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SUMMER 2008
Bowls USA
“The Voice of American Lawn Bowling”
Bowls USA Summer 2008
Published by the United States Lawn Bowls Association
Jack Behling elected to Hall of Fame
Also inside:
Team USA wins Gold at China Open
SW Division Recruits 397 New Members in One Day
Characters with Character: Isabella Forbes
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President’s Report
Colin Smith, President USLBA
As I reported in the 2007 autumn
issue, we are seeking the services of a CEO
to aid in running the organization.
To date, we have had no success in
our search. If you have interest or know
of someone who could fill this position
please let me know.
Our Webmaster has launched our new web site at
www.uslba.org - be sure to bookmark it in your Favorites.
Internationally; while we were all disappointed in not
qualifying for World Bowls, please join me in congratulating
Team USA men’s team of Bob Schneider, Chris Booth,
Richard Broad and Bill Brault, in winning the China Open
last March. Details of their win can be found on the USLBA
website. Also, on the women’s side, Rosa Gandara has been
ranked number seven in the world rankings.
Due to our financial standing, it was decided to reduce
almost all support for our national team at our last meeting.
Primary support will now come from Golden Bias members.
Please spread the word and become a member of Golden Bias
and aid in supporting the efforts of our International players.
As travelling costs begin to rise, your support of the team is
needed even more. Colin
About the cover photo taken by David Wismiller:
Jack Behling, “Bowler of the Decade” for the 1990’s, was
the only player elected to the Hall of Fame at the USLBA Board
meeting held at the 2007 U.S. Open Tournament held in the
Costa Mesa area south of Los Angeles during October 13-18.
2009 Summer National
Senior Games at Palo Alto
By Terry Hogan
The United States’ largest participatory multi-sport event
makes its West Coast debut in the San Francisco Bay Area from
August 1-15, 2009. More than 13,000 athletes over the age of
50 are expected to take part in the games headquartered in Palo
Alto. Through the efforts of the Palo Alto City Council and Palo
Alto LBC, lawn bowling will be included as a demonstration
sport for the first time. Our goal is for lawn bowling to become
a medal sport. Palo Alto will host a Men’s Pairs August 3-4 and
a Women’s Pairs August 5-6. There will also be a Fun Triples
Draw on August 7. To learn more about the Senior Games go
to www.2009seniorgames.org. To be a contestant, contact Terry
Hogan at etelhogan@comcast.net. To learn more about the Palo
Alto LBC go to www.palbc.org.
Bowls USA Summer 2008
Contents
ON PAGE
4 .................................................................. Isabella Forbes
5 .............................................................................. Editorial
6 .............................................. Major Tournament Calendar
7 .......................................................................Better Bowls
8 ................................... Membership Trail. Rules Questions
9 ................................ Southwest Division Open House Day
10 .............................................................Super Shots Club
11 .....................Barefoot Bowls. Hall of Famers at Sun City
12-13 .................................................... NE Div & club news
14 ........................................................ NW Div & club news
15 .......................... C Div & club news; Letters to the Editor
16 ............................................................. Bowls and Brews
17 ...............................Jack Behling elected to Hall of Fame
18-19 .......................................Team USA wins China Open
20 ......................................................................... SW Open
21-22 ....................................................SW Div & club news
23 ....................... SW Division & club news. Rules Answers
24-26 ............................................PIM Division & club news
27 .................................................. SC Division & club news
28-29 ..................................................................... SC Open
30-31 ............................................. SE Division & club news
32-33 ..................................................................... SE Open
34 ...........................................USLBA Officers & Councilors
35 .............................. Lindsay Towns National Senior Open
Bowls USA
Vol. 48, No. 2, Summer 2008
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Lawn Bowling’s “Characters with Character”
Isabella Forbes
By George J. Schick
With a professional
and lawn bowling life
that has spanned the
USA, Isabella Forbes
or “Izzie” as she is affectionately
known,
has experienced many
things.
She was born
i n Mo n t c l a i r N J
o n O c t o b e r 3 1 .
Her thoughts on a
Halloween birthday
- “As a kid, it proved to
be profitable when trick
or treating. When a person
found out it was my
birthday I usually received money instead of the usual candy.”
Professionally, she spent almost 20 years working for E. J.
Korvettes with opportunities to travel throughout the US as
they expanded their business. When they ceased operations,
Izzie joined Prudential Insurance working in health insurance
administration. She was well respected by managers and
coworkers alike for her ability to teach fellow employees their
job requirements while providing customers with outstanding
service. After 17 years with the Prudential, her position was
re-located to the West Coast and she moved to the Los Angeles
area. She remained with Prudential for an additional 3 years.
Izzie began bowling at the Essex County Lawn Bowling
Club in Bloomfield NJ at the age of 11. She served in various
roles including Games Committee Chair and was elected the
first female President of the Essex club. In addition, she was
one of the founding members of the Edison Indoor Lawn
Bowling Club established by Hall of Fame member Bill Farrell.
She also served as President, Treasurer, Tournament Chair and
Councilor for the Eastern Division of the AWLBA, as well as
councilor and President of the USLBA. When her employment
required a move to the West Coast, Izzy was named an
Honorary Life Member of the Essex Club in recognition of her
outstanding service and in deep appreciation of the publicity
the club received as a result of her administrative and playing
efforts at all levels.
Izzie has won various tournaments at all levels of lawn bowling
highlighted by seven wins in United States Championships.
Namely; U.S. Open Women’s Pairs in 1980, 1981 & 1986; U.S.
Open Women’s Triples in 1974, 1980 & 1986. In addition,
she won the U.S. Championship Women’s Pairs in 1992. Izzie
represented the Northeastern Division in the United States
Championships twelve times between 1982 and 1999 before
she relocated to Long Beach California.
She was selected to be a member of Team USA in the
Tweed Heads Bicentennial World bowls event in Melbourne
Australia in addition to serving as Team Manager at the Asia
Pacific Games, World Bowls and the Atlantic Rim Games. She
was elected to the USLBA Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition
of her prowess in bowling and administration.
When asked “Who were your lawn bowling role models?”
Izzie responded, “My role models started with my father John,
who was my inspiration to actually get started. He taught me to
deliver a bowl smoothly without dumping and warned me that
if your dump the bowl, you are OFF THE GREEN. The other
role models for me would have to be Skippy Arculli, Duncan
Farrell, Dave Dakers, Bill Farrell (who actually really got me
interested in the running of tournaments) as well as Pat Boehm
who took me on when I started bowling internationally.”
What is good or bad about lawn bowling? “It is a lifetime
of learning and one of the best ways to meet all types of people
in all walks of life. No matter where you go you are always
welcomed and greeted with friendship. It is a great outlet when
you need to get away from happenings in your life that makes
it seem unbearable, you can either call a fellow bowler to join
you in a social game or just get out there by yourself, taking
your mind off things bothering you.”
Her hopes for its future? “My biggest hope for bowling
would be that it becomes a well known sport all over the world
and that younger people would learn that it truly is a sport for
all ages. One of my greatest thrills was being able to play in
triples events with my nephews Lowell and Adam when they
were just big enough to hold a bowl in their hands. Right now
the future of Lawn Bowling hangs on the members that we
currently have going out and selling this great sport to as many
people as they can. As a child when I started out, it was my
father that kept me going and had it not been for him taking me
into tournament play I most likely would not have been able to
get teams to play with. We need to encourage new bowlers and
get them involved in our sport because without new members
we cannot survive”.
Author’s Note: I have had the good fortune to bowl with Izzie
in many Mixed Pairs tournaments. I believe she is an excellent
partner and I admire her ability to perfectly balance the desire to
win each match and the love of our sport and its players.
Editor’s Note: I love the piece about the dumping of the bowl.
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Editorial
Plenty to write about
by Trevor Colby, Editor
Praise, kudos and congratulations are due to the Southwest
Division for its very successful recruiting drive that resulted
in many Open houses on May 10, each attracting scores of
visitors, many of whom were converted into members on the
spot. I thought the tactic employed by some clubs in opening
a PayPal credit card account was a masterstroke, and to use it
in conjunction with a ‘Closer’ was something that could have
come straight out of a gangster movie scene in the glory days
of Hollywood.
On April 7 the Rossmoor club in the Pacific Inter-Mountain
Division informed the President of its division that when it hosts
its part of the U.S. Open during September 12-18, its Board
of Directors will have an inspection team of three persons to
ensure proper player attire that will include smooth, flat soled
shoes. If one does not pass inspection, they will not be allowed
on our greens regardless of a paid entry fee. Rossmoor included
the following rider in its letter - “You may feel free to move the
tournament to another site if you feel our requirements present
a hardship or are unreasonable. We hope that our division can
comply with the USLBA Dress Code so that Rossmoor will have
the privilege of entertaining the PIMD and the USLBA.” It is
to be hoped that all clubs will follow Rossmoor’s example.
Informal clothing is to be encouraged for daily club bowling
but whenever tournaments are played, the USLBA dress
code should be used. It is comparable to entering combat
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when you cover yourself in the proper attire to promote your
confidence.
Further discussion of the dress code is in order because it
fails to address the subject of outer wear that could be worn in
cold or wet weather. How many times have we seen immaculately
attired players in team colors totally in accordance with
the dress code, turn into an unidentifiable bunch when their
inclement weather clothing is donned?
The dress code should stipulate that outer wear should be
either of team colors or white, and that all members of the team
must wear the same color at the same time.
I notice that in some Open Tournaments the Men play a
different format to the Women. It is generally considered that
Fours is the ‘crème de la crème’ of team games and yet not all
men have accepted the challenge of the two bowl game whereas
women do not seem to have developed the same problem.
When questions are asked, the reply is often the same old - “I
need that extra bowl.” Perhaps women are more adaptable and
able to amalgamate better with another Pairs team to make up
a Four.
My wonderful friend and companion Joy Sinclair, who
loves solving the Cryptoquote which is a coded quotation by
a famous person published daily in the St. Petersburg Times,
informed me of the solution to the puzzle a few hours after I
finished composing this editorial. It happened to be by Kingsley
Amis who said, “If you can’t annoy somebody with what you
write, I think there’s little point in writing.” I think I might
have just done the trick.
I wish to thank Woody Ogden, our recently retired staff
correspondent of the PIMD for the wonderful service he has
given to Bowls USA over many years. In recognition of his
dedication to bowls in many capacities he has been presented
with the prestigious “USLBA President’s Award.”
I am very pleased to announce that John Hickson of Palo
Alto LBC has kindly agreed to accept the position of divisional
correspondent for the PIMD that became vacant due to the
retirement of Woody Ogden.
We are fortunate to acquire John’s services because he
already has experience in contributing to the magazine by way
of being the previous Palo Alto club correspondent and also
compiling his club’s monthly newsletter. John spent his entire
working life of 37 years engaged in various sales management
positions with Unilever and this experience has no doubt helped
him and his club in promoting the sport locally to the effect that
membership has increased to 150 and is still growing.
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Major Tournament Calendar Summer 2008
Aug. 23-25 NE Men’s Singles Playdown Williamsburg Colin Smith 973-402-5018 colinsmith@optononline.net
Aug. 23-25 NE Women’s Singles Playdown Williamsburg Lois Saladin 412-422-9687 Saladin1@verizon.net
Sep. 13-14 U.S. Open Men’s Singles Walnut Creek CA Bill McConachie 650-368-6356 kirtleyer@aol.com
Sep. 13-14 U.S. Open Women’s Fours Oakland CA Bill McConachie (above)
Sep. 15-16 U.S. Open Men’s Fours Oakland, CA Bill McConachie (above)
Sep. 15-16 U.S. Open Women’s Pairs Walnut Creek Bill McConachie (above)
Sep. 17-18 U.S. Open Men’s Pairs Oakland CA. Bill McConachie (above)
Sep. 17-18 U.S. Open Women’s Singles Walnut Creek Bill McConachie (above)
Sep. 26 Steve Ringwood Mixed Pairs Oakland CA Pete Knopf 650-493-6328 petenann@sbcglobal.net
Sep. 27-28 NE Paul Motta Open Pairs Slater Park RI Colin Smith (above)
Oct. 26-30 U.S. Championships Sun City AZ R. Gillie Stephan Jr. 916-708-0322 rgilliejr@aol.com
Nov.10-12 Roberta Lane Open Fours Sun City West AZ Jim Penrod 623-214-6958 or Bob Lane (below)
Nov.13-15 Bob Lane Mixed Triples Sun City West AZ Jim Penrod (above)
Nov. 29. SE Division Mixed Pairs Clearwater FL Cathie Stephan cads32@rogers.com
Dec. 5-7 Holiday Bowl Mixed Triples Mount Dora Brian Smith 352-742-2726 barbarasmith8@comcast.net
Dec. 6-7 Bill Weaver Men’s Pairs Sun City AZ Len Hitchcock 623-974-3214 scdtourn@yahoo.com
Dec. 6-7 Cy Stephan Women’s Pairs Sun City AZ Lorraine Hitchcock (same as Len Hitchcock above)
2009
Jan. 3 Kurt Dornau Men’s Pairs Clearwater FL Don Stephan (same as Cathie Stephan above)
Jan.10-12 R. Gil Stephan AZ Rinks Sun City AZ Grant Summers 623-933-5066 summers12@cox.net
Jan. 13-14 Salisbury Singles Invitational Sun City AZ John Stewart 623-875-1211 emohruo@cox.net
Jan. 15-17 Thomson Zivec Open Pairs Sun City West AZ Len Hitchcock (above)
Jan. 24 MacWilliams Mixed Pairs Sarasota FL Michael Maneilly 352-343-4009 shepman@comcast.net
Feb. 7 Woman Skip Mixed Triples Clearwater FL Cathie Stephan (above)
Feb. 14 4-3-2-1 Mixed Pairs Clearwater FL Cecilia Noble cnoble2@knology.net
Feb. 15 Mixed Pairs Sarasota FL To be determined
Feb. 21 Hall of Fame Mixed Triples Clearwater FL Russ Tees 727-797-5950 lawntees2@verizon.net
Feb. 22 Del Webb Mixed Triples Sun City Center FL To be determined
Mar. 7-13 SE Division Men’s Open Sarasota FL Al Pelliccio proalphlbc@hotmail.com
Mar. 7-13 SE Division Women’s Open Sun City Center FL Al Pelliccio (above)
Mar. 14 SE Division Mixed Fours Sarasota FL Al Pelliccio (above)
Mar. 21 William Kaestle Mixed Triples Clearwater FL Don Stephan (above)
Mar. 28 Mixed Triples Sarasota FL To be determined
Apr. 5 SE Division Mixed Pairs Sun City Center FL Al Pelliccio (above)
Send Listing to Bob Lane, 17412 Conquistador Dr. Sun City West, AZ 85375 (623) 214-6973 lanecurly@aol.com
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BETTER BOWLS
Tips and tidbits for improving
and enjoying your game
By Conrad Melton, USLBA Chief Umpire
It’s quiz time, but not for you old
timers. If you consider yourself a relative
newcomer to the game, perhaps you’ve
wondered about some of these questions.
1. What is the best solution if you
find yourself regularly delivering your
bowl not on your aiming line?
2. Who keeps score in Pairs?
Conrad Melton 3. If you’re lead B in triples and lead
A has left his bowl about two feet from the jack at about the
eight o’clock position, (using the jack as the center of a clock
face,) and you roll the bowl with your right hand, should you
roll it forehand or backhand?
4. May lead A place the mat at the hog line on the first
end of a game?
5. A bowl that is not a toucher rebounds off the backboard
and comes to rest on the rink. Is it live or dead?
6. There is a sure fire technique for accurately rolling the
jack. What is it?
7. When all is said and done, there is very little value to
bowl chasing. True or False?
8. What is the minimum distance for a jack to be legal
and how much of the jack must be beyond that minimum
distance? Any of it or All of it.
9. If you’re the vice of a triples team and you signal the
score but your skip isn’t paying attention, are you expected to
signal the score again?
10. If you’re skipping a triples team and your team has the
hammer, when the other skip walks to the mat end to roll his
first bowl, are you required to walk with him?
11. You’re the lead in a club triples tournament. You’ve
rolled your three bowls and want to go to the head end. The
rink next to the one you’re playing on is vacant. May you walk
to the head on that rink?
12. True or False. If any part of a bowl touches any part of
the painted metal or plastic rink sideline marker it is considered
in bounds.
