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Performance inductees (l-r) Dale Traber, John Gaines, Steve Cook and Doug Kent, with the late Woody Woodruff’s daughter, Barbara Mandelbaum.


EVERYTHING BOWLING, ALL THE TIME


GETTING A LEG UP


Clara Guerrero turned more than FIVE WELCOMED INTO USBC HALL OF FAME


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USBC Open Championship legends John Gaines and Dale


Cook headlined a group of five bowling greats inducted into the United States Bowling Congress Hall of Fame, April 24, in Reno, Nev. Cook, a Triple Crown winner (PBA Tournament of Champi-


ons, Players Championship and U.S. Open), was joined in the Superior Performance category by Doug Kent, a 10-time PBA titlist and two-time USBC Masters champion. “I sure am glad I walked into that bowling center in 1975,”


Cook said. “Bowling has been everything to me, and I would not have what I have today without it.”


Traber were also inducted into the USBC Hall of Fame in Reno in the Outstanding USBC Performance category. Both Gaines and Traber own four USBC eagles. Gaines is also a past Team USA Trials champion and Pan Am Games gold medalist. Tra- ber owns 10 state championships in Wisconsin. The late Woody Woodruff, a longtime AMF executive who


played an integral role in the commercial development of the Automatic Pinspotter, was inducted in the Meritorious Ser- vice Category.


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a few heads when she reached the stepladder finals of the PBA Chee- tah Championships during the 2013 World Series of Bowling, becom- ing just the third woman to make the TV finals of a PBA Tour event. Guerrero lost the opening match to eventual champion Wes Malott, but her appearance had legs…literally. Self.com, the online complement to women’s health and fitness mag- azine, Self, offered hints on “How to Get Pro Bowler Clara Guerrero’s Strong and Shapely Legs.” The on- line piece highlighted the Colombi- an-born bowler’s workout routine. “It’s extremely important for me to keep my legs strong,” Guerrero told Self.com, “because they are where bowlers generate power.”


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