The 2nd Southern Nevada Masters was held in Oct. of 1978 at WEST HILL LANES. For those of you who remember this center the shot was on the 1 board......It had an amazing scary gutter shot as the closer to the 1 board you threw the ball the chances were you would get a strike. This event had 43 entries which prompted local officials to state they were going to look into whether they would be running a 3rd event. The entry fee was raised $10 to $35 in 1978. This event was actually advertised in all the local papers , television and all local centers. Tournaments believed they should of had at least 70 entries. The funny part is that local association official JIM TINDALL said that the 1977 event went $60 in the hole and the 1978 event was on the brink of being in the red or just breaking even.  To show some things never change JIM TINDALL said that the majority of the bowlers entered in the 1978 event were 190 and under average bowlers and it was a very poor showing by the HIGHER average bowlers.

The tournament qualifying leader was GEORGE PRATT. Masters finalists were as follows:

 

The first match of the stepladder finals saw Fred Stroble defeat Ken Trent 220 -147

Stroble then defeated George Musso 226-170

Hank Mancini then defeated Fred Stroble 235-232

Hank Mancini defeated George Platt 188-154 to win the title.