13. You’re playing in a tournament and the Tournament
Director rings the bell indicating that you may finish the end
you’re playing, but no new ends may be started. A minute later
the jack gets knocked out of bounds. Is the match over or may
you re-roll the jack and complete the end you were playing?
14. What happens when the jack is hit and goes over the
backboard and off the green?
15. You should perfect a single delivery style and use it for
everything. True or False?
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And the answers are…
1. Greatly exaggerate your follow through. Push your arm
out there until it is horizontal and parallel to the green. Success
requires you to be able to pick the correct aiming point which
comes from knowing your bowls.
2. The skip.
3. Forehand. If you go backhand, you may bump your opponent
into the jack.
4. Yes. This is a relatively new rule.
5. Dead.
6. Practice.. Fifteen minutes of jack rolling every two or three
weeks will make you a champion jack deliverer.
7. False. Many people don’t understand why good bowlers
chase their bowls. In fact, by doing so, they can see exactly the
distance and angles of every bowl in the head. This gives them
a considerable advantage over someone who doesn’t quite know
what he’s shooting at because he’s too far away to see the head
clearly. Bowl chasers are a team’s hero because he’s sacrificing
his body to always be acutely aware of the precise distances and
relationships of bowls in the head. For those who consider bowl
chasers a distraction…get to work on your focus. You definitely
need to train yourself to NOT be distracted when you’re on the
mat.
8. The entire jack must be beyond the minimum distance
of 75 feet, five and one half inches (23 meters).
9. Of course you are.
10. No. Not in the United States. Some international jurisdictions
are quite snooty about their vision of “decorum,” (some
still require women to wear skirts and men to wear ties when they
bowl). But here it is quite OK to hang around in the head and
see what happens when your opponent rolls his first bowl. It’s the
same idea as bowl chasing, but running is not required.
11. No you may not. If you didn’t chase your third bowl, you
must choose a path to the head that has no chance of distracting
the remaining bowlers on your rink.
12. No, no, no. Sideline markers can be two inches wide.
The edge of the rink is an infinitely thin line, going only from
the absolute center of the sideline marker to the absolute center
of its opposite on the other bank.
13. You’re done Buddy. Whatever the score was before you
started that end is the final score of the game.
14. When the jack leaves the green the end is dead.
15. OMG, no. You can’t use the same delivery on fast and
slow greens. For fast greens you need a small step (or perhaps no
step at all!) and on slow greens you need a very large and exaggerated
step. Your backswing will be tiny on fast greens, gigantic
on slow ones. Many good players synchronize their downswing
and step to occur at the same time on very slow greens. This
gives them far greater inertia and force than using the traditional
step, then downswing. A slow green is 8 to 10 seconds, fast can
be 14 and up. The greens in New Zealand can be as high as 21.
Bottom line: in order to be able to adjust to vastly varying playing
conditions, it is not uncommon for good players to have three
very different delivery styles.
Honor the Laws Of The Sport Of Bowls:
they make the game the same.
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Membership
Trail
By Frank Ransome
Chairman USLBA
Membership Committee
Email: jackhi@sbcglobal.net
Another Man’s Poison
Frank Ransome
So there isn’t enough gas to go around and many vacations
will have to be taken at home rather than at the resort of choice.
This could be terrible for a lot of people, but it could be good
news for lawn bowlers. Perhaps this is the time to redouble our
efforts to rebuild our lawn bowling clubs. As long as it’s too expensive
to go to the local Golf Club, people might be talked into
becoming lawn bowlers. We are an outdoor sport that doesn’t cost
much and we are local. The entire family could get in the family
car and drive a couple of miles to enjoy themselves. Maybe you
were a golf widow, but now you can be the SKIP of the family
team. You worked downtown and couldn’t wait to get away on
vacation. Now you could be on a team, bowl at least twice a week
and be on a vacation every day after work.
This isn’t a farfetched scheme or something dreamed up by
your membership chairman. This is pure fact. With gas approaching
$5.00 a gallon why not join the fun being had at the nearest
lawn bowling club. Lessons are reasonable, second hand bowls
are just as good as new ones and some clubs have lights for night
bowling. Even without the lights we can bowl until 8:30 pm during
the summer months and most of the day on weekends.
Why send the kids to an expensive day camp when they can
be enrolled in a local lawn bowling program at very little expense.
Recreation Departments should be aware that there is a place in
the city that has room to spare on most days and certainly would
cater to large groups. The bowlers would have to bring their own
leaders with them but the club can furnish lessons and equipment.
Most clubs and certainly most divisions have plenty of bowls that
can be rented. Bowling clubs have parking so car pools would be
acceptable and would keep the cost down. We as lawn bowlers
can feel sorry for those neighbors who can’t travel this year, but
they might enjoy being asked to lawn bowl with us.
There could be a back side to the gas shortage. Some of
our bowlers travel some distance to bowl and may have second
thoughts about making the trip if they are not sure of having
a good time. Maybe your club will have to extend its hours so
bowlers can spend 3 or 4 hours on the green and not commute
as often. Some clubs may go to two draws a day on fewer days
to please the commuters and others open for evening bowling to
accommodate more bowlers. There are several older clubs and at
least three new clubs that have been looking at synthetic surfaces.
Unfortunately most of these surfaces have a petroleum base and
must be carted many miles from factory to installation. It isn’t
as apparent as it once was that artificial can cost less than natural
grass. Here in California there is a drought that has to be taken
into consideration and that could mean less maintenance and
certainly less water. I suggest aerating several times each year to
keep those little pipelines open to the roots of your grass.
Let’s roll with the times and change some of our thinking.
Bowling after work isn’t easy if we have to change into whites
before going on the green. Tournaments could be held on a daily
basis and kept shorter. Why not promote car pools or select team
members that live close to each other. We could set our training
schedule so that the novices can find rides back and forth to the
green. Most of all we can show the world that lawn bowling can
save money and water and that it takes more than a gas shortage
to keep bowlers from having a good time. We Lawn Bowlers
should be looking up while the rest of the country is down in
the dumps.
Ask The Rules Guy
John Stewart
(John Stewart was for many years
the U.S chief umpire and is now
Chairman of Rules for USLBA.)
The questions in this issue are taken from magazines which
I picked up during a recent trip to Australia.
Question 1. A bowl comes to rest and then falls over and
touches the jack while the next bowl is in course. The
skip moves forward to mark it as a toucher to which the
opposing skip objects. Is the bowl a toucher? How would
you rule?
Question 2. A Player in team A suggests that a bowl is out.
Skip A checks it and picks it up agreeing that it is out.
The opposing skip B objects. An umpire is called to make
a ruling. You are that umpire called in to make a ruling
knowing that this is always a difficult situation and you
must be careful with your ruling as several laws may be
necessary before you can make a final decision.
Question 3. What happens when a bowl in its original course
is displaced by a member of the team that delivered the
bowl and it has not disturbed the head? You are called in
for a ruling.
Question 4. What happens when a bowl in its original course
is displaced by an opponent of the player who delivered
the bowl and has not disturbed the head? You are called in
for a ruling and must quote what options are available for
the violated team.
Question 5. Can the positions of players be altered after the
first end has been completed? How would you rule?
Question 6. What happens if the positions of the players are
changed during the game and no substitute is necessary?
How would you rule?
Turn to page 23 to check your answers.
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397 Sign Up On Open House Day In Southwest Division
By Joe Siegman
If the Southwest Division’s May 10 “Saturday on the Green”
Open House promotion was a show business event, the showbiz
daily Variety would have headlined it a “Boffo-Socco Smash
Hit.” How else could you describe the signing-up of 397 new
bowlers on a single day?
Led by huge successes at Santa Barbara’s MacKenzie Park
(60 new members), Newport Harbor LBC (50) and Laguna
Beach LBC (40), the So. Cal. division-wide Open House promotion
saw all but four SWD LBCs participating on May 10.
It was the first time a promotional event of this magnitude with
participating clubs from southernmost San Diego to Cambria
in the north had been attempted. Several clubs made their
Open House an evening affair. At least one conducted theirs
on Sunday May 11 and another on both weekend days.
The Open Houses garnered a fairly even split between
genders, but there was a noticeably younger group of new
enthusiasts. Prospects were encouraged to bring their teens
and pre-teens to give the feeling of family sport. Many of the
participating clubs set up special areas and assigned volunteers
to keep young children occupied while parents were learning
on the green.
The basic Open House plan deployed by the SWD, successfully
developed by the Newport Harbor LBC several years
ago, provided the primary guidelines for SWD clubs, but there
were localized modifications here and there to meet specific
situations.
One of the unique variations took place on L.A.’s Westside,
where neighboring clubs, Beverly Hills and Santa Monica (3.5
miles apart) collaborated on a combined Open House at the
Beverly Hills green. The clubs were able to pool their organizational
talents, promotional dollars and volunteer power “for
the common good of getting prospects interested in the game,
not the individual club,” explained Open House chairman Bill
Wolff.
“All of our 33 sign-ups were given special rate dual memberships
at both clubs for the remainder of the year. The reduced
rate,” added Wolff, “was possible because the Division picked
up the tab for National and Division dues. These new bowlers
if they want to, can bowl seven days a week at one or the other
club, and when 2009 comes along, make a decision about which
of the two clubs, perhaps both, they wish to join for the regular
membership rate.”
In quite a few situations local Parks & Recreation departments
jumped into the Open House fray and participated in
absorbing some or all of the costs of advertising in neighborhood
media as well as producing promotional flyers. In other situations,
the clubs them-selves invested their own finances in the
potential of the Open House promotion, including printing,
signage, shirts and/or caps, food, refreshments and mailings.
Explained men’s SWD president Mert Isaacman who
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fostered the Division-wide promotion: “We felt we had to put
forth an aggressive campaign to bring in a significant number
of new people to our sport. No one was knocking on our door.
We had to knock on theirs. Frankly, I never dreamed we would
be this successful.”
Next year’s “A Day on the Green” Open House has already
been scheduled for the day before Mother’s Day, as it was this
year. Looking back, Division leadership believes that stimulus
from the SWD’s spirited participation in the 2006 AARP “Life
@ 50+” convention in Anaheim CA laid the foundation for the
Open House success.
“The AARP event got our people interested in participating
in activities that promoted the sport,” says SWD Councilor
Sam DeLisle. “We were amazed by the volunteer turnout for
the AARP. An even larger number of men and women grass
roots bowlers were now ready to involve themselves in the
Open Houses.”
As a follow-up to the Open House weekend, August 9-10
have been designated as a weekend of regional Novice/Veteran
Tournament Picnics. General plans are for each of the seven
SWD Districts to host the day for its constituent clubs, featuring
a competition, prizes, lunch or dinner. Practically, some clubs
will host their own new member fun day, but the idea is to make
the May 10 group comfortable in their new surroundings and
to keep them involved.
The successful Open House guidelines, best described as a
business-like approach to membership recruitment are no secret.
These guidelines are available to peruse and use at trylawnbowling.com
and Division Open House Chairman Len Cormier is
available to answer inquiries at the same web site.
Santa Monican Noreen
Wilkie polishes all the bowls at
Beverley Hills
Mert Isaacman shows them
‘how’ at Newport Harbor
The Kiddy Green at
Newport Harbor
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7 SHOTS PAIRS
Alhambra CA
Houdini Ho, Joe Yu .............................01/30/08
Holmby Park CA
Raymond Dyne, John McManus .........02/02/08
Kings Point West FL
George Fenwick, Myrna Crowley .........12/31/07
Sam Giliberto, Joe White ....................04/21/08
Leisure World AZ
Diane Tyndal, Bob Kemp .....................02/11/08
Sandy Mack, John Persons .................03/31/08
Mount Dora FL
Women’s Pairs
Evelyn Sartain, Jan Kline .....................04/02/08
Palo Alto CA
Women’s Team Pairs
E. B. Parkell, Linda Flores ...................04/05/08
San Francisco CA
Hattie Bahrt Mixed Pairs
Rod Arriaga, Rita Arraga .....................04/24/08
San Francisco CA
Club Championship Pairs
Lionel Guterres, Norman Tiernan ........04/26/08
San Francisco CA
Memorial Day Women’s Pairs
De J. Doring, Tirisa Biukoto ................05/24/08
7 SHOTS TRIPLES
Holmby Park CA
Richard Pozil, Richard D. Mason,
Louise Peralta ................................02/09/08
Richard Pozil, Howard Shear,
Louise M. Peralta ...........................05/29/08
Kings Point West FL
Myrna Crowley, Rich Langlois,
Irene Williams ................................02/12/08
Judy Fenwick, Liz Lewis,
Norm Bernhardt .............................05/14/08
Long Beach CA
Coast League
Paul Gresbrink, Tomas Glass,
Gloria Montes .................................03/28/08
The above team had two 7’s in the 1st Game
Long Beach CA
Fun Day
Bowbear Wayne, Gloria Montes,
Carol Ellis .......................................04/07/08
MacKenzie Park CA
Russell’s Blind Draw
Chris Kennedy, Peggy Singer,
Hal Thurber ....................................03/12/08
Send Super Shots to:
Eileen Love
603 Allegheny Drive
Sun City Center FL 33573
Email: eileen0402@aol.com
SUPER SHOTS CLUB
Mount Dora FL
Gary Williamson, Jackie Williamson,
Bill Schaefer ...................................01/23/08
Bill Forbes, Ove Wengler,
Martha Whaley ...............................02/06/08
Angela Carkhuff, Harry Tombleson,
Jack Martin ....................................02/08/08
Newport Harbor CA
Inter Clubs Tournament
Tibor Kozma, Harriet Bemus,
Joyce Smith ...................................04/26/08
Oxnard-Joslyn CA
Amador Martinez, Hans Mehner,
Sybil Ziv .........................................02/04/08
Bert Kessler, Sal Mollo,
Doris Hughes .................................04/11/08
Sandy Rankin, Pauline Escalante,
Juilet Watson .................................04/14/08
Oxnard-Joslyn CA
Oxnard Senior Legends
George Love, Pinky Palladino,
Juliet Watson .................................05/14/08
Oxnard-Joslyn CA
Visitation with Holmby Park
Bert Kessler, Peter Barna,
Juliet Watson .................................06/07/08
Pinehurst NC
Jay Alphin, Sheila Cadwalader,
Jim Monkman ................................03/01/08
Sun City West AZ
2008 Georges Ralston Mixed Triples
Bernard LaValliere, Chris Krogh,
Shirley Toneff .................................01/25/08
Sun-N-Fun FL
Internation Triples
Ed Reynolds, Harvey Hyer,
Paula Bowers .................................02/28/08
8 SHOTS PAIRS
Leisure World AZ
Carol Bantley, Gerry Seymour .............02/23/08
Mount Dora FL
Women’s Pairs
Sue Skoglund, Jackie Williamson .......04/02/08
Mount Dora FL
Fred Kurty, Lee Kline ...........................06/10/08
San Jose CA
Winter Tournament
Mayou Bernard, Rick Ogden ...............02/03/08
8 SHOTS TRIPLES
Clearwater FL
Mixed Triples Woman Skip Open
Christine Neale, Brian Neale,
Vaughn Zelinsky .............................02/02/08
Kings Point West FL
Richie Bozza, Liz Lewis,
Karen Crippen ................................05/05/08
Mount Dora FL
Public Defenders Tournament
Gary Williamson, Diane Kruger,
Frank LaRocca ...............................03/15/08
Oxnard-Joslyn CA
Armand Escalante, Dick Gibson,
Juliet Watson .................................02/02/08
Santa Clara CA
Friendship Tournament
Tecla Shepard, Ed Walker,
Dave Salazar ...................................05/07/08
Sun City West AZ
Helen Teichman Mixed Triples
Jackie Tucker, Doris Leibrandt,
George Brost ..................................01/05/08
Sun-N-Fun FL
Visitation with Sun City Center
Martin Blakeborough, Olive Walsh,
Valerie Blakeborough .....................02/03/08
World Parkway FL
Canadian Triples
Bob Saunders, Barbara Thomson,
Jack Bolster ...................................02/04/08
8 SHOTS FOURS
Wartburg Bowling Club, South Africa
Hyland Bowls Tour 2007
Two USA players with two South African players
versus a similarly composed team
George Tucker (USA), Ray Williams (SA), Allan
Howard (SA), Jackie Tucker (USA)
.......................................................01/16/07
The two USA players received a SA 8 Badge.
