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Sport
« on: December 31, 1969, 06:00:00 PM »
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The Sport Ball was developed specifically for these types of lane conditions, in addition to any lane condition where control is the key to higher scores. The Sport Ball will easily clear the front part of the lane while producing a smooth arcing backend reaction. A key ingredient is the revolutionary core, designed for maximum control. The core creates a .037 differential Rg, which produces low to medium flare potential. It has a medium Rg of 2.544. the coverstock is a modified version of our proven TECTM particle shell. It has a lighter loading of glass particles and the shell is factory polished. This will allow the bowler to play further outside on the lane, increasing entry angle. Are words like Control, Predictability, Performance what you're looking for in your next bowling ball? Then Sport Ball's the one for you. If you've made the commitment to step up to the more demanding Sport Condition, then step up to the new Sport Ball from Columbia 300.

 

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Re: Sport
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2001, 10:31:09 AM »
This ball should be a hit on a sport condition. Rolls hard and has
enough grab for heavier oil patterns. On oil-dry conditions it
does not overreact and rolls through the pins with no roll out.
Breakpoint is fairly controlled hard arc. I used box finish and
can play inside or out and control the ball path.

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Re: Sport
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2001, 10:15:01 AM »
I am a right handed 3/4 roller.   Axis is 5 3/4 right 3 /16 up. Ball speed 18+ in heads, 16+ at pins. I get a lot of hand in the ball but do not normally cover a lot of boards.
My league average range from 215 to 225. I generally like to cover as few boards as possible.

Ball was used wood lanes. A tappered block with about 20 units in the middle to 3 outside ran to 24 feet and buffed to 35.

I was having problems in the early blocks using a red pulse with carry. The ball was waiting to long to get into a roll.

Drilled the sport ball with a 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 drill to facillate an earlier roll. The ball did pick up a much earlier roll in the mid-lane.
The ball reads the mid-lane well, did not overreact to the dry boards and reduced my entry angle into the pocket so that I didn't leave as many 10 pins.
Carry has been exception so far. This is a control ball similiar to the red pulse but is overall about 4 boards strong with my feet on the approach.

The only negative at this point is that I need some head oil to hold the ball back. When the heads go I put it away immediately as it will start to hook
to soon.

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Re: Sport
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2002, 11:01:24 AM »
   We were able to test the Columbia Sport ball on regular house patterns as well as the ABC Sport condition.  We used one ball, with it's out of the box shell drilled with a leverage pin, 1 1/2" from the v.a.l. with the c.g. on the axis and a large extra hole just past the axis.  We went with this layout in order to have a ball that would recover at the break point, especially on shots thrown wide of target.

   The Sport ball is one that will do what is needed for most bowlers when the pocket isn't wide open, like the sport condition and that is carry.  It's important to make the most of the pocket shots and this ball will do that very nicely.  The Sport ball also plays oil well, which is another sport condition need for most bowlers.  It does those things on regular conditions as well and is more dangerous when there is some dry to the right, as most balls are.

   We were throwing the Sport ball from inside lines with fairly straight trajectories.  We played straight up the third arrow and then swung the ball between third and forth arrow with more hand.  Both lines of attack were successful with the straight up line carrying slightly better until it broke down.  The Sport ball will get through the heads easily in box condition as long as there is a little oil there, we never had to throw the ball harder than 18 mph to get through the heads in our testing.  The drilling we used produced a large flare in the track which we liked because there was solid oil both in the heads and down the lane with just enough back end dry to allow the ball to get to the pocket.  The heavier handed may be able to get away with less flare but stronger layouts that keep the break point controllable seem to work best on this test pattern.  Being honest, we were testing the Sport ball along side the Matrix Dominator, Nu Line Deadly Virus and Navy Quantum.  We found the Sport ball to be easily as good a ball as any of these but not necessarily the best.  The key on the sport condition is bowler consistency, that certainly includes a repeatable ball reaction but that can be achieved with other balls as well as the Sport ball.  
   
   We liked the Sport ball on the house condition almost as much as on the sport pattern.  When this ball has some dry to move on from the outside boards, it is a monster as far as carry goes.  If we got the ball to the dry too soon, even with speed it hooked early but as long as we were in the ‘area' we were striking.  

   After our initial tests were complete, we tested the shell versatility by sanding it and re- polishing it.  If the box polish isn't enough for you, be assured you can easily shine it up as much as you like.  We wet sanded it to 2000 grit and then polished it to a high gloss with Finesse It II.  The reaction was still strong on the back end but was a little cleaner through the heads with the new surface.  We liked the ball on both sport conditions as well as house conditions but would caution that you can compete on the sport condition with a ball other than this one.  

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