barry@ihuxt.UUCP (Rich Barry) (11/11/83)
OK bowling fans! How can you get 8 strikes in one game, including a double and a turkey (3 in a row), and still only get a 99?? Rich Barry ihuxt!barry
robison@eosp1.UUCP (11/11/83)
It's too late at night, I must be miscounting. Isn't this 90 (less than the requested 99): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 X 0 X 0 X 0 X X 0 XXX - Keremath, care of: Robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1 or: allegra!eosp1
bdot@hogpd.UUCP (11/11/83)
One correct answer is:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
X 0-0 X 0-0 X X 3-0 X 0-0 XXX = 99
There are other possibilities depending on where you place the double
in the series of strikes and gutters.
Johnbarry@ihuxt.UUCP (Rich Barry) (11/11/83)
I forgot to add the part about gutter balls; it should read: How can you get 8 strikes in one game, including a double and a turkey (3 in a row), and NOT THROW ANY GUTTER BALLS and still only get a 99?? Rich Barry ihuxt!barry
robison@eosp1.UUCP (11/13/83)
OKAY! The answer is: frame 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 action X 1/0 X 1/0 X 1/0 X X 1/0 XXX score 11 12 23 24 35 36 57 69 69 99 In all the frames where I wrote 1/0, the first ball hits the 7 (or 10) pin; the second ball is not a gutter ball, but it retraces the path of the first ball and hits no pins. - Keremath, care of: Robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1 or: allegra!eosp1
tommyo@ihuxw.UUCP (Tom O`Connor) (11/14/83)
How about this rather unlikely way? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 X X F/F X F/F X F/F X F/F XXX 20 30 30 40 40 50 50 60 60 90 I`ve never seen that mant fouls in the game, but maybe this guy had trouble with his footing or the approach was slick. While we`re talking bowling, we had a controversy last night. One guy, who is normally righty, bowled the first game lefty due to a blister on his thumb. After game 1, he put a bandage on his thumb and bowled games 2 and 3 righty. Now is this legal? A quick scan through the rule book turned up nothing, but my brother-in-law, who is a big bowling fan, seemed to remember hearing something about it being illegal. Any ABC members out their know the answer? This is in a sanctioned mixed league. Tom O`Connor
genesis@ihu1e.UUCP (11/14/83)
This question gets asked at least once pre season, so I will try to answer it to the best of my ability. A persons average is based on the total amount of pins knocked down and the number of games bowled. What is never mentioned is the fact that he/she has use a particular hand to throw the ball with. It is illegal for a bowler to roll half a game with one hand, and the other half of the game with the other, there is nothing in the rule book that says he can't roll one whole game with one hand and the other two games with the other hand. What has to be done now, is, that bowler will have two averages, one average for the scores he/she bowls with the right hand, and one average with the left hand. This practice is done to keep a bowler from sandbagging (purposely bowling with the wrong hand to gain a lower score to keep an average down for handicap) in a league. -- Russ Sehnoutka AT&T Bell Laboratories -- Naperville, Ill. ihnp4!ihu1e!genesis
smq@hlhop.UUCP (Queriolo, Steven) (11/15/83)
Although you could not find it in your rule book, the rule states that
if a bowler is going to bowl (even a single game) from both sides, he
must establish two averages. The rule is quite explicit and even covers
bowling a single frame with the other arm (this results in a forfeit or
some other equally suprising penalty). This was covered in a slightly
obscure publication called Bowling Digest ('from the people that brought
you football and baseball digest').
--
Steven M. Queriolo
AT&T Bell Labs, Short Hills
hlhop!smqeds@solar.UUCP (11/15/83)
Re: Switching bowling hands Rule 23 in the General Playing Rules section of the 1983-84 playing rules of the ABC (page 55) states: "When establishing an average in league play, a right-handed bowler must bowl right-handed at all times. Similarly, a left-handed bowler must bowl left-handed at all times. Penalty, forfeiture of game. No combination of scores bowled both right and left-handed shall be used in computing an average. If because of injury or disability, a bowler finds it necessary to change his delivery from right to left- handed or vice versa, the league's board of directors by majority vote may permit him to establish a new average." Sorry if this messes things up. Ed Schulz, AT&T-IS Labs, HO 1F-532, solar!eds