Oxnard-Joslyn CA
Hans Mehner, Doug Dow, Bob Berry,
Emicko Jackson .............................01/11/08
9 SHOTS TRIPLES
Paradise Resort AZ
Memorial Tournament
Shirley Toneff, Bob Gabrielson,
Leo Dusablon .................................01/17/08
Sun City Center FL
Marge Lange, Ben Caudill,
Dave O’Neil .....................................04/08/08
Sun-N-Fun FL
Competitive league
Don Rice, Ben Cole, Sylvia Rice ..........02/04/08
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A Step In The Right Direction
By Steve Nelson
Barefoot bowls is not so much about bowling barefoot,
although that is permitted, as it is about marketing bowls to a
new generation. This pay-to-play phenomenon promotes opportunities
for open bowling, corporate days or group events.
Barefoot bowls emphasizes fun and camaraderie in a relaxed
environment that appeals to groups of friends and coworkers
who are looking for an activity to do together. The term is designed
to break through the stereotypes about lawn bowling in
a manner that communicates energy, youthfulness and innovation,
appealing to people or groups who would not otherwise
venture onto the green.
A quick search on Google reveals 4,510 websites devoted
to “barefoot bowls”. Many may not have anything to do with
lawn bowls, but a good number are showcasing this latest
trend in bowls.
Newbiebowls.com highlights a fresh approach to bowls
taken in Cape Town, South Africa. Tom van Vlaanderen, one
of Newbiebowls founders, reports that even at his club of over
200 bowlers, only barefoot bowls is experiencing any growth
in participation. “We feel that bowls is in desperate need of a
‘breath of fresh air’ and believe that the game’s potential has not
come close to being realized. We are determined to take this
opportunity and the game of bowls to the next level.”
In Australia, Barefoot Bowls NSW appeals to corporate team
building activities by listing these advantages: breaks down barriers
in a fun, participative way; improves communication and
teamwork; boosts morale; highlights the diversity of interaction
skills within a team. It also promotes interpersonal relationships;
improves concentration; creates respect for differing work styles
and personalities; identifies the dynamics and behavior traits of
high performing teams; refines hand-eye co-ordination; gains
fitness at a walking pace; and develops team spirit.
We don’t have to go to South Africa or Australia for new
ideas on promoting bowls. Jefferson Park in Seattle has two
highly successful groups called “Men with Big Bowls” and “Bowl
Busters.” These two leagues are attracting much younger bowlers
than traditional recruitment efforts in the past.
Lawn bowls is a product that can be marketed to a new
generation of bowlers. Barefoot bowls kicks the heels off of tradition,
requiring new and creative thinking, lots of trial and error
and generous effort. Local clubs have the ideas. We just need
to share them with one another. Send your ideas to your Bowls
USA correspondent who can include them in your division
news. Let’s learn from one another, provide better promotion
for this game we love and get more bowlers on the green.
Definition of a Novice:
A new convert to lawn bowls who confesses
he knows nothing about the game and then
becomes angry when you agree with him.
Bowls USA Summer 2008
Jack Behling, John Stewart, Frank Souza, Ken Degenhardt &
R. Gillie Stephan Jr.
HALL OF FAMERS at SUN CITY AZ
By Frank Souza
There are twenty one living members of the Hall of Fame
and five of them reside in Sun City AZ.
In alphabetical order they are: - Jack Behling, Ken
Degenhardt, Frank Souza, R. Gillie Stephan Jr. and John
Stewart. In total, the group has accumulated the following
record: -
201 ............Years of Bowling
19 wins ......USA National Open
56 times .....Qualified for U.S. Championships
10 wins ......U.S .Championship Pairs
3 wins ........U.S. Championship Singles
65 times .....Selected to Team USA Roster
53 times .....Member of Team USA
14 times .....Manager of Team USA
17 years .....National Team USA Selection Committee
Member
2 years .......Chairman National Team USA Selection
Committee
1 time ........USA Lawn Bowler of the Decade 1990’s
2 times .......USA Lawn Bowler of the Year
26 years .....USA Lawn Bowls Councilor
2 years .......USA Lawn Bowls President
25 years .....USA National Umpire in Chief
17 years .....USA Chairman of the Rules Committee
9 times……USLBA National Tournament Director
Jack, Ken, Frank, Gillie and John are entertaining the idea
of forming a living members club and it is our wish to extend
an invitation to the other 16 qualifying members to join them.
We have achieved the ultimate in our sport so why not enjoy
what we have accomplished.
Please contact any of the following people if you are interested:
John Stewart: emohruo@cox.net
Jack Behling: jbehling@cox.net
Gillie Stephen Jr.: rgilliejr@aol.com
Frank Souza: frslb1up@cox.net
Further club activities would follow if there were enough
interest from the other Hall of Fame members.
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Northeast Division
George J. Schick
staff correspondent
1231 Standish Road
Toms River NJ 08753
(732) 270-8489
matmerri2@aol.com
NORTHEAST DIVISION & CLUB NEWS
Northeast Division Classic Open Singles
This event was held at Essex County in May. Congratulations
to Bill Farrell of Clearwater FL (also an honorary life member
of Essex) upon his winning the 2008 title. 2-USLBA President
Colin Smith (Essex). 3-Patrick Duffy (Brooklyn). 4-Skippy
Arculli (Essex).
Cunningham Park-Milton MA
By Sam Drevitch
We ended our 2007 season with a dramatic finish to
our Closing Day Tournament. In a playoff Jerry DeMello
& Bill Martley (Slater Park) & Jim Walker (Cunningham
Park) defeated Bob Rota, Les McCabe & Dottie Weinkam
(Cunningham Park). Our 2008 Opening Day Tournament
was also won in a Playoff. Bob Rota, Dottie Weinkam & Jim
Walker (Cunningham Park) defeated Ed Kenney, Greta Lafond
& Warren Winnick (Slater Park).
New Officers for 2008: President Gerry McCarthy; VP Bob
Rota, Treasurer Dorothy Cutler and Secretary Sam Drevitch.
Congratulations to Sam & Dora Drevitch who celebrated
their 66th wedding anniversary in June and a happy Sam celebrated
his 89th birthday on June 7.
Fernleigh-West Hartford CT
By Gordon B. Fowler
The annual spring luncheon held in April functions as
both a social and organizational event. With 40 members in
attendance President Joan Lunden announced our schedule of
activities for the coming season. As in previous years Fernleigh
will have a series of Pairs matches on Monday and Wednesday
nights as well as a full complement of weekend tournaments.
Membership continues to be a challenge. Three of our long
time skips, Ted Laski, John Rowlson & David Bradley have
elected not to bowl this year. On the positive side, three former
bowlers have rejoined us either as a result of improved health
or returning to Connecticut. In addition there are four new
potential members. As a private club with modest revenues
and ineligible for public maintenance, the membership has to
undertake all those tasks that time and physical ability permit.
A strong turnout for the April annual spring cleanup now has
the Club in good condition to welcome all visitors.
Buck Hill Falls PA
By Gene Goodwin
We are enjoying our Wednesday practice sessions with our
friends from neighboring Skytop. Our two clubs total about
35 bowling members. We hope the sight every week of a green
full of bowlers having fun will help sell lawn bowling to our
community.
Our new season which opened June 7, includes a Northeast
Division USLBA tournament – Hall of Fame Triples that we
will host on July12-13. It attracts bowlers from everywhere!
DuPont-Wilmington DE
By Tow Lawlor
Our dues have increased significantly as of May 1. A guest
bowler will be limited to play only five times per year at a cost of
$8.00 per day. We will continue to recruit new members. Several
years ago Bernie Nicholls designed and made new wooden rakes
which we think are wonderful. Should anyone want the design,
please contact me and we will make copies available.
The result of our Cut-Throat Singles was: 1-Barry Gibson.
2-Dave Henke. 3-Tom Lawlor.
L-R: Dave Henke, Barry Gibson & Tom Lawlor.
Photo by Tee Adams.
Essex County Bloomfield NJ
By George J. Schick
We opened our season on Saturday April 26 with President
Colin Smith leading the opening ceremonies which were followed
by an Open Triples tournament won by Patrick Duffy
(Brooklyn), Michelle & Skippy Arculli (Essex). We began our
weekly Wednesday Night League in April and new teams are
formed each week giving members opportunities to meet different
people.
Essex Challenge Triples: 1-Skippy Arculli, Michelle Arculli
& Lorraine Urquhart.
Once again, Essex will be hosting a series of Open Houses
to increase membership. We expect youth, civic and business
organizations from the surrounding communities to take advantage
of these “Learn to Lawn Bowl” programs led by Colin
& Debbie Smith and Bob & Rainey Urquhart.
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NORTHEAST DIVISION & CLUB NEWS
Frick Park-Pittsburgh
By Richard Kattan
Our morning and Wednesday night leagues have started
and we kicked things off with a picnic on Memorial Day. The
City of Pittsburgh made several improvements to our facility.
Its workers up-dated the men’s and women’s’ restrooms and
installed a hot water heater so we now have hot water in the
clubhouse. They also installed new benches on all four sides of
our two greens.
We will celebrate our 70th Birthday on June 14 with our
annual 4321 tournament. We look forward to hosting the
Northeast Open during August 2-7 and the Division’s US Pairs
Playdowns August 8-10.
New York
By Charles Crawford
In the two weeks following our May 3 Opening Day,
we held two group lessons and welcomed 10 new members.
Our membership roster had about 80 names at the end of last
season.
Judging from the emails and phone calls that are coming
in, we expect to be hosting a record number of bowlers from
overseas and from around the U.S. In the first weeks of this
season we’ve had visits from members of west coast clubs and
from Australia and Britain.
We hosted two fun events in June; our annual joint party
with the New York Croquet Club when we have a good time
trying each other’s games, and bowling on a Sunday afternoon
with members of the Ardsley Curling Club.
Check out our website www.nybowls.com
Williamsburg Inn
By Susan Berg
Our third annual Venus-Mars tournament was held April
12 and the result was inconclusive because Mars won the first
round 2-1, but in the second round Mother Nature intervened
with a thunderstorm that ended the match. Speculation is that
she did not like the odds with two members of the Venus team
playing with broken bones that were still mending.
Dan Berg defeated Charles Wynder in the final round of
the Let Jack Lie Tournament on April 26-27. Fourteen bowlers
participated in the two day tournament in which the players
must bowl to a minimum distance jack wherever it stops in the
rink after it is rolled.
Lew LeCompte & Carol Wynder captured the Alden Eaton-
Dick Mahone Pairs Tournament on May 3-4 with a 4-0 record.
This tournament is named after Colonial Williamsburg’s former
Landscape Architect Alden Eaton and Director of Landscape
Dick Mahone. Both were instrumental in the growth of the
club and Dick Mahone designed and supervised the installation
of the club green.
Williamsburg retained the home field advantage to win the
Williamsburg Invitational Tournament on May 24-25. Four
clubs with three teams each: DuPont, Frick Park, Pinehurst and
Williamsburg competed in a round robin on the first day followed
by a finals round on Sunday. Williamsburg and Pinehurst bowled
in the finals with Williamsburg winning 4-2. Ed Reynolds and
Dan Berg had a 5-0 record for the tournament
Leisure World MD
By Liz Helmick
This season, we will be trying something new with our
Club Singles Tournament. We have two flights for the men
and two for the women. We are running this tournament from
April 1 to August 30. It is under the control of the individual
players and they can play anyone in their flight. We’ll end up
with the four winners having a playoff. The A Flight winners
will play each other and so will the B Flight winners. After that,
the two remaining players will play each other for the Club
Championship. In May we completed our Rinks Tournament.
Starting out with 6 teams, double elimination brought us to
2 teams and finally to the winning team of Louis Pettey, Ed
Guillete, Marie Seebode & Howie Parker. Howie was in the hospital
and told them he had to get out because he had to play in
this tournament the next day—he made it, thank goodness.
On Memorial Day we played our Sadie Hawkins Games.
All the men’s names were put into a hat and the women were
the team captains and drew from the hat for their man. It was a
fun time and then we went to the clubhouse for lunch together.
In June we played the Pairs Tournament; July-Triples; August &
Sept is fun game time - cut-throat, etc. September 6-7 we have
the Maryland Senior Olympics. Anyone visiting the Washington
DC area is welcome to come and play with us.
Fernleigh-West Hartford CT
By Gordon B. Fowler
The annual spring luncheon held in April functions as
both a social and organizational event. With 40 members in
attendance President Joan Lunden announced our schedule of
activities for the coming season. As in previous years Fernleigh
will have a series of Pairs matches on Monday and Wednesday
nights as well as a full complement of weekend tournaments.
Membership continues to be a challenge. Three of our long
time skips, Ted Laski, John Rowlson & David Bradley have
elected not to bowl this year. On the positive side, three former
bowlers have rejoined us either as a result of improved health
or returning to Connecticut. In addition there are four new
potential members. As a private club with modest revenues
and ineligible for public maintenance, the membership has to
undertake all those tasks that time and physical ability permit.
A strong turnout for the April annual spring cleanup now has
the Club in good condition to welcome all visitors.
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Northwest Division
Larry Edgar, staff correspondent
PO Box 286
Corvallis OR 97339-0286
(541) 752-4137
lare@proaxis.com
NORTHWEST DIVISION & CLUB NEWS
Woodland Park-Seattle
By Jeffrey Covell
Campus Day in late April set the table for the bowling
season ahead. This inaugural event was a well attended gathering
of club members who tended to the clubhouse, the greens,
and everything in between, all the while stealing glances at the
newest and most attractive member of the club- our green and
shiny Turfco F15B Mete-R-Matic Top Dresser- thanks entirely
to the generosity of Jefferson Park’s Tadsie Priebe.
We started the NWD tournament schedule by hosting
the Short Jack Pairs showdown in May. Ten teams took part
and the results were: 1-George Poor (Woodland Park) & Nita
Chambers (Jefferson Park). 2-Richard Krueger (Jefferson Park)
& Jeffrey Covell (Woodland Park).
Soon after this event ended, the clouds in Seattle parted. It
was then, as it is now, and we hope it shall be ever more, that we
find ourselves basking in sunshine and the new membership it
draws. The newcomers are passers-by mostly, innocent people
who left their house for a walk in the park, never thinking they
would cause a spike in Grippo sales and forever fret about line
and weight once they made that fateful stop by our greens.
To comfort them as they learn to marry the two opposing yet
complementary forces of bowls, we point to the new Turfco
F15B, promising them it will help everything.
Tacoma
By Jack Moore
The Park System has been upgrading Wright Park and in
the process it took out the hedge that surrounded the green
and put in a wrought iron fence. They also replaced the grass
around the edge of the green. In the park they removed some
trees and planted others and painted the statues, lions and
maidens. After they finished, they had a grand reopening of the
Park. At this time we showed people how to bowl and how to
play bocce. Lots of people came by to see what was going on.
Jefferson Park - Seattle
By Kat Marriner
After a long wet winter, our members decided it was time
to go to the tropics for Opening Day. Flaunting our floral shirts
and fancy hats, we circled the greens lead by Pied Piper and
member Andy Sodt. On the signal from our games co-chair
Chris Davis, the entire club rolled their first ceremonial bowl
to the jack in the middle of the green. Other creative games
ensued, including a try at blind bowling with the bowler
wearing a party mask (eye holes blocked of course) while their
partner lined them up, giving them clues and we all came away
with a better appreciation of good eye-sight. A Caribbean style
feast completed our morning of revelry and we got down to
business for the draw game in the afternoon. More than half
of our 130 members came out to celebrate the beginning of
bowling season.
To tune up members for our regular summer roster of
leagues, games and tournaments, our experienced bowlers put
together a “Bowling Boot Camp” (BBC) that was perfect for
beginners and long-term bowlers wanting to improve their
game. BBC sprung from a set of skill drills found on the internet
which grew into a three day course beginning with an entertaining
lecture by Richard Broad on game play, sportsmanship,
etiquette and strategy. The first evening focused on lawn bowling
fundamentals, the second evening instructors taught advanced
skills and game strategy and the third evening was the seven
station skill tests. Each night was attended by 20-30 members,
some brand-new with never having held a bowl in their hands
and some with years of experience. Our resident “experts” have
all played at national competitions and graciously shared their
expertise and love for the game.
An event like this could not have been possible without
strong leaders coordinating the development of the course syllabus,
organizing the 10 person team of instructors, and holding
nightly debriefs on the sessions. Janice Bell (a new bowler in
2007) and Chris Davis were those amazing leaders who took
an idea and turned it into an incredible event.
