Thursday August 18, 2016 California B7502 Florence Ave, owlingDowney, CA 90240 • Website: www.californiabowlingnews.com • Email: [email protected] news • Office: (562) 807-3600 Fax: (562) 807-2288 TNBA Chip Pettiford High Competition League Sweden’s Jesper Svensson by Dewann Clark As the winter season is This is a doubles league about to begin.... with an integrated “Fan- Wins WBT Thailand Title The $15,000 Chip Pet- tasy Foursome” when com- tiford High Competition bined pays out an excess of 21-year-old two-hander claims fifth PBA Tour title, third of 2016 season League has been in the $15,000 to two bowlers. BANGKOK, Thailand – “lime light” and has gained The 60th place finishing Sweden’s Jesper Svensson, notoriety all around South- in last place will receive a a 21-year-old left-handed ern California as “The commendable minimum two-handed player, became League to Watch and Join.” amount of $600 or more the first three-time Profes- It has quickly become ($300 each)! sional Bowlers Association the most talked about Not bad for a mere $30 Tour titlist of 2016 Friday league that allows the aver- per week league fee. The when he defeated Austra- age bowler the opportunity prize fund is based on 60 lia’s Sam Cooley, 237-213, to bowl for nearly profes- teams of doubles. to win the WBT Thailand sional type winnings. For more information title at Blu-O Rhythm and Many people are inquir- please see the ad in this Bowl Siam Paragon. ing about it and adjusting weeks paper or contact Svensson, who became their schedules to join. Dewann Clark @ 310-846- the youngest player to win The league bowls on 4590 or Necole Johnson @ the PBA FireLake Tourna- Thursday nights at 7:20 562-728-7210 ASAP. ment of Champions ear- ed as PBA’s 2015 Rookie of lion Thai baht, or roughly The PBA Xtra Frame Gene in Torrance, it doesn’t get Team spots will be held lier in the year, also won the Year. $32,260 U.S. dollars. Cool- Carter’s Pro Shop Classic much better than this .... the on a first come, first served the WBT Brunswick Euro Svensson, who clinched ey, a second-year PBA Tour at Mid-County Lanes in most exciting and highest basis with deposit, maxi- Challenge in Munich, Ger- the top qualifying berth for player, also threw a 300 in Middletown, Del., is set for pay off ratio league in all of mum 60 teams! many, in March. The Thai- the eight-player modified his final qualifying game Saturday and Sunday, Aug. Southern California! The deadline for team land victory was his fifth stepladder finals with a 300 to clinch the no. 2 berth for 20-21, offering a projected The league has been re- rosters is September 1st! PBA Tour title and his third game in his final qualifying the finals. $15,000 first prize and a named after one of its prom- League meeting and start World Bowling Tour title in game, locked up the vic- PBA Tour players will PBA Tour title to the win- inent charter members, Mr. date will be Thursday, Sep- two years. Svensson also tory with three strikes in return to the U.S. next ner if he/she is a PBA mem- Chip Pettiford who died of tember 8th at 6:00/7:30 re- won the 2015 WBT King- the 10th frame to counter week to resume the chase ber. The tournament will be prostate cancer. spectfully. So don’t be left dom of Bahrain Open and Cooley’s ninth-10th frame for the $10,000 winner- covered live from start to The league is Co-Spon- out and sign up now! the PBA Chameleon Open double. Along with his title, take-all prize in the Xtra finish by PBA’s Xtra Frame sored by AMF Bowl-O- on his way to being select- Svensson earned one 1 mil- Frame PBA Tour Series. continued on page 8 Drome Lanes. See AD on page 7 After Considering Retirement, Don Sylvia ABTA at CAL BOWL Saturday August 20 Wins PBA60 Dick Weber Championship FROZEN HANDICAP for Big Labor Day Event Sylvia beats Ron Mohr 236-196 in title match for first PBA60 win Match Game est. $3,500 • Match Series est. $4,000 FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Mystery Doubles $2,900 • 3-6-9 is $700 Three-time PBA50 Tour LAKEWOOD — We 6:00PM. Total cost of all 3 405 Freeways. Phone there winner Don Sylvia of will bowl Saturday at popu- games, pots is only $7.00. is (562) 421-8448. Daytona, Beach, Fla., con- lar Cal Bowl, a favorite of First place in this 4 The following week, sidered retiring from pro- the