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CONTENTS

Cover Coach Len Timchur’s Bowler magazine collection

Volume 43 Issue 9

10 – Len’s Bowler collection

21 – Post COVID return to play

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12 – Back on the green

26 – Flashback

7 PREVIEW MULTI-DISABILITY STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

NORTH VS SOUTH

Played at Mossman BC this year, who will win?

Live-streamed from Chermside from October 27

14 MEET FRED FROM GOONDIWINDI

16 DAPHNE TURNS 100

Fred travels 70km each week to play bowls at Goondiwindi

Belmont Service’s Daphne Ashfield celebrates 100 years

22 LAWS FOR NEW BOWLERS

34 Coaching

Umpire Joan takes us through important sections of the law book

Coach Jacqui talks about purposeful practice

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Bowls Queensland Patron: His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC, Governor of Queensland 4 queensland bowler October 2020

FAREWELL TO DAVID BRYANT C.B.E. Credited with being ‘The Greatest Bowler of All Time’, David John Bryant C.B.E. held 20 World and Commonwealth titles and represented England for more than 30 years in outdoor and indoor lawn bowls. He achieved an MBE for Services to Bowls in 1969 and a CBE in 1980.

Although David had an impressive bowling history, he was equally known for his patience, enthusiasm and integrity.

World Bowls President John Bell remembers playing with David and said that one of his most outstanding attributes was his supreme ability to adapt to any playing conditions – he was as much at home on the greens of Australia, New Zealand, Scotland and Canada (where he won his gold medals) as he was on his beloved Clevedon turf.

“David thrived on overcoming difficult conditions,” John said.

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“His combination of patient temperament, concentration and dogged application was unique.

“If it had been possible to bottle it he would have made a fortune.

“I will remember David with very great affection, as a true friend, a mentor, role model and a player with unique ability.

“No other player has done as much to bring honour, dignity and attention to our sport”.

Bryant’s last competitive game in Australia was at Karingal in Melbourne, when he was a guest skipper in a pennant match on November 26, 2005; his rink won 45-5.

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WHO WILL WIN THIS YEAR’S From the President NORTH VS SOUTH? with BQ’s Peter Williamson

Do not underestimate the sense of belonging, like-minded people and being a part of your bowls club. Your club needs you now more than ever for its survival. Get in and help wherever possible, ask where you may assist to ensure the survival of your club.

Over the past month, the State selectors have been meeting to put together the sides for the North vs South event to be held at Mossman Bowls Club. There were some surprises as unavailability played its card with players being unable to attend.

Teams have now been finalised and promulgated.

The Pennant 1st Division finals at club and district level is progressing and will see the best district sides in the playoff for the coveted flags come November.

The numbers of players nominated to play in the various disciplines during the State Championships has increased markedly on the past years and, not being seeded, will give all the chance to play against their peers as well as State and National representatives.

The postponed AGM was held on September, 30 and, along with the September Council meeting, included items previously on the agenda for the postponed March Council meeting.

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The third annual Bowls Queensland North versus South Challenge will be held at the Mossman Memorial Bowls Club on October 31 and November 1, 2020.

The first two years of the event held in Townsville were a resounding success and gained much interest throughout Queensland and Australia.

This year’s challenge will encompass many of the States finest players including multiple World Champions Lynsey Clarke and Aron Sherriff along with Australian Jackaroos Chloe Stewart and Barrie Lester.

Players will travel from many parts of QLD including Cairns, Mareeba, Silkwood, South Johnstone, Noorla, Townsville, Ingham, Mackay, Monto, Yeppoon, Tansey, Bundaberg, Maryborough, Mt Isa, Dalby, Roma, Cunnamulla, Pomona, Toowoomba, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast.

The format for this event will be: Men’s and Women’s teams, 12 players per team, 3 rinks of fours, 3 test series of 21 ends in each game, two games Saturday (1pm and 5pm) and one game Sunday at 9:30am. Queensland selectors will be in attendance during the series searching for new talent. See https://www.bowlsqld.org/events/ north-vs-south-challenge for more details on the teams and the event.

Thank you to sponsors of this event: Douglas Shire Council, Exodas Transport, Mossman Memorial Bowls Club, Tropical Far North QLD Men’s and Ladies Districts.

2020 MULTI-DISability championships When: October 27 to 30, 2020

2019 – WINNERS

Where: Chermside Bowls Club

Life Stream Open Singles – Danial Walker Open Pairs – Danial Walker & Darryl Bridges

What: Multi-Disability State Championships Since 2011, Bowls Queensland in partnership with Sports Connect has run the Multi-Disability State Championships.

Players compete in Life Stream, Sporting Wheelies & Disabled Association, QLD Blind Bowlers Association and Deaf/Hard of hearing divisions. We look forward to seeing you all there and watching our players in action.

The event will be live-streamed on the BQ Facebook page every day, so tune in if you can’t make it to Chermside.

Sporting Wheelies & Disabled Association Men’s Singles – Cooper Whitestyles Women’s Singles – Kaytlyn Smith Open Pairs – Kaytlyn Smith & Cooper Whitestyles QLD Blind Bowlers Association Men’s Singles – Jake Fehlberg Women’s Singles – June Brittain Open Pairs – Jake Fehlberg & June Brittain Deaf/Hard of Hearing Open Singles – Russell Jackson Open Pairs – Gordon Heslewood & Barry Lynne

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CEO REPORT with BQ’s Brett Wilkie North vs South Challenge October 31 & November 1,

2020

After two great years in Townsville at the Suburban Bowling Club, this event will now move north in 2020. Thank you to the Tropical Far North QLD District Men and Women for embracing this event and assisting with it to be held at the Mossman Memorial Bowls Club. Thank you to Secretary Manager Kevin Rynne and the board of the Mossman Club for supporting this event along with Douglas Shire Council. Exodas Transport return to sponsor once again and we thank keen bowler and owner Brett Tynan for the ongoing support. Strong teams have once again been selected which has been well received since its inception in 2018. Locals will get the opportunity to see numerous Aussie Jackaroo stars in action, along with players from across Queensland trying to knock them off!

