Munies Newsletter October 2017 Edition 2, 2017 SIMPLY THE BEST FROM THE PRESIDENT S OFFICE/UIT DIE PRESIDENT SE KANTOOR en toe skop ons Limpopo se. En toe is ons al klaar by ons 2de nuusbrief. Dankie vir Johan en Cathy Erlank se insette en moeite met die nuusbrief. Groete en sterkte vir almal wat dit wil he! Spyker En soos ons gedink het skop Munies (skies, Colts en Fillies (daar is so baie Munies lede in die Colts en Fillies) Limpopo se (amper se ek gat.). Baie goed gedoen julle. Die Vroueliga is op hande en so ook die Besigheids liga en die Novices Fours en Trips. Die liga en proewe le voor. Ons is aan die beweeg en aan die brand. Sterkte vir almal en geniet al die rolbal. Moerse dankie vir almal se bydrae met ons "Dis hoe ons Omgee" projek. Die kos pakkies en blikkies kos het sover dan 3 mense gehelp.. Dankie aan julle almal.,ons is mos familie. DIS HOE ONS OMGEE n Nuwe projek wat ons almal baie naby aan die hart (behoort te) le is die Dis Hoe ons Omgee projek. Tot dusver is die projek informeel. Stuur asseblief vir ons julle idees en word betrokke. Kontak muniesbowls.development@gmail.com of kontak cathy by 065 987 9980 (whatsapp, sms of bel)
NUUS OOR ONS JONGKLOMP Die nuwe seisoen by Munies het goed afgeskop met dieviere en drietalkompetisies. Die jeug is ingesluit by hierdie kompetisies en dit was vir hulle n aanpassing om onder druk en op n vinnige baan te speel. Soos die tyd aangestap het gaan dit al beter met die nuwelinge. Hierdie deelname beteken baie vir hulle om betrokke te raak by kompeterende kompetisies. Die volgende groot toernooi waaraan hulle gaan deelneem is die Youth Challenge in Johannesburg op 20/21 Januarie 2018. Onder die jong spelers is daar een dametjie Esmé Botha, graad 7 leering van Danie Malan-laerskool, wie n uitblinker is in die Beeldende Kunste. Sy het A+-toekenning ontvang by n onlangse Afrikaanse Kunsvereniging byeenkoms. Daarna het sy ook n A+-toekenning ontvang by die 2017 Pretoria Eidsteddfod vir Beeldende Kunste, Teken Graad 7. Voorwaar sy is n uitblinker. Baie geluk Esmé met jou prestasies. Soos almal bewus is, is daar altyd uitgawes betrokke om hierdie jong spelers na die jaarlikse U15/U20 BSA-interdistrikte te neem wat in Bloemfontein aangebied word. Ons dank ook aan BGN Exco vir hulle finansiële ondersteuning. Jaarliks vind daar ook n fondsinsameling vir die jeug plaas. Hierdie jaar is dit geskeduleer vir 29 November om 18h00 by Munies. Vierspan (spelers en nie-spelers) en die koste is R100 per persoon wat n hamburger insluit. Please, club members we would really appreciate it if you could assist us by entering teams. When life puts you in tough situations, don t say WHY ME, just say TRY ME. The flyer will be distributed at the beginning of November. WEB PAGE Remember to visit our new web page www.muniesbowls.co.za and click on events. On this web page you will find more information on the upcoming events. Scroll down to see information about the Novices Fours and other tournaments.
