A Great Job Going for, Knocking Down Pins

Paul Hughes, 74, of Waunakee, Wis., accomplished an apparently unprecedented feat this week.

The Capital Times of Madison reported that Hughes made a hole in one Monday, then bowled a 300 game Tuesday.

The newspaper reported that a hole in one and a 300 game on consecutive days probably had never been done before, and who’s to argue?

Hughes has had one other hole in one -- in 2000 at a charity event, where he won $5,000, the newspaper said. The 300 game was his fourth.

Trivia time: Henry Aaron is the all-time home run leader with 755. Who is the next player on the list named Henry?

Cub fan’s lament: The pain in Chicago is being felt by Cub fans throughout the country, including Southern California.

Take Carmen Miceli, a restaurateur who lives in Studio City. Miceli, 81, a native of Chicago, says he has been a Cub fan since he was in kindergarten.

He attended the 1945 World Series at Wrigley Field as a young serviceman, and in 1984 had hotel reservations, plane tickets and game tickets when the Cubs missed out on the Series by losing three in a row to San Diego. Same thing happened again.

“When the Cubs got eliminated in ‘84, that was the worst day of my life,” he said late Wednesday night. “Until today. I had first-class plane tickets, hotel rooms reserved in Chicago and both American League cities and box seats. I’ll never get over this.”

Tall in the saddle: Manute Bol, the 7-foot-7 former NBA player, plans to become the world’s tallest jockey Saturday when he rides a race horse at Hoosier Park in Anderson, Ind., to raise money for his native country, civil war-torn Sudan.

Last year, Bol attempted to play in a hockey game for charity, but his arthritic feet swelled in his custom-made skates before he could take the ice. Earlier, Bol defeated William “The Refrigerator” Perry in a celebrity boxing match televised by Fox.

At least Bol doesn’t have to worry about falling off the horse. He can just put his feet down.

Ice cream break: So what do college coaches do on Saturdays when their teams don’t play?

Iowa, which plays at Ohio State on Saturday, had a bye last weekend. So Coach Kirk Ferentz took in his 10-year-old son’s soccer doubleheader, and that night settled in at home to watch Ohio State-Wisconsin on television.

“Killed a couple of Ben & Jerry’s,” Ferentz told Mike Hlas of the Cedar Rapids Gazette. “Had a good night.”

Looking back: On this day in 1989, minutes before the start of Game 3 of the World Series at Candlestick Park, an earthquake hit the Bay Area. The game was postponed and the Series resumed 11 days later.

Trivia answer: Henry Louis Gehrig with 493.

And finally: Fox’s Joe Buck said he and Tim McCarver were stranded at Yankee Stadium for 40 minutes after Game 6 of the American League championship series. Asked why they didn’t have a limousine, Buck said, “We did, but I think it was at Shea.”

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Larry Stewart can be reached at [email protected].