From: v051r9bf@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (When will Mergle EVER shut up?)
Newsgroups: alt.sport.bowling
Subject: Re: Dead Wood
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:07:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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In article <1992Nov17.184059.13673@europa.asd.contel.com>, king@ssvax.gte.com (Larry King) writes...
>Keith Becker (keith@rss.dl.nec.com) wrote:
>: I picked up a single pin spare, but the pin ended up flying
>: about 15 feet down the lane! 
>: Anyway, I was just curious why I kept getting dead wood. I definitely
>: don't throw the ball with that much power!
>: 
>: Thanks,
>: 
>: Keith Becker
>: NEC America
>: Richardson, TX
>: (email: keith.becker@rss.dl.nec.com)
> 
>Keith,
> 
>	Generally when that consistantly happens it is because the gate
>behind the pins is down.  There is a rubber tarp like flap that stays up
>and when the pins fly back they hit the tarp and drop straight down.  If
>the gate holding the tarp goes down the pins will not have anything
>behind them to cushion the impact.  Thus they come flying back out.  It
>is really fun if while practicing it happens because you can shoot 10
>pins (or 7's) for lefties and watch it bounce back out and take out most
>of the other pins on the deck. 
> 
>--
>Larry King
>GTE Government Systems, Needham, MA    		(617) 455-3384 
>E-Mail : king%ssvax.dnet@get.com

This phenomenon happened to me when I was bowling in a tournament a few
years ago.  I was bowling pretty well, but in the 10th frame of my third
game, I left a 1-3-6-8-10.  (a real winner, I know.  :^)  Being a lefty,
I went cross-lane, but pulled the shot miserably.  I barely hit the 6 but
hit the 10 dead-on.  To my surprise, the 10 came bouncing out and took out
the 1, 3, and with help from the six that was still hanging around, got the 
8.  I got a fill ball 7.  Later, I found out I missed 3rd place by 2 pins.

It woulda been neat to cash in a tournament on that shot....I wish I woulda
bore down and got 9 or a strike on that last ball....

--Mergle  
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