Hall Of Fame Inductee

Flo Cutting

Inducted into: Builder Division in 1986

Inducted into: Builder of the Bowling Industry in 1973

Location: Toronto

Deceased: DEC

  • Builder
  • Industry

FLO CUTTING of Toronto got involved as a 5 Pin Bowling volunteer more than 50 years ago, in a league formed by the Olympia Ladies’ Softball League in Toronto. She came to bowling as a league, city and provincial champion as a softball pitcher; a creditable performer in basketball; and a bronze medal winner in both shotput and discus in the 1927 Canadian Track and Field Championships. In 1937 she became the first President of the Metro Ladies’ Major League, and for 10 years volunteered as Secretary for a senior citizens’ bowling league called the Second Mile Club. In the mid-1950s she became the founding Provincial Secretary of the former Ontario Bowlers Council, which became the Ontario Bowlers Congress, and she laboured in that post as a Provincial and National executive until she resigned in 1969. In 1973, our very first Awards Dinner saluted Flo Cutting as the “First Lady of Bowling” for her long record of volunteer service, and tonight she becomes the first lady to be inducted to the Builders Division of the 5 Pin Bowling Hall of Fame.

Flo Cutting has been active in sports in the Toronto area for over 50 years. She and her husband, Percy, have been active in bowling for a long time, both as bowlers and executives.

Flo started playing Softball in the Toronto city playgrounds and once struck out 19 batters in one game. She was on a number of league and city championship teams as well as being a two time winner at the Canadian National Exhibition. Flo played Basketball and was a bronze medal winner in the 1927 Canadian Track and Field Championships.

In an executive capacity, she has been on the Canadian National Exhibition Sports Committee, Secretary-Treasurer of the Olympia Ladies Softball League, a member of the Sunday Afternoon Sports Committee, 1st President of the Ladies City Major League and Secretary of the O.B.C. Flo also has written columns on softball and bowling for local papers as well as many articles for papers and books.

In honouring Flo Cutting tonight, the Bowling Industry has selected her “The First Lady of Bowling”, an honour well deserved by this remarkable woman.