jwirvin

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT
Inducted 1996

In 1952, Joe held both the Winnipeg Five Pin and Tenpin High Series, a feat that has yet to be duplicated.

Joe won the City Singles Championship three years in a row in the years 1953-55 and was runner-up for the Manitoba Singles Championship in 1953-54.

Joe was also winner of the Dick Marinelli Scratch Singles Trophy in 1961 and had several other outstanding accomplishments during his many years of tenpin bowling.

Winnipeg City Senior League

1946-60
Consistently finished in the top of the league high averages

1951-52
League Vice President

1952-54
League President

1954-55
League Champions – Dominion Theatre Team

1955-56
Team High Series (2794) – Dominion Theatre Team
Most Improved Bowler (9 pins)

1960’s
League President

Commercial League

1960’s
Captain of the Burns Company Team

1961-62
League High Average

Winnipeg Bowling Association

1940’s
Served the Association as President, Vice President

1960’s
Executive Member and Director, Honorary Life Member

Golden Age Bowlers League

1980’s
Continued to bowl in the league until his passing on
February 16, 1989, at the age of eighty-two.