Spokane
By Derek Ware
We put on an open house for three consecutive Saturdays
ending May 24. The general public had free lessons and practice
each day. Club members put fliers in supermarkets and libraries,
visited five retirement homes and three senior centers as well as
giving out 50 fliers to residential homes. Our recruiting drive netted
several new members and there are some more possibles.
A lot of the public had never heard of our club that was
established in 1976. This is mainly our own fault but it doesn’t
help that our green is not visible from a road and is at the back
of a large park.
Past experience tells us that we need not less than 35 active
bowlers (those who bowl at least twice a week) in order than we
can host teams from Seattle and Canada.
Sadly our two times past President Dave Robb passed away
this spring. This is the second strong President we have lost in
recent years and we are still recovering from the loss of these
valuable and dedicated members.
We are looking for a used ride-around roller. Does anyone
have any suggestions?
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Central Division
Steve Nelson, staff correspondent
1815 Woodland Ave
Park Ridge IL 60068
(847) 384-8503
nelsonsm@sbcglobal.net
At one time, Bowls USA allowed clubs to list couples who
consented to receiving a single copy. This may have worked
well in some clubs, but often club secretaries would assume
consent and put all couples on their mail lists. We then received
complaints from some spouses, mostly wives, that they never
saw the magazine!
Shortly after the separate men’s and women’s national lawn
bowls associations merged in 2000, we decided that all USLBA
members should receive a copy of the USLBA magazine. At
that time it cost us about 25 cents to bulk mail each copy (additional
costs for printing extra copies could be calculated in
pennies), so the USLBA Council decided that doing the right
thing by treating all members equally in this matter was worth
the small extra expense.
The best way to reduce the USLBA subsidy that now goes
to publish Bowls USA is to obtain more businesses to buy
advertisements in the magazine. If all national and divisional
officers of USLBA would take on the challenge and work as
hard as Bowls USA Business Manager Michael Maneilly has in
selling ads, we might be able someday to pay all our magazine
costs with ad revenues.
Gene Goodwin, Editor Bowls USA 2002-07
Having played with NBB’s (Narrow Bias Bowls) for the first
time in 2003 (at the U.S. Singles Championship no less) I can
tell you why I made the change. It wasn’t because I didn’t have
Bowls USA Summer 2008
CENTRAL DIVISION & CLUB NEWS
Milwaukee Lake Park
By Steve Nelson
The Promotion Committee has developed a strategy to
enlist new members that includes a 6x9 colored postcard mailed
out to 1,000 addresses within a close radius of the green and
two open houses.
A new novice singles league attracted 19 bowlers. Fox TV
sent a reporter and cameraman to the green and we were fortunate
to have six broadcasts that featured lawn bowling.
Tournament Results: Memorial Blind Pairs: 14 teams competed
in the first tournament of the season over the Memorial
Letters to the Editor
Milwaukee’s Postcard
Day weekend. On day two, players were seeded into flights. A
Flight: 1-Crandall Hays & Barb Hamm. 2-John Kirkwood &
Corey Bolhuis. B Flight: 1-Steve Nelson & Buzz Althoen. 2-
Leif Andresen & Barb Althoen. Club Triples: 1-Leif Andresen,
Max Cavender & John Schmidt.
Bowls USA 2331 Finlandia Ln Apt 57, Clearwater, FL 33763
Email: trevorjcolby@yahoo.com
the time and inclination to practice (even though I work full
time); it wasn’t because I couldn’t concentrate on the aiming
line and it certainly wasn’t because it made me more competitive
against fellow bowlers.
The narrow grip on the bowl allows me to grip and deliver
the bowl correctly rather than rolling a “potato bowl” because
the width didn’t fit my hand. It allows me to play in May on
an eight second green in the Northwest instead of waiting until
July to begin playing on a 12 second green. It allows me to stay
off anti-inflammatory medication because my bowl can actually
reach the end of the rink without dislocating my shoulder!
I really enjoy watching a good bowler deliver their bowl and
watching the drawing skills of a top notch bowlers but if it comes
down to bowling or not bowling give me an NBB any day.
Debbie Tupper
PIM Playdowns.
All three winners in the men’s event are from the Burnoski
family. i.e. the father has won the singles and his two sons
have won the pairs, a new “first” in the history of U.S. lawn
bowling. Not only that; the sons are aged fourteen and
twelve. See page 24 for a photo of these two young players.
Men’s Pairs: Jonathan & Joshua Burnoski (Berkeley). Men’s
Singles: Tom Burnoski (Berkeley). Women’s Pairs: Sandy
Souza (Rossmoor) & Marie Guterres (San Francisco).
Women’s Singles: Pauline DeAssis (Rossmoor).
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Bowls and Brews
Respecting this great game
During a recent conversation with a bowler about respecting
the game and your opponents, it hit us that part of this game has
been lost with the passing of the old-timers we grew up playing
with and learning from. This was not a brand new bowler we
were talking to, but he is a fairly new bowler and we had this
conversation because he had heard that we did not like him and
we wanted to know why.
Now everyone who knows us knows that one of us is diplomatic
and the other one is more likely to take a swing. We won’t
tell those of you who don’t know us well which is which. We
were happy to be asked this question by this bowler because we
were able to tell him exactly what we disapproved of regarding
his actions on the green. We have watched him in the last three
or four years put down his lead; leave the green during a game
to have a beer and have to be summoned when it was his turn
to bowl, taunt opponents and tell an opponent after losing a
game that he really didn’t care and wasn’t even trying. We told
him his actions showed a complete lack of respect for his opponents
and a complete lack of respect for the game itself. We
were stunned when he told us that no one had ever talked to him
about respecting the game or his opponents before. I mean we
were stunned! Isn’t that lawn bowls 101? If we remember right,
this was part of the same lesson as the little circle is the bias side
and you have to get close to the white one called the jack! Now
since this conversation, which ended with a handshake (the diplomatic
brother took charge), we were concerned that perhaps
this lesson isn’t being taught to new bowlers, so we decided we
would like to write this column for Bowls USA. We hope this
helps everyone playing this game, especially the new talented
bowlers we’ve met out there who should eventually represent this
country in international events. And bring home prizes!
To explain, we are third generation lawn bowlers who were
taught how to play and how to act on the green by our Dad
and Grandfather, and we might add, everyone else at the club
including one elderly Scot who always had the remains of the
bar on his breath as he staggered on to the green for a game. Yet
he played a very competitive gentlemanly game and showed us
as 12 year olds, as much respect as he did the club champions.
He was a class act.
When we began this game, new bowlers were brought along
not in some sort of school-like atmosphere, but in a respect for
the game and the players who’ve earned their right to play skip
and vice. You played lead or second on a four man team and
you learned to build a head. You played second for probably a
couple years or more and were really encouraged to learn how
the game is played. Even the talented new bowlers had to pay
their dues and play second. Then when you were ready you
were promoted to lead. The object was to draw and build a
By Bob and Dick, the Sayer Brothers,
third generation bowlers from the Northeast Division
head, not make shots, but watch and learn as the vice and skip
decided what shots to play. You didn’t start vice-skipping until
you showed the knowledge and understanding of building and
running the head.
Perhaps the most important thing we were taught was that
losing is part of the game as much as winning. Playing to win at
all times, but accepting a loss like a man when it happens. This
means having respect for the game and even more importantly,
your opponent. It means to try hard in every game, even when
we no longer have a chance of winning the tournament.
In recent years we’ve seen many new and extremely talented
bowlers come into the game. We’re amazed at how good they are
in such a short time, but some of these newer bowlers we’re afraid
have missed something in their tutorials that would make them
not only more talented, but better competitors all around.
Here are some examples: 1. We have seen bowlers listening to
their IPods during games - this is disrespectful to your opponent.
2. A bowler who shakes your hand and says they just didn’t play
well shows disrespect. (We’ve caught ourselves on this one and
have tried to fix this in our behavior.) Often times the reason we
don’t play well, is that our opponents take our confidence away
by out bowling us. Congratulate them on that!
3. Goading an opponent is unacceptable.
4. Leaving the green to talk with others and have a beer,
especially to the point of having to be reminded when it is your
turn to play shows a complete disrespect. Don’t get us wrong,
we’ve played many players who enjoy drinking beer during the
game, but they stay on the rink and keep involved in the game.
We have no problem with that, in fact we envy them that they
can do that! We save our beer for afterwards as a reward or to
drown our sorrows!
5. We’ve even watched players cheat. What good is a win if
it is obtained dishonestly? Do they feel good about their game
if they cheat?
We wish everyone could have learned this game from our
dad and grandfather and even that little old Scot with beer on his
breath, but that isn’t possible so it is up to us in this day and age
to lead from the examples left to us by our elders. Though we’re
often still called the Sayer ‘boys’ on the green, we’re becoming
the old guard having been around for 30 and 40 years now.
Now for the important stuff — the brew part of our article
title. We don’t object to beer, those that know us know how
fond we are of it. So at the end of each article we are going to
recommend one beer we have enjoyed. This issue’s suggestion:
Red Ass Ale from Colorado. We first discovered this in Santa
Barbara in 1996 and tried it simply because of the funny name.
We enjoyed it and had several that week (Duncan Farrell would
say ‘several’ is an understatement.). It is particularly special to
us because that year we won the championship.
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Jack Behling’s Family Bicycle Ride led to USLBA Hall of Fame
By Jim Copeland and Trevor Colby
Jack Behling, “Bowler of the Decade” for the 1990’s, was
the only player elected to the USLBA Hall of Fame at the 2007
National Open Tournament.
It was on a family bicycle ride in 1979 that took them
through Dineen Park in Milwaukee WI where they discovered
lawn bowling. In 1980
they watched the game
many times and were
invited to try it. Jack
and his wife Donna were
at once taken by the
skill needed to be good
at a game they both
could enjoy together,
to the extent that that
they both played in the
National Open held later
that year in Milwaukee.
Since then Jack has only
missed playing in one
National Open and that
was in 1981.
Arguably the best American bowler of his generation, Jack
was honored for his superb record of competitive success and
service to the sport of lawn bowls. At the U.S. Championships
he won the Pairs in 1995 and the Singles in 2006. At the USLBA
National Open, Jack has succeeded in every discipline; winning
the Fours in 2006, the Triples in 1998, and the Pairs in 1991
and 1992, and finishing second in the 2003 singles to a player
from England. He also did well in Division Opens, winning
the Central and South Central Opens as well as his favorite SW
Open, where he was “Bowler of the Tournament” three times
and won the Singles twice.
Jack was a member of team USA for fifteen years. He competed
in the Asia Pacific games in New Zealand and Malaysia
and at World Bowls in the UK, Australia and Scotland. His
magnificent shot at Worthing England in 1992 was the talk of
the tournament. Eight shots down with only one bowl left in an
end against Israel, USA’s skip drew right to the jack for a swing of
nine shots! Jack also played in four North American Challenges
against Canada, including one at Pinehurst where the USA
won. Recently he represented the USA at the Champion of
Champions tournament in Australia where the national singles
champions of the major bowls nations competed.
Many stars would argue that Jack Behling is a consummate
bowler and Joe Siegman, often manager of Team USA and a
U.S. champion once exclaimed, “That big guy doesn’t know how
good he could be!” John Stewart, a several time U.S. Champion
and Hall of Fame bowler asserts that “Nobody can draw the
shot as well as Jack Behling.”
For those readers who are interested in knowing what type
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of bowls a champion preferred, Jack Behling used Henselite size
6 Standard Bias to achieve his successes during the period that
he was “Bowler of the Decade.”
Jack is above all other things a sportsman, extremely competitive
to be sure, but rigorously fair on the green. Jack always
compliments good bowls. You will never hear him whine about
a wick or lucky shot which he believes are part of the game;
nor does he criticize players who are successful even when they
have a less than perfect delivery. “Lawn bowling is based on
hand and eye coordination” states Behling, “Each person has
his or her own style.”
On one issue Jack is firm: — The skip directs the team. In
some quarters this concept is out of favor but most books on
lawn bowling teach that the key to successful team play is that
the skip is in charge.
Jack is always willing to help other players whether novice
or veteran. He is keenly interested in all aspects of bowls and
has served as Central Division Councilor and Milwaukee Lake
Park LBC greenskeeper.
At the ceremony in Sun City Arizona where Jack was presented
with his Hall of Fame Plaque, he thanked his partners
“Past, present and deceased” and also his wife Donna for her
years of love and support. Privately he was pleased that he could
share this great honor with his grandchildren.
In his working life he was a Firefighter in the City of
Milwaukee for 34 years and rose through the ranks to Lieutenant,
Captain, and was Battalion Chief when he retired in 1998.
Jack has lived in Sun City AZ since he retired and shares his
recreational time between lawn bowling and golf. You can be
assured that when he does choose to bowl, this great American
champion and Hall of Famer will bring his great skills and fierce
competitive spirit to the green.
Jack commands the head. Photo by David Wismiller
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Team USA Wins Gold at China Open
Composed by the editor from material supplied by Chris Booth and Richard Broad
2008 CHINA OPEN CHAMPIONS Bob Schneider, Richard Broad, Chris Booth & Bill Brault
After a 24 year dry spell, Team USA comprising Bob
Schneider (Milwaukee), Chris Booth (San Diego), Richard
Broad (Seattle) and Bill Brault (San Diego) won a Gold Medal
in an international competition. This time it was at the 2008
China Open held March 4-7 at Bijiashan Park in Shenzhen,
China. Shenzhen is a new city about 29 years old and already
its population is over 8 million and is full of traffic and the
bustle of people that seems to typify the growth that is currently
happening in China.
The format of the tournament was as follows: 28 men’s
teams were formed into 4 groups by a random draw and the
teams in each group competed in a round robin. One special
round was added to allow teams with the same team number
in Group A/B and Group C/D to compete against one another.
Upon completion of the round robin stage, all teams in a group
were ranked and the top two teams of each group qualified for
the knock-out stage that determined the champions.
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The competition was fierce with the 28 teams coming
from: - Australia (2), Canada (2), China, Cyprus, England,
Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Scotland (2), Singapore
(2), Spain, South Africa, Thailand, USA, Wales and Zimbabwe.
In addition there were teams from Hong Kong and others from
cities on mainland China.
After defeating England in their first game, Team USA
went on to win the rest of their games, except for a tie against
Canada and a loss to Thailand. With a record of 5-1-1, USA
advanced to the quarterfinals full of hope.
There was a sense that the team gained momentum and
confidence as they progressed through the tournament, winning
close fought, yet convincing victories in the quarter and
semifinal games. After winning the semi-final against Happy
Valley from Hong Kong, Australia A was the only team standing
in their way of victory and it must be said that Australia
was the favorite going into the final.
Team USA was not to be deterred, each playing key shots
or “monster bowls” as Bill Brault said, when they were really
needed. It was a lesson in teamwork that neither they nor the
spectators will forget. Team USA pulled away at the end of
the game, winning 15-10 to take home the gold medal. It was
a great win for Team USA and one of which all our country’s
lawn bowlers can be proud
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Four days of bowling started the grueling schedule of three
tournaments. The first tournament was the Hong Kong
International Mixed Fours held Feb 28-29 at the fabulous
downtown facility of the Hong Kong Football Club. This
club is located in the heart of downtown Hong Kong and has
top-notch facilities, with restaurants, bars, indoor and outdoor
greens, gift shops, workout rooms, huge meeting rooms, soccer
stadiums, reading rooms, business centers and libraries.
This was an international event with overseas and local
players making 32 teams consisting of three men and one
woman. All teams were formed by random draw and given
unique names of flowers. The challenging format called for
alternating games to be played at the outdoor facility and
inside on the newly renovated indoor green. After seven first
round games, quarterfinals and semifinals, the “Thistle” team
of Phil Downs (England), Neil Rees (Wales), Chris Booth
(San Diego) and Grace Chu (Hong Kong) won the final game
11-1 to win the gold.
March 1-2 saw Team USA playing together in the Tiger
Bowls International in Hong Kong with 77 men’s teams and
28 women’s teams competing in a punishing format of skins
games. Team USA failed to qualify for the finals, but its win
in the China Open over the next four days more than compensated
for it.
2008 HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL MIXED FOURS CHAMPIONS Chris Booth, Neil Rees, Phil Downs, Trophy Presenter
(name unknown) & Grace Chu
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SW Open
Men: Bowler of the Tournament -
Jurgen Fessler
Singles (38)
Championship Flight: 1-Jurgen Fessler.
2-Sam Benjamin. 3-Gordon Fall. 4-Bill
Hiscock.
Second Flight: 1-Tony Baer. 2-Roger
Teske.
