DOUBLE BAY
WATCH
A REGULAR NEWSLETTER OF THE
DOUBLE BAY MEN’S BOWLING CLUB
Vol. 5 No. 7 July-August, 2008
EDITOR: MIKE GOLLAND
INCORPORATING
WOMEN’S BOWLING CLUB’S
ON THE GREEN Pages 5 -
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Great Scott, but James Cook
is the best!
EDDIE FINGRET PHOTO
IT was the case of a bowling
club administrator versus a
bowling club’s greenkeeper
when Double Bay’s James
Cook clashed with Craig
Scott, the groundsman of
Kensington Bowling Club. in
the final of the Zone 11 State
Singles Championship at
Greenlees Park on Sunday,
June 29.
Both contestants lived up
to their top-rankings and
produced a great final where
Cook’s draw bowling
consistency prevailed over
Scott’s more aggressive
style. Cook won 31-25.
Craig Scott (left) and James
Cook.
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INSIDE THIS MONTH’S ISSUE
ZONE TITLES IN
OPEN PAIRS
(James Cook & Rob
Fetherston)
SENIOR PAIRS
(Alan Rosenberg &
Gerald Weinberg)
WOMEN WIN
DISTRICT
PAIRS AND
TRIPLES
JAN
HUTCHINS’
THIRD
MAJOR
SINGLES
WHEN James Cook shook hands with opponent Craig Scott
after winning the Zone 11 State Singles title at Greenlees Park
last month, he revealed he still had more to achieve in his lawn
bowls ambitions for 2008.
But, he confessed that being the Zone 11 State Singles champion
did shorten the list and opened the way to the next challenge when he plays Brendan
Caeruleus, a friend from his teenage days, in the first round of the State Zone
Championships at Cabramatta in October.
Cook’s Zone 11 win by 31-25 over Scott, the Kensington BC greenkeeper, was his
ninth major singles championship since he first started in the sport at the age of 12.
Also in Cook’s sight is the upcoming Zone 11
Champion of Club Singles Champions and
qualification for the State event in that category.
First, however, Cook will have to overcome the
talent of an experienced and highly regarded
adversary in Caeruleus, whom he has known since he
was a 15- or 16-year-old playing in junior
representative ranks.
Brendan, who plays for Taren Point, won the Zone
13 State Singles on the same day as Cook took his
title.
“He used to play for the Victorian State Junior side
when I was playing for the NSW juniors,” Cook told
Bay Watch. “He has won Victorian and NSW State
No. 1 pennant badges and a NSW Premier League
title,” he said and added: “I’m looking forward to it.”
On his way to the
Zone 11 crown Cook
knocked out the 2007
Zone 11 champion,
Ray Pearse 31-11,
then the winner of the
James Cook with his quarter2008 City Masters
final opponent, Dean Smith
and one-time Double
Bay player, Dean Smith, now with Alexandria-Erskineville,
31-10, and then made the final with a 31-17 decision over
Balmain’s Brad Donaldson .
Double Bay was also represented in the finals with last
year’s Major Singles winner and Zone 11 Champion of Club
Singles Champions, Brandon Conway, who exited at the
hands of Scott in the quarter-final.
Len Simon
The club also provided the finalist in the Zone 11
State Senior Singles when Len Simon was runner up to
A. Hughes (Eastlakes) in a final at Bondi, on a 31-12
score line.
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EDDIE FINGRET PHOTO
Another notch in Cook’s
ambitions list for 2008
Rob Fetherston finds new
enthusiasm for top flight
bowls with Zone Pairs win
ROBERT (Robbie) Fetherston (pictured), the club’s
genial greenkeeper, made a dramatic return to topflight bowls when he teamed with club administrator,
James Cook, to take out the Zone 11 State Pairs
championship at South Coogee, on Sunday, July 13.
But, it took a lot of convincing by James before Robbie
agreed to team up with him for an assault on the Zone and
now the State Pairs titles.
The Fetherston-Cook combination won the Zone 11 title
from the Greenlees Park duo of Mark Gorlicki and Ray
Coombes by a convincing 15-shot margin, 29-14.
It has been a long time since Robbie Fetherston has been involved in State-level
competition. A holder of a record 10 club Major Singles Championship, he almost
“banked” his bowls in 2004 when his work load and a series of minor, but nagging
injuries curtailed his playing time.
However, more recently Robbie has been encouraged by James to gradually get back to
the greens as a player as well as a master groundsman. His “comeback” program included
playing third for James in the club’s 2008 A-grade pennant side and playing regularly in
the Wednesday intra-club triples competition.
