DoubleBay Men’sand Women’s Bowling Clubs

VOL8(WebVol.3)

No.9

MONDAY MARCH12,2012

DOUBLEBAY

WATCH

EDITED BYMIKEGOLLAND

TwooutofsixagaininPennants

THERE waslittleornoimprovementinresultsofDoubleBay’s six teamsinthesecondroundofthe2012Zone11Pennants.

TheGrade3side,whichwas oneofthe winningteamslastweek,onSaturday wentdownatMatraville, whilelast week’sotherwinner, theGrade4 combination,lostat hometo SouthCoogee.

Winsthisweekcamefrom twooftheteamswhich playedonhomesoil.The Grade2team,hada5-1(86-47) win overneighboursBondi,andtheGrade5 side,alsorecordeda5-1decisionagainst Leichhardt.

SCORESANDDETAILSPAGE2

Shotcountfavours DoubleBay, butresultagaindisappointing

ALTHOUGH DoubleBaylostfourofitssixmatchesinthesecondroundof theZone11Pennantcompetition,itsscoredmoreshotsthatallits opponentscombined.

DoubleBayteamstallied acount of356shots,

whileitssixopponentshadacombinedscoreof

352.

ThetopperformancecamefromtheGrade2side whichwon5-1athomeagainstBondiwitha34

shotdifferencethankstoa42-11rinkwinbythe

JulianEngelmann’ssideofSidGlick,Alan

RosenbergandSolCaganoff.Theywereaugmented

bya24-12resultfromtheWernerKossideofLes

Brem,JohnWinebergandMark Sack.

Therewasa16-shotmarginintheGrade5win

overLeichhardt followinga29-15rinkresultfrom DavidOssher,IanOssher,MaxThomas andKen Shapiro,whiletherinkheadedbyCedricAmoils

JulianEngelman(left).Sid

Glick(top),AlanRosenberg andSolCaganoff.

withHyltonBloch,HarryJacobs,andCliveWolffhada24-21win.Itwasalmosta

cleansweepasthethirdrink(LaurieCacciottolo,CoenWilliams,EddieFingretand

MauriceBoland)missedbyoneshot21-22.

TheGrade1teamcontinuedtofindamoreconsistentopponentwhenitlost½-5½

athometo“bogey”clubWaverley,whichovertheyears.hashadthebetterof

DoubleBayin topgradepennantencounters.

Waverley’sstrengthistheconsistentformofbrothers, RickandDanny Roper,who skiptworinks,backedbythirdrinkskipper,TomHawkins.

Overall,DoubleBayshouldhavethequalitytoovercome theWaverley opposition, butpastresultshavenotbeeninitsfavour.InlastSaturday’sclash,allthreerinks wereevenlycontestedwiththeluckofgreengoingWaverley’sway.

DoubleBay’shalfpointcamefromatied18-18resultfromBrandonConway’s rinkofHarryBlack,JohnWoodsandDougKing.GeraldWeinberg’s team(Matt Fetherston,ArnoldJavenandRayJankelowitz)sawanumberof deliveriesjustfailto getthedesiredresultsina14-17scoreline.TheJackKampel-skipped teamofLes Lilian,PhillipJoelandBernardFridman,fell17-22againstRick Roper’ssidewhich producedat leastfourmajorconversionsto takethehonours.

TherewasonlyasixshotdifferenceintheGrade3’s1-5loss(51-57)atMatraville

wheretherinkofGeraldRaichman,SamAbrahams,LenSimonandskipSamBrick won24-13.

TheGrade4sidelostallthreerinksbynarrowmarginswithonlysixshotsin

arrearsin a0-6(50-56)result.

Grade6disappointed ina30-shotlossatSouthSydney½-5½(47-77).Thehalf pointcoming froma18-18resultfromtheMarkReisinrinkofAlexHorwitz,Peter HermanandMeyerToblib.

BernieGarden(left)presentsthetrophynamedin hishonourtofellowDoubleBaybowler, Sam

AbrahamsattherecentMaccabiNSWLawnBowls

Guild’sannualgeneralmeeting.

SamAbrahams awardedBowls Guild’s trophy foryearsof

‘utmost’service

DOUBLEBAY Men’s BowlingClub stalwart,Sam (Shmuel)Abrahams, has beenawardedMaccabi NSW Lawn Bowls Guild’s prestigious Bernie Garden Award.

The award is presented in

recognitionofamember’s

“utmost”serviceto theguild. Abrahamswasnamedthe

2012recipient attheguild’s recent42ndannualgeneral meeting at the Double Bay Clubforhislong-timeservice

totheMaccabilawnbowlsorganisation.HehasbeenaMaccabiBowlsGuild membercloseto 30yearsandservedthreetermsasitspresident.

Onlytwicein recentyearshashenotbeentheguild’ssecretary.Hehasalso beenteammanageroftheNSWMaccabiteamwhichwona silvermedalat the

1991-92AustralianMaccabiLawnBowls Carnival.

Abrahamswasre-electedunopposed astheguild’ssecretaryatthemeetingat whichall,buttwooftheMaccabi NSWLawnBowlsGuild’sexecutive and committeearemembersofDoubleBay BowlingClub.

ThetwoareLindfieldBowling Club’sRodSilber,whoisoneoftwovice- presidentsandDafnaOrbach (NorthSydney), whoisamemberofthe committee. TheotherDoubleBaymemberselected attheannualmeeting are LouisPlatus(president), HarryStein(vice-president),TerenceJoffe(secretary), BernieGarden(bowlssecretary),John Wineberg (Publicity);BarrieBrickman, SamGinges,SidGlickandPhilipJoel(committee).

In2009,anotherDoubleBaymember,Harry Stein,wasawardedtheBernie GardenTrophyforhislongserviceontheexecutivecommittee,including a numberofyearsasthe president.