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A Calm 300

Bowler makes a perfect change
for his last game.

Steve Stein
Special to the Jewish News

H

oward Kuretzky wasn't
having a very good night on
the lanes in the B'nai B'rith
Brotherhood/Eddie Jacobson Bowling
League. So he did what he usually
does in that situa-
tion — he switched
bowling balls and
his line.
"You have to make
changes when you're
not bowling well. You
do what you have to
de
he said.
Howard
The changes
Kuretzky
worked to perfec-
tion. Kuretzky rolled a 300 in his
final game Oct. 6 at Country Lanes
in Farmington Hills. It was the first
300 game in his long bowling career.
"I'm 56, and I've been bowling off
and on since I was a kid;' the West
Bloomfield resident said.
While Kuretzky didn't want to
divulge the scores of his previous two
games Oct. 6, his series was 644. The
right-hander averages 204.
Of the 12 strikes in his 300 game, 11
were pocket hits. He had a Brooklyn
hit in the sixth frame.
"Believe it or not, I wasn't nervous
as I got toward the end of the game.
I was just trying to think positive
thoughts:' Kuretzky said. "There's no
reason to get nervous. If it happens, it
happens."
Once the 300 game happened,
Kuretzky was a happy man.
"My first thought was, 'I finally did
it;" he said. "I bowled a 298 game last
year — I left two pins on my final ball
— and I've bowled several 279 games,
where you have one spare and the rest
strikes:'
Kuretzky also is a good golfer. He
carries a six handicap.
When he isn't tearing up a bowling
alley or knocking tee shots down the
middle of a fairway, Kuretzky owns
Kurtis Kitchen and Bath Centers in
Livonia.
Kuretzky's 300 game was the 13th
rolled by 10 different bowlers in the
46-year history of the Brotherhood-

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Eddie Jacobson League.
League secretary Gary Klinger saw
Kuretzky put the finishing touches on
his 300. He was amazed at how well
Kuretzky kept his cool.
"Howard didn't look nervous
at all. He was chatting with his
teammates;' Klinger said. "When I
bowled a 300 game in 2001, I was
shaking when I got to the seventh
frame. It may have helped that there
were only about 10 or 12 guys still
around when Howard bowled his
300. That was the last match of the
night."
Kuretzky's team — Gary Gold, Ken
Gold and Bruce Gumenick — took
six of seven possible points that night.
Marty Gold wasn't available.
Want to watch Kuretzky's 300
game? Check out the video at www.
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson. com .

Sports Shorts
• Robert Ackerman has been
named the faculty athletic repre-
sentative at Wayne State University
in Detroit. This spring, Ackerman
became the 10th dean of the WSU Law
School. Ackerman's career as a law
instructor includes a stop at Bar-Ilan
University in Israel.
•When the Los Angeles Dodgers
swept the Chicago Cubs out of the
playoffs, it ended the possibility of a
Jewish pitcher vs. Jewish batter match-
up in the World Series.
Cubs pitcher Jason Marquis is
Jewish. Boston Red Sox infielder
Kevin Youkilis also is Jewish. Youkilis
was one of three Jewish players in
this year's All-Star Game along with
Ian Kinsler of the Texas Rangers
and Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee
Brewers.
A native of Cincinnati and son of
a wholesale jewelry dealer, Youkilis
was a two-time All-American baseball
player at the University of Cincinnati
before he was selected in the eighth
round of the 2001 draft (243rd over-
all) by the Red Sox.

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