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State Multi Disability Championships October 27-30, 2020 Held at Chermside Bowls Club. This event will also be live streamed on all four days. These championships bring together four disability bowls groups: QLD Blind Bowers Assoc, Deaf Lawn Bowls QLD, Lifestream (intellectual) and Sporting Wheelies (physical). Thank you to Chermside and Brisbane City Council for sponsoring this event.

AGM The Bowls Queensland AGM and Council meetings were held on Wednesday 30 September at Bowls Queensland headquarters.

Come and Try Month Well done to the clubs that have signed up for this initiative. Club members need to support these days by inviting their friends and family along to try the sport. Bowls QLD will be promoting “Come and Try” month on Facebook and encourage bowlers to share these promos.

State Championships October 12-25, 2020 A great response to the reopening of entries for this event to be played on the Gold Coast with finals at Paradise Point. Thank you to Major Events Gold Coast and Paradise Point Bowls Club for their support of this event. The finals day of each event will be live streamed on BQ Facebook and then uploaded to our YouTube page. We also plan to live stream the post sectional rounds of Mixed Pairs, Pairs and Singles.

Make sure you like and follow the Bowls Queensland Facebook page and sign up for notifications of when

COVID-19 Level 3 restrictions are still in place following the Industry COVID Safe Plans that relate to bowls clubs.

Bowls Queensland will continue to update clubs on any developments that arise.

Cunningham District Inaugural Hall of Fame I had the privilege of presenting this prestigious award to the first inductee John Lang, unfortunately John was admitted to hospital prior to the event although his wife and daughter were able to accept the momento. John was always a pleasure to play against and has a remarkable list of achievements. We wish John a speedy recovery. Well done to CDBA on the new initiative.

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LEN TIMCHUR’S Meet Leonid Timchur, owner of what we believe to be the largest Bowler magazine collection in Australia.

We caught up with Len to find out how he came by the collection and what drives his love of bowls.

How did you start collecting the Bowler magazine?

Someone at the club wanted to give away their collection in 2004 or 2005. I think it was advertised in the Bowler at the time. I didn’t bother with it as I collect a lot of things but I changed my mind and by then someone had already nabbed it. So I carried on collecting my own magazines.

What made you collect the magazines?

I’ve been a coach for years and found the articles useful.

My favourite section of the Bowler is the coaching section.

I used to like those articles, especially Jacqui Hineman’s articles, they gave me an idea of what to do and where to go. I started writing a monthly article on coaching for our Belmont Services newsletter.

Tell us more about your coaching career.

I used to do a lot of coaching. I’d just finished up on the committee the first year I was at the club, I knew nobody and nobody really knew me. We picked the committee and we had five other people we could call on for anything but there were only four nominations so they decided to try and elect somebody else. My name came up don’t ask me how! I was on the committee for a long time after that as a coach.

I have a funny story as I had only been bowling for four years when I started helping and coaching people at the club and some of the older people didn’t take kindly to a young fella telling them what to do. I was one of the young fellas. We had a pair of older guys who were looked at as old people and I was talking to the one guy and he was telling me about the young fella who was taking him to bowls every 10 queensland bowler October 2020

G A M R E L BOW T C E L COL weekend. He was 67 and the young fella was 65. In those days that was fairly old really.

How many people do you think you have coached over the years?

I couldn’t say, but it’s in the hundreds. I mainly coach people in the beginning stages. I have coached some people who have gone on to do pretty well – I only coach them when they come to me. Some recent successes have been Kane and Jacob Nelson, I coached both of them. I remember Kane playing with toy bowls at the age of four or five and he said he’d had enough of the toy bowls and wanted real bowls. I remember them both from the Bowling Academy.

My wife Margaret finally decided she wanted to play bowls.

She used to play ten pin. I rung up the secretary and the ladies president and said look, my wife doesn’t have time to be coached when the ladies are coached so can I coach her and they said that was alright. In those days the men coached the men and the ladies coached the ladies. I said this was ridiculous, we have husbands and wives coming along and the wife wants to be coached with the husband or vice versa. We had this thing about the women and men back then. It’s changed now.

Marg meets people who say “oh Lenny coached me, Lenny coached me”. She would go on a trip with a bunch of ladies and they’d start talking, and she said she had no idea how many people I’d coached!

Marg is out playing bowls at an invitation day today at Belmont. She has taken a lot of plants with her instead of food because of the rules with COVID (see image of Marg’s crocheted covered plants taken to bowls).

What’s the most important thing about coaching to you?

For me the key thing is delivery. For example, one of the guys I was coaching at the club – I told him that on his back-swing his arm was going back and out and I said you’re

E N I Z GA TION pulling your arm out. You want a smooth, straight delivery and he said no, he’s not going out he’s going straight back.

So I said come with me, I took him to the clubhouse, stood him up against the brick wall and said now show me your delivery. Which he did and went ah! OKAY! Once they get a good delivery then it’s uphill from there, not just a reasonable delivery, but a good one.

Do you have any advice for new bowlers?

Go into club competitions. I’ve always said to everyone I’ve coached, put your name down for everything.

How did you start playing bowls?

I used to see people playing bowls and one day I spoke to Marg’s uncle and he took me down to the club.

