The perfect game was thrown during the A Division competition for the Singles event. After the first six strikes in his third game, other bowlers and spectators started gathering behind Larry to watch his progress. By the ninth strike, everyone had stopped bowling and the army of spectators were silently cheering - you could hear a pin drop (ha-ha). Larry then threw a very powerful 10th ball, but two pins were left standing. As Larry dejectedly turned around, a stillmoving pin ricocheted off the side wall and came back and knocked down the two remaining pins, completing his strike. The crowd roared!! Larry turned around and realized the last two pins were down, giving him his tenth strike. After composing himself he threw two more solid strikes, completing his perfect game. The crowd came unglued and rushed to congratulate him!

The SFFD was well represented at this years’ tournament and was one of the events in the Firefighters’ Summer Olympics which were held July 16-21 in San Jose and hosted by San Jose Firefighters Local 230.
Results for the bowling events:

All-Around

Individual Gold Medal: Larry Yup - T-11

Bronze Medal - Team:

Frank Abaloa - Airport St. 2
Aldo Rizotto - E-43
Terry Woo - Airport St. 2
Larry Yup - T-11

A Division

Silver Medal - Individual Terry Woo - Airport St. 2

B Division

Gold Medal - Team: Dave Britt - E-3 (+ 3 members from another city)

C Division

Silver Medal - Doubles:

Jim Moore - BOE
Willie Wong - T-14

D Division

Bronze Medal - Individual: Mario Romero - E-11

Gold Medal - Doubles:

Warren Derr - E-1
Jim McCoy - BFP (ret)

Congratulations to Larry Yup and to all the participants!

Nipping at Lou and Bills’ heels the whole time from SFFD were the teams of John Rocco/Tom Kohmann and Pat Gardner/Jim Coyne.

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