DOUBLE BAY MEN’S
BOWLING CLUB
DOUBLE BAY WOMEN’S
BOWLING CLUB
Vol.11 No.6 – FEBRUARY 16, 2015
Editor: Mike Golland
Women’s team retains District
Seniors Fours championship
for fourth consecutive year
EIGHT
PAGES
CLUB’S SIX
PENNANT
GRADES
Page 2
MIXED PAIRS
RESULTS
Page 7
Double Bay Women’s Club’s
team of Barbara Shotland,
Pam Stein, Iris Kampel and
Karen Levinson pictured
with Eastern Suburbs
District secretary, Toni
Hartley (right), after they
retained the District Senior
Fours last week.
SEE PAGE 6
TEAM’S
ZONE
FOURS
QUEST
ENDS AT
SEMI-FINAL
MAJOR FOURS
FINALISTS
Page 3
Page 8
Pages 4 & 5
CLUBHOUSE’S
NEW TV SCREEN
Six grade contests for pennants
DOUBLE Bay will contest six of the seven grades in the 2015 Zone
11 Pennant competition.
The draw for the season, which starts on Saturday, February 28, was revealed late
last week with Double Bay having teams in Grades 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7.
The Grade 7 team is a composite side with the Diamond Bay Club, similar to the
composite entry from Clovelly and Randwick Clubs.
In a bid to improve Zone 11’s results at State pennant finals, its Match Committee
has tried to balance out the competition in Grades 3, 4 and 5, which will allow
players usually competing in these divisions to drop one grade.
Chairman of the Zone’s Match Committee, Tony Rowe, in releasing the 2015 draw,
said that the move is a bid to increase the Zone’s competitiveness and improve results
at State level following last year’s Pennant finals when the Zone won only three of its
21 matches.
The Grade 1 is a two-section Metro Cup-based competition with 16 clubs based in
the Metropolitan area ranging from the Eastern Suburbs, North Shore and Northern
beaches, Wentworthville, Taren Point, Cabramatta West, Merrylands, St Johns Park,
Wentworthville, Engadine, Mount Lewis, The Hills District and Grandviews.
Double Bay in Section 2 will have five home games (The Hills, Cabramatta, South
Coogee, Taren Point and Engadine) with away games at Carlingford, Alexandria
Erskineville, Mount Lewis and Grandviews.
Club officials suggest that it is a good draw with the furthest to travel is to
Carlingford, with both Mount Lewis and Grandviews a bit closer. The highest grade
opposition will probably come from Taren Point, then Cabramatta and Engadine.
The top team of each division will play for the Zone title, while the clubs with the
lowest score in each section will contest a relegation match.
Only six clubs have been included in Grade 2, Double Bay, Concord, Eastlakes,
Western Suburbs Leagues, Leichhardt and Alexandria Erskineville and the same
number in Grade 3 – Double Bay, Greenlees Park, Marrickville, Clovelly, Matraville
RSL and South Coogee.
Double Bay is not represented in Grade 4 which will be contested with 12 clubs in
two divisions of six competitors.
Grade 5 also has 12 teams divided into two sections with Double Bay listed in
Section 2 against Hillsdale, Randwick, Diamond Bay, Waverley and Eastlakes.
The Grade 6 makeup is similar to Grade 5 with Double Bay in Section 2 along with
Randwick, Hillsdale, Bronte, Clovelly and the new Zone 11 club, Earlwood
Bardwell Park (EBP).
Only six rounds will be played in Grade 7 where Double Bay/ Diamond Bay meets
on a home-and-away basis Matraville RSL, Waverley and the combined ClovellyRandwick team.
One change this year in the playing schedule is that any washed out games are to be
played on the next day, Sunday. Previously the draw allocated at least one weekend
for uncompleted or unplayed matches.
Last year Double Bay contested five grades with the Grade 6 team winning the Zone
title.
