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The Horse Shoe leagues are
operated in the town of Speedway, Indiana on courts located in
the Leonard Park behind the Fire House at 1500 North Lyndhurst
Drive.
Map
There are eight lighted courts at this location.
The 2012 summer season will include Tuesday and Wednesday night leagues. League play for 2012 began in
early May and continued through to the end of middle of
August (16
weeks).
The Wednesday summer league, a learning/instructional league. In
2011 it
consisted of six "2-man" teams. It's format
differs somewhat from that of the Tuesday league.
A Fall
league is also planned for 2012.
The Count-All scoring system is used, with team play and
competition, and with all players receiving handicaps based upon
their league averages so as to level-the-field where there is a
range of pitching skills.
In the Count-All scoring a Ringer shoe is worth 3 points,
and 1 point is awarded for any non-ringer shoe that is within 6
inches of the stake. All shoes that conform to this
scoring criteria are included in the player's score. There
is no cancellation in this format.
Three games are pitched each night, each game consisting of
25 frames wherein each player pitches two shoes; i.e. 50 shoes
per game per player. Two teams compete on each court, with
each team fielding one player on the North end and one player on
the South end. There is no walking. Points are
awarded to the team winning each game competition on each court.
Warm-up and court preparation begins about 6:00 PM.
The official starting time is 6:30 PM; and, the pitching of three
games requires about two and one-half hours.
In the 4-man leagues each of the teams "pitch" four players
for each game, but they may have as many as six players on
their team roster. The leagues permit the teams to be made up of
men, women, and/or juniors. Substitutes are also available to
fill the needs.
The Speedway leagues are operated independent of any state
and national Horse Shoe Pitching Association. Members of
the Speedway leagues can, however, also choose to become members
of the AHPA or the NHPA. In so doing they would then be
eligible to pitch in the Weekly and State Chanpionship AHPA or
NHPA tournaments.
This web site's purpose is to weekly provide information and
the current standings for the Speedway leagues, plus schedule
information about the Indiana weekly tournaments and the final
State tournament events.
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