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Avid bowler rolls into town for Show-Me State Games
COLUMBIA — A tall woman wearing a green-collared bowling shirt, white
shorts and blue knee guards picks up a bowling ball from the ball
return. She rolls the ball down the lane and it knocks down nine pins.
Gail
Menke, 69, of St. Louis has been bowling since she was 10. She was a
semi-professional bowler and has been inducted into the St. Louis
Bowling Hall of Fame and the Missouri State Bowling Hall of Fame. She
has bowled three 300 games and had more than 200 series of 700 or
greater.
Sunday is Menke’s first time bowling as a senior in the Show-Me State Games.
“I almost got a strike,” Menke says as she returns to the table of the AMF Town and Country Lanes in Columbia.
Menke gives her companions high-fives before she sits down.
“See how we all high-five? We pass on the good stuff. We don’t have any of this,” Menke says as she makes a fist.
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