ABTA and members. squad event is guaranteed August 27 we will have a fessional competition ear- All semifinalists will cash. at $1,000 min. and up to BYE. lier this season, but entered Qualifying Squads $2,600 can be won with full Then “The Big La- the PBA60 Dick Weber are 1:00 - 2:30 - 4:00 bonus and Cash n Carry op- bor Day Special” at West Championship presented & 6:00PM. Semifinals tions. Covina Lanes Sept 2-3-4 by Hammer to give it one 8:00PM. Top 16 Single Cal Bowl, a very poplu- with Sunday night finals. more shot. I thought about retiring,” are ages 60 and over. Elims follow with 3 wom- lar center for our event is First Place $3,000 Min. to It turned out to be the said a tearful Sylvia after “It’s just an honor to en minimum. located at 2500 Carson in $9,000 1st with bonuses. right decision as he beat winning. “It was an unbe- be able to bowl with these New members are wel- Lakewood and easily ac- CHECK IN EARLY at two-time PBA50 Player lievable tournament for me guys and to bowl in a fi- come up to a 209 average cessed from the 605, 91 or Cal Bowl. of the Year and eight-time and it was a dream come nal with a hall of famer and may join onsite for PBA50 Tour titlist Ron true. It’s amazing to win a like Johnny Petraglia and only $10. Men and Women Mohr of Las Vegas, 236- tournament with Dick We- a future hall of famer like qualify separately. 196, in the title match at ber’s name on it. Ron Mohr, that’s what re- There are guaranteed Pro Bowl West Saturday “I’m still undecided ally makes it special,” the pots of $40 per game for his first PBA60 title. on what I should do, but 63-year-old Sylvia added. at 4:00PM and $160 at “Up until five weeks ago I don’t think you can ever In the opening steplad- really give up this game der match the 69-year-old entirely,” he continued. “I Petraglia, who had finished Featured Writers spent the last month or so second in the tournament This Week getting in shape and chang- the past two seasons, beat Scribes Page ing all of my equipment to Ron Boroff of Mansfield, Dewann Clark 1 get ready specifically for Texas, 242-223. Sylvia, Jon Diso 9 this tournament. The hard who was the No. 3 seed, Fred Eisenhammer 2,6 work paid off.” then beat Petraglia 224- Carol Mancini 9,12 David Schiada 11 The tournament, named 194, before defeating Jim Check here for next tourney Bob Smith 1,5 in honor of the late PBA Knoblauch of Waukesha, 22771 Centre Drive, Lake Forest CA 92630 • Phone (949)770-0055 Frank Weiler 8 legend, is for players who continued on page 8 Page 2 www.californiabowlingnews.com August 18, 2016 Watch Story, Part III Bowlers Know All the Angles by Fred Eisenhammer DETROIT, Mich. – While vacationing in Detroit recently, I ran across several hundred people lining up to enter a downtown building. A huge sign proclaimed, “Shinola watches. Samples. $100.” Shinola? That was as meaningful to me as . well, that had no meaning to me. But later I was to find out that Shinola is a magic word around Detroit. The company is based in that city and proclaims it’s “dedicated to producing American-built products, including watches, bicycles, leather goods and journals of the highest possible quality. Shinola’s watchword, though, is definitely watches. Bill Clinton is reported to have bought more than a dozen of its high-end watches last year and Shinola’s company signature Rumwell watch sells for more than $500. I met up with one obviously happy Shinola customer who told me she had just purchased five of those sample watches. She didn’t say if she planned to sell any of them, but it was obvious from her giddiness that she thought she had just pulled off a major heist. The surreal scene of lined-up Shinola watch buyers reminded me of two stories I wrote four months ago for the California Bowling News. I had talked about my recent personal experiences with watches – and they were not good. I wrote that the timing was finally right for me to get over my past travails and buy a new watch – from Target. So I did. The price: $9.99. In other words, I could have bought nine more of these watches for the price of that one Shinola sample. In my two stories, I related how I had bought five previous watches – four from Costco and one from TJ Maxx. All five fell apart – some within weeks, some within months and one just over a year.