and around 30 overseas professionals will be scrapping it out for a $4,000 prize at Warwick Lanes this weekend.

The fifth Bermuda Professional Bowlers' Association Southern Region Tournament, which starts tomorrow offers a total purse of around $25,000.

All the four previous winers of the event will be there, including Bermuda's Dean Lightbourne, who won the inaugural tournament in 1995.

Last year's champion John May, of the USA, will be defending his title against the likes of 1997 winner and fellow American Sam Zurich. Jones was the 1996 champion.

As a pre-cursor to the tournament proper, the professionals will bowl against Bermuda's Special Olympians and some local amateurs tonight.

And tomorrow morning, around 100 local juniors will get their chance to take on the professionals, before qualifying games in the main event.

The professionals will take on 15 local amateur qualifiers and by tomorrow night, the field will be cut to 12 who will go into match-play deciders on Sunday.

KING PINS -- Bermuda medallists Conrad Lister and Antoine Jones.