A Perfect Tradition

It was the end of the bowling season at the Young Men’s Lyceum Club in Tarrytown. A group of about 12 men — and it is a men’s only club — gathered last month for their traditional Wednesday night league. Since the 1880s, bowling on the four lanes in the Lyceum Building on Central Avenue, where the pin setters are still human rather than automatic, has been a more collegial than competitive tradition.

Irvington resident Steven Ivkosic, 61 and a club member for five years, ended the season with the grandest of bowling traditions: a perfect score of 300.

“We looked through the record books and it doesn’t seem as though it ever happened here before,” Tom Basher, Tarrytown trustee and former president of the Young Men’s Lyceum Club, said. “Having bowled here for 15 years, it was absolutely exhilarating to see someone finally conquer these impossible lanes.”
— Marcy Gray