My wife was a sport widow, our first date was to the soccer and from there it just went on and on. I played soccer, cricket, tennis, bowls and she had a lot of time on her own.

Do you have anything else you’d like to add?

I have no relations here other than my brother and his family. I’m from the Ukraine and was nine years old when I came over here.

During the war, mum and dad got a horse and buggy, because the Germans were starting to retreat and if you were in the road they just went over the top of you. So mum and dad decided they weren’t going to run over the top of us so they went ahead of them with the buggy.

We finished up in Germany and got on a ship called the SS Roma and began our 56 day journey to Australia.

Coming around the Great Australian Bight can be very rough, the boat was going up and down and there was not a soul on deck. Except for me. I wedged my feet into the railing so I wouldn’t go anywhere.

Men and women were segregated, mum was very sick, dad not much better. Mum was so bad that when the captain saw her he blew his stack and took her up on deck and gave her needles. We nearly lost her.

None of us could speak English at the time. I started off In grade 2 and didn’t even know the language.

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BACK ON THE GREEN FOURTH WIN FOR DALBY’S SAVAGE AND SMITH

By Judith Savage Stephen Savage and Joel Smith have won the club championship pairs for the fourth year running and Stephen won the A grade singles for the third time in four years.

They were also the best performed skips in Condamine District Blue Pennants recently.

25-year Meritorious Award for services to bowls Congratulations to Patricia Ward on her 25-year Meritorious Award for services to bowls. Patricia joined the Athelstane Ladies Bowls Club in March 1993, while still working full time as a nurse at the Rockhampton Mater Hospital. She retired from nursing in 2000 aged 55. Patricia holds an impressive bowls history.

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Elected to Athelstane Ladies Committee 1994/2004 and in 2003/4 to the Athelstane board of directors.

Become a state umpire in 1994.

Elected to CQ District Match Committee in 1995.

District Match Chair from 2007 to 2019.

State level 2 umpire from 1998 to 2005, teaching the laws of bowls to players from Moranbah, Clermont, Emerald, Miriam Vale, Biloela, Moura and Gladstone.

President of Athelstane Ladies Bowls Club (2000, 2001 & 2003).

Member of Diggers Ladies Bowls Club from 2004 to 2013.

Elected to Diggers Ladies committee in 2006.

President of Diggers Ladies in 2013.

Games director for Diggers Ladies from 2006 to 2009.

Joined Yeppoon Ladies Bowls Club in December 2013 and elected to committee for 2016/17.

Delegate to CQDLBA for Baralaba Ladies Bowling Club 2016/17.

Manager of the CQ State District Side from 2009 to 2019.

President of Central Queensland, Althea Vaughan presenting the 25 year Meritorious Award to Patricia Ward at Yeppoon

Patricia is in her 26th year of service to the CQ District Bowling Association and is currently a member of Yeppoon Ladies Bowling Club, serves on the CQ District Match Committee and is Senior Vice President of the CQ District Ladies Bowling Association. She was assigned as a Presenter and Assessor of the Laws of the Sport of Bowls for the CQ District by Bowls Queensland in early 2020. Patricia has played bowls all the years of her 26 years’ service and continues to play competitively.

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LOCALS TRUMP GLADSTONE LADIES SPRING TRIPLES

By Peter Tappenden Congratulations to local winners Sam Lunck, Cameron McCrohon and Carolyn Mead who won Gladstone’s Ladies Spring Triples.

Teams from Taroom, Bargara and Yeppoon competed in two day carnival. There were 22 teams including a Melbourne-based couple who were stranded due to COVID-19 restrictions. Thank you Gayle and Des for joining in the competition.

Well done to the runners-up Carole and Alex Allan and Jenny Hatherell, also from Gladstone.

Third place went to Biloela’s Janet Hogan, Mike Blake and Ali Goninam.

Congratulations to all. Next year will be bigger and better.

Winners L-R: Sam Lunck, Cameron McCrohon, Carol Meade & Ladies’ President Lori Miller

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BACK ON THE GREEN GOONDIWINDI’S LATE BLOOMER

By Jill Hankins

Fred Robertson is a true gentleman and still an active player in our club at the reasonable age of 96.

Fred was born in Ballan, Victoria in 1924. His father had a soldier’s settlement block of 320 acres in 1940 when all the work was done by draft horses. He lived in Victoria for 60 years before relocating to Queensland in 1984 with his wife and children. He still lives on the land and his property, Banaba, is 70km north-east of Goondiwindi. At first he ran mainly sheep but nowadays it is primarily cattle.

Fred said he could never understand why his father played bowls as it seemed a strange game to him! Now he has caught the bug and bowls has become the mainstay of his life. His neighbour saw him down the main street in Gundy one day and said that as he had flat sole shoes on he may as well come down to the club and have a go.

So Fred got into bowls and is a late bloomer. Fred’s weekly bowls means that he’s become quite skilled at competitions, as he reached the Men’s “A” Singles Semifinal in 2017.

He travels 70km into town every week with that same neighbour to have a rollup and enjoys nothing more than playing bowls with his mates and the social atmosphere at the club.

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FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND’S CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS

By Jan Baumann, President Tropical Far North Qld District

Ladies Bowls Assn.

The ladies in Far North Queensland recently held their three-day Champion of Champions event at the Innisfail Bowling Club. While only the singles champions will go through to State level, we still hosted the fours and pairs events.

Marlin Coast Bowls Club were fortunate in winning both the fours and pairs titles, with Denise Charman from Silkwood winning the singles event. The fours team of Shirley Sampson, Trish Spicer, Christine Scott and Joan Carey defeated a team from West Cairns and the team of Bev Drewitt and Di Deagan were winners over the Silkwood pair.

