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<br /> A really big shoe/If you spend time around the horseshoe pits you'll recognize Dale Lipovsky,left,and father Len as a couple of ringers.
<br /> By Ralph I hornton Bloomington horseshoe league al Valley View
<br /> Staff Writer Champion horseshoe pitchers Park on 91st St. between Nicollet and Pori-
<br /> land avenues, where 24 lighted courts are
<br /> 1 he world's champion horseshoe pitcher loll- maintained by the city's Park and Recreation
<br /> cd a shoe the
<br /> the stake feel away. It curled almost always bring in ringers Department. •
<br /> in to hug the pin,a perfect
<br /> ect ringer. A second
<br /> shoe followed. "We don't throw shots every day,"said Len
<br /> ringers canceled mine." ringer knocked his first one off,and I pill both Lipovsky,who has a court"better than these"
<br /> KLt1NK!Another ringer. mine on." The second ringer's three points in his hack yard. "We have league nights
<br /> Lipovsky, 33, threw 82.2 percent ringers at made the score 40-37 for the son. Monday and Tuesday, and go to a lourna-
<br /> Then the champion's father threw two shoes, the world tournament to regain the title he !tient somewhere every weekend."
<br /> which also nestled into the soft clay pit to had held in 1982 and 1983. He also is the They also teamed with four-time women's
<br /> encircle the stake.Four ringers lay there. reigning Minnesota champion,having beaten world champion Phyllis Neegaard of St. Jo- Next to the courts a bulletin board calls
<br /> his dad, Lenny Lipovsky, in the finals last seph and Dave Hughes,Bloomington,to win attention to coming events: the Rochester
<br /> "We call that four dead,"said Dale Lipovsky year. the team title at a national meet in Milwaukee Open, 23rd annual Rapidan Open and Jock-
<br /> of Bloomington, who won the world horse- last season. ey's Cup at St. Francis,all this weekend;the
<br /> shoe pitching title for the third time last week "It uas an unbelievable match—I aced him
<br /> at Fan Claire,Wis."It counts nothing—his out nn the last shoe,"Dale said."His second •The Lipovskys are members of an active Ringer continued on page 1213
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