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Article: Bowlers in N.O. find high-tech bowling balls strike higher scores
- Article from:
- The Journal : the Community News of Jefferson Parish
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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Mean Machine, No Mercy, Total Inferno, Storm Passion, Double
Agent.
They sound like professional wrestling stars but the names ring
familiar to hardcore bowlers. The balls have increased scoring and
led to a national debate on whether technology is compromising the
integrity of the game.
"The ball does most of the work now, allows you to make more
errors, allows for more mistakes, and it's turned your below-average
bowler into an average bowler, an average bowler into a really good
bowler, maybe increasing averages 20 to 25 pins across the board,"
said River Ridge resident Jack Thompson, who averages 225 and bowls
three times a week in leagues at Colonial Lanes. He carries three
bowling ...