CRACKOJACK NEWS CrackoJack was cancelled for the beginning of October due to the many Munies players attending Lekkerbreek. Due to the many events at Munies there will be no CrackoJack this month or in November. Please give me your input on the following: A CrackoJack Xmas Event on Friday 8 December (R100 per person, with 50% of the proceeds going to our new Dis Hoe Ons Omgee project). Let me know if you plan to enrol a team so I can guage the viability of hosting this event. The format will be trips (at least 1 non bowler per team), over 10 ends. Contact muniesbowls.develpment@gmail.com of whatsapp cathy by 065 987 9980 CLASSIFIEDS: NINA S9 Chunky Knitter knitting maching for sale @R1500. Please contact Cathy 0823007684 or cerlank@gmail.com Please email your classifieds for the future edition to muniesbowls.development@gmail.com of whatsapp cathy by 065 987 9980
LEER MEER! LEARN MORE! A little bit of history of the game of bowling. Enjoy! Reference: Courtesy of Wikipedia Bowls had been traced certainly to the 13th century, and conjecturally to the 12th. William Fitzstephen (d. about 1190), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were "exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones [in jactu lapidum], and throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men." It is commonly supposed that by jactus lapidum, Fitzstephen meant the game of bowls, but though it is possible that round stones may sometimes have been employed in an early variety of the game - and there is a record of iron bowls being used, though at a much later date, on festive occasions at Nairn, - nevertheless the inference seems unwarranted. The jactus lapidum of which he speaks may have been more akin to shotput. It is beyond dispute, however, that the game, at any rate in a rudimentary form, was played in the 13th century. A manuscript of that period in the royal library, Windsor (No. 20, E iv.), contains a drawing representing two players aiming at a small cone instead of an earthenware ball or jack. The world's oldest surviving bowling green is the Southampton Old Bowling Green, which was first used in 1299. [1] The game eventually came under the ban of king and parliament, both fearing it might jeopardise the practice of archery, then so important in battle. Statutes forbidding it and other sports were enacted in the reigns of Edward III, Richard II and other monarchs. Even when, on the invention of gunpowder and firearms, the bow had fallen into disuse as a weapon of war, the prohibition was continued. The discredit attaching to bowling alleys, first established in London in 1455, probably encouraged subsequent repressive legislation, for many of the alleys were connected with taverns frequented by the dissolute and gamesters. (Editor: has anything changed thus far? ) The word "bowls" occurs for the first time in the statute of 1511 in which Henry VIII confirmed previous enactments against unlawful games. By a further act of 1541 which was not repealed until 1845 artificers, labourers, apprentices, servants and the like were forbidden to play bowls at any time except Christmas, and then only in their master's house and presence. It was further enjoined that any one playing bowls outside his own garden or orchard was liable to a penalty of 6s. 8d.(6 shillings and 8 pence), while those possessed of lands of the yearly value of 100 might obtain licences to play on their own private greens. In 1864 William Wallace Mitchell (1803 1884), a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, published his "Manual of Bowls Playing" following his work as the secretary formed in 1849 by Scottish bowling clubs which became the basis of the rules of the modern game. Young Mitchell was only 11 when he played on Kilmarnock Bowling green, the oldest club in Scotland, instituted in 1740. ((Editor: Francis sien hulle het jonk begin ) British bowls team visiting Canada, 1906
Bowling greens in New York City's Central Park The patenting of the first lawn mower in 1830, in Britain, is strongly believed to have been the catalyst, worldwide, for the preparation of modern-style greens, sporting ovals, playing fields, pitches, grass courts, etc. This is turn led to the codification of modern rules for many sports, including lawn bowls, most football codes, lawn tennis and others. [2] National Bowling Associations were established in the late 1800s. In the then Victorian Colony (now State of Victoria in Australia), the (Royal) Victorian Bowling Association was formed in 1880 and The Scottish Bowling Association was established in 1892, although there had been a failed attempt in 1848 by 200 Scottish clubs. Today the sport is played in over 40 countries with more than 50 member national authorities. The home of the modern game is still Scotland with the World Bowls centre in Edinburgh at Caledonia House,1 Redheughs Rigg, South Gyle, Edinburgh, EH12 9DQ. Do you have an interesting article you want to publicise (with the reference please contact us).
GRAPKAS NOBODY'S DARLING Up and down, walking walking, Often measuring, sometimes chalking; Shifting mats - keeping score, thirty ends, maybe more; Aching back - tired of limb, Cheers for others, none for him, Night draws on, darker, darker, No one cares for he's the marker! Remember: We don't stop laughing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop laughing! A bad sign... A man was driving to work when a truck ran a stop sign, hit his car broadside, and knocked him out cold. A Passersby pulled him from the wreckage and revived him. He began a terrific struggle and had to be tranquilized by the medics. Later, when he had calmed down, they asked him why he had struggled so. He said, a bit sheepishly, "I remember the impact, then nothing. I woke up on a concrete slab in front of this huge, flashing sign. Turns out somebody was standing in front of the 'S' on the 'Shell' sign." Stuur vir my jou beste grappie (enige skoon een) of cartoon voor 27 Oktober en wen n prysie (wat mens kan drink dalk ), en jou grappie word in die volgende nuusbrief gepubliseer (met jou naam as krediet by). Join us on facebook www.facebook.com/muniesbowls Click on our website: www.muniesbowls.co.za for contact information