you break 700 for the series?

what clark lanes was that, not in NJ was it??

 

[texansfan]

I've had a few 289's. I've also bowled an 800 series once. I used to bowl in a league weekly but between the cost of the league and the beer it got expensive.

 

[billhill999]

what clark lanes was that, not in NJ was it??

Sure was Clark NJ, grew up next town over in Cranford NJ.
Clark Lanes are gone now, but was one of the premier bowling centers in the entire northeast.

 

[Donnybasbl]

I stopped bowling about 15 years ago with a 204 average. My high game was 255 and series was 676. Was never someone who would string 6 or 7 strikes together, but I never missed a spare.

I wonder what I would average with today's equipment and lane conditions.

With one horribly arthritic knee, though.

 

[billhill999]

I quit the game because of the easier conditions and balls that hit the pins like freight trains.
Today guys with 160 talent average 185, sad thing is they think they are good.
When my dad bowled, 180 average was considered Masters material.

 

[texansfan]

I quit the game because of the easier conditions and balls that hit the pins like freight trains.
Today guys with 160 talent average 185, sad thing is they think they are good.
When my dad bowled, 180 average was considered Masters material.

The balls have definitely changed the game. However, I think that bowling on the lanes made from wood were much easier than the ones today that are synthetic. They can really manipulate them so much easier imo.

 

[jordan17]