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11 Mar 2010	Congratulations to the Ladies!
7 Mar 2010	Bob Balmer's team wins Mixed Fours
7 Mar 2010	Major Singles - Balance of Round 1 results
7 Mar 2010	A message from the Men's selectors
7 Mar 2010	Pennants start this week
6 Mar 2010	Sponsor presents our new shirts
6 Mar 2010	St Ives retains George Griffiths Trophy
5 Mar 2010	President David Ball reviews Tapner
4 Mar 2010	Turnaround Triples - sponsor is winner!
4 Mar 2010	North Epping win Jacobs Creek Shield
3 Mar 2010	Ladies Day at Tapner
6 Mar 2010	Wrong bias benefits charities
2 Mar 2010	Tapner - Day 3 results
2 Mar 2010	Rain upsets Tapner Day 2
28 Feb 2010	Tapner Carnival officially opened
20 Feb 2010	Michael Heath wins Minor Singles

Congratulations to the Ladies! Tony Tinworth, Thursday, 11 March 2010 Congratulations to the ladies - all the sides won at Pennants today!! Today saw the second round of the Women's Pennant season and all 4 sides had wins - the 5th side had a bye. This follows last Tuesday's first round when both 2's had wins but the 4's & 5's went down. Unfortunately the point scores are not available to update the website yet- hopefully they will be soon -the newspapers are not reporting point scores. There will be no repeat of this result next Tuesday because our two Grade 2 sides are playing each other!! Bad luck. This year there is a new scoring system for the women's Pennants - 3 points for an aggregate win and 1 point for each team win - a total of 5 points for each round. This is a change from previous years when there were points for only the aggregate winner.   PS The website has a policy of only commenting on good Pennant news! Any bad news can go without comment.

Runners-up- Mixed Fours Championship Winners - Mixed Fours Championship L-R Bob Balmer, Val Thompson, Ed Bagdassarian & Joy Sapier Bob Balmer's team wins Mixed Fours Tony Tinworth, Sunday, 7 March 2010 Bob Balmer's team ( Val Thompson, Joy Sapier & Ed Bagdassarian) today won the final of the Mixed Fours Championship with a convincing win over Shirley Hale's team (Lena Pittman, Kuno von Pralitz & Mike Gallagher) 38 shots to 4. To make the final, Shirley's team had wins over substantial opponents - the Heath/Woodcock/Donnelleys and the Rose/Caganoff's - but today was not her team's day. This is not the first time the Sapier/Bagdassarian/Balmer combination has won this event. In both 2005 and 2006 they won the Mixed Fours but on those occasions Bob's wife Bette was part of the team. Sadly she is no longer able to play bowls. Congratulations to all concerned.

Major Singles - Balance of Round 1 results Tony Tinworth, Sunday, 7 March 2010 The second half of round 1 of the Major Singles Championship was played this morning and the results can be found on the website. Click the link on the home page, or here to access these

A message from the Men's selectors David Bottomley, Sunday, 7 March 2010 The Selectors would like to wish all bowlers the best of luck during the forthcoming pennant season.   The selectors have attempted to choose the strongest sides that we can field taking into account ability, keenness and potential for future development. The difference in ability between some of the bowlers selected in the various grades is quite small and for those who believe they should be in a higher grade we would say please let your bowls do the talking and win a flag for the club in the lower grade.   The policy of course will be to keep winning teams together when possible; however, according to the Availability List we have a number of bowlers who will be absent for one or more rounds and will have to be replaced. If the replacement player performs better than the absent one, the latter should not automatically think he will get his place back. To represent the Club at Pennants is an honour to be earned, not a sinecure. There is no ‘i’ in team.   Any team that performs very badly or loses three games in a row will be reviewed to ascertain if changes to the team are necessary. This has to be done early, before the grading round, which is Round 5. Any feedback to the selectors will be welcome.   We believe that the selected sides have the potential to do well and be competitive in their respective grades.   It is important that all bowlers enjoy their game and the pennant season, especially those who are new to pennants.  Good luck.   David Bottomley

Pennants start this week Tony Tinworth, Sunday, 7 March 2010 This week sees the commencement of the Pennant season for both the women's and men's club. The first round for the women is on Tuesday with 3 home matches - Gold 2's, 4's & 5's - with the Green 2's playing at Killara. The 3's first round is on Thursday since they only play one match per week and this is at East Roseville. For the men, there are 3 matches at home - 4's, 5's & 7(2)'s - with the 3's playing at Belrose, 6's at Forestville and the 7(1)'s at Mona Vale. For the men and women there are a number of members playing Pennants for the first time. We wish them an enjoyable -and winning- experience and season. For the rest, just have a win!   Results will be on the website.