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Conway’s Zone
Fours last
four contest
misses by
single shot
THE DOUBLE Bay
team’s challenge for
the 2015 Zone 11 State
Fours title ended at
the semi-final stage
Brandon Conway (left) with Phillip Joel and Walter
last Saturday morning
Jacobs and (inset) Dan Flanagan.
when the Brandon
Conway foursome of Dan Flanagan, Walter Jacobs and Phillip Joel went
out by the barest of margins.
The Ashfield combination skipped by Tim Whalan with Tom Lagreca, Gary
Chant and Ray Pymble accounted for the Double Bay side by a single shot 2021 and then went on to claim the championship medals from another Ashfield
combination headed by former Australian Fours champion, Phil Pratt, alongside
Jami Richards, Alan Burton and John Fitzgerald also by one-shot 23-22.
The Double Bay side in the early morning semi-final appeared to be troubled
by the conditions of a heavy, and sometimes inconsistent green at the Western
Suburbs Leagues Club.
Each player battled to find an accurate length and for the most part was a
metre through the head - a situation in complete contrast to the form they
produced on the way to the semi-final.
The playing surface also worried the Ashfield team as Double Bay controlled
the opening three ends to gain a 5- 0 lead. The opposition, however, soon
adapted to the conditions and came back to gain a 6-5 advantage.
They extended the advantage to six shots, but Conway and Co. kept plugging
away although still failing to come to grips with the run of the green.
Double Bay’s main destroyer was Ashfield’s third, who found something
extra every time Flanagan, Jacobs and Joel built the head in their favour.
None-the-less, the pressure was on the Ashfield unit when Double Bay scored
a well-constructed five shot count on the 20th end to reduce the deficit to 17-20.
However, hopes for a Double Bay last end win was thwarted by the Ashfield
squad, which was content to keep the Conway score to two, thus scraping into
the final by one shot 20-19.
In a post match comment to Double Bay Watch Brandon Conway said his team
had tried hard and played well under trying conditions, but we was not good
enough on the day.
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Players “switcheroo” from Zone
Fours to club team in Major semi
THE 2014 Major Fours Champions are
RESULTS
one win away from retaining their crowns
following a solid 2015 semi-final win last
MAJOR FOURS
Semi-finals
Saturday.
Jack Kampel, Bernard Fridman,
The Gerald Weinberg-skipped unit of
Paul Baker, Doug King 26
Walter Jacobs, Maurice Boland and Phillip
Michael Rowley, David Kellaway,
Joel, defeated the Brandon Conway side of
Eric Grusd, Peter Wyner 16
James Flaxman, Fred Ginsberg (substitute for
Gerald Weinberg, Phillip Joel,
Harold Jankelowitz) and Les Lilian to enter
Maurice Boland, Walter Jacobs 21
the championship round on a 21-16 score
Brandon Conway, Les Lilian, James
line.
Flaxman, Fred Ginsberg (sub Harold
Jankelowitz) 16
The match was a stamina test for three of
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the eight combatants. Conway, Jacobs and
Joel, who earlier in the day had combined
with Dan Flanagan to contest the 2015 Zone 11 State Fours semi-final at the
Western Suburbs Leagues
Club (story page 3).
And it was a case of
“switcheroo” for Jacobs and
Joel who left Conway’s Zone
team to
compete
for
Weinberg, while Conway
was reunited with his
constituted team of Flaxman,
Lilian
and
substitute,
Les Lilian (left) James Flaxman and Fred Ginsberg
Ginsberg.
Club organisers were keen
to have the 2015 Major Fours completed by this coming Saturday and asked the
trio involved if they were prepared to play the semi-final directly they had
completed their obligation at Western Suburbs.
As soon as Conway’s team was eliminated from the Zone semi-final the three
involved in the club’s Major Fours semi-final returned to Double Bay.
The Weinberg four was on top from the start of the semi-final forging a 5-0
lead, but Conway turned it around to head the scoreboard at 9-6 after eight ends.
Then the Weinberg set rolled off collects on the next seven ends to change the
mood of the game to 17-9, before Conway steadied with a four count on the 18th
end to trail 14-18. On the penultimate his team added another two to reduce the
closing 21st end’s leeway to five shots at 21-16.
