THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, December 24, 1995 TAG: 9512220167
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS PAGE: 15 EDITION: FINAL
COLUMN: Around the Alleyways
SOURCE: By Bill Leffler
LENGTH: Long : 163 lines
'Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the area,
The bowling centers were jammed,
No places were merrier.
And if we had been Santa
On his yearly call
He's the gifts we would have brought
- and HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
No squirrels in his chimney for Henry Neal. . . . vacations out of bowling season for Jack Cunningham. . . . a trip to Switzerland next year for Ben Hayth. . . . more Reverse Raffles for Joan McCook. . . . a Deep Creek state football championship for Lennie McCready. . . . another 9-game winning streak in singles for J. C. Sweeney. . . . a 120-average for Sylvia Hart. . . never needing to throw a third ball for Mike Wall. . . . and 12 more happy bowling seasons for Charlie Neathery so he can become the area's first centenarian bowler. . . .
No games under 100 for Bob Wilson and Linda Harrison. . . . Lefthanded bowling shoes for Rick Lieberman. . . . most improved bowler awards for Joe Koon and Evelyn Saunders. . . . more 400 sets for Les Keeter and William Blyth. . . . never forgetting that his car can't drive home without him for David Leffler. . . . an all-spare game for Charlie Oakley. . . . an all-strike game for Debbie Rabel. . . . All-Metro ranking for Sheri Zanke in tenpins and Berlene Byrum in duckpins. . . . and 400 sets everytime he bowls off in advance for Ben Wiggins. . . .
A Big Four spare for Jeanette Duncan. . . . an Elimination Doubles title for Dennis and Robin Long. . . . a 100 average for Irv Naftaly. . . . a 200 game for Bobby Gower. . . . a 200 average for Andrea Thorpe. . . . a 300 game for Norm Cote. . . . one more team for the Sunday School League for George Overton. . . . triplet granddaughters for Eddie Williams. . . . a 400 set for Miriam Pugh. . . . a 500 set for Paul Rabel. . . . a 600 set for Kendra Allen. . . . a 700 series for Fred Hersey. . . . an 800 series for Danny McDermott. . . . and a 900 series for Rick Dignard. . . .
A new bowling center in North Carolina for Butch and Simp Warren. . . . a hole-in-one for Raymond Askew. . . . more honey for Fred Genera. . . . a 10-frame 9-spare game for Ann Chappell. . . . a Dutch 200 for Wanda Strawderman. . . . a triplicate 150 for Bill Wetherington. . . . a 7-10-spare for Wes Garriott. . . . a Portsmouth Match Game Championship for Jimmy Boswell. . . . a 100-over-average game for John Nickelson. . . . a speedy return to the lanes for David Nickelson and Louise Crosby. . . . a double-her-age game for Mabel Ragan. . . . a triple-his-age game for Herb Ripley. . . . and higher scores than mama or grandma for Crystal Perez. . . .
A night without a single missed one-pinner for Bill Ellsworth. . . . a night of all one-pinners for Donnie Long. . . . a helicopter for John Brice. Tower Mall for Dwight Mitchum. . . . the last strike of 1995 for Pat Johnson and the first strike of 1996 for Nita Taylor. . . . more 176 games for Jim Nicholson. . . . never missing the head pin with the first ball for Faye Askew. . . . no zero fills for Mo Minton. . . . and a patent on her deviled eggs for Karen Nielsen. . . .
A pair of bowling shoes for Jennifer Leffler. . . . Dan Marino's autograph for Kevin Carmichael. . . . no rained out soccer games for Jason Carmichael. for Rusty Burke. . . . more turkeys for Leoma Mehalic. . . . a City Council seat for Dick Lassiter. . . . more 150-plus games for Lu Arnette. . . . a pot win for Ronnie Ketchum. . . . an Edsel for Gene Luke. . . . a Herman Gaines Open victory for Taylor Eunice. . . . a Taylor Eunice Open victory for Herman Gaines. . . . and a tooth fairy for Hope Shull. . . .
National ranking for Kendra Allen. . . . fifty more happy birthdays for Martha Rush. . . . more bowlers who love the game as much as Billy Mitchell and Terri Bass. . . . Virginia Bowlers license plate No. 1 for Dee Pouttu. . Lang. . . . another little bowler for Bobby and Davina Wetherbee. . . . winter golf balls for Paul Sandefur. . . . more bowlers who look like Karen Kirkpatrick. . . . and more game-winning strikes for Tom Gregory. . . .
A later starting time for league play for Nita Sharrett and Lydie Hoggard. rolloff between Guy and Alice Durham for the Mary Crabtree Singles League championship. . . . a Senior Citizens League for Carl Ketchum. . . . a yardsale bus for Alice Carlo. . . . a triplicate award for Joyce Wetherington. . . . more new faces on the lanes like Bev Coles and Judy Wright. . . . no 2s in football pools for Duane Stewart. . . . a State Mixed Doubles championship for Jim and Mary Boykin. . . . a spot in the Portsmouth Hall of Fame for Frank Frye's bowling shoes. . . . a down-the-ladder 150-149-148 for Joyce Johnson and a 250-249-248 for Rita Curylo. . . .
