Mon, Nov 23 2009
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Howerton’s 758 sets early pace Bowling Week
In honor of National Bowling Week, Carl Richard Bowl East will join 3,400 bowling centers across the nation in setting a record for the most games rolled in a single day. Bowl East invites Joplin and area residents to participate in the annual event next Saturday. Participants will pay $20 for four hours of unlimited bowling and will receive a commemorative certificate. Bowl East manager Chris Higginbotham said the festivities will begin at 2 p.m. and will conclude at 6. National Bowling Week and this world-record event are jointly sponsored by the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America (BPAA), Strike Ten Entertainment, International Bowling Pro Shop and Instructors Association, Professional Bowlers Association and the United States Bowling Congress. Details: Bowl East, 624-8652. In the mail Nearly 36,000 bowlers will get a share of the $5.5 million prize fund from the 2008 United States Bowling Congress Open Championships, and the first of the checks are in the mail. The tournament was the second largest held outside of the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nev., and brought 12,615 teams to the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, N.M., between Feb. 16 and July 6. Approximately 11,000 of those teams will get at least one prize check, with 35,888 individual bowlers earning a share of the multi-million dollar prize fund. The 2008 Open Championships featured 31 perfect games, 11 299s and two 298s, while 27 other bowlers tossed 11 strikes in a row. There also were 663 series of 700 or better, which included two 800s. Regular Division bowlers in Albuquerque averaged 177.31, and Classified bowlers contributed 155.03 for an overall tournament average of 171.77. In all, 555,408 games were bowled and 95,403,472 pins (score) were toppled. There were 41,966 clean games and 495 clean series, while the overall spare percentage was 56.9. Address correspondence to Wendell Redden, c/o The Joplin Globe, P.O. Box 7, Joplin, Mo. 64802, or e-mail sports@joplinglobe.com. 
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