Sport: ABC in Syracuse

In Syracuse, early one morning last week, affable Carl Mensenberg took his stance to bowl his first singles game in the annual American Bowling Congress. Fifteen minutes later, Bowler Mensenberg had done the thing that most bowlers do only in their dreams. Handicapped by an arm injury, using a borrowed ball, watched by his best girl, he had bowled a perfect game.

Chances against a perfect game—300 for 12 strikes—under the circumstances in which Bowler Mensenberg made his, at the No. 1 event of the year for U. S. bowlers, were 400,000 to...