CONTINUES NEXT PAGE
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GIANT KILLING RUN ENDS FOR GRADE
SIXERS IN MAJOR FOURS SEMI-FINAL
The Grade 6 “rookies” who combined for the first time in the 2015 Major Fours
Championship and defeated higher graded constituted teams to qualify for the semi-final,
Peter Wyner (left) Eric Grusd, Michael Rowley and David Kellaway.
Statistics show rookies took it to A-graders
FROM PREVIOUS PAGE
THE winning run by the team of Grade 6 players, who caused
upsets by defeating much higher status combinations in the 2015
Major Fours, came to a halt in the semi-final on Sunday morning
when the powerful side, with Jack Kampel in charge, proved too
dominant in a 10-shot win
The 6-graders skipped by Michael Rowley with David Kellaway,
Eric Grusd and Peter Wyner were out-gunned by experience more
than ability.
The scorecard (pictured) showed that the all-A-grade team of
Jack Kampel, Bernard Fridman, Paul Baker and Doug King won
the 2015 Major Fours semi-final against a first-time combination of rookies 26-10.
But a closer look will reveal that the band of Grade 6 players won 11 of the 20 ends
competed and judging by after match comments from Kampel they acquitted themselves very
well.
“Each and every one of them held their own against our corresponding players,” Kampel
said.
And he added: “Whilst perhaps we proved the more experienced team. It was refreshing to
see the enthusiasm and camaraderie evident in their team. They didn’t seem to stop trying.
They looked to be enjoying themselves and it resulted in a most pleasant match.”
Perhaps the turning point came too early for the less experienced team. Rowley was holding
one shot when Kampel played a well-directed delivery to oust the opponents bowl. Not only
did he hit the target, but it resulted in a full count of eight shots to change his team’s score
from 10-3 to 18-3 on the seventh end.
It might have knocked the wind out of the beginners’ sails, but they came back to 12-20 and
fought every end to the last bowl allowing the Kampel side to collect only six shots until the
20th end when the underlings conceded the match at 26-16.
Said Peter Wyner post match: “Our team with one to three years experience exceeded
everyone's expectation by playing in the club’s Major Fours semi final. The club can be
assured that bowlers of limited experience with the right attitude can and will succeed.”
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ON THE GREEN with the Women’s Club
Senior Fours teams keep on
keeping District challenge
A TEAM from Double Bay Women’s Bowling Club last week at the
Hillsdale Club continued the club’s dominance of the District Seniors Fours
Championship.
A Double Bay entry has won the title since its inception in 2012.
This year’s winning team of Iris Kampel, Karen Levinson, Pam Stein and skip
Barbara Shotland, was the same make-up which won the District and Regional
titles last year and when Shotland was unavailable (substituted by Jan Frape)
went on to the final of the State Seniors Fours.
In the District decider last week the
Shotland combination was too
cohesive in all departments and scored
a comfortable 28-9 win over club
mates Florrie Cohen, Marilyn Davis,
Miriam Rosenberg and Jan Shedlezki.
Double Bay’s history in the event
shows that the 2013 and 2012 titles
went to the team of Wendy
Florrie Cohen, Marilyn Davis, Miriam
Engelander, Carol Engelman, Barbara
Rosenberg and Jan Shedlezki – runners up
Shur and Lorraine Becker. In 2012
in the 2015 District Seniors Fours.
they accounted for the Double Bay
side of Gail Black, Jenny Welton, Sandra Ballard and Lorraine McLaughlin.
The 2015 Double Bay champions will represent the District in the Regional
finals on Tuesday, May 19 at an Eastern Suburbs venue to be announced.
Winners of Regional qualify for the last 16 State (knockout) tournament at
Tuncurry on October 24-25.
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Another husband-wife team
aim for Mixed Pairs honour
HUSBAND and wife combinations have
dominated the club’s Mixed Pairs titles
since the merger with Rose Bay in 2000.
The most prolific pair are Jack and Iris Kampel with
no less than six championships in their name and are
the current defending champions in the belated 2014
tournament now being played.