Sponsor delivers new shirts President David receives his new shirt from As-Nu principal Cath Dopper Sponsor presents our new shirts Tony Tinworth, Saturday, 6 March 2010 The Dopper family, proprietors of our new sponsors, the As-Nu Group of Trades, today presented our new shirts bearing their logo to President David Ball and to all our Pennant teams side captains. David thanked As-Nu for their generous gesture. Stuart Dopper said his company was pleased to be associated with our club and wished our teams every success during the Pennant season wearing 'his' shirts. All the men playing Pennants this season will be given a new shirt gratis. The ladies are being offered the same deal for next year. It was an all family affair with even baby Knox bought along for the fun. Shirts were them presented to the side captains of all the sides selected for the competition. click photos to enlarge The Dopper family Tony Lee shows off the As-Nu logo Richard Lander gets his new shirt So does Russell Ferguson And Len Cattell And Kel Stein And Mike Doyland

St Ives retains the George Griffiths Trophy St Ives retains George Griffiths Trophy Tony Tinworth, Saturday, 6 March 2010 The club today retained the George Griffiths Trophy by defeating the Newport side by 13 shots - 121 to 108- in the delayed match of this annual event. The match was set down to be played in January but was cancelled because of the heat wave on that day. The trophy is played for by 3 teams playing at Newport and 3 at home. Our 'away' side carried the day, winning by 26 shots whereas all our 'at home' teams went down. This event originated in 1971 when the presidents of our two clubs- George Griffiths of Newport and Gil Manuel of St Ives- were playing against each other in a Pennant match. George & Gil had become friends through their respective interests in the industrial and mining sectors of business. They agreed that a goodwill match be played annually between the two clubs with teams visiting both clubs. George donated the ice bucket trophy which has now been held by St Ives since 2007. Newport last won it in 2006, St Ives in 2005 and Newport held it from 2001. Playing for the club today were: At Newport:      Geoff Rose, John Donnelley, Chris Carey & John Cumming                          Rob Coles, Cyril Williams, Laurie Wilson & Bob Talbot                          Michael Heath, Alwyn Ellem, Tom McKelvey & Tom Giles   At St Ives          Richard Lander, Neil McKenzie, Sid Caganoff & Tony Wright                          Sidney Taylor, David Hillerman, Ken Sansom & Alan Dennett                          Peter Tonoli, Bob Jesse, David Bottomley & Bernie Cookson

President David Ball reviews Tapner David Ball, Friday, 5 March 2010   Our 28th.Tapner Tournament is over for another year. We consider it to have been a great success as we registered almost 600 bowlers throughout the week. The feature event took place on Thursday 4 March. This was The Jacobs Creek Wines Shield involving 7 Visiting Clubs plus our Home Team playing over 33 ends. There were nine players in each team and they contested pairs,triples and fours to eventually come up with a winner. North Epping won the final outpointing St.Ives by one shot in a keenly contested contest. Congratulations to North Epping and commiserations to the Local Team.    We were fortunate to have mostly dry conditions for the duration although we were washed out on the Monday afternoon.Several times it threatened rain but our luck held. Mr.George Tapner opened the Tournament on Sunday morning (Feb 28) and a capacity field contested a mixed fours event. This was followed by men's pairs on Monday,men's triples on Tuesday and ladies triples on Wednesday. George Tapner is a brother of the late Harold Tapner who was one of the founders of this wonderful competition.    An event of this nature requires a great deal of planning and organisation and the Tapner Committee are to be congratulated on the success of the tournament. Geoff Rose,Lin Smith & Bowls Secretary Ivan Glover were responsible for the smooth running of the show. There were many others controlling umpiring,parking,cleaning,lunches and morning teas and conducting the raffles. A particular thank you to the ladies for their marvellous effort in providing delicious lunches and running the trading table. A sincere and huge thank you to all concerned. Now we have to get ready for next year!   David Ball

