John Moyer

John Moyer was born in Waterloo in 1913. As a bowler, he won the Canadian Singles Five-Pin Bowling Championship and the Eastern Canada Championship in 1958. He also won the O’Connor Open Five-Pin Bowling Championship in 1959. Was a member of the Waterloo Five-Pin Bowling team which had the highest triple (three consecutive games) score in the mid 1930s.

In May 1963, he bowled on the Five-Pin, five man team which bowled the high score of 1712 for a single game, one of the highest on record.

Moyer was also a baseball player and a star pitcher (1930-1941) for Waterloo in the Senior County Baseball League which team won both the Inter-County and Ontario Baseball Championships in 1939. He pitched two no-hit games that year, one against Kitchener and the other against Port Credit in the play-offs.

As a member of the Royal Canadian Engineers, he played for the Canadian Army team in 1943.