Elaborating further ...
A number of bowlers in the Sarasota area know a lot about the services provided by USBC (and formerly ABC). Dale Reed is one of them.
"I feel like I'm being serviced like a cow in heat," Reed once said, before quitting the game for the second time in 1981.
That's the year that Reed protested proprietor Dick Hubbard's penchant for barring customers from his bowling centers. That's also the year that Hubbard barred Reed for life and criminally assaulted the bowler at the same time.
That's also two years before the same proprietor restricted two league presidents from doing their ABC-mandated duties of verifying the league's bank account monthly. The first league president was barred from the center, and the second one (George Danson) was barred by Hubbard AND SENT TO JAIL FOR TRESPASSING.
ABC rules clearly stated that every league president must verify the league account monthly. But Hubbard refused to provide enough information for proper and accurate verification by Danson. Therefore, Danson informed the ABC that he was unable to verify the league account, but ABC replied that Danson had an OBLIGATION to verify.
So Danson pressed the issue, even though he felt that trouble was brewing because of numerous threats by the proprietor. Danson wound up being barred from the bowling center and sent to jail.
ABC had REPEATEDLY told Danson that he HAD to verify the league account. However, after Danson was ejected and jailed, the ABC completely turned its back on him, telling him that it couldn't do anything to intervene in a dispute "between a proprietor and a customer."
Danson argued with the ABC that he was a league president as well as a customer, and he asked the ABC when, in the view of the national organization, did he go from being a league president to a customer. But ABC never provided an answer.
