Verhovayak Lapja, 1949 (32. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1949 / Verhovay Journal
PAGE 8 Verhovay Journal November 16, 1949 1950 Tournament City News I COMMITTEES OF THE 7TH VERHOVAY NATIONAL BOWLING TOURNAMENT National Executive Committee ANDREW KOVÁCS, M.D., Chairman Vice-President, Verhovay F.I.A. 3609 Lorain Avenue Cleveland, Ohio RICHARD PHILLIPS, Director 7419 Park Avenue Allen Park, Michigan MIKE KOROSY, Director 646 So. Liberty Avenue Alliance, Ohio Bowlers’ 1950 Tournament Committee JOSEPH TURNER, JR. Captain, Branch 21 134 Rhoda St. Youngstown, Ohio MRS. JOHN BARKÓ, JR. Captain, Branch 21 45 Benita Avenue Youngstown, Ohio STEPHEN NOVAK Captain, Branch 21 1150 Donation Avenue Youngstown, Ohio ANDREW BLASKO Captain, Branch 514, 364 25 N. Osborne St. Youngstown, Ohio JOSEPH NAGY Captain, Branch 21 35 Willis Avenue Youngstown, Ohio STEPHEN MISLAY Br. 21 Sports Club, President Publicity 528 Dorothy Avenue Youngstown, Ohio Tournament Album Committee STEPHEN MATASSY, Chairman Legal Counsel, Verhovay F.I.A. 704 Realty Bldg. Youngstown, Ohio Tournament Administration HENRY RETTMANN JOHN SABO Editor National Auditor Assistant Administrator Tournament Administrator VERHOVAY BUILDING — 436 FOURTH AVE. PITTSBURGH 19, PA. MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW! The Seventh Annual Verhovay National Ten Pin Tournament is still far ahead, but it is not too early to start making plans for this great event. Avoid the tensions arising from last-minute uncertainty from which suffer all those teams that: postpone the final decision from one month to the other until the expiration of the deadline date. Let’s make it a date now and firmly resolve that nothing shall prevent your team from attending the 7th Tournament to be held on May 26 to 28, 1950, in Youngstown, Ohio. Mark those days in your calendar with indelible ink and reserve them for the great reunion of Verhovay’s bowlers. Don’t make your decision dependent from such and such conditions. Don’t let “whereases,” “if’s” and “pending’s” confuse the issue, because most of the so-called ‘problems’ have a habit of solving themselves and the obstacles usually are easy to eliminate if the members of a team have made their minds up well in advance. Each year we have felt sorry for some bowlers who really wanted to make the Tournament, but had to back out in the last minute because they had been let down by the undecided. Be fair to your team! Don’t tell ’em “I’ll see if I can make it,” but tell ’em “I’ll make it,” and, then-, live up to your promise. Naturally, insurmountable difficulties may arise at work as well as at home if you start clearing your way for the tournament only two or three weeks before the event. But if you make your plans now and inform your boss and your family of your intention several months in advance, you’ll see that your absence will not cause the slighest embarrassment. In the past, the ever present lack of funds play have prevented many a team from participating in our tournaments. But as an obstacle major importance, this, too, has been eliminated. The Tournament Financing Campaign offers each and every bowler and each and every team an excellent opportunity to raise the funds needed for participation in the Verhovay National Tournament. And I the sooner you start the local campaign, the greater will be your rewards. Naturally, you can’t accomplish too much if, after months of shilly-shallying, you decide some time in March that you will participate in the Tournament after all, and, j then, decide in the following month, that you, too, will raise some funds ‘through the Financing Campaign. If you start now, you have six months for doing the job and if you use these six months well, you’ll be amazed at your own success. And that’s why you must decide now that you will attend in the 1950 Tournament. The only real difficulty is in our own mind. The so-called “problems” are merely excuses to cover up for an indecision which just isn’t fair to the rest of the members of our team. Once we really make up our mind to go, we’ll find a way to go. You owe it to your team to make up your mind now and, thereby, give your team a fair chance to spend the full season in training as well as in the highly remunerative participation in the Tournament Financing Campaign. This business of making up our minds and sticking to our decision is one of the essential qualities of sportsmanship. Here is our chance to prove our sportsmanship. Let’s be good sports! THE TOURNAMENT CALENDAR For the information of those whose attention it may have escaped, we give a brief resume of the information published in the October issue of our Journal. The Tournament starts on Friday, May 