Jurgen Fessler Third Flight: 1-Bill Brault. 2-Steve Smith.
Fourth Flight: 1-Conrad Melton. 2-Richard Broad.
Fifth Flight: 1-Terry O’Neill. 2-Jim Olson.
Pairs (36)
Championship Flight: 1-Mert
Isaacman & David Stennes. 2-
Jonathon & Tom Burnowski.
3-Tony Baer & Lloyd Kennedy.
4-Reinie Kramer & Jerry Grady.
Second Flight: 1-Gary Fischer
& Howard Harris. 2-Ed Quo &
Bob Nunes.
Third Flight: 1-Loren Dion &
Phil Dunn. 2-Ivan Hyland &
Mert Isaacman & David Jim Olson.
Stennes
Fourth Flight: 1-Gordon Fall &
Dick Ashmore. 2-Chris Booth & David Ackerman.
Women: Bowler of the Tournament -
Cecila Gillespie (Saskatchewan).
Singles
Championship Flight: 1-Cecilia Gillespie
(Saskatchewan). 2-Regina Banares
(AZ). 3-Kim Heiser (Laguna Beach).
4-Melanie Vizenor (San Diego).
Second Flight: 1-Heather Stewart (Laguna
Beach). 2-Eileen Morton (Santa Barbara). Cecilia Gillespie
Third Flight: 1-Dee McSparran (Newport Harbor). 2-Shirley
Price (Laguna Beach).
Fourth Flight: 1-Anne Kirchberg (Long Beach). 2-Brenda
Wright (Oaks North).
Pairs
Championship Flight: 1-Regina
Banares (AZ) & Katy Stone
(Long Beach). 2-Cecilia
Gillespie & Sylvia Muz
(Saskatchewan). 3-Maryna
Hyland (Newport Harbor) &
Irene Webster (AZ). 4-Anne
Nunes (Newport Harbor) & Regina Banares & Katy Stone
Rosa Gandara (Hermosa Beach).
Second Flight: 1-Kim Heiser (Laguna Beach) & Myrna Chan
(Newport Harbor). 2-Robin Olson (San Diego) & Tanya
Hills (Laguna Beach).
Third Flight: 1-Sandy Souza & Susan Howey (AZ). 2-Shirley
Price (Laguna Beach) & Mert Pambianco (Santa Ana).
The 2008 SW open was held May 3-8 at Santa Anita. The club did a tremendous job in providing
both greens and superb hospitality. A large “Thank You” goes out to all those who assisted.
Fifth Flight: 1-Jurgen Fessler & Jim Hempe (day 1) and Brian
Studwell (day 2). 2nd-Bill Hiscock & Josh Hood.
Triples (28)
Championship Flight: 1-Ivan Hyland, Jim Olson & Richard
Broad. 2-Jonathon, Tom & Joshua Burnowski.
3-Michael Siddall, Patrick Chan & Phil Luth. 4-Leonard
Wasserman, Hymie Schuster & Tom Hargraves.
Second Flight: 1-Ian Ho, Tony Baer & Lloyd Kennedy.
2-Bill Reidy, Dan Christianson & Sam Benjamin.
Third Flight: 1-Gordon Fall, Simon Meyerowitz & Peter
Knopf. 2-Chris Booth, Ed Quo & Bob Nunes.
Fourth Flight: 1-Houdini Ho, Marinko Tudor & Kay Tong.
2-Liam Courtney, Loren Dion & Phil Dunn.
Richard Broad, Jim Olson & Ivan Hyland
Fourth Flight: 1-Cecile Langevin (Long Beach) & Verna
Wallace (Riverside). 2-Christine Ludwig & Melanie Vizenor
(San Diego).
Triples
Championship Flight: 1-Maryna Hyland (Newport Harbor),
Robin Olson (San Diego) & Irene Webster (AZ). 2-Cecelia
Gillespie, Sylvia Muz & Marlene King (Saskatchewan).
3-Regina Banares (AZ), Marion Piller (Saskatchewan) &
Katy Stone (Long Beach). 4-Cecile Langevin (Long Beach),
Verna Wallace (Riverside) & Margi Rambo (Santa Anita).
Second Flight: 1-Kathy Alton (AZ), Mary Terrill (AZ) &
Hildegarde Kennedy (MacKenzie Park). 2-Duxie Smukler
(San Diego), Anne Nunes (Newport Harbor) & Olga
McCord (San Diego).
Third Flight: 1-Patricia Cronshaw (Santa Barbara), Mary De
Lisle (MacKenzie Park) & Carrie Fossati (Laguna Beach). 2-
Merle Ackerman (Saskatchewan), Jan Hargraves (Newport
Harbor) & Brenda Wright (Oaks North).
Robin Olson,
Maryna
Hyland &
Irene Webster
Photos of
Pairs & Triples
by Eugene
Plunkett.
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SOUTHWEST DIVISION & CLUB NEWS
Southwest Division
Kottia Spangler staff correspondent
4643 Braemar Pl. #30
Riverside CA 92501
909/683-5308
k519ss@sbcglobal.net
We are sad to announce the passing away of Judy Patrizzi
who was a former USLBA Treasurer and umpire.
Judy had been battling cancer and arthritis for many years
but had been an active member in both the Southwest and
South Central divisions.
Alhambra
By Houdini Ho
A group of 30 mentally handicapped persons accompanied
by their supervisors visited our club in April. Apart from providing
drinks and snacks, our members taught our visitors the
basic skills of lawn bowling and let them roll four to six ends
with preset jacks and mats. They all enjoyed the game and left
our club with smiling faces and beaming eyes.
Our Open house on May 10 attracted a total of 90 individuals
from neighboring cities. After viewing the DVD on lawn
bowling, receiving basic skills instruction and having a few trial
ends, thirty-three applied for immediate membership and paid
their dues on the spot. Flags, banners and signs hung or posted
in conspicuous spaces; flyers made available in the City Hall
and various organizations and centers, press releases in seven
Chinese newspapers, radio interviews and well distributed duties
among members all contributed to the great success of the
event. Brightly colored Hawaiian shirts worn by all members on
that day added a touch of gaiety and joy to the atmosphere.
Beverly Hills
By Kottia Spangler
The Disney Tournament was held in May.
Results: 1-Ed Quo & Phil Dunn. 2-Linda Jahrus & Katy
Stone. 3-Stan Bloom & Joe Siegman. 4-Michael Siddall &
Charlie Herbert. 5-Reine Kramer & Kim Heiser. 6-Howard
Harris & Christine Ludwig.
Hemet-Joslyn
By George Hayes
The Annual Open Pairs tournament results were: 1-Roland
Schneider & Chuck Forristal. 2-Ruth Schneider & Retha
Walker. 3-Dori Mayer & Bill Shockley. 4-JoAnn LaFrenais &
Bud Shelley. Call Rob Robbins 951-652-0981 for information
on free lessons.
Holmby Park
Extracted from Holmby Happenings by Trevor Colby
In May we were extra busy hosting two major recruiting
events during which we signed up 25 new members. This is
the largest number of new members recruited in our club’s
history within such a short time period. To analyze our success
we could mention five contributing factors: 1) Volunteers. 2)
Co-sponsors: The LA City’s Parks Department and the West
LA Chamber of Commerce. 3) Special dues: lowering our
membership dues by 50% for this brief period proved to be a
critical incentive. 4) PayPal connection: this system enabled
us to receive dues on the spot by credit card. 5) Our ‘Closer’:
rather than leaving it to our guests to decide about membership,
our new system provided an instant last push to close the deal
and collect the dues on the spot.
There are three other follow up steps without which our
recruiting efforts would be wasted: 1) Our Mentor program
that should concentrate on bringing the new members onto our
greens and then later facilitate their integration into our club
life. 2) Instruction program that should teach just enough
bowling to the newcomers to pass the test while allowing them
to have fun during the lessons. 3) Retention program that
should keep in touch with the new bowlers so that they are
motivated to remain active.
In April we visited Newport Harbor and our hopeful members
were determined to improve on last year’s result when all
our teams lost. We were elated at the end of the day when the
score showed Newport 3 - Holmby Park 3.
The Naylon Pairs started with 16 participants in May
under unseasonably cold conditions and was won by Damian
Anderson & Peter Barna.
San Diego
By Georgie Deno
New officers for 2008: President Georgie Deno, 1st VP
Melanie Vizenor, 2nd VP Robert McMahon, Treasurer Vicki
Brown and Secretary Sue Sallee.
We held our “Saturday at the Greens” open house event
in May. We planned a format that took guests through a sixrink
course of short, medium, and long targets to get a taste of
lawn bowling. Following that, people were invited to “Beat the
Champ” where a score of five points against either Chris Booth
or Bill Brault (members of Team USA who won the China Open)
would net the winner a club shirt. Promising new members were
invited to enjoy free pizza and fill out a membership application.
Paying club dues has been made easier by putting a link to
PayPal on our webpage. This was especially useful at our open
house because we could get people to apply for membership
and pay dues on the spot.
Our singles challenge tournament has been a huge success
with 26 members competing over a six-month period.
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SOUTHWEST DIVISION & CLUB NEWS
Laguna Beach
By Linda Jahraus
Laguna’s beautiful setting may have been the initial draw for
the recent Open House but it will be the sport that keeps them
coming back. Under the direction of Jan Hargraves the Open
House with food and fun was a day for the record books. On the
day of the event 29 people joined the Club and in the two weeks
that followed 20 more joined our ranks. Our new friends include
many Laguna locals and Laguna Beach High School students.
Plans for the new members include group and private lessons,
pairing with a veteran member for encouragement and ongoing
social events. Our first group lesson was a tremendous success.
Wednesdays continue to be WILD with Jerry Stewart directing
and arranging games for about 20. It must be the fact that
the weekly winners get their names in the headlines that keeps
them coming back. The day consists of 2 ten-end games with a
tea break. I say let’s stay for lunch and really make it a day.
Kudos are in order for our President Frank Andersen for
keeping an eye on the contractors to improve and maintain
our greens. Frank was seen the other day picking up some 200
lbs of fertilizer in Newport Beach and lugging it himself from
the street and across the greens to the storage shed. Now that
is dedication! Our greens are running great. All you traveling
bowlers….stop by and join us for a game.
Thanks also to Reinie Kramer for organizing the purchase
of the new high-pressure water sprayer to keep our benches
presentable to our guests. Naturally, thanks are also in order
for the many contributors who made the purchase possible in
the first place! We do have a bit of a seagull problem!
Cheers for all our tournament bowlers who are out on the
greens. Their names are showing up all over the place. We are
proud of your dedication to the sport.
We mourn the loss of members Tony Carras and Bob
Henderson.
As summer nears we all await the start of Twilight Bowling.
Nothing is better than dinner and bowls by the sea. The City
of Laguna Beach has renovated Heisler Park that surrounds us.
It is truly a sight to behold.
Many thanks to the club members that helped to make the
Murray/Allison Singles tournament (32 entries) a great success.
Results: Murray Flight: 1-Mert Isaacman (Beverly Hills). 2-
Tony Baer (Newport Beach).3-Roger Teske. 4-Liam Courtney
(Pasadena). Allison Flight: 1-Phill Dunn. 2-Charlie Herbert
(Newport Beach). 3-Bill Brault. 4-Bill Kagan (San Diego)
Laguna Woods
By Eileen Donohue
Our Open House on May 10 was very successful because
we had 72 guests and 15 of them signed up for lessons right
away. Brent Rickard (Training Chairman) reports that nine
people are in class right now, which added to the 13 already
brought into the Club this year gives us a net gain of 22 new
members as of June 1.
Our Club participated in the fifth Annual Senior Games
held in Laguna Woods Village. Gold medal: Wayne Bowbeer &
Eileen Donohue. Silver medal: Gary Fischer & Marjorie Siddall.
There was a tie for the Bronze between Frank Searle & Lillian
Hargrove with Laurel Verning and Bob Whalen.
Jean MacAuley finals:
A green: 1-Michael Siddall, Jan Hargraves & Gerry Grady.
2-Ian ho, Ivan Hyland & Ann Nunes. 3-Gary Fischer, Jim
Kristiansen & Jean McMahon.
B green: 1-Tanya Hills, Dee McSparran & Shep Sheppard.
2-Cliff Hillard, Steve Dowd & Carole Hillard. 3-John Ruelas,
Mary Asay & Wanda Ruelas
Long Beach
By Bernie Crabtree
We hosted Holmby Park with their 21 bowlers and we won
the first game by 4-3. The second game was a friendly mixed
draw between the two clubs.
Our Fun Day was held with 30 bowlers participating
from Laguna Beach, Newport Harbor, Santa Ana, Laguna
Woods and Long Beach. In April, the George Sweet Dum Luck
Tournament honored 96 year old George Sweet, who still rolls
a few bowls.
The 14th Annual Long Beach Carnival consisted of 61
bowlers from Hemet, Riverside, Pasadena, San Diego, Newport,
Laguna Beach, Santa Ana, Hermosa Beach and Long Beach.
Scores were kept individually and the first place winner was
Marti Worley from Riverside who played the lead position.
A new event in Long Beach is the 2008 Singles Challenge
Ladder Tournament with 19 members signed up. Member Ben
French contributed $100 towards the prize money. Open House
on May 10 was a great success. We signed up 24 new members
and publicity in the newspapers, banners & flyers were a big
plus in getting 70 people to visit us.
Newport Harbor
By Ray Norris
We won the Southwest Division’s Winter League Fours
Trophy by defeating Beverly Hills in the finals of the League
playoffs. Our finals team was comprised of four novice bowlers:
Charlie Herbert, Dave Stennes, Brian Stewart & Joe Regan.
For the eighth year in a row, we hosted Holmby Park and the
result was a 3-3 tie.
In preparation for the SWD Open House event 38 club
members spent a day sprucing up the club facility. We completed
the painting of the interior of the club house, trimming
hedges, cleaning benches and re-upholstering our club furniture.
This paid dividends because we hosted 110 visitors and netted
40 new members.
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& CLUB NEWS
Oxnard-Joslyn
By Pinky Palladino
We are sad to report the passing of Bill Taschek, a past
president and sponsor of many tournaments.
Tournament winners: - Veteran-Novice: Armand Escalante
& Mike Newton. Armador Martinez Triples: Tony Baer, Nick
Savage & Loren Dion. Women’s Pairs: Sharon Gibson &
Juliet Watson. Congratulations to Armand Escalante, Amador
Martinez, Stanley Bloom of MacKenzie Park & Raul Perez for
taking first place in the Men’s SoCal Rinks Tournament.
Santa Ana
By Bob Lindsay
New officers for 2008: President Lenora Jackson, VP/
Secretary Tom Glass and Treasurer Audrey Chandler.
We hosted our “Saturday on the Green” Open House
May 10 and more than100 guests attended for free pizza and
lessons. 17 new members joined that day and more than half
our members turned out to help to assure the success of this
first time event.
Club tournament results: 4-3-2-1 Triples: Leo Smith,
Tom Glass & Bob Lindsay. Triathlon Pairs: Paul Gresbrink &
Angie Salgado. Club Triples: Paul Gresbrink, Angie Salgado
& Rick Gregory. Club Pairs: Paul Gresbrink & Charlyn
Moltane. Women’s Singles: Marion Horwood. Men’s Singles:
Rick Gregory.
We mourn the passing of long time member Ruth Lougee
Santa Barbara
By Jim Morton
Our May 10 Open House which was held at almost all the
clubs in the Southwest Division, turned out to be quite a success.
At our club we had about 75 visitors to try out bowling, eat a
little lunch and enjoy the day. Most of our club members turned
out to help and it was quite a festive day. We bought new royal
blue shirts with our club name on them for the occasion and
everyone looked very nice in their blue and white outfits.
We managed to gain 10 new members on the day and two
more that came back within a week to join. We also signed up
several people who are now taking classes.
The Groves
By Roma Bunch
Our popular six-week Australian Pairs League was completed
on March 28. Cliff Hilliard came first in the Skip position
and Fanchion Michaelson came first in the Vice position.
Cliff Hilliard chaired our “On the Green” event on May
10. We had a full green, food, money prizes and lots of interest
and enthusiasm, with a number of people trying lawn-bowling
for the first time. As a result several people will be receiving
instruction
Bowls USA Summer 2008
Answers from the Rules Guy
Answers to this issue’s questions from page 8
1. Page 29 Law 24.2 radio button 1. No. For a bowl to be a
toucher it must touch the jack before the next succeeding
bowl is delivered.
