Around Our Club

Around Our Club

Barry and Wilma Bradshaw celebrating Barry's 80th birthday with family and friends

Congratulations to Robyn and Stan van Mosseveld who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in October

May Macliver, Emily Dunn and Trish McCarthy catching up for a drink at the Club At least we don't have to worry about kangaroos on our greens Annie Taylor and Carole Ford on a hot air balloon

Mary and Alan Rolls looking happy in retirement

Did you hear about a couple of busy Thursday and Friday nights when bar turnover touched $6,000 over five hours? Needless to say Chloe, Anthea and Ian were very busy with nearly $10,000 in turnover for the period. A great result that proves our Club's huge potential for well run bowling events and functions. The Thursday function was a 50th birthday for 100 people for a newly signed up social member whom had been a guest of a previous function. Everyone had a great night and great things to say about our Club.

Did you hear that in November our President John Abercrombie, Vice President Operations Wayne Gray and Life Member, Brian Lucas, were invited by the Mayor of Joondalup, Albert Jacob, to attend a Council meeting to acknowledge the growth and performance of our Club. Mayor Jacob extended a warm welcome and advised the meeting that at the 2020-21 Clubs WA Awards Sorrento Bowling Club was recently named "Medium Club of the Year" and that his was the fifth time that Sorrento has claimed this award in the past six years.

Did you know that lawn bowls is one of the most dangerous sports? This game has the highest death rate worldwide. We are deeply involved in the game till our last breath. We stop at nothing short of victory, in our pursuit of victory. Those who escape death end up with bruises, torn knees, broken hips and bone fractures. Bowls generates extreme stress resulting in strokes and even heart attacks. So beware!

Did you know that "Sex tests" were introduced to the Commonwealth Games in 1982? The trio who made up the Australian triples bowling

team weren't too worried though. Team members Eva Wilcher, Rose O'Brien and Pat Smith, with an average age of 54 had already produced ten children and 14 grandchildren between them!

Did you hear that during a vital Commonwealth Fours game in Canada, the Australian Skipper Geoff Oakley had to save a difficult situation? The jack had been shifted out near the boundary peg by the opposition Skip’s last bowl. There was good news and bad news! The bad news was that the Australian Skip was eight shots down. The good news was that he had one bowl left to play and had at least three metres of room to draw the shot. Guess what happened! Geoff Oakley played a wrong bias which finished off the rink costing the Australian team a maximum count of eight and any chance of winning a medal. He never played for Australia again and he often recounted this story as to why!

Editor's Note: Thanks to Ian Davies, from the Warwick Bowling Club, for bringing this story, from Ian Schuback’s book, Bowls Biased and Uncensored, (Slattery Media Group, 2015) to our attention.

Did you hear that, based on personal medical data spanning six years and involving more than seven million individuals Cleveland scientists has found that people on Viagra were less likely to develop Alzheimer's than those not taking this medication? Perhaps all those stories about where men house their brains are true!

Does anyone recognise these beautiful Taylor Ace bowls? About 15 years ago Ken Foggo bought these on Gumtree and has now donated them to the Club. They were originally owned by one of our Life Members. Answer on page 59.