Feb 2014 Panarama
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February 2014 A Message From The Editor… Greetings from the snowy tundra of Indianapolis! Is anyone out there suffering from cabin fever like I am? Has your league been extended to August because of missed weeks due to snow? Has the cold gotten so bad that curling might be a better alternative than bowling? Fear not my fellow bowlers; the Pocket Panorama is here to bring some warmth into your life! Inside this issue, you’ll find plenty of sunshine, a warm breeze, birds, butterflies and bees and well, um, you get the point. A lot has happened since the last issue… Indy USBC City Mixed Tournament Team Event FEATURING A coaching clinic Youth tournaments and high school Tournament Results competitions Bowling Buzz Indy USBC Women’s Championship Corky’s Corkboard Tournament Youth Bowling News But don’t stop with just the first page; Ballistics 101 be sure to read this issue from cover to Calendar of Events cover. You’ll find answers about honor score awards, tournament results and much, much more as you dig into the February 2014 edition of the Pocket Panorama! Rich Sirola Indy USBC Assoc November 16-17, 2013 November 23-24, 2013 WOW! We had 112 teams compete in the CITY OPEN this year! That's 3 times as many as the previous year! Thanks to all who promoted, donated to, participated in and/or volunteered their time at this event to make it a huge success! 2014 Indiana Masters Tournament January 24-26, 2014 Ryan Pittman Trent Burns TJ Schmidt Jeff Clark John Verbich III Runner-Up Third Place Fourth Place Hi Qualifier Champion This year’s Indiana Masters tournament FINISH QUALIFY SCORE PRIZE $ NAME CITY drew 354 entries from all over the state of 1 18 1056 $ 2,000.00 Verbich, III, John Griffith Indiana. Even though the weather did not 2 17 1061 $ 1,300.00 Pittman, Ryan Indianapolis cooperate, they had a great weekend of 3 20 1025 $ 1,000.00 Burns, Trent Indianapolis bowling at Cooper’s Sport Bowl in 4 12 639 $ 800.00 Schmidt, TJ - 48 Mishawaka Anderson. The Indy USBC Association can always use help at tournaments. Please come out and volunteer some time at our youth & adult tournaments. Help us keep the sport of bowling alive! All Star Bowl Hosts Coaching Clinic Presented By H2M Management & Score 60 Coaching Team All Star Bowl was the site of a coaching clinic held on January 18th. Nick Hoagland, Dylan Murphy, and Steve Harman of H2M Management teamed up with proprietor, Dan Smith and his Score 60 coaching team to provide a unique perspective on how to break down a lane pattern and use it to the bowler’s advantage. The clinic was limited to 36 bowlers to provide each bowler with extensive one-on-one personal instruction. The path to the pocket The clinic started off with a half hour orientation on why there are many different patterns to challenge the bowler. The participants were brought out onto the lanes as Nick and Dan broke down the lanes, segment by segment, from the foul line, to the arrows, to the breakpoint, and through to the head pin. The bowlers were then let loose onto the lanes to experience the different oil patterns first hand. That’s where the Score 60 team came into play. They worked with each bowler to personalize what adjustments they Dan & Nick break down the lane into different segments should make based on their own personal bowling style to achieve their maximum scoring ability as patterns break down. The patterns included the 2013 Indy USBC City Team Event pattern, the 2013 Indiana High School Bowling Championship pattern, and the 2014 Indiana USBC Masters pattern. Score 60 team members: Steve Harman, Dylan Murphy, Theresa Smith-Dill, & John Bauerle, Jr. BVL ‐ Bowlers to Veterans Link The Bowlers to Veterans Link is a national nonprofit charity (501(c)3) which supports America’s veteran and active duty service men and women. Founded in 1942, the BVL is the sport of bowling’s oldest charity. This past year, the Indy USBC Association, local centers and bowlers came together to donate over $7,500 to the BVL. This amount topped prior donations from the past 5 Nick Hoagland teaches bowlers how to years. Congratulations to Pinheads Bowl whose donations were read a technical printout of an oil pattern up 5.7% from last year. On behalf of veterans everywhere, thank you for your continued support. At age 70, Larry Fehr is still quite a competitive bowler. Fehr averages 200 in the Senior Masters Championships and Senior League of Masters, both traveling leagues. However, Fehr sets a tough standard for himself. His late Father, Johnny Fehr, was one of the premier bowlers in