Double Bay Men s and Women s Bowling Clubs VOL 8 (Web Vol. 3) No. 42 MONDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2012 DOUBLE BAY WATCH EDITED BY MIKE GOLLAND Xmas break for popular mid-week competitions Calendar shows busy year ahead DOUBLE BAY Men s Bowling Club s popular Monday and Wednesday intra-club leagues will have a three-week break during the upcoming Xmas holiday period. The Monday competition attracts almost 60 players, while the Wednesday league is at a current capacity field of more than 90. Club officials announced this week that the Monday competition will go into recess on December 17 and resume on January 14. The Wednesday league will stop on December 19 and restart on January 16. During the three-week break a green will be available for social games (except on public holidays). Members should phone the club on the morning to register to play. Meanwhile, the club has released its 2013 Play Calendar which shows almost every weekend has club, Zone and state matches scheduled. The 2013 Pennant season is set to start on Saturday, May 2 with the finals on June 1. First of the club s Major tournaments in 2013 will be the Fours championship starting on Sunday, January 13. The Major Singles has Sunday, March 2, as the start date. The calendar is so crowded that the Major Singles final has been booked for the Sunday of the Queen s Birthday Holiday Weekend of June 8-10. However, the Easter Weekend from Friday, March 29-April 1 is free of any competitive commitments, including the Zone pennant competition.
Four teams top Summer Shield spots AFTER three rounds of the Zone 11 Summer Shield, four of the six Double Bay teams are leading their divisions, with the other two in second spot. The Division 1 competition has the club s Number 2 team heading the league with 22 points and a plus 51 shot margin, from the Number 1 side which has 19 points and a plus 20 shot difference. The five-round Division 1 competition could be decided on Saturday when the two Double Bay teams clash, with the Number 1 team s line-up considered to have the edge over its club mates. Ashfield holds down Division 1 third spot 12 points behind the leader. In last Saturday s matches the No 1 side returned from Waverley with a 6-2 (62-59 shots) win, while the Second team also returned a 6-2 (64-57) victory over Ashfield at the Western Suburbs Leagues Club. The Division 2 (Section 1) side is in second spot with 15 points following its 5-3 (57-55) home win over Diamond Bay. Heading the competition is South Coogee with 22 points and a massive 102-shot margin. NEW WELFARE OFFICER DOUBLE Bay Men s Bowling Club vice-president, Ken Shapiro (pictured), has been named its Welfare Officer. He succeeds Dr Abe Cohen, who decided not to continue the responsibility he held for the past year. Men s Club president, Harry Black, announced the appointment on Monday. The club is anxious to be informed of members well-being. It is important that we know when a member is unwell or hospitalised, Black said. Ken Shapiro can be contacted on 9314-6435 or 0419-437818 Double Bay heads Division 2 (Section 2) with 16 points, four more than equal second placed Ashfield, which it defeated on Saturday at home by 6-2 (59-52) and Leichhardt. The Division 3 (Section 1) side continued its unbeaten run with a commanding 8-0 (73-32) win at South Coogee to head the league with 20 points and a 51-shot difference. In second spot is Eastlakes Sports 16 points (+16) which has the home advantage when the two clubs meet on Saturday. After two 8-0 wins the Division 3 (Section 2) side blotted its copybook with a 2-6 ( 43-86) loss at Leichhardt on Saturday, but retained top spot in the three division competition with 18 points (+4) with Leichhardt closing on 14 points and a plus 35 shot difference. The Division Section 3 is currently headed by Gladstone Park on 21 points with Burwood Diggers and Concord both having 10 points. The top teams of Division 3 s Sections 1 and 2 play a Post Sectional Final with the winner meeting the leading Section 3 club for the Shield. Division 1 is a first past the post competition after five rounds. Division 2 will be decided with a playoff between section winners. DOUBLE BAY WATCH, NOVEMBER 12, 2012 Page 2