James, and the left-handed Robbie, teamed with moderate success for the first time in
the club’s 2006 Major pairs, but without success when the title went to young Aaron Toby
and Gary Pearson.
In 2007 and this year both James and Robbie contested the club’s Major Pairs titles with
different partners. James and Les Lilian took this year’s Major Pairs prize when they won
the crown from Brian Ginsberg and Pepe Glick.
“It took some time to convince Robbie to play with me in the Zone pairs. Obviously
Robbie spends so much time on the green in his profession as a groundsman that he would
like to have some part of the weekends with his family,” James told Bay Watch.
“But, I could see his enthusiasm for highly competitive bowling was again part of his
modest makeup and he agreed, somewhat reluctantly, to renew the partnership of 2006.
Now we will play in the State playoffs at Cabramatta BC in mid-October. It is something
that both of us are looking forward to,” James added.
In the semi-final Cook and Fetherston knocked out Bob MacDonald and David Carder
(Kensington) 26-20, the pair which eliminated Double Bay’s other surviving team of Brian
Ginsberg and Pepe Glick in a quarter-final.
The Cook-Fetherston combination will continue in the upcoming club Major Fours
when they will team with Jonathan Moses and Wayne Podger, but in the Major Triples
James will have Daniel Hoenig as his lead and Phil Gordon Jnr as the “middle man”.
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CORRECTION
The print edition of last
month’s Bay Watch
incorrectly named Harold
Jankelowitz as the finalist
in the club’s 2008 Major
Singles championship,
when it should have been
Ray Jankelowitz.
Apologies to the
Jankelowitz brothers
Ray (left) and Harold
The Bay Watch edition
available on the club’s
website
www.doublebaybowling
club.com.au
had the correct
information.
CLARIFICATION
Les Lilian (pictured
below) points out that his
win with James Cook in
this year’s club pairs final
was not his second Major
title.
He was successful in the
Major Pairs at Rose Bay
Bowling Club in 1994
and in the 1998 Turn of
the Year Pairs, both times
with Rod Davies.
Les was Rose Bay’s
Bowler of the Year (1993)
and won Rose Bay’s
Fours (1993) and Triples
(1997) titles.
More recently he was in
the Double Bay team with
Harry Stein, Paul
Isenberg and Eddie
Fingret which won the
District Fours in 2003.
Club continues Zone 11
Senior Pairs dominance
GERALD Weinberg and Alan Rosenberg (pictured above)
continued the club’s dominance in the Zone 11 Senior
Pairs Championship, when they defeated club mates
Bernie Garden and Harry Stein (below) 31-16 at
Leichhardt BC on Saturday, July 12.
Since its inception in 2005 Double Bay entries have won
the event three times and been runner-up once.
Rosenberg and Eddie Fingret won the inaugural Zone
title in 2005 and went on to take the State Crown. In 2006
Abe Cohen and Ivor Cohen were
runners-up and last year it was
taken out by Ken Shapiro and
Julian Engelman, who was
substituted in the final by
Rosenberg.
This year Alan Rosenberg and
Gerald Weinberg, teamed for
the first time since their days at
Rose Bay BC and were never in
danger of missing the title and
qualifying for the State play-offs
in September.
Garden and Stein won the first
end, but they dropped a six on
the next and never recovered as Rosenberg-Weinberg
raced to a 14-1 lead.
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ON THE GREEN – EDITOR: ALMA GOLDMAN
THE LEADERSHIP (BACK ROW): Lea Portrate, Karin Levinson, Lorraine McLaughlin, Mary
Newin, Lily Brick, Phyllis Glasser; (FRONT): Iris Kampel, Margo Michael, Barbara
Shotland, Pam Stein, Jenny Welton; (Absent overseas: Carole Brickman)
Annual meeting approves
several committee moves
THE Women’s Bowling Club annual general meeting on Tuesday, July 8,
approved several changes to the executive and committees and paid
tribute to the retiring officials.
Barbara Shotland was returned as president for a third term, as Carole Brickman moved
from chairperson of selectors to join Jenny Welton as a vice-president.
Lorraine McLaughlin, after more than a year on the Selection Committee, was named its
chairperson.
Retiring Match Committee chairperson, Iris Kampel, takes over the public relations
portfolio from Marilyn Davis. Karen Levinson moves from her seat on the selection
committee to head the Match Committee.