Indianapolis from the 1930s to the early 1960s. “I think I missed a couple of his genes,” Fehr said, joking. Johnny Fehr, who died in 1984 at age 83, was a member of Indy United States Bowling Congress Association’s first Hall of Fame class in 1966. However, he wasn’t elected into the state Hall of Fame until last summer. The elder Fehr’s nomination process began after his son began looking though a box of photos and clippings a few years ago. Fehr decided to make a scrapbook. He was putting the finishing touches on his book when he called USBC state headquarters to verify his father’s state titles. When it was learned Johnny Fehr was not in the State Hall of Fame, the official suggested Larry make a nomination. Fehr was elected on the next ballot. Fehr had never seen his father bowl in his prime. “He was 43 when I was born,” Fehr said. “I saw him bowl well but not in his absolute prime.” Among his father’s accomplishments were five sanctioned perfect games and one 299, 86 documented series of 700 or more with a high of 795, 11 city tournament titles, six state tournament titles and 15 regional and national titles. Perfect games in that era were not as common as they are today. Fehr found an Indianapolis News story from 1946 noting 2,791 bowlers nationally had rolled a 300, but just 23 had four or more. His father had four at that time. Johnny Fehr had a high season average of 216. At age 61, he was on a team that placed seventh in the 1962 ABC (now USBC) national tournament. From his research, Fehr felt bowling at the top level was more team-oriented than it is today. “Today it seems more of an individualistic thing,” he said. “You might get five guys together on a team but they are not necessarily great friends off of the lanes.” His father’s teammates and their wives were all close. Johnny Fehr often teamed with the late Jess Pritchett, another charter member of the Indy Hall of Fame. “Jess was deemed the best bowler in Indianapolis in the 1930s and dad was second or third,” Fehr said. “I think Jess either mentored him or brought it out of him. All through the ’30s when he bowled with Jess, he was really bowling well.” Fehr learned a great deal about what bowling was like in those days while combing through the clippings. In most of the pictures Fehr found, his father and teammates bowled in white shirts and ties. Two-fingered balls for finger and a thumb were used until the late 1940s. “All the pins and lanes were wood which led to all kinds of inconsistencies,” Fehr said. “There were different weights of the pins. Today you walk in with five or six bowling balls and they walked in with one ball. They used pin boys.” Most of the materials in the box were from 1936 and afterward. It was in 1936 that his father and mother (Helen) got married. “So it looked like it was my mom that kept it for him,” Fehr said. Fehr went to the Indiana State Library to examine old newspapers to fill in information from 1931-36. It was more work than he ever expected and became a true labor of love. Fehr said he learned more about his father’s personality from the research. “I was close with dad and we had a good relationship but I didn’t know how he was perceived by his peers,” Fehr said. “Some of the newspaper articles talked about his congenial personality and how he was fun to be around. He was genuinely a good guy and a very modest guy.” Larry Fehr bowled competitively until the early 1970s and then was a league bowler until 1982. Busy with work and family, he stopped bowling until he retired in 2002. Submitted By: Mark Ambrogi, Indianapolis Star The Right Coach Over the past year, I have been asked if I could offer tips to the bowlers for the pocket panorama. I was very interested in this endeavor for the simple fact that I believe the more information an athlete has access to, the better understanding they will have about today’s game. The better the understanding, the better the experience the athlete will have in trying to accomplish their goals as a bowler. This issue’s tip is finding the right coach. These are just a few things you should look for in a coach… Do they have structure in what they teach? Do they teach the sport in the proper order? B O Do they have your interest in mind or their own? W Will they help you reach your goals without concern of their own goals? L Will they spend the proper time with you or the time you feel you need? U Do they have access to the information you are looking for and can they verbalize this to you in a language you understand? These are just a few of the things you should ask yourself before trusting a coach with your game.