It's really amazing to see how many people who are 190 to 220 ave range and don't know how to keep score......

On the bright side, there are several ppl I know who are below 190, who do know how to keep score.....

Quote from: xrayjay on October 31, 2014, 07:14:44 PM

On the bright side, there are several ppl I know who are below 190, who do know how to keep score.....

Dear xrayjay:

There are quite a few such people in my area. Then again, I live in an area that contains one of the highest age demographics in the nation, and there are a lot of senior citizens with rather low averages who still remember how to keep score.

Where is this?.... They prolly still remember phone numbers of every family member lol...nowadays we rely on technology too often..

I mentioned this to my buddy and he said, "here (Bay Area, Cali) the lower average bowlers know how to score very well. They know what to shoot to cash before bowling."

Shouldn't that be 58?

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28 48 58+__

Read the OP?

What about bowlers that don't know the pins by number?  I often hear someone talking about a spare they missed or a split they picked up, and almost no one has any idea which pins they left.

I learned that very early on, and am always surprised that people that are regular and sometimes very good bowlers, but they only seem to know a few pins by number.

They usually know the "big" one in front. LOL

I heard someone say that recently. They actually thought the 1 pin was larger than the others rather than just being closer to them.

The other one I like is counting boards. Apparently some think you need some sort of masters degree to locate board 12 out on the lane.

Finding it is one thing; hitting it is another.

I had a teammate for 3 seasons who has been bowling for some time and would get the 8 and 9 pin mixed up. I understand if you're a lefty - a good buddy of mine is a lefty and he thinks righty when it comes to pins......anyway, my teammate would "Air count" or point at the deck and count when he left a bucket and then ask me what pins were behind the key pin. I didn't mind his lack of pin location knowledge, he was a good spare shooter anyway lol

hey, some go by Richard, some go by Dick... it's all good to me....

Keeping score by hand is such a thing of the past. I remember as kid, making money by keeping score at some of the local big tournaments. You sat there, wrote the scores with grease pencil on the overhead and at the end day walked away with $10-$20 in tips, plus a small amount from the center/tournament. Not bad for a youngling.
 
I still remember one house we had growing up. As the other houses were going to automatic scorers, this house refused to budge. It was older and didn't even have overhead projection. Every score was on big sheets of paper. I can't remember if they ever did get scorers or not. They were forced to close because they didn't own the land they were sitting on and the owner sold it to developers when real estate prices jumped. They decided a strip mall would make them more money then the bowling alley.

... would get the 8 and 9 pin mixed up. I understand if you're a lefty - a good buddy of mine is a lefty and he thinks righty when it comes to pins...

Pins are still in the same location, regardless of dexterity?  No?