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The game here is ten pins.

Team names that I have created. These are available for your use. Please let me know if you use one of them:

• Mighty Turkeys
• Acme Clock Cleaners
• Blind Squirrels
• No Cigars

This page is dedicated to the memory of Ron James, a super bowler, and my cousin.

Bowling articles:

• The Pumping of the Fist in my Sports pages
• Sweat Your Bowling Ball NEW
• Good, Bad, and Ugly NEW
• 6 Degrees
• The Secret To Bowling
• Picking Up Spares
• Exploring For Oil
• Taps
• Wasting Strikes
• Turkey Dance in my Humor pages
• The Inner Game of Tennis - by W. Timothy Gallwey in my Book Reviews (great for any sport)
• Also see my Sports pages, for some comments on winning.
• My 7-10 Split
• My 300 Game

Other bowling links:

• The American Bowling Congress
  • Booster Mixed - League Standings
  • Friday Night Mixers - League Standings

• PBA Tour

My t-shirt idea: Somebody's gotta lose. Might as well be you.

My highest scores:

• Feb. 28, 2005 - 200+265+267 = 732 (3 open frames)
• Jan. 2005 - consecutive series of 644, 650, and 651, on separate days.
• Nov. 8, 2004 - 211+237+268 = 716
• Oct. 25, 2004 - 232+236+233 = 701
• Sep. 24, 2004 - 203+267+245 = 715
• I was invited to the ABC Senior Masters Tournament (I didn't go). I ended the year with a 205 average.
• Feb. 26, 2004 - 237+224+260 = 721
• Feb. 18, 2004 - 268+246+216 = 730
• Nov. 7, 2003 - 279 (missed washout, then 11 strikes) + 236 + 233 = 748, annual senior tournament at The Bozeman Bowl (non-sanctioned).
• Oct. 1, 2003 - 236+219+256 = 711.
• Sep. 3, 2003 - Practice 247+237+232=716, followed by 649 on the first night of the league.
• Jun. 7, 2003 - Won gold medal in Montana Senior Olympics (55-59 age group): 161+278+198=637.
• Jun. 3, 2003 - 201 (with a gutter ball) +229+279 = 709 in practice.
• Apr. 21, 2003 - 246+244+288 = 778 non-sanctioned (during league fun night) winning $13. I ended the year with a 210 average (my highest ever).
• Feb. 6, 2003 - 279+225+265=769, my high series.
• Jan. 9, 2003 - 247+268+191=706, two 700's in one week.
• Jan. 6, 2003 - 202+269+297=768, my high series. I had two open frames.
• Dec. 23, 2002 - 249+287+189=725.
• Oct. 14, 2002 - Bowled 249+234+247=730.
  
• Aug. 21, 2002 - Bowled 279+218+237=734 in practice.
• Mar. 2002 - I ended the year with a 205 average.
• Mar. 11, 2002 - Bowled 187+277+267=731.
• Jan. 23, 2002 - I picked up the 7-10 split. What next?
• Jan. 3, 2002 - Bowled 300+162+192=654, my first perfect game.
• Dec. 3, 2001 - Bowled 266+258+183=707.
• Mar, 2000 - I ended the year with a 207 average in one league (200 in another).
• Nov. 11, 1999 - My bowling average climbed to 200 today, for the first time.
• Oct. 13, 1999 - I bowled my highest series ever, 269+256+221=746.
• May 1999 - I ended the year with a 195 average, my highest ever.
• Feb. 11, 1999 - I bowled my first 700 series (267+214+247=728).
• Oct. 1998 - I bowled a 661 series. Now my average is 195.
• Feb. 1998 - My average went up to 191 (for one week), the first time it has ever been over 190 (except in the first few weeks of a year).

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