ON THE GREEN with the Women s Club Chemist helps club load Xmas tree for Salvation Army giving DOUBLE BAY Women s Club at Christmas time has traditionally providing food parcels and other goodies for distribution by the Salvation Army. This year is no different, except that it had the assistance of a local pharmacy in purchasing brand new toys for the Salvation Army to hand out to less fortunate families on Christmas Day. The Rose Bay branch of Chemist Warehouse helped the Women s Club in its task of securing toys to put under the Christmas Tree in the clubhouse ready for collection by the Salvation Army s representative at the traditional Christmas Party on December 11. At the same time Women s Club president, Barbara Shotland, has appealed for members to donate tin food and other suitable, unused items which could be added to children s Christmas Stockings. The Salvation Army donation is in addition to the funds the Women s Club s raises at its annual Charity Day The Christmas Tree in Double Bay Bowling Club with a selection of the toys purchased through the courtesy of Chemist Warehouse, Rose Bay. in aid of the Oncology Unit of the Children s Hospital, Randwick. At the 2012 Charity Day, two weeks ago, more than $2650 was raised. THERE IS STILL TIME TO DONATE TIN FOOD AND OTHER GIFTS, INCLUDING CASH DONATIONS TO THE WOMEN S CLUB S ANNUAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE SALVATION ARMY S CHRISTMAS APPEAL- CONTACT BARBARA SHOTLAND DOUBLE BAY WATCH, NOVEMBER 12, 2012 Page 3
ON THE GREEN with the Women s Club Everything perfect for Melbourne Cup party PAM STEIN REPORTS - PICTURES BY SANDRA DESIATNIK MORE than 50 members and guests gathered in the clubhouse on the first Tuesday of November for the traditional Melbourne Cup festivity hosted by Double Bay Women s Bowling Club. The weather was perfect, men and women lawn bowlers filled the greens, while vice-president, Jenny Welton, and the club s manager, Graham Armstrong, acted as the bookies and did a roaring trade in $2, $5 and $10 scratch-cum-sweep tickets with proceeds going to charity after deducting the winners purse. Club stalwarts, past president Margo Michael, and vice president Lorraine McLaughlin, and their team set out the most delicious luncheon during which the wine glasses were raised in good luck and good cheer. Dessert brought a double celebration with chocolate mud birthday cakes inscribed in icing for Iris Kampel and Florrie Cohen. There was also a happy birthday wish to Men s Club veteran, David Ossher, for his 91 st coming up on November 14. Then came prize presentations for lucky players all this before the Melbourne Cup was run. Everyone was already a winner! There was a happy crush around the bar to see Channel 7 s Fashions on the Field parade and then the running of the Melbourne Cup. TOP (from left) Women s Club president, Barbara Shotland, welcomes members and guests to the Melbourne Cup luncheon and announces Happy Birthday to members Florrie Cohen (centre) and Iris Kampel. BOTTOM: One of the many tables of Double Bay Bowling club members and guests (from left) Ken Shapiro, Cathy Shapiro Barbara Shur, Harry Black, Gail Black, Hilary Lazarus and Barry Lazarus. CONTINUES NEXT PAGE DOUBLE BAY WATCH, NOVEMBER 12, 2012 Page 4
Melbourne Cup party FROM PREVIOUS PAGE ON THE GREEN Men s Club president, Harry Black, ensured everyone could hear the call of the race as he held the club s public address microphone to the TV s speakers. So, an Australian-trained horse triumphed, to the public's delight, money was won and money was lost, but nobody minded because, after all, later in the evening of November 6, the $100 million Lotto Jackpot was to be drawn. And the chance of winning that was once in a Blue..(sorry) Green Moon! LUNCHEON BUFFET (top left) Gail Black, Lorraine Stafford and Barbara Shur (top right) Paula Yamen, Hilda Filipovic and Pat Bryant BOTTOM (from left) Pam Stein, Linda Salamon, Cecil Albert, Audrey Weinberg, Rein Rowlands and Eunice Albert Second Drawn Pairs title to Rosenberg and Hower RAYNA Rosenberg and Barbara Hower (pictured below) took out their second Women s Club s Drawn Pairs championship with a nine-shot win over Iris Kampel and Faye Glover, last week. The Rosenberg-Hower team won 24-15 after receiving a four-shot start from the Kampel-Glover combination. The winning duo got off to a quick start and was 11-1 ahead after eight ends, but the Kampel team picked up to be behind 6-12. On the 12 th end they held three bowls close to the ditch only to see Rosenberg produce a perfect delivery to claim the shot. Over the next five ends the Kampel-Glover side scored nine shots and by the 17 th end Rosenberg-Hower s lead had been cut to 17-15. Rosenberg then trailed the jack to make a three count and a 20-15 tally. This meant that their opponents required a near impossible six count to take the title. Kampel "burned" the last end, but the replay only made the shot difference even greater when they conceded four shots. Iris Kampel partnered by Rose Novis won the event last year. Kampel and Deborah Lees were the 2003 Dawn Pairs champions. Rosenberg-Hower first won the event in 2010. DOUBLE BAY WATCH, NOVEMBER 12, 2012 Page 5