Many people seem to be encountering this more and more frequently these days and not just in the East. Seems to be happening across the country.

I bowled in the NJ State Seniors tournament today. You could say we found the same thing. Now most people would assume a lot of the older people (there were women here also) would enjoy seeing their ball hook in their later years when they can't get as much on the ball as they used to do. Maybe, maybe not,

I bowled with one guy who looked about 84, 85 years old and he admitted he was throwing a 12 lb White Dot. You know what his complaint was - no oil! Yep, even him.

My first thought during warm-ups was, "We're back in 1984 with the short oil, when they oiled 24 feet." It did seem like there was that little oil. (I was just cleaning my ball and couldn't find one oil line. They're usually embedded and ground in and need to be removed with Clean and Dull. Of course, I looked at the ball carefully before I left the lanes. Not a sign on anything except for a few smudges.)

FYI I used a Slingshot for all 6 games. Tried to throw my normal ball for the first 3 in Singles and failed miserably. For the next 3 in doubles I threw a fudge knuckler  up the 10 board and shot a blistering 601. Hadn't done that in many years. A hard day.

FWIW the previous evening I threw a Terminator Rebellion, a true medium oil benchmark in league in the same house.
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