- Home Town: Blair
- Birth Date: May 15, 1940
- Bowls: Right Handed
- 300 Games: Twelve 300's & One 800
- Favorite Bowling Ball or Type: Storm 2nd Dimension
Biography:
Started working in bowling alleys when I was 15 years old. I started drilling bowling balls when I was
18 years old. I worked in bowling centers doing everything from mechanic, and lane man to manager of
a 40 lane center.
Accomplishments:
I hold 8 state titles, and the only bowler to bowl 2 - 300's on the same day in the Nebraska State
Tournament to date. I held the Iowa State Tournament record in doubles for 5 years. I also still
hold the 9 Game Doubles record in the Tournament of the Americas
What do you do or have done?
The most fun was bowling on the Senior Tour. I have met some good bowlers who became good friends.
I have bowled all over the country. I also bowled Sr Tour events in Australia in 1993.
1840 - First Indoor Lanes Built (Manhattan, NY)
1880 - Two Fingered-grip introduced
1895 - The American Bowling Congress Organized
1899 - Flat gutters lowered to 2" deep
1901 - 1st ABC National Tournament
1902 - Minimum pin weight: 3lbs 2oz
1905 - First hard rubber ball developed Maximum ball weight set at 16lbs
1907 - Flat gutters lowered to 3.5"
1908 - First (ABC recognized) 300 game
1909 - Minumum pin weight: 3lbs Ooz Resurfacing required ever 12 months
1913 - First 300 in the ABC National Tournament
1914 - Mineralite ball introduced (Brunswick)
1916 - 1st WIBC National Tournament
1922 - Minimum pin weight: 2lbs 12oz
1928 - Flat gutters: quarter round required on each side
1930 - First female 300 game
1932 - Air conditioning comes to bowling
1933 - Minimum pin weight 3lbs 0oz, Base of pin changed
1936 - Ned Day First to use 3 finger ball
1938 - Synthetic coatings developed (Lacquer)
1943 - Fiber-pin base approved
1947 - First televised bowling match (CBS)
1948 - Laminated pins developed
1950 - Pin base changed mandated: 2.25" to 2" diameter First automated pin setter installed (AMF)
1956 - Smaller pin base required
1959 - Introduction of the first polyester balls (Columbia)
1960 - First foul detector approved
1962 - First synthetic pin approved (Magna pin)
1963 - Minimum pin weight: 3lbs 2oz
1968 - First WIBC 800 series
1972 - Even lane conditions mandated (Gutter to Gutter)