78 Year-old Blind Man Bowls Perfect Game
Who says you need eyes to bowl a perfect game? 78 year-old Dale Davis of Alta, Iowa bowled a perfect game on May 3rd of 2008 at the Century Lanes Bowling alley. A matter of fact, in the entire existance of the business, there never had been a perfect game bowled there before Dale Davis.
People in the Bowling alley weren’t paying much attention until Dale was about to bowl his final strike. That’s when people left the bar, and stopped bowling and gathered round lanes 3 and four to see if he could do it.
When Dale threw the ball down the lane, everyone was silent, until you heard the all too familiar colonk colonk of the pins being knocked down. Then somebody hollered, "brooklyn!" In bowling terminology, a Brooklyn is when the strike that is made when the ball somehow crosses over the 1-3 pocket.
Now you may be asking yourself, if Dale can’t see, how on Earth does he make all those strikes, winding up with a perfect game of 300? I don’t think that anybody really knows, accept for Dale himself, and according to him, he has a feel for it. He knows how the ball is going to hit the pins when he throws it. He knows what it is going to be by the sound of the ball going down the lane, and he also knows that he is going to strike because of his uncanny way of positioning himself right even with the big center dot on the lane.
Dale is known as the hammer because of the way that the ball goes down the lane. He weighs every bit of 120 pounds, but he used to drive a truck for years before he lost his vision.
I guess you could say that because of Dale, Century :Lanes, and Alta Iowa were put on the map. Alta Iowa is not your huge city. A matter of fact, the population is about 1000. However, it could have been a million when Dale made that final strike. It just goes to show that not everything happens in the big cities. Sometimes some of the greatest things happen in places that most of us have never heard of before. Those places get put on the map because of some extrordinary event that has taken place that makes it noteworthy.
In Dale’s case, it was definitely noteworthy. Some people have claimed that the bowling ball that he uses must have eyes of its own. You can now say that Century Lanes in Alta Iowa has its first famous bowler who bowled the perfect game of 300.
