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标题：Hold on, Mika, you're no. 2 - News, Notes & Quotes - Mika Koivuniemi not first foreign-born winner of U.S. Open bowling competition - Brief Article
作者：John J. Archibald
期刊名称：Bowling Digest
印刷版ISSN：8750-3603
出版年度：2002
卷号：June 2002
出版社：Century Publishing Inc.

Hold on, Mika, you're no. 2 - News, Notes & Quotes - Mika Koivuniemi not first foreign-born winner of U.S. Open bowling competition - Brief Article

John J. Archibald

WHEN FINLAND'S MIKA Koivuniemi captured the U.S. Open last December, he was thought to be the first foreign-born winner of that tournament. Not so. Andy Varipapa, best known for his trick shots, won the national individual match-game championship--then known as the All-Star--in 1946 and 1947. Varipapa was born in Carfizzi, Italy, in 1891.

After emigrating to America as a young man, Varipapa played semipro baseball until suffering a broken leg. Then he took up bowling and wound up in the ABC Hall of Fame. He died in 1984.