Takahmamash and Zahavasdad, rolling a bowling ball isn’t assur. It just has to be done in a separate bowling alley where goyish music isn’t played, where it’s closed on Shabbos (I’m speaking of EY), where no one cares if you break the rules (bechutoseihem lo selechu), where there are no spectators (moshav leitzim), etc. All of which, if it’s done without bitul Torah and bitul zman. Joining a league makes it a sport, which comes with all the above problems plus mi-darchei ha-emori, which relates to goyish customs that sports tend to have. Even if one can sidestep all of this, he’s in a bad mar’is ayin situation. As for being “caught” at something “illegal,” he was baal koreh in a good shul during all that time and trampled on the tzibur’s standards without even asking them what they thought about it. Gneivas daas was illegal when last spotted.
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