Winners of the Turnabout Triples L-R David Ball, Harley Rose, Peter Sullivan & Tony Lee Turnaround Triples - sponsor is winner! Tony Tinworth, Thursday, 4 March 2010 Talk about looking after our sponsors! The winning team in today's Turnaround Triples included our sponsors representative Peter Sullivan as well as Harley Rose and our sponsorship guru Tony Lee. I'm sure they won it fair and square and it was a well deserved win for Harley and Tony as Harley has been helping brother Geoff organise this weeks events and Tony has done a great job in arranging sponsors for our scoreboards and raffle prizes. Second prize, still with 3 wins was Kel Stein, Bruce Wallace and Bruce Wallace and there were then prizes for the team with the biggest margin in each of the three rounds of play. Even President David won a prize as a member of the team who won round 3. They were:   Round 1 - Bob Balmer, Greg Stott & Ed Bagdassarian                     Round 2 - Max Brodie, Fred Walker & Peter Crumpler                     Round 3 - Phillip Sydney-Jones, Jim Milton and President David Ball Fortunately the rain held off during the day, despite a few showers, and the day bought this year's Tapner Tournament to a successful conclusion. Runners up of the Turnabout Triples Winners round 1 Winners round 2 Winners round 3

North Epping wins Jacob Creek Shield North Epping win Jacobs Creek Shield Tony Tinworth, Thursday, 4 March 2010 The inaugural Jacobs Creek Shield competition was played at the club today, the last day of the Tapner Tournament. This competition is a new innovation to Tapner and it will become an annual event. Peter Sullivan, representing our sponsor, Pernod Rickard International, distributors of Jacobs Creek wines presented the shield to the winners, the side from North Epping Club. 7  clubs were invited to send a side of 9 players to compete, these comprising a pairs, triples and fours teams and the format was that each would play 3 games of 11 ends, winners playing winners.Results were based on games won, not scores and the final round was between North Epping and St Ives with North Epping winning 2 of the 3 games to take the trophy. Side Captain Robert Mathieson accepted the shield and thanked the club and sponsors for arranging today and for inviting his club to participate. The clubs who accepted our invitation were: Asquith, Dee Why Lindfield North Epping Pennant Hills Turramurra Warrawee As well as the main competition there were prizes for the pairs, triples and fours teams with the biggest winning margin during the day. The pairs competition ended in a draw so the prize money was shared. The day was not an all male event as Vicky Bartrop played as part of the Lindfield side. Winners were: Pairs;       Bryan Popplewell & David Wilcox (Turramurra) and Roy Lawrence & Peter Lovell (Warrawee)   win by 11 shots Triples:    Mick Boyle, Dennis Morgan & Greg Cronan (Asquith)                                                                   win by 13 shots Fours:      Sid Caganoff, Alwyn Ellem, Tom McKelvey & Tom Giles                                                              win by 18 shots                  (the only St Ives team to win any prizes this Tapner)  Pairs winners Triples winners Fours winners

Tapner - First prize winners - L-R Jenny Wallis, Anne Webb & Jan Martin - Turramurra Ladies Day at Tapner Tony Tinworth, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 26 teams of ladies - 19 of visitors, 7 from our club- graced our greens today for Ladies Day which was sponsored by our Major Sponsor, St Ives First National Real Estate. Principal Phil Harvey was on hand to congratulate the winners and distribute prizemoney - the lions share going to teams from Turramurra with Daphna Orbach's team from North Sydney and Cath Mazey's team from Avalon were rewarded for their travel. Results were: First Prize winners   -  Jan Martin, Anne Webb & Jenny Wallis - Turramurra               2 wins + 31 shots Second                   -  Masako Sato, Shirley Ou & Daohna Orbach - North Sydney     2 wins + 30 shots Third                       -  June Hing, Mollie Raynor & Glennis Wood - Turramurra           2 wins + 25 shots AM prize                -  Sandra Riley, Billie Mass & Gwen Loughnan  - Gordon PM prize                -  Jean Dummett, Judith Sutton & Cath Mazey   -  Avalon click photos to enlarge Second Prize winners Third Prize winners AM Prize winners PM Prize winners

Wrong bias benefits charities Tony Tinworth, Saturday, 6 March 2010 Two charities - the Breast Cancer Federation and the Prostrate Cancer Foundation - have benefitted to the tune of $500 each as the proceeds of the Club's bad bias box. This initiative, for which Bernie Cookson deserves the credit, provides some fun and at the same time our lack of concentration does some good! Keep up the good work everyone!

