SENIORS FIND FUN, FRIENDS LAWN BOWLING.Byline: Bryan Winchell Special to the Daily News When Rosalie Sutton takes her grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. to the local bowling alley for a couple of games, she usually wakes up the next day with a sore back. While she loves playing the game, the weight of the ball puts a heavy burden on her back and arm so she doesn't often play. But that doesn't stop her from knocking down pins. She and her husband, Rob, compete year-round in the sport of lawn bowling lawn bowling: see bowls. . ``I've always been very athletic and competitive, but alley bowling takes a lot out of you,'' Sutton said. ``Lawn bowling is a similar rhythm to alley bowling but the ball is much smaller (2-4 pounds) so it's not as hard on you.'' One of the competitions they try to participate in every year is the Gold Coast Senior Games, which are going on now through Oct. 19. While they took home a gold medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize two years ago at the competition, their outing at this year's games Saturday wasn't as successful. Their usual partner, Amador Martinez, had to cancel at the last minute. Needing another partner, the Suttons found Earl Kersey kersey coarse, narrow cloth used for leg bandages in horses. , who, unlike the veteran bowler, had little competitive experience. Knowing the Suttons would rather play than forfeit To lose to another person or to the state some privilege, right, or property due to the commission of an error, an offense, or a crime, a breach of contract, or a neglect of duty; to subject property to confiscation; or to become liable for the payment of a penalty, as the result of a , Kersey competed mostly to help out some friends. The threesome finished eighth out of nine teams. ``Naturally we would have liked to have had Amador on our team,'' Rosalie Sutton said. ``I was disappointed, but happy we didn't have to drop out. Earl tried his best, he just doesn't have much experience.'' Lawn bowling, which Rosalie has competed in since 1987 and Rob since 1991, is like a cross between horseshoes and alley bowling. When a game is played with three-player teams, each player gets three bowls at a white jack, which is between the size of a golf and tennis ball. After all 18 bowls, the team with the most balls closest to the jack gets points. If it has only one ball closer than the other team's closest ball, they get only one point, two balls for two points, etc. This is repeated 12-14 times, which concludes one game. In a tournament, teams usually play three games, which can last several hours. It's a game where a lot of strategy is involved because one player stays down at the end of the jack and determines where to place the shots. Teams can knock their opponents' balls away from the jack, called ``wicking wicking Infectious disease Enhanced penetration of liquids, and small pathogens, through minute holes in latex membranes–eg, surgical gloves, which may develop when washed with surfactants, an effect that militates against the re-use of certain materials ,'' and they can knock the jack closer to their balls. And like golf, the game requires etiquette etiquette, name for the codes of rules governing social or diplomatic intercourse. These codes vary from the more or less flexible laws of social usage (differing according to local customs or taboos) to the rigid conventions of court and military circles, and they and quiet from its players. ``It's not a beer-drinking, loud, macho type of sport,'' Rob Sutton said. ``It's (genteel gen·teel adj. 1. Refined in manner; well-bred and polite. 2. Free from vulgarity or rudeness. 3. Elegantly stylish: genteel manners and appearance. 4. a. ) and quiet and you really have to concentrate.'' Rob Sutton would have never taken up the sport had it not been for his wife. After her sister-in-law introduced her to the sport, Rosalie joined the Oxnard Joslyn Lawn Bowler's Club. She bowled competitively for a few years, including an indoor tournament in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , before she convinced her husband to try it. Now when the Suttons travel, they usually look for local senior centers which offer the sport. Just last year, they competed in a tournament in Clearwater, Fla. ``Once the game gets in your blood when you go travel you start to look around for places to play because you want to beat people,'' Rosalie said. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Rosalie Hutton cheers a teammate's shot while AngelOchoa looks on in a lawn bowling match. Michael Owen
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