BOWLSBANTER
Friday was Personal Trust Trips day with the usual steak evening afterwards with the meat supplied by Kenton Butchery. The entries were disappointing, with only 10 teams competing.
It didn’t affect the quality of bowls though and Lionel, Gloria and Carl Vermeulen (representing the sponsors, Personal trust) were the eventual winners.
It turned out to be an evening of give-aways with several lucky draws being done. Terry Bowen managed the Club 100 draw where Richard Beresford won the first prize, Joan Grisdale the second prize and Tony Mann the attendance prize. The Whiskey Draw was won by Mick Carle. The weekly Attendance Jackpot Prize was won by Johan Grobler. Unfortunately for Johan, the Jackpot had been won the previous week as well and was therefore at its minimum. Next week’s Jackpot will be R500.
Kenton Bowling Club has entered the cyber space age. All the club’s activities, competition results and weather forecast can now be obtained from our website It has also been registered with Google. Prospective visitors to Kenton, when doing a search for things to do will be directed to our website. Duties for the week March 27 to April 2: Tabs – Keith Benson, Bar – Richard Beresford and John Davis.
Events (March 27 – April 2): March 30 – President’s Chair at Kowie, April 1 – Social Saturday sponsored by Ultra Liquor, April 2 – Ladies’ and Men’s Leagues at Kowie.
Birthdays (March 27 – April 2): April 1 – Keith Benson.
Port Alfred Bowling and Croquet Club
Welcome back to our players who represented Eastern Province in the Senior Inter-District Competition which took place in Pietermaritzburg.
A successful bingo evening was held on Wednesday March 15 and was enjoyed by those who attended. Thanks to the members involved for making it such a success.
The finals of three singles competitions were completed and congratulations to the following winners and runners-up:
Senior Singles winner: Eddie Senar, runner-up: Anton Strombeck
Novice Singles winner: John Hodges, runner-up: Dick Townsend
Mixed Singles winner: Noel Heale, runner-up: Dave Lang
Carl Vermeulen from Personal Trust (our sponsors) joined us for a game of bowls and handed out the prizes on Tuesday March 14, which was won by Ron Orford, Rory Mason-Jones and Jimmy McQuirk. Well done.
We wish our women and men good bowling when playing in the Eastern Areas League this coming weekend. The women play in Grahamstown on Saturday March 25 and Kowie on March 26. The men play at Kowie on March 26.
The first and second rounds of the Renee Vroom 101 Singles will be played on Wednesday morning, March 29.
Please join us for a game of bowls on March 28 to support our sponsored Radue Optometrist competition. Duties for the week March 28 to April 1: (Men) Anton Strombeck, (Women) Carol Grobbelaar, Bar – Chris Armitage, Phil Taylor and Tabs – Colette Reid, Ironing – Gordon Goff.
Kowie Bowling Club
On the second Tuesday of the month we played our SuperSpar competition with a good turnout.
Jackie Kriel’s team of Allan Sheridan and Louise Fleming defeated Pieter Stegmann’s team by nine points and 9-shot profit to win the Spar vouchers for the day. The runner-up was Rob Owsley’s team who beat Bob Ford’s team.
On the day we had one make-up game of the Club Mixed trips take place as well as playing in the Spar competition. Lee Botma’s team defeated Siggie Rohrs’s team in a game that saw Botma’s team well up on the 12th end. Then Rohrs’s team started coming back and on the 17th end were just four shots behind. But then the Botma team pulled it out the bag.
Last Thursday we had another good field for our Ocean Basket competition. Jackie Kriel is on a roll at the moment with her team of Roger Purdon, Gerald Mills and Margie Thomas who defeated Siggie Rohrs’s team by two points and 14-shot profit to win Ocean Basket vouchers. The runner up position went to Keith Kolesky’s team of trips who defeated Mike Tomlinson by two points and a shot profit of eight , also to receive Ocean Basket vouchers. On Saturday we played two games of our Men’s Open Singles for members who will not be available for our next scheduled date. Dick Schuurman defeated Michael van der Sandt quite convincingly and Keith Kolesky had to work hard to take out Stephen Minnaar. Tabs bowls we played Snowball Competition and the score drawn for the four ends selected was five. Lucky Mike Long was the only team that had the correct score so Mike and his team of fours shared R100. Now we have to start on building that kitty again. Duties for week March 27 to April 2: Greens – (Roll) Michael van der Sandt, (Mark) Gerald Mills and Mike Pfotenhauer, Tabs – (cash) Marian Walwyn, (selection) Charles Louw, Bar – Keith and Lynn Kolesky.