[blindza] Re: Fw: Blind bowlers have laughs to spare
- From: Dewald van Deventer <dewaldvandeventer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:13:04 +0200
I love bowling!
We must make a plan!
On 3/15/09, Jacob Kruger <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've done tenpin bowling once ever since hadn't even done it when could
> still see, but think I mentioned that I did beat one sighted friend at it -
> LOL!
>
> Anyway, see below.
>
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
> '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
>
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>
> Press of Atlantic City, NJ, USA
>
> Blind bowlers have laughs to spare
> By MARTIN DeANGELIS Staff Writer, 609-272-7237
> Published: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
>
> EGG HARBOR CITY - The loudest sound at the Strike Zone Lanes in Egg Harbor
> City on Tuesday was the
> laughing.
> Tracy Atwell and Stacey Revis laughed when Tracy got her bowling ball stuck
> on her hand and she
> couldn't get it loose to throw it. Then they laughed again when she finally
> worked it off her hand
> and casually tossed it down the lane - and ended up knocking down all the
> pins for a strike.
> Jim Chester laughed as he remembered his most famous strike as a bowler -
> famous because he didn't
> get it in his own lane. He knocked down all 10 pins in the next lane.
> And Ann Burns, the director of the Lions Blind Center in Absecon - who set
> up Tuesday's bowling
> party for a dozen or so members of the center - laughed as she warned a
> photographer about her most
> important rule of bowling.
> "No pictures of my backside," said Burns, who had help with her game from
> two spotters - one of them
> human, the other her guide dog, Molly, who must know how to keep score in
> bowling. Or at least Molly
> watched her master's game so closely that the dog seemed to think she was
> keeping score.
>
> It's nothing new for blind and visually impaired people to go bowling: They
> do that in groups all
> over the country, and in several more places around New Jersey.
> The people from the Lions Blind Center in Absecon have also gone bowling
> before, and it's always "an
> absolutely wonderful adventure" when they do, Burns says. "It is hilarious."
> Take Jim Chester, who lives in Hammonton and doesn't mind admitting that he
> wasn't exactly a giant
> of the bowling world even when he could see the pins. But because of
> diabetes, he started losing his
> sight about 1998, and now he depends on a cane to get around safely.
> And he uses bowling "basically ... as a chance to get out of the house," he
> said Tuesday, after he
> sent another ball down the lane, bouncing back and forth off the gutter
> guards that Burns always
> asks the alley's management to put out when her bowlers are coming.
> The gutter guards were also out at another alley in Hammonton a while ago
> when Chester, bowling in a
> lane next to Burns, threw a legendary strike in Lions Blind Center history.
> "I don't know how I managed to do it, what kind of English I put on the
> ball" or exactly what
> happened, Chester explained. All he knows is that he tried to send the ball
> down his own lane and it
> somehow jumped the gutter guards there, and the gutter guards in the lane
> next to him, and knocked
> down all Burns' pins to make a perfect strike - so perfect that she never
> even had to throw a ball
> to make the strike.
> "My uncle, who was a very good league bowler, (would) have laughed his rear
> end off," Chester said.
> And there were lots of laughs from the people who were there, but Burns
> picks up the story and says
> there was one thing she took seriously.
> "I told him, 'You get the credit - but I get the points,'" Burns said.
> But actually, there was a lot of bowling going on Tuesday with nobody
> keeping score - or nobody
> watching the score the alleys keep automatically.
> Revis, of Egg Harbor Township, and Atwell, who lives in Corbin City -
> otherwise known as the Stacey
> and Tracy team - just kept bowling and talking and laughing when everybody
> else took a break from
> knocking down pins to chow down on wings and burgers and chefs salads.
> "Stacey's all the way blind. I'm legally blind," Atwell said, explaining how
> she could help line
> Stacey up for her rolls and tell her where the pins were still standing
> after her ball had done its
> damage.
> And Atwell said she likes it when the blind-center group gets a whole
> bowling alley to itself, as it
> did Tuesday at the Strike Zone.
> "Other people are going for the game," she said. "We're going just for the
> fun of it."
> Laurie Haines also came out from Atlantic City for the fun of bowling, and
> she got plenty of help
> and advice and laughs from her friend, Eunice McFadden, of Mays Landing.
> Part of McFadden's sure-fire advice for bowling is, "You imagine knocking
> someone's head off," she
> said, which prompted a question from a guy standing there: Did she have
> anybody specific in mind?
> "My late husband," she said, automatically. "But anybody you get mad at,
> just think of them."
> Still, McFadden added that she really enjoyed her day at the Strike Zone,
> especially the food, the
> service and the fact that for the most part, the blind bowlers were just
> treated as bowlers.
> "Life is good," she announced, changing out of her bowling shoes.
> "Yes it is," Haines agreed. "In spite of (blindness), it's good."
> But even when you're not keeping score, life's better sometimes than at
> others.
> Just ask Revis, who threw a ball at one point, heard a crash of pins and
> then got a report.
> "A strike?" she asked, obviously excited. "I did? Whoa, I got two of them!"
>
> SOURCE
> http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/179/story/405714.html
>
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