Engle Tames World Champ at New Castle, Pa. Ringer Roundup
Oscar Engle of Pittsburgh won the Fall Ringer Roundup Open Tournament in New Castle, Pennsylvania by defeating World Champion, Danny Kuchcinski of Erie, not once, but twice, in the most exciting tourney this city has ever seen!!!!
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the end of 5 games, Danny had a perfect record and Engle had lost one game to
Herb Pinch of Sharon. Then Engle and
Kuchcinski played each other.
Engle
was ahead at the end of 100 shoes 45-40.
At the end of f108 shoes, Danny was ahead 49-45. Engle got credit for another ringer making
the score 48-49, then each threw two ringers, no count, Engle made two more
ringers and Danny only one, so Engle made 3 points ending the game 52-49, 118
shoes, 90 ringers each. (76.3%)
Each
had one more game to play which both won without any trouble, so at the end of
regular play, each had 6 wins and 1 loss and had to play each other again. Engle won the play-off game 50-38. This game went 108 sheos and Engle had 92
ringers, 85.2%, and Danny had 88 ringers, 81.5%
Engle
won the trophy presented by the Sporting Good’s Store plus %75.00 from the
various merchants and local banks.
Kuchcinski won $30.00. Pinch and
Sam Sutton of Washington, Pa., were tied for third place and also won a cash
prize.
Frank
Peluso of New Brighton won all his games in Class AS to take first place prize
and cash. Bob Morris of New Castle won
2nd and third place was all tied up with Clyde Falk of Pittsburgh
and Ray Slocum of Akron splitting the winnings.
Class
BB ended in a three-way tie between Pete Sowa of McKeesprot, Merle Brightshue
of New Castle and Clair Bruce of New Wilmington. Bruce won the play-off for first, with Brightsue placing second,
and Sowa coming in third.
Class
B had tom Board of Rochester the victor with a perfect score of 5 wins. Second and third places were tied by Bill
Richeal of Beaver and Clarence Black.
Chuck
Sowa of Ardara, Pa. placed first in Class C winning four games and losing only
one game to Ross Hitchcock of Poland Ohio.
The
winner of class CC was Cyril Enders of Beaver with Ed Blum of Darlington taking
second place and Clarence Balck also of Beaver coming in third. Opal Corbett of New Castle, the only woman
participating, won all her games to take first place in Class D.
Oscar Engle |
6 |
1 |
75.2 |
|
Dan Kuchcinski |
6 |
1 |
76.0 |
|
Sam Sutton |
4 |
2 |
72.9 |
|
Herb Pinch |
4 |
2 |
71.1 |
|
Ansil Copeland |
3 |
4 |
60.1 |
|
Rich Maroni |
2 |
5 |
56.7 |
|
Joe Kuchcinski |
2 |
5 |
67.1 |
Class A
Frank Peluso |
5 |
0 |
56.5 |
|
Bob Morris |
4 |
1 |
48.5 |
|
Clyde Falk |
2 |
3 |
40.6 |
|
R. Slocum |
2 |
3 |
56.1 |
|
Nick Wohar |
1 |
4 |
43.8 |
|
R. Hartshorn |
1 |
4 |
43.3 |
Class BB
Clair Bruce |
5 |
2 |
65.0 |
|
Merle Brightshue |
5 |
2 |
61.6 |
|
Pete Sowa |
5 |
2 |
60.7 |
|
Vince Sedlacek |
4 |
3 |
57.4 |
|
Carl Elder |
4 |
3 |
55.5 |
|
Dean Mayes |
2 |
5 |
55.7 |
|
Herman Boyer |
2 |
5 |
47.0 |
|
L. Tarbell |
1 |
6 |
41.0 |
Class B
Tom Board |
5 |
0 |
55.5 |
|
B. Richeal |
3 |
2 |
46.2 |
|
Clarence Black |
3 |
2 |
45.0 |
|
C. Triola |
2 |
3 |
38.5 |
|
C. Forney |
2 |
3 |
29.1 |
|
R. Brandon |
1 |
5 |
39.3 |
Class CC
Cyril Enders
|
2 |
0 |
62.1 |
|
Ed Blum |
1 |
1 |
49.3 |
|
Clarence Black |
0 |
2 |
32.7 |
Class C
Charles Sowa
|
4 |
1 |
54.2 |
|
R. Hitchcock |
3 |
2 |
53.7 |
|
S. Davidson |
3 |
2 |
49.7 |
|
W. Richard |
2 |
3 |
55.4 |
|
R. Tarbell |
1 |
4 |
48.1 |
|
E. Winsper |
1 |
4 |
39.3 |
Class D
Opal Corbett
|
5 |
0 |
41.2 |
|
Dale Elder |
4 |
1 |
34.4 |
|
B. Smith |
3 |
2 |
23.4 |
|
Ted Corbett |
2 |
3 |
17.0 |
|
L. Johnson |
1 |
4 |
20.3 |
|
B. Kovack |
FO |
RF |
EIT |
©1999 by Steve Morris