Caption: Rolling a 76: A solid score at palsy meetBy GERALD VOLGENAUFree Press Staff WriterSlender Annette Martin bowled a 76 Friday at the first national Cerebral Palsy games in Detroit.The score was not great by most standards. But it was high enough to score well amount the 150 who came for the Olympics-like meet being conducted here Friday and Saturday.A 15-year-old from Wyandotte, Annette does all her bowling from a wheelchair.Taking the ball in both hands, she gives it a stout ?sports like bowling, swimming, javelin, weight lifting and billiards."It's very important to them," said Sherry MacIntosh, an assistant recreation director from Hartford, Conn., who helped bring 35 athletes to the games."It's important because they can actually go out and do things," she said. "They are athletes, just like anyone else. And they take a lot of pride in what they do."Ranging in age from 15 to 56, the competitors are striving to win a place on the 20-person team.JUST AS AT ANY sporting event, the Garden Bowl filled with cheers and applause, ooohs and ahhs, as the bowlers sent the pins sprawling. A quick check showed that scores ranged from 13 to 128.Ms. Keye Davies, co-ordinator of the adaptive recreation program in Wyandotte, explained that the competitors are arranged in eight different categories depending on the severity of their handicaps.This prevents someone who can stand up to bowl from competing against someone who must..
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