Horseshoes

Pitching Horseshoes in the Delaware Senior Olympics At Putt-A-Rosa, Milford, DE, October 12, 2008

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On a pleasant day at Milford, 22 folks in the “over forty nine” age group met to compete in the sport of pitching horseshoes for the Delaware Senior Olympic’s gold, silver and bronze medals.

This yearly event is entered by pre-registration through the Dover office of DSO, supervised by the President Rich O’Shaughnessy, and administrated by volunteer tournament directors. (This year, they were Marshall “Mike” Baker of Newark, and Wayne Saulsbury of Dover, both members of the First State Horseshoe Club.)

The host for the fourth straight year was Judy and Walt Swain at their sports complex known as “The Putt-A-Rosa” on business Rte. No. 1 just 2 miles south of the Milford Diner. Their courts were sanctioned by the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association in 2004, which meets the requirement to hold Senior Olympics (horseshoes) at their site.

With 15 courts available and 10 classes competing, no one had to wait for available room. And this year, nearly 91% of the entrants won a medal ! The format was round-robin, 30-shoe games. Eleven gold, six silver and three bronze medals were won. AND, only two people went home as “also ran”.

(left to rt.) Don Beam, Berlin,MD (SILVER) Paul McGee, Derwood, MD (GOLD) Ronold Salamon, Smyrna (SILVER), Jim Hirst, Newark (GOLD)

In the 70-74 class (above), two of the four were “out-of-staters”….they needed this tournament to qualify for the U.S. Senior Olympics, National Games, to be held in Palo Alto, Cal. (San Francisco Bay area) , dated Aug.1 thru 15, 2009. See web site www.2009seniorgames.org

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Bob Grier, Newark (GOLD)…. Dave Moore, Sr., Bear (SILVER) The 65-69 class

(left to rt.) Dick Seyler. Felton (SILVER). Ty Coffield, Dover (GOLD). Rich Menton, III, Newark (GOLD). Bill Pilecki, Milford (BRONZE).

Ty was unchallenged in the 50-54 class. The other 3 were in the 60-64 class

Patricia Szwed, Wilm. (GOLD). Linda Moore, Bear (BRONZE) Mary Lou Bishop, Newark (SILVER)… Barbara Wright, N. Castle (GOLD)… (Kneeling) Betty Faux, Wilm. (SILVER) & Ginny Wonchoba, Newark, (GOLD)

Patricia was unchallenged in the 55-59 class….the other three (standing) were in the 65-69 class…Betty & Ginny were in the 70-74 class.