Double Bay
Men’s and
Women’s
Bowling
Clubs
DOUBLE BAY
WATCH
Vol. 7 (Web Vol. 1)
No. 5 MONDAY,
MARCH 1, 2010
EDITED BY MIKE GOLLAND
“Commitment” plea to pennant players
DOUBLE Bay’s pennant players have been told “commitment” is
the key word to a successful season.
They were urged to “commit”
themselves to the club during
the 2010 Zone 11 Pennant
competition, which starts this
Saturday, March 6.
The appeal was made last
week by Men’s Bowling Club
committee member, Gerald
Weinberg (pictured), who is
also chairman of selectors.
Weinberg urged members
who
have
registered
to
represent the club in pennant
teams
to “make a personal
commitment
throughout
the
competition”.
“A commitment is vital to a
successful pennant season,” Weinberg
told more than 80 players during the
tea
break
in
the
intra-club
Wednesday
afternoon
triples
matches.
“If you fail to commitment
yourselves you are not only letting
yourselves down, but your team and
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the club. Commitment is the key
word for everyone this
year.” he said.
Weinberg alerted the
players that with teams
required for five grades
the registered list of 70-orso players could be
stretched due to events
beyond control.
“Hopefully,
with
everyone’s
enthusiasm
and keenness we are in for
a very good season at pennant level,”
he said.
In the opening round Double Bay’s
No. 1 team is away to Alexandria
Erskineville, the Grade 2 side is at
home in the local derby against
Bondi, while the Grade 3 unit hosts
another Alexandria Erskineville side.
In Grade 5 Double Bay travels to
the play Concord and the Grade 6
combination also is out of the district
against Western Suburbs Leagues.
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Two champions in with hope for
another Major Singles trophy
DEFENDING title holder, Jack Kampel, and the 2007 champion, Brandon
Conway, will clash in the semi-final of the club’s 2010 Major Singles
Championship, following their comfortable wins in last Sunday’s quarterfinals.
Kampel and Conway are the only former Double Bay Major
Singles champions left in the event, although Doug King, who was
runner-up in 2004, awaits the outcome of the David Carroll v Sam
Abrahams match before he can qualify for a semi-final berth where
John Wineberg, the club’s 2007 Minor Singles winner awaits.
Conway ended the giant-killing run of Paul Isenberg, who last
week knocked out the tournament’s co-favourite, Gerald Weinberg.
Isenberg was only in the hunt to continue his upset results in the
early part of the encounter with Conway, who gained control with
three shots on the 9th end to consolidate the lead at 12-7.
From then on Conway played consistent bowls to take the match
31-16 after 28 ends.
Kampel, also was slow to gain the advantage in his game against
Brem, who was the club’s 2008 Most Improved Player. Brem led 86 after 10 ends; then Kampel scored a treble and a series of oneshots to hold command at 19-11 at the 19th end.
From that point Kampel had little trouble in making the semi-final
on the 32 end at 31-18.
John Wineberg
Wineberg cold be the “dark horse” of the tournament following
his quarter-final victory over Harry Stein. He is one of the club’s most consistent bowlers and
his 31-15 result against Stein, who has been in good form this year, suggests he can continue
in the event.
Young Fetherston looks good for Minor prize
UP-and-coming Matthew (Matt) Fetherston showed
all his potential as a champion lawn bowler when he
scored an effortless first round win of the 2007 Minor
Singles Championship on Sunday.
The 21-year-old son of Double Bay’s long-serving greenkeepergroundsman, Rob Fetherston, took only 17 ends to collect the 31
shots and dismiss the challenge of experienced Harry Jacobs by a
24-shot margin.
Fetherston has only recently taken up lawn bowls, but has already
a club championship trophy when he teamed with his father and
Jonathan Moses to win the 2010 Major Triples
In other Minor Singles first round matches, the steady Len Sandler
had too many guns for Brian Grill 31-16 and Neville New surprised
with his 31-25 win over the well credentialed Cecil Albert.
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Matthew Fetherston
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The players who won the District Title
WHEN last week’s Double Bay Watch reported that the Double Bay
Women’s Bowling Club continued its dominance of the District Fours
Championship as the combination of Barbara Shur, Gail Black, Marie
Thatcher and Jenny Welton defeated club mates Devorah Lees, Sandra
Ballard, Iris Kampel and Juliette Friedlander in the final, it wasn’t made
clear that Barbara Shur did not take part in the match.
When the game was being played at Double Bay, Barbara Shur was
undergoing emergency surgery to repair a severely damaged cartilage and other
complications to the knee.
At the last minute the team called in Lorraine Stafford to substitute for the
hospitalised Barbara Shur. According to bowls protocol the constituted team
goes into the record books as the Championship winners, but the women’s club
would like to publicly acknowledge the performance of Lorraine in the final.
Lorraine Stafford is pictured above (second from left) with Gail Black, Marie
Thatcher and skip Jenny Welton. INSET: Barbara Shur.
AT
THE
CLUB
ON
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24
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WITH the club’s decision to “do away”
with the coloured (maroon) trousers and
revert to the traditional white or creams,
there is much speculation among the
membership as to what the future holds
for the coloured shirts currently being
worn for pennant and Major club
championships.
One thing is certain – there will be no change anytime this year, but it is
understood that a section of the Men’s Bowls Club leadership as well as a
number of the executive board, want the shirts to retain the
modern trend of colours, but to be “more conservative”.
From all the talk on the issue, it seems that 85 per cent of
the membership would like the shirts to return to the basic
white with a splash (for want of a better word) of spot colour
(most favoured keeping the club’s traditional maroon and gold).
There are few “must haves” on the playing uniform – the club badge, sponsors
name and the Australian Bowls logo.
Players’ main concern, however, is that the material should be lightweight and
sun protecting, similar to the outfit Australia’s lawn bowlers wore at the recent
Maccabiah Games in Israel.
And there is the possibility that if the cloth is suitable, it could be used in a
new range of white club trousers with sections to match the shirt’s new,
conservative colour scheme. We will just have to wait and see!
A REGULAR and most welcome visitor to our club on Wednesdays is Coogee’s
popular John McDonald (pictured), who is also Zone 11’s Chairman of Umpires
and a qualified coach.
He has a great sense of humour to go with all his
attributes and eases the tension of our Wednesday
intraclub triples matches with some very clever
comments.
Such as when he’s asked what’s the position at the head
he might say “Channel 9 – We’re Still the One!”
Or if he suggests that the next bowl should be behind
the head he’ll call “We need a GIO shot – it’ll give us
insurance in case the jack goes back”.
If asked for an opinion on the next bowl, he may well
suggest “play the railway shot” based an one-time
Government Railways slogan that the “Railway is the Safe Way”.
And he might turn to a team mate at the head saying: “Whew! That bowl had
Watson Bay written all over it – not surprising it went right through the Gap!”
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