2. Page 31 Law 27. 3. The skips must agree a bowl is dead
before it can be removed. Page 32 Law 28.1.4 radio button
1. If a player moves a bowl before agreement is reached
the opposing skip shall restore the bowl as near as possible
to its original position. Page 30 Law 27.1 radio button
4. This rule must be used so that after the bowl has been
replaced by the skip, you can now check as to whether it is
in or out of bounds.
3. Page 31 Law 28.1 radio button 1. The opposing skip should
declare the bowl dead.
4. Page 31 Law 28.1 radio button 3. The skip of the team
which played the bowl has three options: a. Have the
bowl replayed. b. Place the bowl where the skip believes it
would have come to rest. c. Leave the bowl where it came
to rest.
5. Page 38 Law 34.2.3. The position of players within a
team should not be changed after the first end has been
completed unless a change is necessary because a substitute
is introduced as described in Law 51.
6. Page 38 Law 34.2.4. If the players in a team game change
positions when no substitute is necessary, the team will be
disqualified and the game forfeited to their opponents.
Umpires should always consult their rule book when confronted
with unusual situations requiring interpretation.
Note: All the above questions apply to Tournament play only.
Email your questions to emohruo@cox.net
Best Way to say “Thanks, and good
bowling” to Team USA members
is to join Golden Bias Club!
This club was set up a few years ago to
help Team USA bowlers pay their way to the
international tournaments they were selected for.
It has distributed as much as $4,100 a year to our
National Team members in recent years. Most of
the money distributed comes from the annual
dues of $50 paid by club members.
You can join by sending a check to:
Annette Schans
15472 Ridgeview Rd.
Sun City AZ 85351
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PACIFIC INTER-MOUNTAIN DIVISION & CLUB NEWS
Pacific Inter-Mountain
Division
John Hickson,
staff correspondent
66 Loyola Avenue
Menlo Park CA 94024-3811
Phone (650) 367-9499
j.hickson@sbcglobal.net
Opening Day March 29, 2008: 126 players, a near record
in recent years, attended the annual PIMD Opening Day
Tournament at Rossmoor on March 29. Tournament director
Peter Knoff saw the day through without a hitch. The greens
were beautifully prepared by Don Hazelwood. Don’s wife Roe
and her team supervised the indoor social activities and as always
Rossmoor was a very generous host.
Before the start of play, PIMD President Bill McConachie
gave a glowing tribute to Woody Ogden our recently retired
staff correspondent, for the great service he has given to Bowls
USA, PIMD and his club over the last 20 plus years. In recognition
of his dedication to bowls in many capacities he was
presented with the prestigious “USLBA President’s Award.”
Woody received a standing ovation.
NorCal Men’s Singles: At the end of April, 24 bowlers
competed for the title in Oakland. Last year’s runner-up Larry
Collaco (Sunnyvale) went one better this year and became the
new champion. 2- John Hickson (Palo Alto). 3-Andre Banares
(San Jose). 4-Jon Burnoski, (Berkeley).
B Flight: 1-Gordon Lockhart (Palo Alto). 2-Lawrence Quill
(Palo Alto). C Flight: 1- Mario Galletta (Palo Alto). D Flight:
1-Nick Christensen. E Flight: 1-Josh Burnoski, Berkeley. F
Flight: 1-John Luster (San Jose).
John Hickson and
Larry Collaco
Women’s Fives: Six teams competed on April 26 at
Rossmoor and the team representing the South Bay area clubs
won first place. The team was comprised of Helen Brady & Ann
Walker (Palo Alto); Sheila Stout & Mayou Bernard (San Jose)
and Dorie Mendoza (Sunnyvale)). Helen was skip of the win-
Women’s Fives. Left to right: Helen Brady, Ann Walker, Sheila
Stout, Dorie Mendoza, and Mayou Bernard.
ning Pairs and Dorie skipped the winning Fours and Triples.
American Heart Association: The tournament took place
at Berkeley where 24 players enjoyed a great day. As a result the
Heart Association will be the beneficiary of a $320 donation
from PIMD. First Place: Wyman Chew, Jerry Knott & Bob
Schwartz (Oakland). Second Place: Josh Burnoski (Berkeley),
Peter & Ann Knopf (Palo Alto). Congratulations to seven year
old Matt Burnoski (Berkeley) for finishing fourth in his very
first tournament.
PIMD Memorial Weekend Pairs: Twenty men’s and
eight women’s teams took part in San Francisco May 26 -27.
Tournament director Peter Knopf for the men and E.B. Parkell
for the women, with sterling support from San Francisco members
ensured it was successful.
Men’s A Flight: 1-Jon & Josh Burnoski (Berkeley). 2-John
Hickson & Ian Harris (Palo Alto). 3-Joe Shepard & Michael
Overton (Sunnyvale). 4-Nick Christensen (San Jose) & Tim
Regoli (Richmond).
Men’s B Flight: 1-Greg Fyvie & Jerry Louis (Santa Cruz).
2-Bud Birkenseer & Sam Hebert (Palo Alto). 3-Larry Murphy
(San Francisco) & Jerry Knott (Oakland). 4-Arnie Barras &
Bill Lee (San Francisco).
Women: 1-Reggie Benares (San Jose) & (Helen Brady
(Palo Alto). 2-De J Doring & Tirisa Biukoto (San Francisco).
3-Maureen Xavier and Doreen Pereira, San Francisco.
Men’s
A Flight
Winners
Jon & Josh
Burnoski
aged 14 & 12.
Photo by John
Hickson.
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PACIFIC INTER-MOUNTAIN DIVISION & CLUB NEWS
Del Mesa Carmel
By Lloyd Wells
Tournament Director Wylie Barnett has turned over his
important responsibility to Sam Harrison. Sam announced that
there will be an “Across the Bay” (Monterey Bay) competition
between our friends at Santa Cruz in July at Del Mesa with a
lunch provided. In August, Santa Cruz will be the host and
provide dinner. Prizes will be awarded and yearly bragging
rights bestowed.
President Allan Sindelar has begun using part of our monthly
luncheon meetings to present different bowls position scenarios
(where should the next bowl be rolled) that have produced lively
discussions and a better understanding of the game.
Our Open House was held in May and it was attended by
a number of residents interested in being introduced to this
ancient game. All who attended were measured for bowls, given
a practice set, and sent to the green to work with an instructor.
Basic techniques, rules, and principles were shared followed by
a four end practice game. The day ended with wine, food and
camaraderie. Due to the success of this
event we plan to hold it annually.
At the age of 93, Genevieve Cichy
still bowls at least once each week. This
elegant lady and bowls expert won the
U.S. Open Women’s Pairs in 1990 and
1991. We believe she is the only two time
champion of her age still actively setting a
jack and sharing her bowls wisdom
Genevieve Cichy
Palo Alto
By Ian Harris
This year we celebrate our 75th anniversary and the club is
thriving. We held a fundraiser in May for a gift from the club to
the residents of Palo Alto and in June we held an Open House
with invitations to local dignitaries.
Later in the year we are planning a barbecue at which one
of our newer members and his Bluegrass band will provide the
entertainment and we hope it will attract potential members to
our club. We will continue to have a weekly Pizza night, chicken
dinners and other social events.
On the green we have had four well attended tournaments
and some have produced unexpected winners, which has made
for exciting finishes and good conversation afterwards. Our newer
members have played a significant part in these tournaments and
in club activities in general. They have discovered the fascinations
of the game and the great atmosphere in the clubhouse.
Our club coach John Hickson, presented an interesting
strategy session before the draw games one Saturday. He laid out
a few different heads for discussion and the enthusiastic response
has encouraged him to plan more such sessions this year. Not
only do we need to introduce our new members to the game,
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but we would like our more seasoned players to gain a better
understanding of tactics and strategy.
Our recruiting continues on all fronts. We have already
had one class arranged through the City Parks and Rec. Dept.
Our Sunday casual games seem to attract interested spectators
and we are talking about initiating a raffle prize, open to any
member who brings in a friend to join the club. An unscientific
poll revealed that there is no one particular recruiting method
that works better than others. You have to try everything with
as much publicity as possible, and you have to provide an atmosphere
that encourages new members to join in the games and
social events to keep them coming back. Demographics should
begin to work in our favor with more Baby Boomers reaching
the ideal age to start bowling.
Richmond
By Frank Ransome
All is well at Richmond. The restored Clubhouse is getting
more use and there are usually people bowling on the fairly flat
greens every afternoon. Club Instructor Kenny Anderson has
several students in morning classes and Club President Frank
Ransome has a great time watching other people do the work.
Rossmoor
By Tay Wheeler
We hosted the PIMD 2008 Opening Day event when 126
avid bowlers filled our three greens. Our president, Bob Harbeson,
took this opportunity to inform visitors that Rossmoor would be
playing a major role in the upcoming 2008 National Open event
and would require strict adherence to our club’s all-white dress
code, with the exception of team-colored shirts. He also stressed
the importance of wearing smooth flat-soled shoes.
Tournament Director Ed Guterres
claimed the title in the Club’s Men’s
Handicap Singles event, beating the ten
other contestants brave enough to enter.
In the Women’s Handicap Singles, Jackie
Purdy, after suffering a first-round loss,
came back strongly with three straight
wins and qualified for the semi-finals.
She went on to win both her semi-final
Ed Guterres
and final games by one point in tight
finishes.
Ed and Pauline de Assis hosted the
club’s second popular Chicken Bowl
where afternoon bowling is followed
by Costco chicken served with all the
trimmings in the mat house. Guests of
honor were the six new bowling recruitsin-training
coached by Jeanne Lauritzen
and Ed de Assis.
Jackie Purdy
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PACIFIC INTER-MOUNTAIN DIVISION & CLUB NEWS
San Francisco
By George Scarpato
Our season began with a well-attended St. Patrick’s Day
luncheon followed by a green full of triples teams. In April
the three greens were cored, sanded and seeded. The first
Tournament results: Women’s Handicap Pairs: D.J. Doring
& Linda Jennings. Men’s Handicap Triples: Oscar Collaco,
George Scarpato & Bob Remedios. Hattie Bahrt Mixed Pairs:
Oscar Collaco & Mary Leigh. Hattie generously hosted a
lunch for all bowlers and guests and awarded prizes to winners
of the 2007 tournament. Men’s Triples: Kevin McCaffrey,
Robb Pawlak & George Scarpato. Men’s Pairs: Arnie Barros
& Bill Lee.
Instruction is being conducted every Wednesday and
most weekends. In addition a team-building class was held for
Washington Mutual employees and a dozen Odd Fellows came out
for their first lesson. The production company for Medtronics, a
large medical instrument maker, shot a special video simulating
a bowls match on our greens in May. Four actors were coached
in the rudiments of the game by our members and the video
will premiere at a national medical convention.
San Jose
By Lou Audino
While other clubs are struggling to get their basic needs
like lawn care taken care of, San Jose City has ponied up the
money to replace the old clubhouse with a brand new one.
The new 20’ x 40’ building will fulfill all our needs.
This culminates a six year drive where all backboards
and plinth were replaced and new cement was laid around
the green. It is wonderful when a City realizes the value of
recreation for people who are mostly senior citizens and is
willing to pay for it.
Lou Audino, Fred Gardner, Mayou Bernard & Clinton
Reeder won the Club Rinks Championship.
Innovation is the watchword on the green this year. In
addition to the popular “Short Jack Mondays” where the
jack and mat are placed at the minimum distance apart, we
have instituted an open singles game where players challenge
each other to singles matches. Games are played outside normal
club game hours, and the overall winner determined in
November by total wins gets $100.
Santa Clara
By Noreen Silva
We began the year with a Mixed Pairs tournament that was
won by Kathy Allen & Frank Cieplinski and we celebrated St.
Patrick’s Day with a Mixed Triples that Frank Cieplinski, Claud
Keith & Noreen Silva won.
We are anxious to see if money for our new clubhouse will
be allocated when the city budget is presented because we have
been in a temporary building for five years.
Santa Cruz
By Christine Palochak
We recently celebrated the first anniversary of our beautiful
artificial green that has created a lot of community interest and
brought bowlers from throughout the state. Our membership has
grown over 300% since the installation of the new green. In addition,
over the past year we have hosted international visitors from
near and far including Australia, Vancouver and the British Isles.
The first Saturday of every month, we meet before our games to
keep the green, clubhouse and grounds in tip top shape. In April,
we celebrated the Ninety-Fifth birthday of member Renee Sayer,
who plays regularly on our green. Congratulations, Renee!
Mothers’ Day was celebrated with Fathers preparing a delightful
champagne brunch for Mothers. The ladies hope this
will become an annual tradition!
In May we were treated to a workshop by Joe Shepard followed
by afternoon games. The summer months will feature
several additional activities in addition to our regular Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday and Sunday games. Friday night games and
monthly Friday night dinners in the clubhouse are being held
in May through October.
June, July & August feature women’s league Monday potluck
luncheon games. We hosted the culmination of the area John
Brown games on June 18 and the day ended with a luau and a
ukulele band performance.
Sunnyvale
By Al Mendoza
The John Brown Friendship Games started at Santa Clara
in May and this popular series of friendly competitions has been
going on for over 15 years. The clubs hosting successive games are
Sunnyvale, San Jose, Del Mesa Carmel, Palo Alto & Santa Cruz.
The largest turnout was at the final venue of Santa Cruz where we
enjoyed their fast artificial green and generous hospitality.
Al and Dorie Mendoza visited friends and relatives in the
Philippines in February. They also bowled at three lawn bowling
venues: Nomads Club in Manila, Angeles Club in Angeles
City and Coconut Grove in Bauang, La Union - home club of
the two players who won the Women’s Pairs at the 2007 US
Open. The turnout for the John Brown Friendship Game at
Sunnyvale was totally unexpected with 48 bowlers playing fours
on six rinks. Great turnout and weather with a plus: everyone
enjoyed the bowling.
SunRiver
By R. Wayne Pace
On Saturday, Feb. 23 Lana Esplin directed the Mixed
Triples Tournament with twelve entries. The rules provided
for the completion of two games of six ends each for a total of
12 ends. Teams rotated after the first six ends and played a different
team. The winners were Sherry Marcovich, Bob Colson
and Tim Marcovich.
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SOUTH CENTRAL DIVISION & CLUB NEWS
South Central
Division
Marilyn Appollo, staff correspondent
10950 W. Union Hills #1809
Sun City AZ 85373
Phone (623) 815-7732
tomar1809@msn.com
Our division looks forward to hosting the United States
Championships October 26-30 at Bell and Lakeview in Sun
City. The Best Western Hotel will be the headquarters with
the banquet being held on October 30 at Mountain View
Auditorium. Co-Chairs R. Gil Stephan Jr. and Dora Stewart
have also been working on plans for the U.S. Open which will
take place in this division October 24-30, 2009. Thanks to
Len Hitchcock for his online Bowls Newsletter which keeps
us updated and informed of division news.
South Central U.S. Championship Playdowns
The Pairs were held March 26-30 at Bell and Lakeview in
Sun City AZ and the singles followed on April 1-4.
Results: Men’s Pairs (10 entries): Len Hitchcock & Frank
Souza. Women’s Pairs (5 entries): Myra Wood & Lorraine
Hitchcock. Myra & Lorraine were last year’s winners in pairs
as was Len Hitchcock.
Men’s Singles (8 entries): Rich Enockson. Women’s Singles
(6 entries): Regina Banares. Last year, Regina and Rich represented
the SC in singles and pairs respectively.
Palm Creek - Casa Grande
By Norm Dean
Our season finished with the annual Can-Am Day match
on March 14. After the first six years the score was 3-3, so this
year’s match was of special importance for “bragging rights.”
Team Canada prevailed. Men’s Pairs: Bob Donnelly (BC) &
Derek Wilson (NJ). Women’s Pairs: Marlene Ward (Ontario)
& Lucy Cadwell (WI). The Pyramid champions were Norm
Dean (IA) & Chris Bangsund (WA).
Sun City West
By Jim Penrod
Our club tournament director Rich Ringhofer has conducted
several in-club tournaments to encourage members to
compete in open tournaments. These were well received and
we hope to have more games in the fall.
The Mary Terrill Women’s Open Pairs was won by Myra
Wood & Lorraine Hitchcock. Runners-up: Dora Stewart &
Marcia Masterson.
We were saddened by the passing of Tomie Ferrao, an active
member of our club and USLBA.
