THE OLD SOFT SHOE A shoe salesman by trade, Dave Luby bowled under an alias during business trips for fear that his bosses would frown on him.
EVERYTHING BOWLING, ALL THE TIME
THROUGH AND THROUGH BY MORT LUBY
Anniversary Celebration of Bowlers Journal, Publisher
Emeritus Mort Luby Jr. chronicles the history of Luby Publishing, from the magazine’s inception in November 1913 through today. Part 1 of 12.
never knew my grandfather, David A. Luby, the man who started this magazine and founded our company. He died
in 1925, six years before I was born. But we know quite a bit about Dave because of the Bowlers Journal archives and the fascinating accounts of his long life in other magazines and newspapers. “As far as bowling
was concerned, he was a national institution,” said an obituary in the December 1925 edition of Billiards Magazine. “He was an all around, big- hearted man who numbered his friends by the thousands.”
We know that Dave was born in Mort Luby Jr.
Newark, N.J., in 1857, but the rest of the Luby family background remains slightly mysterious. I vaguely recall being told that all my paternal forebears were from Ireland. The fact that there are so many Lubys, Lubes, Loobys, O’Lubys and O’Loobys in the Dublin telephone book would seem to confirm this. (There’s even a town in County Tipperary called Bally Looby.) As I wandered
through various Internet
genealogy sites, I saw that a man who might possibly have been Dave’s father (thus my great-grandfather), one Edward Luby, had told the census takers that he
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