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 ***  CONGRATULATIONS LEAGUE OF WOMEN BOWLERS on your article in the August 2007 US Bowler Magazine ...

       our league secretary CC Ford is quoted in the article in reference to our Awards Banquet held this past June...

       click on the link to view the article in full :  /Documents/US Bowler Article.pdf                           

           

 

CC Ford ... Co-Founder and Secretary for the League of Women Bowlers is again featured in a Metro Weekly magazine article titled "Bowling for Friendship"...'Local athlete finds life after tragedy' in which the league is mentioned as a 'saving grace' considering her life over the past year...read all about it by clicking on this link...

/Documents/Metro Weekly Bowling Article.pdf

 

 ***Related bowling article featuring CC about Gay Games VII in Chicago 2006

                                                             /Documents/Gay Games Article.pdf

 

*** Obama Bowls 10 yr Old Girl ...read how 10 yr old girl gives bowling tips to Obama who rolled a "37" total pins game score in Pennsylvania March 2008... /Documents/Girl bowls Obama.pdf

 

***Blind Bowler rolls Perfect 300 Game...click on link to read all about him: /Documents/Blind Bwlr 300 gm.pdf

 

 *** CONGRATULATIONS to our friend and supporter SP (Sheila Pinkston) for  being mentioned in the March 2007 Bowl Magazine article "On Our Back Page" as 1977's top Female Bowler (30 yrs ago) in the metropolitan area (SP is pictured in the Redskin Jersey while visiting our league)  /Documents/Bowling Articl onSP.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...Read about Fern L. Scotland and how she was one of our first female bowling pioneers to support womens tenpin bowling in the Baltimore area...   /Documents/1940sFemaleBowlingPioneer.pdf

 

...1st Black Women in American History to build a bowling alley ...New York news article ... Sharon Joseph and Gail Richards are the owners of the first bowling alley to open in Harlem in 30 yearsHarlem's newest bowling alley, "Harlem Lanes" is more of an entertainment center than it is a bowling alley... 

 

They offer women (get this now) 3-inch stiletto bowling shoes!!!

Friday & Saturday nites feature lights out with disco balls going and a DJ, there's monthly speed dating, a ladies nites, and 25 plasma screens broadcasting sports.

 

...Black Female Bowling Alley Entrepreneur ...read more on Sharon Joseph's success with the NY Bowling Alley as she's still making the news in NY with her "Effort to Spare" article...12/2007

 /Documents/Bowling Alley Entrepreneur NY.pdf

 

...Broadway Bowlers...Broadways Writers Strike meant strikes on the lanes in bowling alleys...read how the writers in NY and other celebrities spent their time while on strike 12/2007...

 /Documents/Broadway Bowlers.pdf

 

...A 94-year-old "legally blind" woman bowled a score of 244 ... Ester Medley , of Washington State, cannot see straight in front of her, so after she rolls her first ball of a frame, her 86-year-old hubby, Ralph, tells her which pins need to be knocked down for a spare.  Medley's 244 (which included 8 strikes) was the 2nd highest league score of the year !!!   

 

...Michigan man makes a 700lb. , 70-foot-long Rosary out of bowling balls ... Ralph Kluck used 59 balls, 20 cans of pastel spray paint, 40 feet of black piping and a wooden cross in setting up the 700lb rosary on the front lawn of his Napoleon Township home. He also used 9-inch stakes to keep the balls from rolling down the street.

 

...Oldest League Bowler in U.S. history ...this guy is over 100 years old! Click on his article below

 

 /Documents/Oldest League Bowler in U.doc

 

/Documents/ArticleNYBwlngAlleyBlckWomen .pdf

 

/Documents/94yrold_blindwoman_bowls244gm.pdf

 

/Documents/Bowling articles_Dec21st_IMG.pdf