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President’s Five Winners : Joan Cameron, Betty Mayne, Kathleen
Nesbitt, Hazel Reid and Ann Howland
Rebecca McArthur President’s Five
The Rebecca McArthur Presidents Five was held Saturday
March 8 in Sun City West. The results are: 1-Ann Howland, Joan
Cameron, Kathleen Nesbitt, Betty Mayne & Hazel Reid (all
Sun City). 2-Arlene McGinn, Vi Gloede, Karen Smith, Peggy
Corrado (all Sun City) & Coreen Brost (Sun City West). 3-
Jeanne Christie, Mary Wright, Amy Heidebrink, Shirley Larsen
& Linda Butler (all Sun City). 4-Lorraine Hitchcock, Myra
Wood, Regina Banares, Annette Schans & Nita Burdick (all
Sun City). 5-Pat Harrison, Dora Stewart, Sue Sleeper, Sandy
Souza, & Nancy Davidson (all Sun City).
Sun City Grand
By Larry Grayson
Our green was closed for a period in the summer for a
renovation and leveling project. An agreement was reached
to allow our summer bowlers to use the Sun City West green
during the renovation. The green should be playable prior to
the snowbirds returning in the fall.
Paradise Resort
By Marilyn Appollo
Our greens have improved after a planer was purchased to
smooth out the surface. The clubhouse will get a sprucing up
with improvements to be completed in time for fall bowling.
Club tournaments continued into February and March.
Men’s Singles: Chris Krogh. Men’s Novice: Jerry Schoenwether.
Women’s Singles: Shirley Toneff. Women’s Novice: Sandi
Swayze. Pairs: Bob Milson & Mary Gunther. Triples: Bernard
Lavalliere, Elaine Hansen & John Taylor. The Old Timers vs.
the Rookies tournament was played with a four-end format with
players moving every fourth end. Old Timers won 4 games and
tied one. A return visitation was enjoyed with Sun City Grand
with an afternoon of bowling two six end games with a break
for social time and refreshments.
We finished our fun days with a hamburger bash held
outside the clubhouse instead of our indoor annual pizza party.
All agreed it was a success and should be repeated. The end of
the season was celebrated with a banquet at the local Elks Club.
Recognition and awards were given to tournament winners.
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South Central Open
Man Bowler of the Tournament and Singles Winner
Gordon Fall
.Men: Bowler of the Tournament - Gordon Fall
Singles (46):
Championship Flight: 1-Gordon Fall (BC Canada). 2-Phil Salt
(Oaks North). 3-Frank Souza. 4-Len Hitchcock.
Second Flight: 1-Jack Behling. 2-Jim Roth (Ontario). Third
Flight: 1-Bill Pearson. 2-Andre Banares. Fourth Flight: 1-
Maurice Van Walleghem (Manitoba). 2-Grant Summers.
Fifth Flight: 1-Jim Copeland. 2-Jim Olson (San Diego).
Sixth Flight 1-Liam Courtney (SW). 2-Lyle Schuetzle
(Paradise Resort). Seventh Flight: 1-Bob Schwartz (CA). 2-
John Burns.
Pairs (48):
Championship Flight: 1-Don Wood & Ivo Van Bastelaere.
2-Ken Degenhardt (Sun City) & Gordon Fall (Canada).
3-Jim Butler (Canada) & Tibor Kozma (CA). 4-John Wilson &
John Burns.
Second Flight: 1-Michael Siddall (Laguna Beach) & Chris
Booth (San Diego). 2-Svend Klausen (Sun City) & Dan
Christiansen (CA).
Third Flight: 1-Len Hitchcock & Frank Souza. 2-George
Tucker (Pinehurst) & Bob Urquhart (NJ).
Fourth Flight: 1-Brian McCartney & Bob Christie (Canada).
2-Grant Summers & Scott Peterson.
Fifth Flight: 1-Jack Behling, & Jim Copeland. 2-Bob Milsom
& Bob Hill (Paradise Resort).
Sixth Flight: 1-Hugh Branston & Bob Schneider (Milwaukee).
2-Bob Patterson (OH) & Bill Davidson.
The 2008 South Central Men’s Open was held February 9-14 at Bell,
Lakeview, Fairway and Oakmont in Sun City. In results shown below,
bowlers are from Sun City unless otherwise noted
Pairs Winners
Ivo Van Bastelaere & Don Wood
Triples (30):
Championship Flight: 1-Hugh Branston (Canada), James
Cronshaw (Santa Barbara) & Len Rice. 2-Larry Kraft, Ivo
Van Bastelaere & Tom Benstead. 3-Grant Summers, Bill
Lingeman & Scott Peterson. 4-Bob Patterson (OH), Roger
Binger & Bill Davidson.
Second Flight: 1-Bob Schneider, Jim & Max Cavender
(Milwaukee). 2-Marty Schans, Bill Pearson & Myron Myers.
Third Flight: 1-Michael Siddall (Laguna Beach), Bill Hiscock
(San Diego) & Bert Haws. 2-Len Hitchcock, Frank Souza &
Don Wood.
Fourth Flight: 1-Bernard Lavalliere, Rich Mills & Chris Krogh
(Paradise Resort). 2-Bob Milsom, Peter Davies & Mike
Ayling (Paradise Resort).
Fifth Flight: 1-Chris Booth (San Diego), Ed Quo & Phil Dunn
(CA). 2-Floyd Murphy (CA), Jim Morton (Santa Barbara)
& Chris Kennedy (CA).
Triples Winners
Len Rice, Hugh Branston & James Cronshaw
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The 2008 South Central Women’s Open was held Feb 9-14 at Sun City West.
In results shown below, all bowlers are from Sun City unless otherwise noted.
Women: Bowler of the Tournament - Barb Roller
(Clearwater).
Singles (38):
Championship Flight: 1 - Mary Ann Beath (Buckeye AZ). 2 -
Jackie Tucker (Pinehurst). 3 - Barb Roller (Clearwater). 4 - Dee
McSparran (Newport Harbor).
Second Flight: 1 - Anne Van Bastelaere. 2 - Kathy Alton (Sun
City West). Third Flight: 1 - Lorraine Hitchcock. 2 - Marion
Compton (CA). Fourth Flight: 1 - Carrie Fossati (Laguna
Beach). 2 - Corine Brost (Sun City West). Fifth Flight: 1 -
Mary Wright. 2 _ Isabella Forbes (CA). Sixth Flight: 1 - Diane
Denton. 2 - Pauline DeAssis (Rossmoor).
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Singles Winner
Mary Ann Beath
Pairs (28):
Championship Flight: 1 - Regina Banares & Barb Roller
(Clearwater). 2-Jackie Tucker (Pinehurst) & Anne Van
Bastelaere. 3-Marlene Cleutinx & Corine Brost (Sun City
West). 4 - Dora Stewart & Marcia Masterson.
Second Flight: 1 - Patricia Cronshaw & Carrie Fossati (CA). 2 -
Pat Harrison & Mary Wright.
Third Flight: 1 - Jan Hargraves, Dee McSparran (Newport
Harbor). 2 - Jean Brighton & Ria Wilson.
Fourth Flight: 1 - Myra Wood & Lorraine Hitchcock. 2 - Joan
Cameron (Sun City) & Isabella Forbes (CA).
Fifth Flight: 1 - Mary Ann Beath (Buckeye AZ) & Mary Terrill
(Sun City West).
South Central Open
Pairs Winners
Barb Roller & Regina Banares
Barb Roller was also Women’s Bowler of the Tournament
Fours (15):
Championship Flight: 1-Regina Banares, Myra Wood, Lorraine
Hitchcock (Sun City) & Barb Roller (Clearwater). 2-Jeanne
Christie, Hazel Reid, Marcia Masterson & Mary Wright.
3-Marlene Cleutinx, Pat Harrison, Corine Brost (Sun City
West) &Anne Van Bastelaere. 4-Jackie Tucker (Pinehurst),
Doris Leibrandt (Sun City West), Rainey Urquhart (NJ) &
Kathy Alton (Sun City West).
Second Flight: 1-Jan Hargraves (Newport Harbor), Kim Heiser
(Laguna Beach), Susan Howey (CA) & Eileen Morton
(Santa Barbara). 2-Maryann Beath (Buckeye AZ), Pat
Cronshaw (Santa Barbara), Mary Terrill (Sun City West) &
Carrie Fossati (Laguna Beach).
Third Flight: 1-Laurie Roth, Verna Roth, Sue Roth (all Canada)
& Sandy Mack. 2-Sandy Souza, Ria Wilson, Jean Brighton
& Betty Mayne.
Fours Winners
Lorraine Hitchcock, Barb Roller, Regina Banares & Myra Wood
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Southeast Division
Bud Ricucci, staff correspondent
8017 Pine Hollow Drive
Mount Dora FL 32757
(352) 383-6720
budman8017@earthlink.net
SOUTHEAST DIVISION & CLUB NEWS
At the SED Executive Board meeting held March 7,
President Jackie Tucker thanked Muriel Rackliff, Al Pelliccio,
Jeanne McLaughlin, Ella Frasier and Jack Phillips for a job
well done at the 2007 U.S. Championships held at Sun City
Center. The SED Open Committee consisting of Barb Roller,
Cathy Stephan, Sharon Farrish and Linda McDougall was also
congratulated. Graham Smith was cited for his hard work on
the greens in Sarasota.
Christine Garbett (Lakeland) and Bud Ricucci (Mount
Dora) were appointed to the board for two year terms ending in
2010. Treasurer Earl Shaner proposed that a $50 stipend from
the SED be provided to any club needing a DVD player to be
used for showing training videos for instructional purposes.
The board approved the purchase of 25 training videos to be
provided to all of our clubs.
The SED Mixed Fours held immediately after the SE Open
in Sarasota was won by Mike Lawson, Miles McEvoy, Gerry
MacLean & Jenny Lawson (Maple Leaf).
King’s Point West
By Bernie Dooley
The Awards Banquet was held in March and Carole Robek,
ably assisted by Myrna Crowley, Jackie Heckle and Joan Kelly
was in charge of the dinner and entertainment. President Bob
Lang called a business meeting before the meal and VP Bob
Mendrala presented the trophies.
Tournament results: Men’s Novice Singles: Doug Crippen.
Women’s Novice Singles: Pam Lecren.
Pairs: Marion Wood and Bernie Dooley. Men’s Singles:
George Fenwick. Women’s Singles: Judy Fenwick won it and
has won 10 women’s singles in a row. Judy also won the Club
Championship by beating her husband George.
Pinehurst
By Tom Kees
We were saddened by the news that Ben Silvestrone our
newly elected Club President suffered a debilitating stroke and
was unable to continue to serve. Sheila Cadwalader was installed
as our President and also VP-Pat Zimmerman. Our spring
clinic garnered six new members and we have the potential of
an additional four more in the near future.
North Carolina Open
Tuckers & Ricucci Win Third Straight
By Bud Ricucci
The 14th annual North Carolina Open Triples Tournament
held Mar. 28-30 at Pinehurst, was captured for the third year in
a row by George & Jackie Tucker of Pinehurst and Bud Ricucci
of Mount Dora. This marks the first time any team has won
the event for three consecutive years.
Championship Flight: 1- George Tucker (Pinehurst), Bud
Ricucci (Mount Dora) & Jackie Tucker (Pinehurst). 2- George
Whitelaw, Mary Meldrum & Sandra Whitelaw (Sarasota). 3-
Pat Beggs, Jeff Mulherin, & Walter Graves (Fredericton, New
Brunswick). 4- Al Pelliccio, Pat Zimmerman & Margo Pelliccio
(Pinehurst).
A Flight: 1- Mike Maneilly, Marita Nierth & Bobbi Elwell
(Mount Dora). 2- Brian Smith, Barb Smith & Earl Shaner
(Mount Dora). B Flight: 1- Christine Garbett, John Garbett
& Brian Neale (Lakeland). 2- Monica Dykeman, Jay Alphin
& Linda Alphin (Pinehurst)
Lakeland
By Christine Garbett
Club tournament results: Singles: Women: Valerie Bechard.
Men: Arnold Mueller.
Lakeland Invitational Triples results: 1-Sy Carkhuff, Angela
Carkhuff & Jean Adams (Mount Dora). 2-Don Woodington,
John Garbett & Christine Neale (Lakeland). 3-Bud Ricucci,
Earl Shaner & Judy Bublitz (Mount Dora).
The return game was held between Mount Dora and
Lakeland and for many Mount Dora bowlers it was their first
experience of Lakeland’s very fast artificial carpeted surface. A successful
Fun Day was held and the local newspaper took pictures
and several bowlers were on the front page next day. Our end of
season dinner was held at the Magnolia Room in Lakeland and
50 people attended. Prizes were distributed for league winners
and the delicious meal was followed by entertainment.
April sees the end of our season with most members returning
north. Remaining residents will play during the summer and
have visitors from Mount Dora and Clearwater. Efforts are continually
being made to obtain new members and publicity.
Sarasota
By Fred Theiler
After two years of tireless work, President Jo Koegel retired
to make way for a new board headed by President Ron Buck.
The focus of the new board will be on increasing membership
and social functions, and promoting the sport to the general
public.
Tournament results: Men’s Singles: Andre Bessette.
Women’s Singles: Mary Meldrum.
We invite all to come visit us and enjoy our hospitality and
breathtaking scenery.
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Mount Dora
By Jackie Williamson
Our spring class resulted in 13 new active members and 2
new associate members. An Open House for our summer class
in May attracted ten new potential members.
New Officers and Directors: President Sue Roberts, VP
Brian Smith, Secretary Jackie Williamson and Treasurer Claire
Weston. Directors: Games-Earl Shaner; Grounds-Mac McKean;
House-Janet Vassallo; Long Range Planning-Wally Green;
Membership-Joe Bender; Social-Linda James.
Fifteen mixed triples teams went to Clearwater in February
for the annual Clearwater/Mount Dora Reciprocal Tournament.
Clearwater took back the trophy this year by winning 20 out
of 30 games.
In March, a group of Mount Dora bowlers visited Lakeland
for a fun day of bowling and lunch. A good time was had by
all and the result was a tie.
For the second year, our club held a charity tournament
raising $460 to benefit the Mt. Dora Police and Fire Memorial.
The highlight of the event was an exhibition match between
employees of the Parks & Recreation Department, who had so
much fun that they asked us to partner with them in giving an
introductory class in Lawn Bowling to interested residents.
The Valentine’s Day St. Patrick’s Day parties were both wellattended
(over 100 members each), as was the Annual Banquet,
an evening event which had a Roaring Twenties theme this year.
At our final event of the season, Founders’ Day, we celebrated
our club’s 80th birthday with morning bowling, lunch provided
and served by the Board of Directors, and an awards ceremony.
Tournament winners were recognized as well as this year’s winner
of the Pill Bowler of the Year award- Bud Ricucci.
Tournament results:
Singles: Men-Bud Ricucci; Women-Betty Hamilton
Pairs: Men-Bill Forbes & Joe Bender; Women-Jean Adams
& Judy Bublitz. Triples: Men-Sy Carkhuff, Bob James & Dan
Colburn; Women-Barb Smith, Sue Skoglund & Jane Keneipp.
Home League: Tracy Wulbrecht, George Roberts & Bill Carey.
Bill’s Game: Sy Carkhuff.
Fox Hill Mixed Triples: Leon Lambert, Lee Kline & Linda
Walcuch
Clearwater
By May Blair
New officers were elected: President Cathie Stephan and
VP Bruce Miller.
Tournament results: Men’s Triples: Joe Dorsch, Cliff Bailey &
Jack Clayton. Women’s Triples: Cathie Stephan, June Haskins &
Rusty Barclay. Valentine’s Day: Bill Farrell and Margaret McBean.
Hall of Fame: Russ Tees (Clearwater), Marj Kells & Dave Murray
(World Parkway).
On a cold day we held the annual Mayor’s Charity so the
home-made soup was much appreciated. This year we collected
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SOUTHEAST DIVISION & CLUB NEWS
$500 for a local charity chosen by Mayor Frank Hibbard. A
tournament sponsored by Betty Adamson was held in memory
of her late husband Bill who was the winner of many championships
in the USA, Canada and his native Scotland. This year
over the course of eight weeks we ran a very successful Australian
Pairs League.
We welcomed old friends and made new ones when we
hosted Mount Dora for our annual match which resulted in
a win for Clearwater. After the games we enjoyed a delicious
meal prepared by Joyce Lannan and Cecilia Noble. Ken Roberts
donated the wine. Lasagna & Pizza Nights with Bingo are very
popular.