Tapner - Day 3 results Tony Tinworth, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 Day 3 of the Tapner Tournament was men's Triples day sponsored by McCarrolls Automotive. Fortunately the rain held off and a good day was had by all. Results are as follows: First prizewinners;        John McDonald, Bruce Nottage & Werner Kos  - Double Bay & Coogee           2 wins + 36 shots Second                         Steve Elliott, Maurice Scott & Michael Bryan     - Wyong                                   2 wins + 32 shots Third                             Dave Schiemer, Graham Tetsall & John Henderson   - Harbord                        2 wins + 24 shots AM prize                       John Silvio, Laurie Barrane & Eric Hospes        - Chatswood                             + 14 shots PM prize                       Trevor Kelly, Larrie Meere & Bill Webb           - Asquith                                      + 21 shots Sorry, no photos

Winners Day 2 Tapner L-R Bob Hawtree & Bill Parry - Turramurra with sponsor Elwyn Walker & President David Ball Rain upsets Tapner Day 2 Tony Tinworth, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 Rain caused the cancellation of the afternoon match on day 2 of the Tapner Tournament. This was a big disappointment to those playing in this, the most popular event in the tournament. Fortunately the rain held off until almost the end of play in the morning game. There were 21 clubs represented today with many regular friends of the club. Amongst the winners was Vince Maree, a former greenkeeper. Today's event was sponsored by Guardian Funerals and Manager Elwyn Walker presented the prizemoney and invited players to inspect(?) the Company's 1927 hearse which was on display. Today's winners were: First placegetter:     Bill Parry & Bob Hawtree (Turramurra)  + 28 shots Second:                  Vince Maree & Ron Palmer (Eastwood) + 25 shots Third:                      Bryan Popplewell & Francis Buttle (Turramurra)  + 20 shots Fourth (AM):          Phil Slade & Tom Rogers (North Sydney)    + 19 shots click photos to enlarge   2nd Placegetters - Day 2 Tapner 3rd Placegetters - Day 2 Tapner AM winners- Day 2 Tapner

George Tapner opens Tapner Tournament Tapner Carnival officially opened Tony Tinworth, Sunday, 28 February 2010 The 28th Tapner Tournament was officially opened this morning by George Tapner, brother of the late Harold Tapner in whose memory the tournament is named, in the presence of 120 keen bowlers, 89 visitors and 31 members, many of them 'regulars' and friends of our club. George, himself a keen bowler at Dural Country Club, referred to the passing of Marie Tapner, Harold's widow, shortly after last years tournament and he gave a typical 'Marie Tapner' welcome - a wave of the hand to all those playing for the first time. He went on to say that credit for starting the tournament goes to 3 St Ives members - Llew Thomas, Tom Deans and Reg Foster and they expected it to be a 'one off' event. 28 years later and it's still going strong. Harold Tapner was President of the Royal New South Wales Bowling Association from 1977 to 1979. His objective as president was to visit every club in New South Wales and his badge collection on the wall of our board room is evidence of his efforts. Sadly, he died whilst still in office with his task unfinished. St Ives showed it's usual hospitality by letting all the prizes go to visitors! Today's event was sponsored by Inspired Travel of St Ives and prizemoney was presented by Adele Mitchell. Results were as follows: First Placegetters  - Diane McBryde, Elizabeth Blackwell, Ashley Wibley - Turramurra & Hornsby        2 wins + 35 Second placegetters - Lyn Lorry, Ann Humphries, John Tuck & George Humphries - St Johns Park     2 wins + 28 Third Placegetters    - Anne Coleman, Danika Porter, Ken Emura & Steve Coleman - North Sydney     2 wins + 26 AM winners              - Karen Levinson, Melissa Greenwood, John West & Steve Cohen - Diamond Bay PM winners             -  Helen Stromstroe, Jeyam Seva, Tim Walton & Kandiah Siva   - Gordon click photos to enlarge Tapner winners - Turramurra/Hornsby Tapner 2nd Placegetters - St Johns Park Tapner 3rd Placegetters - North Sydney PM winners - Gordon AM winners - Diamond Bay

Michael Heath- winner of the Minor Singles Michael Heath wins Minor Singles Tony Tinworth, Saturday, 20 February 2010 Michael Heath today won the Club's Minor Singles Competition by defeating Peter Tonoli 31/25. This is the second recent win for Michael as he won the 2009 Handicap Singles Competition. Unfortunately for Peter he was the runner up for the second time, having just missed out in the same competition last year. Congratulations Michael, comiserations Peter.