It was the third perfect score for Lorenz but midway though in the next game he clutched his chest and collapsed. Efforts to revive him failed, the Kalamazoo Gazette said.

"If he could have written a way to go out, this would be it,'' said Johnny Masters, who was bowling with Lorenz in the Schoolcraft Miller Lite League.

Lorenz, who began bowling in 1957, was a fixture on the Kalamazoo Gazette's monthly senior bowling honor roll. He lived in Portage and worked for many years at Fuller Manufacturing.