Double Bay
Men’s and
Women’s
Bowling
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DOUBLE BAY
WATCH
VOL 10 (Web Vol 4)
No 10
MONDAY
MARCH 10, 2014
2013
EDITED BY MIKE GOLLAND
Eight to test for Zone rep. honours
EIGHT Double Bay players have been named to compete in Zone 11’s
representative selection trial matches on Sunday, March 16.
Seven have been selected in the Zone’s Senior division squad and one will test
for a place in the Zone’s Open line-up.
Four trial games, Open v Seniors, will be played at Leichhardt Bowling Club
with Phil Joel, Double Bay’s lone candidate for a spot in the Open squad.
Competing for the Seniors unit are Gerald Weinberg, Jack Kampel, Arnold
Javen, who will be together in the No. 2 side, while Brandon Conway, Bernard
Fridman, Harry Black and John Wineberg, will
PENNANT RESULTS
combine as the Seniors No. 3 side.
RESULTS of Double Bay’s
Double Bay’s Pepe Glick, Werner Kos and matches in the second
Michael Becker are listed as reserves for the round of the Zone 11
Pennant competition are on
Senior teams.
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THE announcement by Men’s Club
president, Eddie Fingret, at the
Wednesday (March 4) tea break that one
of Double Bay’s most senior members,
David Ossher (pictured below), had been
accredited as a club coach was greeted
with cheers and applause.
For the 92-year-old Ossher it is
another milestone in his list of
achievements on the bowling green.
The former South African, who took up
lawn bowls at the Wanderers Club,
Johannesburg, way back in 1972, joined
the now defunct Rose Bay Club when he
finally settled in
Australia during
1990.
It was at Rose Bay that he achieved the singular
distinction of winning the Minor Singles and the Major
Singles in the same year of 1991.
A change of residence saw Ossher switch to the
Double Bay Club in 1992 where he collected a list of club
titles as evidenced by the picture below.
DAVID
Ossher’s
first
time
elevation to club coach status
followed his attendance at a twoday coaching seminar at the
Eastlakes Club last December,
conducted by the Royal NSW
Bowling Association’s State Coaching Committee.
Double Bay was informed of David’s accreditation in an
email from the Committee chairman, David Cameron, which
advised that “David Ossher was deemed competent as a
Club Coach”.
When Eddie Fingret made the announcement, he
ventured that David “could be Australia’s and perhaps the
world’s oldest first-time coach”. And he probably is!
The baseplate of
this trophy records
David Ossher’s
Minor and Major
Singles
championship at
Rose Bay in 1991.
The other plates are
from trophies won at
Double Bay from
1992.
THERE are a couple of queries following David’s admission
to the coaching ranks. His method of delivering the bowl
is now much less orthodox than it was in his younger-hey
days.
Back and shoulder problems now compel him bowl from
the hip in a “throwing” motion, but as many of his
opponents will testify he displays an uncanny accuracy.
“I don’t intend to coach new members to bowl the way I
do now,” he said this week. “I have enough experience to
instruct and explain what is correct and what is not.
There are also other points in coaching – such as installing
in newcomers the etiquette of the game,” he added.
And David said he plans to work in co-operation with
Double Bay’s other qualified coaches if and when it comes
to demonstrating delivery and other techniques which he
is unable to show due to his aging body.
Friday afternoons will be set aside in David’s bowling
calendar to give his coaching sessions.
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ON THE GREEN with the Women’s Club
THIS IS THE SECOND REPORT ON WOMEN TENPIN BOWLERS
CONTINUING THEIR SKILLS AT LAWN BOWLS WITH DOUBLE BAY
Three bring
tenpin skills
to the green
DOUBLE Bay Women’s
Club has three former
highly-rated tenpin bowlers
showing potential on the
lawn bowling green.
Cathy Shapiro, Judy Bihari
Cathy Shapiro, Judy Bihari and Kathy Passman with
and Kathy Passman were
their showcase of tenpin bowling medals.
selected
to
represent
Australia in Tenpin Bowling when the sport was introduced into the 13th
Maccabiah Games in Israel in July, 1989.
Tenpin was Australia’s most successful team. The tenpin competitors came
home with three of Australia’s seven Gold medals as well as two Silver and
three Bronze.
Shapiro, Passman and Bihari with Elaine Goldberg, Robin Noach and Evelyn Rose,
were members of the six-woman squad which won the coveted Team event, played
over two consecutive days.
Passman and Shapiro retained their top tenpin bowling form and were named in
Australia’s team for the 14th Maccabiah in 1993.
This time Cathy Shapiro’s husband, Ken, (a current Double Bay Men’s Club vicepresident and a winner of the club’s Drawn Pairs and Minor Singles titles) was in the
tenpin line-up.
“When we arrived back at Sydney airport members of the Maccabi Tenpin Bowling
Club greeted us with cheers of Gold! Gold! Gold!,” they recalled last week. “It caused
quite a sensation.”
Women’s Club Officials say that the trio are showing the ability to be among the
club’s foremost players. Passman has achieved a Major championship pin as a
member of the 2012 Triples team and was in the line-up which made the final of the
2013 Major Fours. Shapiro has featured in the sides which were runners-up in the
2010 and 2012 Major Fours and was a winning partner in the 2009 Handicap Pairs.
Judi Bihari was named the club‘s 2013 Most Improved after wining the Minor
Singles , having previously featured in teams which made the finals of Handicap Pairs
in 2013 and 2010.
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