26, 1950, at 6 p.m., at which time the teams of Youngstown, O., and other localities in the surrounding area will be scheduled to howl. This includes the teams in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, who will start in the 5-Man and 5-Woman Event. The team events shall continue on Saturday, May 27, at 8 o’clock in the morning. The Two-Man, Two- Woman and Individual Events shall follow the team events. A dance will be held on Saturday evening, May 27, at 8 o’clock, which will be free to the participants of Hie National Tournament. On Sunday, May 28, beginning at 8 p.m., the Two-Man, Two-Woman and Individual Events will be continued and concluded. A buffet-banquet and a dance, free to the tournament participants, will be held on Sunday evening, beginning at 7 o’clock. The Champion Recreation Building, Champion St., Youngstown, O., in the heart of the city, will be the tournament theatre. Entry blanks for the National Tournament will be available as soon after New Year as possible. All entries must be mailed before midnight, March 31st, 1950. Under no ccircumstances will entries mailed after that date be accepted. Payment in full of all entry fees must accompany the applications for entry. Complete tournament schedules will be mailed to all bowling teams one month before the date of the tournament. The Tournament participants and guests will be accommodated in the four hotels located in the downtown section of Youngstown, Ohio, all within walking distance to each other as well as the Champion Recreation alleys. Rooms for 2, 4, and 5 persons will be available at the then effective rates. (At the present rates are about $3.00 to $3.50 per person in double rooms and about $2.50 per person in larger rooms. These rates are subject to change and are quoted only for the information of those planning to attend.) TWO NIGHTS OF FUN And now to the new developments. Knowing that fun is the spice of life, the National Tournament Committee took good care to make this an exceptionally “well seasoned” tournament. The lessons of past experiences have been carefully applied to the plans that promise the partj icipants and guests of the 1950 ! Tournament the fiivest entertainment they ever enjoyed at any of Verhovay’s national affairs. In arranging for an event of this kind, the large number of the guests to be entertained is one of the biggest problems that, due to the unexpected lack of large enough facilities, almost stumped the committee at the Detroit Tournament. And at the beginning it seemed extremely doubtful that more adequate facilities would be available in a city of the size of Youngstown. However, the Committee was most fortunate in finding jqst what is was looking for in the just completed Parish Center of the Hungarian Evangelical and Reformed Church on Mahoning Ave. Only a few_ minutes’ ride from the heart of the City, the brand new Parish Center is one of the finest establishments of its kind. Beautifully built, excellently located, modern]}' equipped, it offers splendid accommodations both for the Saturday evening dance and the gala affair on Sunday night. The magnifificent ballroom, equipped with a huge stage, a balcony, and a dance floor of mirror-like smoothness, large enough to hold five hundred couples, will lend an atmosphere of elegance to these two events. On the floor below, a large Dining Room, adjacent to« a most modernly and tastefully equipped mammoth kitchen, and a spacious Club Room on the ground floor, all provided with every comfort, are to serve as additional accommodations. THE BUFFET BANQUET It was Dearborn’s “Ferret”' who first suggested, immediately after the last tournament, that« the drawbacks of “stuffy bowlingbanquets” be eliminated by serving a buffet banquet. Writing- in the June issue of the Journal she suggested: “Let’s rather plan on a closed dance for bowlers, out-of-town j guests, and invited dignitaries. If j food is required, let there be a long buffet table, loaded with plenty of good things to eat . . . and lots of little tables strewn around a huge dance floor. There are a good many people who don’t dance, but will gather in their own party to eat, drink, sing, or just chatter away. Those who like dancing, will be right there ‘with the more conservative guests, and everyone can have a lot of fun . . . And the beauty I of this whole thing is that it will do away with all misunderstandings that always arise from banquets served in confusion.” The suggestion was adopted by the National Committee who had this plan in mind when looking- for facilities for the entertainment part of the Tournament program. One couldn’t even dream of an establishment better equipped for just this plan (Continued on page 9)