Second in the list is Gerald and Audrey Weinberg
who have taken the event twice, the most recent was
in 2012.
Last week another betrothed pair, Alan and Rene
Saidman entered calculations when they defeated the
Weinbergs in a third round match to make the semifinal of the 2014 event.
Club officials have had a problem in recent times in
scheduling the Mixed Pairs contest within the 2014
months.
The 2013 event was decided as late as April, 2014,
and the names of the 2014 winners are unlikely to be
known for another month or so, due to heavy other
bowling commitments of both the men and women
competitors at this time of the season.
The Saidmans showed their compatibility and their
ability when they scored a resounding 22-12 win over
the Weinbergs.
They won the first end with a two count and were
two down in the second end when Gerald Weinberg
converted to four up with his last bowl and ran to the
lead 9-4 by the 6th end.
On the 8th end Alan Saidman played a good
conversion from two down to four up to lag 8-9 and
then switched to long ends for the rest of the match.
Rene Saidman a former A-grade competitor at the
Lindfield Club, applied the pressure with accurate
lead bowling, while her husband produced several
excellent shots.
The Saidmans were ahead 14-12 playing the 16th
end, but the Weinbergs looked to be staging a
comeback as they held three shots only to see Alan
Saidman convert the head to a collect of four.
The feat was repeated on the 19th end. Again Audrey
and Gerald Weinberg were holding four.
But when Alan’s last bowl bumped into a short bowl
promoting it to the shot making it a swing of five and
no way back for the Weinbergs.
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Alan and Rene Saidman
RESULTS
MIXED PAIRS
1st ROUND
David Ossher
Sandy Desiatnik 21
Jules Popper
Judi Snider 2
2nd ROUND
Barbara Shotland
Phillip Joel 24
Bernard Fridman
Judy Thomas 11
Alan Saidman
Rene Saidman 31
Lou Platus
Dafna Orbach 9
Harry Black
Gail Black 38
Eric Grusd
Frankie Grusd 12
Jack Kampel
Iris Kampel 27
Michael Becker
Lorraine Stafford 9
3rd ROUND
Alan Saidman
Rene Saidman 22
Gerald Weinberg
Audrey Weinberg 12
Wayne Podger
Jan Frape 26
Leon Portrate
Barbara Shur 16
Phil Joel
Barbara Shotland 30
Harry Black
Gail Black 13.
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Club’s historic painting makes way for television screen
A PAINTING by an Archibald Prize-winning artist, which has been
hanging in the Double Bay Bowling Clubhouse for more than 60 years, has
been removed and replaced by a giant 80 inch Samsung television screen.
The club’s Board of Management recently decided to take down the painting
which depicted Double Bay of 1871 and offer it as an historical work of art to
Woollahra Council or a New
South Wales-based historical
authority.
The art work by Arthur James
Murch, the 1949 Archibald
Prize winner and well known
painter at the time, was hung in
the Double Bay Clubhouse on
the eastern wall behind the
President's table in mid-1954.
The painting was copied from
a photograph postcard obtained
from the collection of Morton
Herman, an eminent architect of
This is part of a framed picture in the Double Bay
that period. The original
Clubhouse which gives the background of the
photograph was taken from near
painting which has hung in the clubhouse since
1954.
Glen Ascham, Darling Point.
The lower half shows part of the painting by the
It showed the Double Bay of artist, Arthur James Murch, when it was included in
the 1870s with the surrounding a 1989 article by the Sydney Morning Herald, which
the reproduction of an original story about
district described as being included
Double Bay published in the Illustrated Sydney
“rocky and covered with scrub,
News, December 23, 1871.
but the valley to the south east
as a fine tract of alluvial soil, where the principal market gardens have been
established, watered by a creek drawing from the highlands of Waverley".
Records show that Double Bay Bowling Club was built on the "fine tract of
alluvial soil" and the creek is now the canal which runs parallel to the club’s
property at Kiaora Road.
Left: A computerised illustration of the clubhouse wall with the 60-year-old painting; centre
picture - the painting removed and (right) the new Samsung 80 inch TV pictured in place.
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