However, Denise got her revenge with a win in the singles championship.

Players were well supported by their club members and the members from Innisfail were wonderful hosts.

Singles champion, Denise Charman (left) with runner-up Robyn Brunello

Pairs winners Bev Drewitt and Di Deagan (right) with Lois Ceeley and Annette Evans

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BACK ON THE GREEN 100 years for belmont services LADIES’ daphne ASHFIELD

Daphne Ashfield reading her birthday card during the video link with guests

By Sandy Ellis

Belmont Services Ladies Bowling Club held a celebratory morning tea for their member, Mrs Daphne Ashfield, who turned 100 years old on August, 15. Invited guests included Bowls Queensland President Peter Williamson, Ross Vasta MP, Steve Minnikin MP, Cr Lisa Atwood, Rose Beauchamp representing Gateway District Ladies BC, Patron Keith Gilchrist, Belmont Lilian Noble, patron Belmont Services Ladies Services Bowls Club President Noel Seawright and Belmont Services BC, cutting Daphne’s birthday cake via video Ladies’ Patron Lilian Noble.

Owing to COVID restrictions re-introduced at the time, it was considered unwise for Daphne to leave her home at Prescare Vela Carina so she joined us via video link. Thank you to Daphne’s niece, Kay Millsom who, together with Belmont Services Ladies, arranged for her aunt to join in and participate in the birthday cake cutting and tributes paid to her. Thank you also to Kay who provided the following background information on Daphne’s life.

Daphne Ashfield was born into the Gough family in Ingham, North Queensland, on August 15, 1920. Daphne had an older brother, Roy, who returned in 1945 from WWII in poor health and died not long afterwards.

She also had a younger sister, Irene, who lived to a mature age. At the end of her school days, Daphne was encouraged by a local GP to commence hospital-based registered nursing training at Royal Brisbane Hospital. She then completed her midwifery training at RBH before returning to Ingham for a time and then travelling to many Australian hospitals to gain further experience.

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link with BSLBC President Gloria Hayden

In 1948 Daphne was appointed matron of Ingham Hospital and then matron of Mt Isa Hospital where she met and married John William Ashfield (known as Bill) in 1957. Bill was the stipendiary magistrate at Mt Isa’s Court House. He and Daphne were then transferred to many Queensland regional centres where they shared their love of sport, excelling at lawn bowls and golf.

Daphne and Bill’s final move was to Brisbane in the 1960s where Bill was appointed as magistrate of the Children’s Court. They joined Camp Hill Bowls Club, playing regularly and using their skills to coach other members.

Daphne served a term as President of Camp

SEEN READING THE BOWLER Hill Ladies in 1976. Later Daphne and Bill joined Belmont Services Bowls Club where Daphne is still a member of Belmont Services Ladies to this day, albeit a non-playing member!

In later years Daphne and Bill moved from their home at Camp Hill to a unit at Aveo Carindale. Needing higher care, Bill moved to Prescare Vela Carina where he lived until his death. Daphne moved there in late 2019.

Kay Millsom reports that her Aunt Daphne enjoyed her 100th birthday dinner with Kay and her family at Kay’s home and received congratulatory phone calls from family in Ingham and in West Australia. This was followed by the morning tea celebration on August , 18 at Belmont Services Ladies where Kay joined Daphne in seeing her bowls friends and hearing their greetings, reading birthday cards, appreciating floral tributes and short visits from staff and fellow residents at Vela.

Enjoying reading the September issue of the Bowler magazine was Len Timchur from Belmont Services Club.

đ&#x;“Œ BQ President Peter Williamson, Rose Beauchamp (past president and life member, GDLBA) & Keith Gilchrist (patron, Belmont Services Bowls Club Inc.)

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BACK ON THE GREEN MONTO FOURS

By Bronwyn Torrens After being locked down for many months for COVID-19, 20 teams finally got onto the greens at Monto in August for the Open Fours Carnival.

Monto ensured a COVID safe and very enjoyable weekend by doing all that was necessary to keep its visitors safe. From registration, cleanliness, supplying meals in a safe and thoughtful way and even down to having two bars in our small venue, one on the inside and one out, everyone helped to ensure everything ran like clockwork.

The entry list was limited to 20 teams over our club premises and two greens and it worked well. Members from the club enjoyed seeing players from a broad range of areas around the state, especially our local Port Curtis District.

The winners came down to the wire, with no team winning 5 out of 5, but instead on games and ends on the card. Each team on the winner’s podium had only four wins, so the ends tally gave up the eventual winners ladders.

The victor’s team from part South Burnett and the Gold Coast was Skip Neil Chauvier, his dad Bob Chauvier and mates Dave Eldridge and Duncan Dukes.

Second place went to Monto locals, Skip Barry Woodall, Mike Smith, John King and Jean Jasch.

Games Director Brad Kielly said it was very pleasing to see how local club members got on board and worked towards such a successful carnival and that it was great to see so many teams support our carnival in this current climate.

Above: Monto Fours winning team L-R: Bob Chauvier, Dave Eldridge, Duncan Dukes & Neil Chauvier (Skip)

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CHAMP OF CLUB CHAMP SINGLES The winner of the DDLBA Champion of Club Champion Singles was Julia Allen-Best (North Toowoomba). Julia will be representing the Downs District at the zone play offs in October against Cunningham District.

South Toowoomba’s Marlene Hannant and Val Lindenmeyer (Millmerran), battled one semifinal out on the green with Hannant winning her way through to the finals. The other semifinal was between Julia Allen-Best and Tania Ingram (West Toowoomba) and Allen-Best took the game. The final was contested by Julia Allen-Best and Marlene Hannant. Hannant was attempting to win back-to-back championships after winning in 2019 and Allen-Best wanted to win back her 2018 victory after receiving a bronze medal at the State Champions on the Gold Coast. Allen-Best won in the end.

