Betty Morris

Betty Morris (born Betty Burton in 1948 in Sonora, California; later Morris-Laub) is an American professional bowler who won seventeen professional tournaments, sixteen of them on the PWBA Tour, including two majors. She won her first professional title at the 1972 Showboat Classic in Las Vegas while six months pregnant, took her first major at the 1973 PWBA Players Championship and her second at the 1977 U.S. Women's Open, and was named PWBA Player of the Year in 1987. Bowlers Journal named her Woman Bowler of the Decade for the 1970s, and a 1999 Bowlers Journal International poll rated her the fiftieth greatest bowler of the twentieth century, male or female. She also won six titles at the national WIBC tournament and is a member of both the PWBA and WIBC (now USBC) Halls of Fame.