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48 November 10 • 2016
t’s not easy to roll a perfect 300
game in bowling. Most bowlers
never do.
Dave Shanbaum isn’t like most
bowlers. He bowled his 15th 300
game the other night. Yes, 15th.
He did it Oct. 31 in the B’nai B’rith
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson League at
Country Lanes in Farmington Hills.
Here’s a guy who loves to bowl and
is very good at it. His email address
says it all. It begins with, “bowling-
dave300.”
The 43-year-old lifelong Windsor,
Ont., resident has been bowling in
adult leagues since he was 18. He nor-
mally bowls in two to four leagues per
season and is bowling in three leagues
this season.
Shanbaum bowled 211-300-226-
737 on Halloween, recording his
third 300 game in four seasons in the
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson League.
The computer programmer said all
12 strikes in his latest perfect game
were solid pocket hits although the
first one in the 10th frame was a little
high.
Throwing a 300 game is far from
commonplace for Shanbaum even
though he’s done it so many times.
“The adrenalin runs as you’re get-
ting closer,” he said. “You have to
focus on doing the same things. Keep
repeating your shot.”
Shanbaum gets plenty of chances
to repeat his shot. He’s bowling this
season in two leagues at Rose Bowl
Lanes in Windsor in addition to the
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson League,
which bowls on Monday each week.
The Windsor leagues are on Tuesday
and Thursday.
Early in the season, he’s averaging
around 210 in the Windsor leagues
and about 230 in the Brotherhood-
Eddie Jacobson League. He normally
averages about 218 or 219.
He said he used to bowl in a B’nai
B’rith league in Windsor before the
league folded. He then bowled on a
team in the B’nai B’rith Downtown Fox
League on the U.S. side of the Detroit
River before the team moved to the
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson League
about a half-dozen years ago.
Now called the Ten Pin
Commandments, the team also
includes Dave Little, Ivan Fenyvesi and
Howard Keller along with substitute
Steve Teper.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Speaking of the Brotherhood-Eddie
Jacobson League, director Gary
Klinger recently connected with Frank
Kozin, a former longtime league bowl-
er, at a bar mitzvah.
Kozin bowled in the league for
about 30 years, Klinger said, until
1991. Kozin is good friends with
Klinger’s father, Mark Klinger, who has
been bowling in the league since 1962
and is still going strong at age 80.
In addition to his longevity on the
lanes, Kozin holds another distinction
with the Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson
Lodge. He helped name it.
The former Livonia Lodge was
renamed Brotherhood at Kozin’s sug-
gestion as a way of showing it wel-
comed members from other lodges.
The Eddie Jacobson Lodge, based on
the east side of Detroit, merged with
Brotherhood to form the Brotherhood-
Eddie Jacobson Lodge in 1959.
So who is Eddie Jacobson? He was
a longtime member of B’nai B’rith in
Kansas City who served as a sergeant
under Harry S. Truman in World War
I and became a business partner and
close friend of the nation’s 33rd presi-
dent.
Jacobson visited President Truman
in the White House on March 13,
1948, and convinced him to meet with
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the leader of
the Zionist movement, even though
Truman reportedly had become irri-
tated by lobbying from Zionists.
Truman met with Weizmann as a
favor to his friend and, on May 14,
1948, the U.S. became the first nation
to grant diplomatic recognition to the
new State of Israel.
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