Pictured right: DDLBA Champion of Club Champion Singles Julia Allen-Best

TRAINEE GREENKEEPER

By Trish Hansen Burnett Bowls Club West Bundaberg welcomes young member Kyle Franks who is our new trainee greenkeeper. He is being trained by our head greenkeeper Brian Walsh. Members of Burnett Bowls Club wish him all the best in his new venture.

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BACK ON THE GREEN IT’S TIME FOR PENNANT The 2020 State Pennant will be held on November, 7-8. The State Pennant competition gives district Division 1 Pennant winners the opportunity to play off at group level for the chance to compete at Queensland’s state finals.

Successful group playoff winners from around the state battle it out for the prestigious Division 1 State Pennant flag.

Due to COVID 19 restrictions the 2020 State Pennant will be held over two clubs. The men will be held at Cleveland Bowls Club and the women will be held at Capalaba Bowls Club.

While this year’s event has been limited to Division 1, some other pennant activity has been taking place.

PORT CURTIS DISTRICT MEN’S PENNANT div 1 & 2

Division 1 Gladstone

Division 2 Boyne-Tannum

By Pedro Tappenden The final of the Division 1 & 2 pennants of the Port Curtis District Men’s Bowls Association was played at the Gladstone Bowls Club. The Division 1 was between Monto Bowls Club and Gladstone Bowls Club. With Gladstone winning in a thriller 60-59 after both teams were level with one end to go, Gladstone picked up one shot on the last end. In Division 2, Boyne-Tannum No. 1 defeated Gladstone 56-24.

BURNETT PENNANT DIV 3 Burnett Bowls Club Division 3 2020 Pennant winners Back L-R: Neil Brokate, Geoff Ferguson, Warren Downey, Kyle Franks, Allan Neilsen, Wayne Watson, Russell Spencer, Fred Dewhurst, John Bawden Front L-R: Ken Brown, Owen Newman, Glenn Hayes.

Absent: Stan Burrell-Jones

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Development with Lesley, Wade and Micheal

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Post Covid-19 Return to Play

By Wade Mutzelburg

As we make our way back into regular competitions, State Championships and Pennant playoffs etc.

It is timely to keep abreast of recent changes to competition and support available.

With the recent announcement of the Club Pine Rivers BPL event in November being postponed to next year. It means that the BPL Cup National Finals will shift from the Club Pine Rivers BPL event to the Moama BPL event. The 16 national finalists from this year now earning their trips to compete in the BPL Cup National Finals during BPL12 at Moama from February 23-26, 2021.

With the movement of the National Finals this allows Bowls Australia to extend the 2020 BPL Cup season dates as such: • Preliminary Rounds – to be completed by early December (6/12/20) • Regional Finals – to be held between early December (5/12/20) and completed by early Jan (10/1/21) • State/Territory Finals – to be completed by 24th Jan (24/1/21) At present we have completed 49 events with another 48 events confirmed throughout the country and 486 entries to date. At present we are still looking for BPL Cup Host venues for Preliminary

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round. If your club would be interested in host an event please get in touch with your local RBM to register your interest and plan for the event.

Recently the successful recipients were released for the Queensland Governments COVID SAFE Active Clubs Kickstart program. The program supports the sport and active recreation community to restart activities as COVID-19 restrictions ease. The program is part of the Sport and Recreation COVID SAFE Restart Plan.

COVID SAFE Active Clubs Kickstart provides funding of $2,000 to assist not-for-profit local and regional sport and active recreation organisations re-establish their operations in a COVID-safe environment. Funding is available for equipment, training and operational expenses.

Over 3800 sport and active recreation organisations have received $7.6 million in funding to support their activities and encourage Queenslanders to return to play. In Queensland our bowls clubs were successful in obtaining a total of $446,000 in funding being 223 grants for 207 individual bowls clubs. This means that just over 67% of our 307 Bowls Clubs were successful and received this grant. Well done and keep up the good work.

As always if you have any questions regarding BPL Cup or grants feel free to get in touch with your local RBM.

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Micheal Sorrensen 0447 507 040 msorrensen@bowls.com.au October 2020 queensland bowler 21

Umpire with Joan Brotherton Basic laws for new bowlers A number of years ago, my District Umpire Committee were asked if they would put together some basic laws for new bowlers. I am sure that these laws will be of assistance to all bowlers, particularly our new players as we return to bowls. It may be useful to have a brush-up on the rules used in every game as it is important that we all know the basic laws.

Law 40: Players’ duties 40.3: The Lead: The Lead of the team to play first in an end must: • 40.3.1: Place the mat as described in Law 6.1.1 and • 40.3.2: Deliver the jack and make sure that it is centred before delivering the first bowl of the end.

Law 6: Placing the Mat 6.1 At the start of each end: • 6.1.1 Before the start of play in each end, the player to play first must place the centre line of the mat lengthwise along the centre line of the rink, with the mat line at least 2 metres from the rear ditch and at least 23 metres from the front ditch or 21 metres from the “T”.

• 6.2.3 If the mat is off the centre line, it must be moved to that line.

Law 10: Improper delivery of the jack • 10.3: If the jack is improperly delivered once by each player in any end, it must not be delivered again in that end. Instead, it must be centred with the nearest point of the jack to the mat line being 2 metres from the front ditch and the mat must be placed as described in law 6.1.1 by the first player to play. (Please note that the mat may be moved by the Lead when replaying the jack).

• 9.7: After the first player to play has delivered the first bowl, no-one has the right to challenge the legality of the original position of the jack.