Phyllis Glasser switches from the vice-presidency to sit with Lily Brick and Mary Newin
on the Management Committee. Lea Portrate retains the post of Social Committee
chairperson. Other executive posts were unchanged. Pam Stein continues as secretary, while
Margo Michael keeps the financial responsibility as treasurer.
Alma Goldman carries on as editor of monthly On the Green magazine, which is now
included in the men’s edition of Double Bay Watch.
The meeting endorsed the leadership’s appreciation to Marilyn Davis, Gill Cotton and
Devorah Lees for their service to the past committee. OFFICE BEARERS – Next page
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ON THE GREEN
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
DOUBLE BAY WOMEN’S CLUB
PATRON
Sonia Davis
MANAGEMENT
PRESIDENT: Barbara Shotland
VICE-PRESIDENTS: Jenny Welton
Carole Brickman
SECRETARY: Pam Stein
TREASURER: Margo Michael
COMMITTEE: Phyl Glasser
Lily Brick
Mary Newin
COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS
SELECTORS: Lorraine McLaughlin
MATCH: Karen Levinson
SOCIAL: Lea Portrate
COMMITTEES
SELECTORS: Val Cohen
Florrie Cohen
Barbara Hower
Marilyn Davies
MATCH: Rayna Rosenberg
Hodda Lopis
SOCIAL: Gina Lewis
Anne Biner
Sybil Schneeweiss
Sandra Rosen
Sandra Movsowitz
Marie Thatcher
Jan Shedlezki
Shirley Margolin
PUBLICITY: Iris Kampel
ON THE GREEN
EDITOR: Alma Goldman
LIBRARIANS
Gil Cotton
Miriam Rosenberg
DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES
Rosemary Lingard (President)
Sandra Ballard (Secretary)
Iris Kampel (Selection Committee)
DELEGATES
Barbara Shotland
Pam Stein
Mixed bowling appreciated
by women’s membership
THE women’s club membership
appreciates the efforts of Men’s
Bowling Club president
Rob
Hutchins
in
fostering mixed bowling,
its president Barbara
Shotland
told
the
Women’s Club annual
general
meeting
on
Tuesday, July 8.
In her annual report she
thanked Rob Hutchins and
members of the men’s club for the support and
assistance the women’s club received during the
year.
“I appreciate our good working relationship
and endeavours to get mixed bowls underway,”
she said. “
The report also paid tribute to the registered
club chairman, John Rosen, and board of
management for its “co-operation and financial
support” during the year under review.
In thanking each and every member of the
club leadership, Barbara Shotland said that she
appreciates members who have shown initiative
within the boundaries and a generosity of selfs;
as well as honesty and constructive criticism,
while holding, which is most special, loyalty
and confidentiality.
“I would like to believe that every member
feels that they can approach me about our club
at any time,” she said.
Commenting on the success of the club in
winning all this year’s district events and taking
out State honours, Barbara said she is proud of
the sportsmanship by the players on the green,
as well as the good camaraderie there is with
other district clubs.
THE STARS ARE PLAYING HERE --- AUGUST 30-31
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ON THE GREEN
District Triples title added to list
DOUBLE Women’s Bowling
Club added another line to its list
of 2008 achievements when the
team of Mary Newin, Karen
Levinson and Pam Stein took out
the Eastern Suburbs District Triples
on Friday, June 20.
of 2008 triumphs
The club entered eight of the 17 teams
which challenged for the title and
qualification for the State group playoff on
July 31. The draw allowed for two Double
Bay teams to clash in the final round as the
Pam Stein combination defeated the trio of
Rayna Rosenberg, Jan Hutchins and Sonia
Davis 30-14 to take the honour.
To reach the final, Sonia Davis’ side beat
strong opposition, including the club’s
Pam Stein (left) , Mary Newin (top)
threesome of Juliette Friedlander, Iris
Karen Levinson
Kampel and Devorah Lees as well as two
good teams from Matraville.
The Pam Stein team’s path to the final included wins against one of the Double Bay
entries plus top sides from Randwick and Clovelly. With the finalists coming from Double
Bay, organisers staged the encounter on our home turf in front of an enthusiastic gallery. It
was neck-and-neck until the half way mark when Pam's team pulled ahead and crossed the
finish line with an end to spare.
The club can take heart in the new talent which is being unveiled this year. Rayna
Rosenberg, only in her second year at lawn bowls led so well, while Mary Newin who led
for Pam, began bowling in 2003 at Hunter's Hill and transferred to Double Bay in 2006.
Both women are gaining in confidence and technique and are a great asset to the club both
on and off the green.
