Some 40 miles from where the modern game was designed in 1924, the New Port Richey Shuffleboard Club took on city council last week in a round of shuffleboard. Winners take all. No best of three. Discs were flying. The scoring diagram was chock-full.
City council wins.
It seems like an injustice to us. What began in depression in 1935 is ending in redevelopment in 2000. City council said it would try to help the club find a solution. When you can t decide whose baby it is, cut the baby in half. New Port Richey is grappling with its Fiscal 2001 budget.