Law 7: Position on the mat • 7.1: Before delivery a player must be standing on the mat with all or part of at least one foot on the mat. At the moment they deliver the jack or a bowl, the player must have all or part of one foot on or above the mat.

Law 13: Possession of the Rink • 13.1: Possession of the rink will belong to the player or team whose bowl is being played.

• 13.2: As soon as each bowl comes to rest, possession of the rink will transfer to the opposing player or team after allowing time for marking a toucher as soon as it comes to rest.

Law 19: Dead Jack: • 19.1: If the jack is moved by a bowl in play, it is a dead jack if it: 22 queensland bowler October 2020

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19.1.1: Passes above the face of the bank.

19.1.2: Passes completely outside a side boundary of the rink of play.

19.1.3: Comes to rest in any hollow in the face of the bank.

19.1.4: Comes to rest at a distance of less than 18 metres, as measured in a straight line, from the centre of the mat line to the nearest point of the jack.

Law 14: Touchers • 14.1: A bowl in its original course which touches the jack, even though it comes to rest in the ditch within the boundaries of the rink of play, is a live bowl and is called a toucher.

• 14.2: A bowl is also a toucher if, after having come to rest: • 14.2.1: It falls and touches the jack before the next bowl is delivered.

Law 15: Marking a Toucher: • 15.1: A toucher must be marked with chalk by a member of the team that delivered the bowl or by the marker as soon as it comes to rest.

Law 20: Dead Ends • 20.1: A dead end is not counted as a completed end even if all the bowls required to be played have been played.

• 20.3: If the skips or opponents in Singles or the Umpire declare an end dead, the first to play in that end must also play first when the end is replayed.

Law 22: Result of an end - The shot • 22.2: A bowl must not be moved until the opponents have agreed whether it is a shot or not, except where a bowl has to be moved so that another bowl can be measured.

• 22.3: As the shots are agreed, each shot bowl can be removed from the head (by hand not foot).

Note: When the result of the end is finalised – all players at the head end are to help kick all bowls back to a position behind the mat).

Law 29.1: Playing out of turn • 29.1.1: If a player plays out of turn, the opposing skip can stop the bowl and return it to the player to play it in the proper order.

Law 29.2: Playing another player’s bowl • 29.2.1: If a player plays another player’s bowl instead of their own, the other player’s bowl must be replaced with the player’s own bowl.

Law 33: Leaving the green during the course of play • 33.1: A player must not delay play by leaving the rink of play or their team unless their opponent agrees, and then only for no more than 10 minutes.

Law 12: Position of players • 12.1.1: Players at the mat end of the rink who are not delivering a bowl must stand at least 1 metre behind the mat.

• 12.1.2: Players at the head end of the rink and who are not controlling the play must stand: • 12.1.2.1: Behind the jack if they are members of the team which is in possession of the rink.

• 12.1.2.2: Behind the jack and away from the head if they are members of the team not in possession of the rink.

• 12.1.2.3: On the surrounds of the green if the jack is in the ditch.

DR.3.2: Duties relating to scorecards • 3.2.1: In singles, the marker is responsible for keeping, completing and dealing with the card.

• 3.2.2: In pairs, the skip of each team.

• 3.2.3: In triples, the skip of each team.

• 3.2.4: In fours, the second of each team.

Definitions: • C.15: Jack or bowl in its original course: A jack or bowl from its delivery until it comes to rest, no matter how many times (for a bowl) it comes into contact with the jack or other bowls before it comes to rest or becomes dead.

• C.16: Jack or bowl in motion: A jack or bowl which is moving during play after it has been at rest as part of the head.

• C.20 Mat Line: The edge of the mat nearest the front ditch. All measurements involving the mat and a jack or a bowl will be taken from the centre of the mat line.

Types of Games: Law 1: Play arrangements • 1.1: Singles game • 1.2: Team game • 1.3: Side game • 1.4: Series of singles games, team games or side games or • 1.5: Tournament of games.

Distances in the direction of play: • A. 2 metres – minimum distance of a delivered jack from the front ditch.

• B. 14 metres – minimum distance of a live bowl from the mat line.

• C. 18 metres – minimum distance of a rebounding jack from the mat line.

• D. 21 metres – minimum distance of a delivered jack from the mat line.

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Navigating these uncharted waters under financial distress In the August 2019 edition of Queensland Bowler, we outlined the importance of assessing your club’s solvency and, if necessary, how to reduce future risk. Of course, given everything that has transpired in 2020, these considerations are more pertinent than ever.

The structure of your club will vary the application of the relevant legislative provisions and the corresponding protections. Since our previous update, further legislative reform has occurred in this area, specifically: (a) An amendment to the Associations Incorporation Act, due to commence in June 2021, where specific duties are imposed on committee members.

These duties relate to conflicts of interest, care and diligence, acting in good faith and most relevantly, a duty to prevent insolvent trading. While there are defences against these duties, including making informed business judgments in reliance upon reasonable and informed advice, a breach will attract a financial penalty of up to $8,000; and (b) An amendment to the Associations Incorporation Act, currently in effect, to enable the appointment of an administrator to place the association into voluntary administration if they are experiencing financial distress.

However, the operation of this amendment incorporates relevant provisions of the Corporations Act

which potentially provides scope for liquidators to pursue voidable transaction claims, such as unfair preference claims and unreasonable director related transactions.

Relevant to those clubs structured as companies limited by guarantee, the temporary amendments to the insolvency and corporations laws have been extended to assist organisations with navigating the ongoing challenges COVID-19 presents. In effect, these changes (extended until 31 December 2020) operate to avoid unnecessary insolvencies and bankruptcies by allowing businesses (and their directors) to continue to trade through a temporary period of liquidity, rather than enter voluntary administration or liquidation as would ordinarily be the case.