The Pam Stein team moves to the Group (Zone) play off against winning teams from St
George-Canterbury and Sutherlandshire from Thursday, July 31, just a few days after the
club’s Group Pennant No.2 team plays for the State flag in Tamworth from July 21-25.
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ON THE GREEN
The wind did its best as
Jan Hutchins overcomes
Pam Stein for third Major
Singles Championship
JAN Hutchins (pictured) overcame the
tenacity of her opponent and a howling
wind on Thursday, June 26, to post her
third Women’s Club Major Singles title
with a 31-24 win over Pam Stein..
The wind did its best to beat both competitors as
a delivered bowl would be pushed against the bias
into the adjoining rink, or worse, travel half way
up at pace and then stop dead, or worse still, slide
maliciously past the jack and thud into the ditch.
So it
came down to who was going to treat the will of
the wind with the most disdain? Jan or Pam?
It was anyone’s guess until the last four ends,
when Jan wisely changed to the (very) wide hand
and scored a three, followed by a double and then
two singles to pull ahead and win by seven shots.
It was a game where determination, tenacity and
skill was tested all round with Jan taking the
honours by a slender margin.
It was Jan’s third major singles win since joining
the club in 1991 and says singles play is her
preferred game. However, she admits she enjoys
playing with husband Rob (president of the Men’s
Club) in the intra-club Wednesday triples
competition.
To prove her point, Jan was runner-up in the
2004 Major Singles, the winner in 2005 and in
2006.
She was also runner-up in the 2001 District
Women’s Singles event and its winner in 2003.
STOP
PRESS
STATE CHANCE
Eastern Suburbs singles champion,
Barbara Shotland, has qualified for the
State Singles in October following her
District final win on July 18.
STORY NEXT ISSUE
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Jan wins while
Rob’s away!
JAN Hutchins won the
Women’s Major Singles
while husband, Rob
(right), was enjoying
an overseas holiday.
Rob answered the
wish of some of his
children to see where
their father spent his
early life in England.
So while Jan was
battling it out on the Double Bay
greens, Rob was visiting the village
in Kent where he spent his youth
and was fortunate enough to be able
to inspect the very house in which
he lived during the years of World
War II.
After spending time in London and
Paris the three children and one
daughter-in- law went their separate
ways and Rob travelled to Blaenavon
in South Wales and ventured down
the coal mine, which is now an
UNESCO World Heritage Site, where
his grandfather started work at the
age of 13 years in1898.
Rob, who has a background in the
oil industry, noted great variation in
petrol prices from 20 cents per litre
in Dubai to $2.48 a litre in England.
ON THE GREEN
Pairs team
singing and
winning in
the rain!
Rayna Rosenberg
Jenny Welton
IT’S “hats off” to rookie bowler Rayna Rosenberg and experienced Jenny
Welton, who conquered the elements as
WHAT A YEAR
well as their opposition, to win the
Eastern Suburbs District Pairs crown at
FOR THE WOMEN!
Clovelly on Friday, July 4.
Double Bay Women’s
Actually it was (rain) “hats on” as they combined
to defeat a solid Matraville pair of S. Keegan and
M. Munzone 21-16 in a stop-start encounter when
heavy rain at times made it hard to hold a bowl.
They also had to play through the Clovelly sea
breeze and a continuous misty rain that swept
across the green. And when the heavy rain hit it
was a case of seeking shelter.
In the semi-final Rayna, who has only been
playing bowls for a couple of years, and Jenny
took the honours from another Double Bay team,
Marie Thatcher and Jan Hutchins, on a 27-10 score
line.
In the final both teams appeared well matched in
ability.
The green was holding with no finish on the wet
surface, so a slightly more heavy delivery pushed
through the head and any less weight stopped well
short.
All four bowlers concentrated well to build tight
heads as both skips used effective drives to change
the fortune with their last bowl.
Rayna and Jenny applied the pressure on the final
four ends to gain the break and the title
MELANIE MACAULAY, the 22-year-old star
bowler from Cabramatta, who retained the
Junior World Title last month, will be at
Double Bay for the Women’s Invitation
Triples on August 30-31. BE THERE TOO!
Bowling Club members have
achieved the remarkable
accomplishment of winning
all the 2008 Eastern Suburbs
District events.
• Singles (Barbara
Shotland)
• Pairs (Rayna
Rosenberg,
Jenny Welton)
• Triples (Mary Newin,
Karen Levinson,
Pam Stein)
• Fours (Devorah Lees,
Marion Berelowitz,
Sandra Ballard,
Iris Kampel)
• James Wall Shield
(Mary Newin, Florrie
Cohen, Barbara
Shotland, Pam Stein)
The club also won the
Group (Zone) Grade 2
Pennant and contests the
State Finals at Tamworth
from July 21.
