Instead of a new ball,try learning to roll a ball from up the back.I use to bowl on old wood lanes with a short oil pattern.It was 31 ft. with CLEAN backends.The only way I could score was rolling the Black Hammer up the back.Averaged 218 in summer an 225 in winter.I almost never payed for bowling because of the money I would win in side pots an brackets.I had my wife an daughter on my team,so IT could have been costly
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