Article: `Something to aim for'; The Minneapolis Blind Bowling League has been supplying exercise, competition and friendship for blind, partially sighted and sighted bowlers for the past 54 years, even if the league rules have changed some since 1945.(SPORTS)

1/3 That first year, back when the league organizer wouldn't allow women to participate with men, Tillie Gilliland tucked a child under each arm and made it most Saturdays to the Minneapolis Blind Bowling League's weekly gathering.

That was 1951. She has been bowling ever since. She is 80.

"The last few years, I've made it every week, except when I fell and broke my wrist," she said.

Her aching feet and back told her to retire from her job as a cafeteria manager 15 years ago, but they have made few statements about her weekly trips from her St. Louis Park home to Stardust Lanes in Minneapolis, where she is the veteran of a league that ...

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