These amendments relieve directors of the risk of personal liability for debts incurred while the business is insolvent and lift the minimum threshold at which creditors are able to issue a statutory demand (and in turn, the timeframe for response). These protections operate in addition to the ‘safe harbour’ reforms introduced in 2018, which protect directors from the insolvent trading provisions in circumstances where, upon suspecting that a business is or may become insolvent, a specific course of action is developed in order for the business to recover. The operation and protection

of these provisions depends on the structure of your club. In any event, it is imperative to closely monitor your club’s financial position, particularly in this season of extraordinary uncertainty. Please keep in mind that the above protections have only been extended until the end of the calendar year. It is also important to note that the Job Keeper Payment Scheme has been extended to 28 March 2021, and the Associations Incorporation Act amendments will come into effect in June 2021.

The ever-evolving nature of COVID-19 highlights how important it is to keep abreast of the protections and assistance packages that are available to your club and to continually monitor your club’s finances – both of which are key to navigating these uncharted waters.

Matters of insolvency and bankruptcy are complex and require careful consideration and advice. If you have any questions about your club’s solvency and risk, or would like advice on other legal matters please call me at 07 3224 0353.

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Flashback Enjoy reading more about what happened this month in Queensland’s bowling history from 40, 20, 10 and five years ago.

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JACK HIGH WINNER IS “OLD FOX” KEITH POOLE Keith Poole won the inaugural Jack High Australian Broadcasting Commission’s television series. The 15 round Jack High series, televised nationally featured eight of the world’s leading players. Keith was the dominating player of the series beating South Australian, Alf Sandercock 21-12 in the final.

Keith’s performance was an outstanding example of his ability to maintain immaculate control under pressure.

GOLDEN JUBILEE TEAM CHOSEN Maisie Flynn (left), Shirley Gordon and Mavis Daniels formed the QLBA’s State selection panel which chose the successful Queensland team that won the Golden Jubilee interstate round robin series.

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This Month 40 Years Ago 1980 QUEENSLAND SCORES DREAM WIN Queensland won the interstate round robin series, QLBA’s Golden Jubilee, that was held in Brisbane.

The win was made possible when Dulcie McCollom and Bet Rose in the pairs and Menice Murray in the singles played dominating bowls throughout the series.

The Queensland pairs combination put together a splendid undefeated record throughout the three-day series. Menice Murray failed by only one point to win the singles from Victoria’s vastly experienced Margaret Meadowcroft.

MILLIE’S SECOND WIN Carina’ s Millie Skeate won the Ladies’ State Championship for the second time, putting her into an elite band of players who have won the title more than once.

Millie previously won the title in 1978 after beating Dorothy Ostler of Southport. After the game, Millie said “I have been runner-up for so long in so many games, it was no longer funny.”

Millie has won again in 1980, beating Menice Murray of Kingaroy 31-22.

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Flashback Let’s go back to year 2000...

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BOYS FROM THE BUSH DOMINATE It was a battle of the bush bowlers with Col James from Victoria Point taking on The Summit’s Mark Spiller in a nail-biting Champion of Club Champions singles event played at Hamilton.

James, 26 years Spiller’s senior, showed all the skills of a seasoned professional to edge ahead of Spiller over the closing ends to win the match 25-19.

The pairs match between Nambour ‘s Graham Morton and Neil Brown and Bramble Bay’s Rod Stone and David Buxton looked to be an easy defeat after Brown led by 10 shots early in the match, but Bramble Bay soon narrowed the gap to 18-13.

Brown wasn’t going to be distracted and picked up another 10 points for Nambour and won 28-13.

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This Month 20 Years Ago 2000

MIRACLE COMEBACK BY RIGBY Manly’s Maria Rigby won her second singles state championship defeating defending the now late champion Jenny Harragon.

Rigby was trailing 15-4 after 10 ends but pushed through to win the next 11 out of 14 ends wowing the crowds. Rigby continued to dig deep and maintained consistent pressure to go on to win with a final score of 25-22. Her last win was in 1995.

HOCKING SNARES SECOND TITLE Terry Hocking (15) claimed the NQ District junior championship title played at Cutheringa in Townsville after being Giru’s 2000 B Grade singles champion.

Playing against Jeff Ryan from Mt Isa, it was a closely fought final with a score of 18-14.

Hocking was the grandson of state selector Bob Ferguson, also of Giru.

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k c a b h s a l F Let’s go back to year 2010...

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HAMMER HOPING TO STRIKE GOLD IN DEHLI Mark Casey and Lynsey Armitage (now Clarke) were aiming to win back-to-back gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Dehli. No Australian player had even won successive gold medals, let alone defended their title. Casey, alongside Wayne Turley and Bill Cornehls led the triples team to gold at the Melbourne Games. After Cornehls retired, world number five Brett Wilkie stepped in to fill the void. “I’m confident all our hard work in preparing for these games will hold us in good stead,” Casey said.

Armitage’s plan was to retain the pairs title won alongside Karen Murphy in 2006, this time she played with Natasha Van Eldik. Did they succeed? The men’s triples won a silver medal after being defeated by South Africa and Scotland won the women’s pairs. However, Australia’s Claire Duke, Julie Keegan and Sharyn Renshaw won silver in the women’s triples, Leif Selby claimed silver in the men’s singles and Kelsey Cotrell won bronze in the women’s singles.

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This Month10 Years Ago 2010 REVOLUTION WITH WEEKEND BOWLS FOR WOMEN The introduction of the Ladies’ Team Challenge in 2010 addressed the need for competitive bowls for women on a Saturday. With most women working during the week, many women were struggling to play bowls on Saturdays, traditionally men-only play days.