Fifteen more pins per game for John Underwood. . . . a domino strike for Sandy Chiera. . . . another 5-7-10 spare for Paul Wetherbee Jr. . . . a job for hubby for Dianne Askew. . . . a flyback strike for Earl Clow. . . . a Sunday School League record set for Barry Blythe. . . . more strikes on nine hits for Donna Oakley. . . . less nines on strike hits for Mike Price. . . . more strikes, period, for Anna Morlino. . . . a woodpecker for Gus Koch. . . the Thursday Nite Summer Doubles League at Victory Lanes. . . . 30 straight spare breaks for Shawn Perez. . . . 30 straight spares for Van Malone. . . . a governor for Tim Kirkpatrick's fast ball. . . . and bowling balls with eyes for Terrye Bradshaw. . . .
Free airplane tickets to and from Roanoke for Eric Alexie. . . . no 1-5 rips for Louise Brinkley or 2-8 rips for Carol Jernigan. . . . double his golf scores in bowling for Walt Laughon. . . . a five strike, five spare game for Denny Jackson. . . . an opening frame strike every Monday for David Haynes. . . . spares in every first frame for Ray Ketchum and strikes in every 10th frame for Catherine Charlton. . . . a microwave cookbook for Ann Sharrett. . . . a winning state lottery ticket for Brian Aldridge. . . . more winning half-and-half tickets for Wicky Chiera. . . . and a bingo jackpot for Mary Underwood. . . .
Back-to-back 140 games for Linda Bauer. . . . back-to-back-to-back 150 games for Charlotte Whitehurst. . . . a 199 game for Vance Pittman. . . . a 299 game for Iva Foust. . . . purple suspenders for Art Saunders. . . . no games with less than three marks for Robin Salugao. . . . Hundred-over-average games for Fran Sansone and Carolyn Cotterell. . . . an Industrial League championship for Joe Griffith. . . . no picked two pinners for Jack Lorber. . . . no picked three pinners for Al Kersnick. . . . and two million dollar knees for Earl Freeland. . . .
No markless games for Bill Schepp. . . . an ABC ring for Levi Kinchlow and a WIBC ring for Susan Ferguson. . . . a Chesapeake duckpin center for Jane Atwood. . . . a Christmas ham for Dick Long. . . . a Seagull feeder for Mary Panuelos. . . . a Diffy Duck winning game for Louise Atkins. . . . a family bowling tournament for Carl and Pam Westfall. . . . Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour membership for Leslie Livesay. . . . more strikes for Leona Lee and more spares for Mary Beazley. . . . and a two-step jump up the ABC vice presidency list for Alton Forbes. . . .
Three 125 games for Pat Johnson. . . . a 125 average for Buster Knox. . . Daren Kleiber. . . . no bowling on Maundy Thursday for Lloyd Minton. . . . a paint brush for every bowler from Tommy Warren. . . . a 175 game for Sheila Eunice. . . . more bowlers who compete just for the fun of it like Ernest Lynch. . . . bowling on the waterstage at Portside for Lydia Lofton. . . . a 1-2-3 spare for Lupe Genera. . . . and a 7-8-9-10 spare for Anne Kavanaugh. .
A Monday Nite Ladies League championship for Vera Briggs. . . . more sets like his December outbursts for Ken Owen. . . . a state tournament women's singles championship for Connie Insley. . . . a 10-pin average climb next year for Margaret Sharrett. . . . ten strikes in three games for Dot Crossley. . . . ten spares in three games for Judy DeBause. . . . and the first seat in the Portsmouth Duckpin Hall of Fame for Doris Leigh. . . .
A Duffers 200 game for Jeff Frazier. . . . a Duffers 300 game for Gwen Frazier. . . . the first 200 game of the new year for Jim Herron. . . . a ball that rolls slower for Linwood Maddrey and straighter for Joanne Maddrey. Woody Riggs' strikes for Gene Garthright and Gene Garthright's strikes for Woody Riggs. . . . good health for Shirley Hasty. . . . no balls that go left or right of the target for Aubrey Roane and Joe Saunders. . . . and a first ball that never drops less than eight pins for Audy Smith. . . .
A headpin never standing for Charlie Baines. . . . bowling pills that do away with arteritis for John Parker. . . . a new bowling bag for John Ketchum. . . . more 40-year-old bowling balls like Mary Brooks'. . . . a 100-200-100 400 series for Jerry Clark. . . . an automatic 8-pin maker after rips for Ralph McElfresh. . . . a flat 100 for Margie Bleiler. . . . a record game for Dot Warner. . . . a checkers tournament for Buddy Spindler, Merle Haddock, Ken Wren, Jim Bailey, Billie Dew Jr., Jonie Didio, Teresa Didio, Bernie Rull, Trash Wetherbee, Bill Aldridge, Orville Whitehurst and Todd Hambric. . . . more old bowlers to ``unretire'' and return to the game. Merry Christmas to Ma and Pa Dengel. . . . and a Happy New Year Around the Alleyways. MEMO: There will be no column next Sunday. ``Around the Alleyways'' will
resume on Jan. 7. by CNB