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Apr 23, 2021
39-year-old John Hinkle of Illinois paid tribute to his deceased father by bowling a perfect 300 game using a ball that contained some of his dad s ashes.
John said that his father, John Hinkle Sr., introduced him and his brother, Joe, to the sport of bowling when they were very young.
Hinkle said his two-handed bowling technique means he is only allowed two finger holes in his ball, so he had the thumb hole on his ball filled with some of his father s ashes after the older Hinkle died in 2016. I was talking to my brother and told him, I m shooting a 300 with this ball, Hinkle told WMBD-TV. And Joe said, Do it!
“I had tears in my eyes for the eleventh and twelfth frame. I couldn’t even tell you where that last ball went. I just had so many tears in my eyes when I was throwing it. I was just hoping it would strike and it did,” John Hinkle, Jr. told WMBD.