Marion Wall passed away June 14 due to fatal injuries sustained
when she suffered a fall in her home in Stouffville Ontario.
She is survived by her husband Rick and daughter Brenda. Marion
was a top class bowler who won many championships in the
southeast division in addition to those she won in Canada.
St. Petersburg
By Sharon Foster
New officers were elected in March: President Audrey
Shane, VP Ross Daboll, Secretary Sharon Foster and Treasurer
Lillian Rodseth. We added several new members this year and
ended up the season with a picnic at Fort Desoto Park.
Pebble Beach (Men)
& Suncoasters (Women) Sun City Center
By David Burbery
To round off the winter season the Women challenged the
Men to a bowls match so pride and honor was at stake. It was
decided that this event was so important that David & Christine
Burbery donated a new Challenge trophy to the club. It was also
agreed that this match will be an annual event and this year’s
winners were the Men. After the match we enjoyed food and
drink in the clubhouse.
Tournament results: Men’s Singles: Glenn Baumann. Men’s
Pairs: Rex Pickles & Ken Lewis. Men’s Triples: Rex Pickles,
Bruce Petrie & Ray Turman.
Women’s Singles: Nancy Spencer. Women’s Pairs: Linda
Hawken & Dodie Hann. Women’s Triples: Ella Fraser, Carol
Kulis & Muriel Rackliff.
Gretchen Meixner was presented
with a special award at the Awards
Supper in March for her services to
lawn bowling. She has been responsible
for teaching a great number of
members and many of her pupils have
become accomplished bowlers. For
several years she has held classes every
month throughout the winter and this
Gretchen Meixner
award acknowledges the time and dedication
she has given to the sport.
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2008 Southeast Open
Roach & Garbett earn Bowler of the Tournament Awards
By Trevor Colby
This year the men competed at Clearwater and the women
at Sarasota from March 1-6.
Man Bowler of the Tournament
Charles Roach (Burlington Ontario)
Men’s Singles (40)
Championship Flight: 1-Ed Quo (Newport Harbor). 2-Ralph
Ross (Clearwater). 3-Mike Maneilly (Mount Dora). 4-
George Tucker (Pinehurst).
A Flight: 1-Jim Copeland (Sun City). 2-Charles Roach
(Burlington ON).
B Flight: 1-George Whitelaw (Sarasota). 2-Jack Lucey
(Cunningham Park).
C Flight: 1-Lorne Reid (Clearwater). 2-Ron Buck (Sarasota).
D Flight: 1-Al Ferguson (Agincourt ON). 2-Bud Ricucci
(Mount Dora).
E Flight: 1-Sy Carkhuff (Mount Dora). 2-Bob North
(London ON).
Singles Winner
Ed Quo & Runner-up Ralph Ross.
Women’s Singles (32)
Championship Flight: 1- Christine Garbett (Lakeland).
2-Sandra Whitelaw (Sarasota). 3-Jackie Tucker (Pinehurst).
4-Ingrid James (Sarasota).
A Flight: Linda McDougall (Suncoasters). 2-Eileen Luba
(Frick Park).
B Flight: Lois Saladin (Frick Park PA). 2-Val Bechard
(Lakeland).
C Flight: Sue Bellerose (Sun City). Judy Harwood (Sarasota).
D Flight: Noreen Welsh (ON). 2- Barb Roller (Clearwater).
Woman Bowler
of the Tournament
& Singles Winner
Christine Garbett
(Lakeland)
Men’s Pairs (26)
Championship Flight: 1-Mike Maneilly & Earl Shaner
(Mount Dora). 2-Joe Dorsch (Clearwater) & Charles
Roach (Burlington ON). 3-Lindsay Blair & Ron Jones
(Clearwater). 4-Cliff Bailey & Bill Haskins (Clearwater).
A Flight: 1-Cal Bechard & Tony Theakston (Lakeland). 2-Bud
Ricucci & Gary Williamson (Mount Dora).
B Flight: 1-Al Ferguson (Agincourt ON) & Jim Esslemont
(Clearwater). 2-Burl Roller (Pinehurst) & Jack Lucey
(Cunningham Park).
C Flight: 1-Bob North (London ON) & Les Jarvis
(Clearwater). 2-Lorne Reid & Ralph Ross (Clearwater).
Consolation: 1-John Garbett & Brian Neale (Lakeland). 2-Bill
Hiscock & Floyd Murphy (San Diego).
Pairs Winners
Mike Maneilly
& Earl Shaner
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Women’s pairs (32)
Championship Flight: 1-Julia Farrell & Shirley Vidler
(Sun-N-Fun). 2- Christine Garbett & Arliene Marshall
(Lakeland). 3-Iris Sager & Janet Bunce (Sun-N-Fun).
4-Maureen Boudreau & Gene Robertson (World Parkway).
A Flight: 1-Margaret Hachey & Anne Harris (World
Parkway). 2-Claire Sargent & Nicki Bessette (Sarasota).
B Flight: Linda McDougall (Suncoasters) & Barb
Roller.(Clearwater). 2-Mary Meldrum & Sharon Farrish
(Sarasota). C Flight: 1- Maureen O’Brien (Sarasota) &
Jackie Nieberg (Sun-N-Fun). 2-Noreen Welsh (Ontario) &
Evelyn Sartain (Mount Dora).
D Flight: Caroline Cole (Sun City AZ) & Nancy Spencer
(Suncoasters). 2-Marj Kells (World Parkway) & Anita Gray
(Clearwater).
Bowls USA Summer 2008
Pairs Winners
Julia Farrell
& Shirley Vidler
Men’s Triples (18)
Championship Flight: 1-Lindsay Blair & Ron Jones
(Clearwater) & Bob North (London ON). 2-Don
Woodington, Peter Procter & Tony Theakston (Lakeland).
3-Lorne Reid, Ralph Ross & Jab Pierce (Clearwater).
4-Peter Bunce, Scott Fisher & John Sager (Sun-N-Fun).
A Flight: 1-Joe Dorsch (Clearwater), Bob Saunders (World
Parkway) & Joe Platania (Clearwater). 2-Charles Roach,
George Wilson & Denis Ward (Burlington ON).
B Flight: 1-Al Ferguson (Agincourt ON), George Whitelaw
& Pat Byrne (Sarasota). 2-Ed Quo (Newport Harbor), Jim
Copeland (Sun City) & Rick Wall (Clearwater).
Consolation: 1-Rick Marinaccio, Cliff Bailey & Bill Farrell
(Clearwater). 2-Burl Roller, Jack Lucey (Cunningham Park)
& Jack Mein (Clearwater).
Triples Winners
Bob North, Lindsay Blair & Ron Jones
Fours Winners
Christine Garbett, Christine Neale,
Arliene Marshall & Valerie Bechard
Southeast Division
U.S. Championship Playdowns
2008 Southeast Open
Women’s Fours (16)
Championship Flight: 1- Christine Garbett, Christine Neale,
Arliene Marshall & Valerie Bechard (Lakeland). 2-Linda
McDougall, Dodie Hann, Carol Fahnestock (Suncoasters)
& Barb Roller (Clearwater). 3-Joyce Dewey, Olive Walsh,
Morag Fairweather & Val Blakeborough (Sun-N-Fun).
4-Marjorie Lange, Christine Burberry, Natalie Lanouette &
Marjorie Sliwa (Suncoasters).
A Flight: 1- Joelle Massey & Betty Habgood (Maple Leaf),
Barb Smith (Mount Dora) & Mary Lewis (Maple Leaf).
2-Iris Sager, Julia Farrell, Shirley Vidler, & Chris Moore
(Sun-N-Fun).
B Flight: 1-Jo Koegel, Judy Harwood, Maureen O’Brien &
Nicki Bessette (Sarasota). 2-Laura Seed (Ontario), Heather
Comba, Linda Baron & Donna Coulter (Maple Leaf).
By Trevor Colby
The event was held at Sun City Center FL starting on April
21 in glorious weather. Going into the last day of the men’s pairs,
Michael Maneilly & Earl Shaner had five wins and Phil Lascola
& Bob Ferguson had four. They met in the final game of the
round robin and with 16 ends played Phil & Bob were ahead
25-16 but when the 21 ends were finished the score was tied at
25-25, so the championship was won by Michael & Earl.
At the end of the round robin in the women’s pairs there
was a three way tie with each team winning five games. In the
final Carol & Pat met Linda McDougall & Barb Roller. In a
cliffhanger with Linda and Barb up 20-19 in the final end,
Carol & Pat scored two points to clinch the title.
Results: Men’s Pairs: Michael Maneilly & Earl Shaner
(Mount Dora). Women’s Pairs: Carol Fahnestock & Pat Smith
(Suncoasters). Men’s Singles: Gary Williamson (Mount Dora).
Women’s Singles: Jackie Tucker (Pinehurst). Jackie represented
the SE last year in singles
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Officers & Councilors
U.S. Lawn Bowls Association
Colin Smith President
43 Oneida Ave., Lake Hiawatha NJ 07035. 973-402-5018
colinsmith@optonline.net
Muriel Rackliff Vice President
646 Oakmont Ave. Sun City Center FL 33573. 813-634-6897
mrackliff@tampabay.rr.com
Tom Kees Secretary
1050 Burning Tree Rd., Pinehurst NC 28374. 910-295-2831
tomkees@earthlink.net
Brian Studwell Treasurer
10639 Lindamere Dr., Los Angeles CA 90077. 310-440-9400
bstudwell@earthlink.net
COUNCILORS
Kathy Alton Central Division
5679 Grove Terrace, Greendale WI 53129. 414-425-1019
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Steve Nelson Central Division
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Donna West Northwest Division
Winter: 10603 W. Highwood Lane, Sun City AZ 85373. 623-974-1327
Summer: 8801 27th West $6A. Tacoma WA 98466. 253-752-5172
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Sandy Souza Pacific Inter-Mountain Division
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Frank Ransome Pacific Inter-Mountain Division
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Dora Stewart South Central Division
15609 N. 99th Dr., Sun City AZ 85351. 623-875-1211
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Marty Schans South Central Division
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Muriel Rackliff Southeast Division
646 Oakmont Ave. Sun City Center FL 33573. 813-634-6897
mrackliff@tampabay.rr.com
Al Pelliccio Southeast Division
(Summer) 1 Sodbury Ct.. Pinehurst NC 28374
(Winter) 4331 ProAm Ave. E., Bradenton FL 34203. 910-295-4793
proalphlbc@hotmail.com
Sam DeLisle Southwest Division
26 E. Ortega St., Santa Barbara CA 93101. 805-683-1043
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Heather Stewart Southwest Division
194 Chandon, Laguna Nigel CA 92677. 949-495-2484
no-short-bowls@cox.net
Kathy Alton Director of Marketing
5679 Grove Terrace, Greendale WI 53129. Phone 414-425-1019
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Woody Ogden Director USLBA web site www.bowlsamerica.org
USLBA Division Officers
CENTRAL: President: Steve Nelson
1815 Woodland Ave, Park Ridge IL 60068. 847-384-850
nelsonsm@sbcglobal.net
Secretary/Treasurer: Pat Mueller
3225 N. Bartlett Ave., Milwaukee WI 53211. 414-962-4330
mkepat@aol.com
NORTHEAST: President: Jack Edwards
Williamsburg Inn LBC:
114 Stanley Dr., Williamsburg, VA 23188. 757-253-0266
jack.edwards@cox.net
Secretary: F. T. (Tee) Adams III.
PO Box 328, Devon PA 19333-0328. 610-407-4500
videoboss@aol.com
NORTHWEST: President: George Poor
April-Sept: 17500 Beach Dr. NE, Lake Forest Park WA 98155, 206-362-7860
Oct-Mar: 13705 W Aleppo Dr., Sun City West AZ 85375. 623-584-2986
poordee@aol.com
Secretary: Lucy Hart
515 1st Ave. #203, Seattle, WA 98119. 206-282-5545
PACIFIC INTER-MOUNTAIN: President: Bill McConachie
45 Mariani Court, Emerald Hills, CA 94062. 650-369-6256
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Secretary: John Ogden
1428 Brookdale Drive, San Jose CA 95125. 408-293-6280
ogdenj@earthlink.net
SOUTH CENTRAL: President: Larry Kraft
10617 Manzanita Dr. Sun City, AZ 85373. 623-249-5625
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Secretary: John Stewart
15609 N. 99th Dr., Sun City AZ 85351. 623-875-1211
emohruo@cox.net
SOUTHEAST: President: Jackie Tucker
1 Park Ct., Pinehurst NC 28374. 910-215-5538
tuckerjackie@earthlink.net
Secretary: Margo Pelliccio
1 Sodbury Ct., Pinehurst NC 28374. 910-295-4793
proalphlbc@hotmail.corn
SOUTHWEST: President (women): Maryna Hyland
31612 Via Coyote, Trabuco Canyon CA 92679. 949-858-9043
ivanhyland@hotmail.com
Secretary: Linda Jahrus
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President (men): Mert Isaacman
17 Buckhorn, Irvine CA 92714. 949-551-0606
Secretary: Conrad Melton
28620 Hoylake Ct., Sun City CA 92586. 951/301-0677
conimelt@verizon.net
USLBA Committee Chairs
Constitution and Bylaws ............................................... George Schick
Laws of the Sport ........................................................... John Stewart
Super Shots ......................................................................Eileen Love
U.S. Championships ................................................Linda McDougall
North American Challenge ...........................................R. Gil Stephan
International Affairs ..........................................................Donna West
Long Range Planning ....................................................... Colin Smith
National Team Selection (Women) ......................................Dana Lum
National Team Selection (Men) ..........................................Jack Lucey
Membership & Instruction ......................................... Frank Ransome
Honorary Life Designees
Honorary Life President ................................. Harold L. Esch
34 Bowls USA Summer 2008

This event is named in honor of Lindsay Towns who was a
former South Central representative on the old ALBA National
Council and made many contributions to the sport. Lindsay
was instrumental in starting this tournament and at that time
it was called the National Senior Open. To qualify, players have
to be 70 or older. The event was held at Bell and Lakeview in
Sun City during late February and early March.
In the results shown below, all players are from Sun City
unless otherwise noted.
Pairs (24):
Championship Flight: 1-Tom Stirrat & Scott Peterson.
2-Gerry Jones & Allan Robertson. 3-Bill Lingeman & Bill
Weaver. 4-Harry Berry & John Matteucci.
Second Flight: 1-Wray and Verna Roth. 2-Jack Gray & Bill
Neville (Palm Creek RV Resort, Casa Grande, AZ)
Third Flight: 1-Bill DesBrisay (Sun City Grand) & Bob
Christie. 2-Joe Murphy and Hazel Reid.
Fourth Flight: 1-Rich Mills & Chris Krogh (both Paradise
Resort). 2-Jean Brighton & Betty Mayne.
Fifth Flight: 1-George Poor and Donald Wood (both Sun
City West). 2-Al Belliveau & Veronica Wong (Westbrook
Village, Peoria AZ)
Sixth Flight: 1-Andre Banares & Warren Simon. 2-Vi &
Harvey Gloede.
Triples (16):
Championship Flight: 1-Bill DesBrisay (Sun City Grand), Bob
Christie & Al Robertson. 2-John Burns, Len Rice & Virgil
Heidebrink. 3-Wray Roth, Verna Roth & Irene DeBrock.
4-Tom Stirrat, Scott Peterson & Warren Simon.
Second Flight: 1-Gord MacCulloch (El Mirage), Yvonne
Davidson (El Mirage) & Marcia Masterson. 2-Andre
Banares, Bill Hardy & Kathleen Nesbitt.
Tom Stirrat & Scott Peterson
Bowls USA Summer 2008
Lindsay Towns National Senior Open
Bob Christie, Bill DesBrisay & Al Robertson
Third Flight: 1-John Stewart, Bill Weaver &Bill Lingeman.
2-Harry Berry, John Matteucci & Jim Jones.
Fourth Flight: 1-George Poor, George Ralston & Donald
Wood (all Sun City West). 2-Bill Greiser, Hank Mueller &
Miles Gehm.
Professional Bowls
Association
Want to play bowls at international
level? If your answer is “yes”
you can do so by joining the
Professional Bowls Association (PBA).
You will be eligible to enter qualifying
events arranged by the PBA and WBT
(World Bowls Tour).
Membership open to both men and women
Interested?
Contact Frank Souza
10343 W Bayside Rd
Sun City AZ 85351
623-388-6160 or e-mail: frslb1up@cox.net
Joining fees $90 and annual dues of $110.
Total for new members $200.
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