From your Editors

From your Editors

Welcome

Hi to all our readers and we hope you enjoy reading our September Quarter edition. In order to reduce printing costs fewer magazines are now being printed so in future please read the electronic copy. If you prefer the printed copy please return the booklet to the Club when you have finished reading it as this will reduce the numbers we print.

We would love to receive more contributions for our news magazine as we are running out of topics and ideas. Please call us on 93093108 or email us at nevodell@bigpond.net.au

Thank you

Special thanks to Jim Woodward who has written a number of articles for this edition. We also thank Denis Croker, Brian Lucas, Jan Paniperis, Ian Lucas and Wendy Flack who are always prepared to assist with our news magazine. Thanks to those members who send us Match reports, We get suggestions and contributions from Mike Berecry, Ian Wittber. Alan Rolls, Ray Stapledon and Trevor Orton.

Some more "Did you Hear"

Did you hear that in April 2022 Greg Taylor did well in the 2021 Australian Champion of Champions at Broad Beach, Qld.? He reached the bronze medal playoff but unfortunately lost. This event had been postponed from November last year due to Covid-19 restrictions, border closures and lock downs.

Did you hear that Jan Konig and Liz McTaggart represented our Club in the Champion of Champions Novice Singles. Liz was unfortunately eliminated in the sectional play. Jan was successful in his section, playing some outstanding bowls to defeat all his opponents to progress to Morley for the finals. Jan convincingly won both his quarter final and semi-final, progressing to the final where his brilliant run unfortunately come to an end as he went down 14-21 in a closely contested final. Congratulations on a very fine effort. \

Did you hear the World Bowls will move their headquarters from Edinburgh to Australia, as the bowls global governing body signaling the arrival of a new era? Their headquarters in Australia will be located in the same premises as Bowls Australia who will handle all ongoing Marketing and Communications operations on behalf of World Bowls. This move shows how important and significant Bowls Australia is in the big picture!

Did you know that in June Bruce Eagles won the 2021/22 Men's Over 60s Bowler of the Year? (See picture on cover.) On his journey Bruce: • Won the Over 60s Men’s Singles • Was a semi-finalist in the Men’s Pairs (with Greg Taylor) • Won the Men’s Triples (with Greg Taylor and Ian Linford) • Was a quarter finalist in the Mixed Pairs (with Lee Bunney of

North Beach). This is the second time Bruce has won this Over 60s award, having also claimed it in 2018. Well done to Bruce!

Did you hear that recently Trevor Orton ordered a glass of wine with his dinner and the waiter asked him for his ID? He tells us that he replied, “Do I look that young?’ And the waiter said, “No, I just wanted to see whether or not you qualified for the Senior Citizen discount”.

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Did you know that over the past weeks 50 new members have signed up with Sorrento following the promotions of the Club by Ian Lucas on Facebook and in particular with his link to the Duncraig Neighbourhood Chat Facebook group? Going on the number of likes (108) and comments (34) it appears that this has been a very successful promotion of our Club. The increases are clearly evident with the growth of people attending the Friday night meals and entertainment.

Did you know that "Collections" over the bar through the Club’s BePoz point-of sale system topped over $1 million this last financial year, and amazingly, when reconciled, the cash component of over $400,000 showed a difference of only $6.22? Our calculator shows that this was a 0.0015% error. That is truly amazing by anyone’s standards. Well done to Ian Lucas and his team.

Some words of wisdom written in 1894

• “To be a Skipper demands that you have expertise in psychology, counselling, poise, determination, intestinal fortitude and it will help if you can bowl.”

• “If bowling is to become a popular amusement, those who desire to promote such an end must take care to have the bowling green established away from the atmosphere of public houses, which, in a very short time, would make the game only an excuse for drunkenness and dissipation in strong liquors. Bowling is too good a pastime to be thus dragged down into the mud . . .”

– Edward T Ayers from Bowls, Bowling Greens and Bowl Playing 1894

Around Our Club

Jan Konig represented our Club in the Champion of Champions Novice Singles and was runner up

In the "Men's Premier Pennant Wind-up" Rhett Butler finished ahead of Chris Lander by only half a point. Dan Nicholls finished in 3rd spot

Alan Anderson using his home made poly pipe/ plunger stick Winners of the Quality Resorts sponsored Handicap Triples: Bruce Eagles, Jennifer Page and Matt Sharrett

Finally

Thanks to Ray Stapledon for the above poems.

Did you know that the oldest computer can be traced back to Adam and Eve? It was an "Apple" but with extremely limited memory – Just ONE byte and then everything crashed.

And remember that "Our days are happier when we give people a bit of our heart rather than a piece of our mind." – From the two octogenarians Denise and Neville Odell

Members in Action

Shona Carter, Liz Marshall, Wendy Saul, Pauline Bourne and Robyn van Mosseveld after playing in the Inter Region Round Robin

Right: Brian Lucas, Rodger Palmer, Bruce Eagles and Gary Bayne at the Bowls WA Awards Night

Peter Flack and Ian Linford who played in the Men's Over 60s Pairs at the Australian Open Championships on the Gold Coast Ross and Nerrida Porteous at the Bowls WA Awards Night. We are thrilled that Nerrida will be rejoining Sorrento