The Ladies’ Team Challenge involved teams of fours going head-to-head in pairs format over a six-week period.

Brainchild of the challenge, Indooroopilly’s Michelle Russell said the mindset was that Saturday was the men’s day as they worked all week. With most women working during the week, Saturday was their only play day too.

GRAHAM JOINS FIGHT FOR WORKING WOMEN It wasn’t only women battling for the rights to play bowls on a Saturday. Algester bowler Graham Lewis joined the quest for women to play bowls on Saturday after his partner Kathleen was unable to compete in club championships as she worked during the week.

Lewis joined forces with Michelle Russell (see story above) and helped organise the Ladies’ Team Challenge.

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k c a b h s a l F Let’s go back to year 2015...

HELENSVALE PIPS ATHERTON Helensvale High School won the 10th annual State Secondary Schools Cup. Some players had only a few hours of bowls experience under their belts, but they took to the green with a steely determination not only to win, but to enjoy themselves and make some friends along the way.

With 32 students from 15 schools across the State converging on the greens at Pine Rivers, the young bowlers enjoyed the hospitality.

Australian Jackaroo Lynsey Clarke coached the Helensvale team and said that she was “immensely proud” of the students’ acheivments.

“I didn’t have a lot of work to do,” Lynsey said.

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This Month 5 Years Ago 2015

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BIG NAMES BOWLS FEST NSW’s Warilla Gorillas won their third title and $60,000 at the National Club 5-A-Side at Club Helensvale.

Queenland clubs competing were Helensvale, Pine Rivers, Broadbeach, South Tweed and Hamilton.

National coach Steve Glasson was playing for Mount Lewis alongside his son Ben, who had just debuted for NSW’s U25 team.

“The field is quality, it’s a final every time you go out there, but that’s what we play the game for,” Glasson said.

SPIRIT IN SPADES AT STATE MULTI-DIS CHAMPS The fifth annual Multi-Disability Championships was played on Aspley Memorial’s then new synthetic green. This was the first year that Div 1 and Div 2 final was played, a decision that was supported by all. David Weir and Clive Williams won the Div 1 final, beating Kaytlyn Smith and Warren Fraser 15-12.

The Weir and Williams families go back a long way. Clive Williams said that he had known David Weir since he was “a wee tot” and that the two families used to play indoor bowls. Both players had car accidents within a few years of each other, Clive in 1982 and David in 1985. Clive said that he had always wanted to play pairs with David.

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Coaching with BQ coaching committee Purposeful practice builds confidence

By Jacqui Hineman

second shot, unfortunately this wasn’t achieved, and it was up to her as skip to play the shot for a game win.

They say that practice makes perfect, but is that really true?

Why are we taking the time out of our busy day to drive down to the club to have a roll up? Is it social interaction we crave, or do we want to increase our skills and become a more consistent bowler?

Calmly she delivered her first bowl which finished in the head and cut down the opposition’s numbers, and with her second bowl she got second shot, enabling her team to win the game.

If utilised properly a roll up, or preferably a ‘practice session’, can be beneficial in improving performance. The problem is that we get into the habit of practising the same length and the same shots we are already comfortable playing. This type of practice does nothing to improve performance.

The great thing was she did not worry about taking what she practicsd at training into a game situation. She knew she could do it because she had taken the time to practise it.

When you think about it, isn’t that why we train, to be able to take what we do at training and repeat it when it is needed?

How honest are you with yourself when assessing your game performance? There is nothing wrong in acknowledging our strengths and weaknesses. For example, if you are a lead why spend hours on drawing to a short jack if you are regularly finishing in the scoring zone with your first bowl, yet you cannot roll a minimum length jack when asked to by your skip? It would make more sense to spend time working on delivering the jack to the required length.

All bowlers can benefit from purposeful practice, whether they are new, experienced, juniors, bowlers with a disability.

This is called purposeful practice, acknowledging what shot you need to improve and spending the time to work on it.

Purposeful practice also builds confidence. Amazing things happen when a player uses this confidence gained during training.

The great thing about training and practice is that we can replicate game situations and experiment with them. Think about your last game. Is there one end during that game that you wish you could have another go at? Well, you can.

I am currently expanding my coaching knowledge and working with two bowlers who are using purposeful practice to become more consistent and prepare for the 2020 Multi Disability Championships held in October at Chermside Bowls Club. My goal is to become a classifier for bowlers with disabilities. Coaching Committee chairperson, Alan Thorp is Queensland’s only classifier at the present time. I would like to thank him for this opportunity to expand my coaching skills and work with some truly inspirational bowlers.

Coach Noleen Annakin working with Jacqui Hineman on practising with a purpose.

Grab some old bowls and set up the head, then practise the shot needed to achieve the desired outcome. If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Once you have achieved the desired outcome, repeat it. Your confidence levels will increase with every positive outcome you achieve.

Coaches spend hours working with bowlers promoting purposeful practice and designing training sessions to improve game skills, only to see it forgotten once the pressure is turned up during game play. On many occasions a bad day on the green can be contributed to our failure to take the shots and tactics we have practiced into a game.

Why do we allow this to happen? Fear of failure is one reason.

Miss a shot during practice and we let ourselves down. But miss a shot during a game and we let the team down.

Confidence is the key. I worked with a player who put her training into action. After directing her third to draw for 34 queensland bowler October 2020

ECKA’S TIP There are many different opinions on which is the best hand to play when the wind is blowing across the green.

Keep in mind that all players are different and there is no correct answer. If the wind is constant and both hands are playable, the player should play the hand they feel comfortable playing.

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