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The annual Thanksgiving
tournament and the induction of Paul Weber into the California Shuffleboard
Hall of Fame went great. As reported by the tournament director,
Rich "Bubba" Warren, we had 39 paid shufflers that participated
in the ABC and open doubles events. Susie Jones was the treasurer
and taker of all the money. Their was approximately $3600 total
prize money in each event. Jeff Posthumus was the brackteer.
The
ABC event was won by John Fisher, HL Lee and our newcomer and his
first tournament, Firman Alvarez. Second place went to Hall of Famer
Bob Hunt, Gary Jones and Mike "Yard Sale" Huber. And third
was Eric Chiles, Chris Brown and Jan Manes.
In the open
doubles it was John Fisher (what a weekend for John) and Robert
"Cowboy" Wade. This was Robert's first win in an open
doubles. Congratulation Cowboy! John and Cowboy did not lose a game
the entire tournament. Way to go team! Second place was JR Noel
and Bob Crum. It was a hard fought two games, but John and Cowboy
prevailed. The dual of Jerry "Humdinger" Harp and Gary
Jones came in third. Jerry and Gary was the next to the lowest Calcutta
at $120. Way to go you guys!
The induction
of Paul Weber went off
without any hitches. Flowers were giving to Mrs. Weber by Jeff Posthumus
and to Paul from Siobhan Posthumus. Master of ceremonies, Tim Obrien
handled the great induction with such grace and still and I would
like to thank Tim for his support. I also want to thank Wes Martin,
Joe Muniz, Vern Booth, Ken Hawkes, Dave Brennan, Marion Bailey and
Mike Huber all for speaking at the induction. I want to send out
a BIG THANKS to Kathy Thomas for her great job she done on the program
booklets. If anyone out there would want to order their programs
for any tournament or other events, I would highly recommend Kathy's
work. What a first class job Kathy. Thanks for taking on the work
and your support.
I would like
to thank Jan Manes for taking care of the 50/50 drawing and those
that participated. If not for our drawings we would not have the
funds to pay for our induction's and other things that go un-noticed.
And last but certainly not least, I want to thank everyone that
did get involved in bringing all that wonderful food. That would
be the following people: Susie Jones, Hope Weber, Mo Harley, Jan
Manes, Bonnie Turmbo, Ernie Alvarez, Tommy Yoshiyama, Betsy Crier
and Oscar Ugarte. I heard nothing but good things about the food
at this tournament all weekend. [Picture Gallery]
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