Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Bowling Highlight Column 12-5-08


Cady 300 Goes Into Lane # 1 Record Book

Sixty-one year old Livingston Manor bowler Bob Cady's second career 300 is heading for the record books at the Lane # 1 Bowling Ball Company.
Cady is heading for the record books at the Syracuse based Lane # 1 Bowling Company as a spokeswoman at the company headquarters several weeks ago confirmed that Cady hasl become only the 8th bowler to score a 300 with the company's Buzzsaw XXL urethane bowling ball which was put out on the market some 5 to 6 years ago.
A spokesman for the Syracuse bowling ball company has asked that a picture of Bob with the ball be sent to Lane # 1 so that they could put him into their record books.
The Lane # 1 Buzzsaw XXL urethane bowling ball that Bob Cady used to score his most recent 300 game in the October 26 Sunday Mixed league at Liberty Lanes was once owned by this writer who acquired the ball from Lane # 1 about five years ago.
After having the ball drilled I bowled with the ball several months but never got comfortable and the ball never did much for my scoring ability. Since Bob and I bowled on the same Sullivan County Democrat team we were talking about the ball one night and he indicated he wished he had a urethane ball and I told him I would be more than happy to give him the ball which I did.
Bob had Mike Luongo re-drill the ball which Bob used from time to time but just last week he informed me that this was the ball he was using most of this seasdon and was the one he recorded his 2ed career 300 with.
Lane # 1 describes the ball as a pearl urethane which gives bowlers "Xtra Xtra length when the lanes dry out." Lane # 1's suggestion to bowlers is "when your resin ball is hooking too much and your plastic ball doesn't hook enough, the Buzzsaw XXL will strike and strike," which it certainly did for Cady.
Cady bowled his first career 300 on March 14, 2004 in the Sunday Mixed league at Kiamesha Lanes. Bob on October 26 bowled the perfect game on lanes 5&6 and it was during his second game. He finished with a 645 series and presently maintains a 197 average. He noted that all 12 strikes were in the pocket.
He also bowls in the Tuesday Delaware Valley Men's league at Callicoon Lanes.
Bob has been bowling for some 35-years and is retired from the Sullivan County Department of Public Works. He lives with his wife Barbara in Livingston Manor.

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