Hopes of a clean sweep rest on
the outcome of the Wolinski
Shield matches starting on
August 18.
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Collectors
of the
mid-week
prizes
IN a change of “tactics”
and a bid to shorten the
time taken to present the
prizes for the intraclub
mid-week competitions
during a Wednesday
afternoon tea break,
Harold Leibowitz (right) presents a handful of prizes to
organiser and presenter,
Jack Kampel on winning the Wednesday competition.
Harold Leibowitz, called
on the team skippers to collect the trophies.
In most cases they left the head table with an armful of prizes – winning
teams received a personalised desk-clock-cum-calendar, while runners up
were presented with personally engraved beer glasses.
ABOVE: Spike Meyerson had his hands full with beer glasses for his team;
CENTRE: Audrey Weinberg did the honours for her team;
RIGHT: Harry Black with prizes galore!
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Clubhouse gets new coat of
paint; seating to be upgraded
The exterior of the clubhouse has been given a “freshen up” with a
couple of coats of paint in two of the club’s colours, PLUM and CREAM.
The repaint is another
item in the club’s ongoing
maintenance
program.
The steps and flooring
leading to the clubhouse
entrance doors has also
been repainted to give the
whole area a fresh look.
At the same time club
officials are searching to
find
a
suitable
replacement
for
the
seating around the three
greens.
Craig James Painting Services workmen add the cream
coat to the clubhouse.
The current seats have
been in use for a number
of years and constantly require repainting and other maintenance.
The ideal seat/bench would be of a weatherproof material, comfortable and light
enough to be easily rotated from spot-to-spot to avoid damage to the grass surrounds
from the leg supports.
Last week the club experimented
with a wooden bench-type seat, but
it was found to be uncomfortable
and would only seat two persons
with ease.
The overall plan is to increase the
seating capacity around the greens.
Some 60 new seats are likely to be
installed.
ABOVE: Club members David Ossher and
Harry Black “test drive” the seat.
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WE all have what is known as “Senior
Moments” – that’s when you go into the
bathroom and forget why you went there
etc!
Two of our more proficient players
representing Zone 11 last month were
given new zone bowls stickers and both
mixed up the "small and big" sides of the
bowls.
Each in turn, without realising what they
had done, sent down their first bowls on the "wrong bias" much to amusement
of their team mates and opponents. It should be mentioned that they were
playing in the inter-Zone SENIORS competition!
GERRY Cardash, as many members are aware, is an
avid soccer fan with London club, Arsenal, as his No. 1
team.
Gerry recently celebrated his 77th birthday and to
his surprise his grandson, Steven Barratt, presented
him with a specially ordered Arsenal shirt with
GERRY and the number 77 embroidered on the back
(pictured) replacing one which was a replica of the
No. 7 shirt worn by Arsenal’s current Spanish star
forward Cesc Fabregas
ANOTHER Arsenal fan within the club is Bay Watch
editor, Mike Golland, who in his (much) younger days
played State League soccer.
It was a nice gesture by Gerry when he offered
the Fabregas shirt to Mike to add to his Arsenal
memorabilia.
The pair have promised that when the opportunity
arises they will wear the shirts at a mufti bowls session.
DR. EDWARD (Ted) Jackson, who passed away early last month, just six weeks
after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, will have to go down in Double Bay
Bowling Club’s history as the most modest of members.
The 85-year-old Ted (pictured) wasn’t a giant on the bowling green, but he
was a remarkable man in so many other fields.
Perhaps some members would have known that Ted,
in his professional life, spearheaded Australia’s
introduction and understanding of diagnostic
radiology.
But how many knew that Ted was a governor of the
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) and as such was
acknowledged as a leading patron of the arts?
He and his wife, Cynthia, founded the MCA’s
Primavera: Exhibition of Young Australian Artists in
memory of their daughter, Belinda, who died from
Crohn’s disease at the age of 29; and that Ted also founded the MCA’s Bella
program of free art education for children with special needs.
He was a widely renowned food and wine expert and the head of a world-wide
food and wine society. In this pursuit, he was in a group of his medical
associates, which shared the ownership of the Amberton Wines vineyard.
Ted was also a philanthropist (in the true sense of the word) and as was said
at the memorial tribute “ …. Ted touched so many people’s lives, but only a few
realised it”.
Count Double Bay Bowling Club in that list.
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