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- October 2016
The alphabet of bowling, daffynition style.
Alley: A little street on the side of a factory. Was at one time a thing you bowled on, but
now that’s a lane, made of hard wood or synthetics that won’t break. But break bowler’s
hearts in many ways.
Bowler: Any person who at any time rolled a bowling ball and had a reason why it didn’t
go where it should have gone.
Cherry: A delicious fruit, but poisonous to bowlers. Also known by alias names of ―pick‖
or ―chop,‖ and a number of others rated PG, R and X.
Down: What the pins won’t go.
Easy: What you think the other team or individual is...before the match.
Foul: When the lights go on, usually happens when you finally roll a good ball and reg-
ister a strike.
Game: This is what bowling is supposed to be, but it often turns into a personal war,
bowler against pins. Bowler against lanes, bowler against bowler, bowler against himself.
Home: The place you get away from by bowling, and the place you run back to in order
to get away from bowling.
Inside: Opposite of outside. An angle you switch to because you heard a pro mention it
on TV.
Jerk: What you feel like when you do it to your bowling ball in a clutch situation.
Kitty: a fat cat from all the money you feed it because of bad shots and low scores.
Leave: Pins left after your first ball, also what you want to do when you see them.
Never: When you will finally quit bowling.
Oil: What one bowler gives to another who has trouble because of same on lanes.
Pin: Bowlers almost all agree that they will sometimes see that thing won’t let them
score free and should have remained a tree.
Quick: How soon the news about your bad game gets around.
Rap: What you want to do to something when you run into one.
Six: When there’s that many on a five-person team. It means only one thing: trouble.
That’s six, not to be confused with sex. Also a lousy count on the first ball.
Tenpin: The only thing some women lose an argument against more than once.
Useless: Trying to tell another bowler how many strikes you were robbed of on a per-
fect hit.
Vile: The language you’d like to use at the pins.
Worse: What your bowling seems to be getting with each passing year.
X: A strike or a kiss. ―X XX‖ ...A striking kiss, a turkey, a miracle.
Young: Any bowler who hasn’t reach 100, in age or score.
Zany: Anyone who had the guts to read this all the way through.
A Helpful Shadow on the Lane to Use
Do you know that there is a shadow on the lane in every bowling center that
can be used to your advantage?
Go to the approach and stand in your strike position. Look down the lane
about 2/3 of the way. See that shadow across the lane and also across all the
lanes?
Before I tell you how to use this shadow, you must practice your approach
and delivery to get fairly consistent. Once you feel comfortable doing this, then
you can concentrate on the shadow.
Deliver your ball (I’m only talking about a strike ball), hit your arrow, and then
follow your ball down the lane with your eyes until it hits the pins. Your second
arrow is your strike arrow under most conditions. If you have lined yourself up
properly as in the last article, then your arm is in line with the second arrow.
On what board is the second arrow out on the lanes? Why, the 10 board.
Each of the arrows are five boards apart. Count them so you know what I mean.
Now this is the explanation: Your ball should be on the 10 board at the
shadow and then hook into the pocket. Watch your ball or have someone do it
so as to let you know where your ball is
at the shadow.
How can you make your ball do this?
At the foul line, when you deliver your
ball, lean over the foul line, stretch out,
and stroke the arm out and then up to
your face. Learn to watch your ball all
the time and all the way to the pins. So
many of you deliver the ball, turn
around, look over your shoulder, while
walking back to your seat. Please stay,
stay, stay at the line until the ball hits the
pins.
This will help you correct your swing,
delivery and follow through. You will now
be concentrating on your game. Work
on it.
Helen Duval’s Bowling Tips
Idle Bowling Thoughts
By Chuck Pezzano
(reprinted in honor of his dedication to bowling)
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