APOLOGIES sports fans, but Grumpy went fishing last week and while being out-fished by his grandson and Red Dogs grandchildren, Grumpy remembered this much-read column, but it was too late to meet the paper deadline.

On Saturday 23 April, Mick ‘Noah’ Boyle’s nightmare continued when his floating indoor green was in dry dock and rain forced the postponement of the first round of the Minor Singles.

After an afternoon of merriment, messages were sent out for play to commence on Sunday.

Bright sunshine appeared on Sunday and after the confusing messages from the previous day were clarified all turned up to play.

Syd Campton defeated Gary Tierney, our new bowler Mitch ‘Billy the Kid’ McGill went down to Tas Fribbins, John ‘Rowdy’ Reynolds defeated Peter ‘Front’ Dawe, Adam ‘Willy’ Rostron undid Dallas Nancarrow, Joe Franck extinguished Oxy Cedelland, Chris ‘Ben’ D’elboux beat Benno and Terry ‘the Eel’ Harvey who was unwell, waited to play on the 30 April.

Saturday 30 had play started at 1.00pm in fine weather.

Terry Steele beat Tommy Reynolds.

‘Rowdy’, drawing to the jack as always, defeated Tas Fribbins to go into the Semi-finals and ‘Terry the Eel’ played Phil ‘Noddy’ Rose and advanced to the Quarters.

Sunday saw the Quarter Finals with Owen Smith beating Terry Steele.

Willy Rostron, with Darcy texting the scores to wife Linda, defeated Joe Franck, and the Eel played like his Parra side and was outdone by Ben D’elboux.

Semi-finalists for this Saturday, in case you are having trouble keeping up, are Willy Rostron playing Ben D’elboux with Rowdy up against Owen Smith so be there to support the boys.

Thanks also to all those people who marked games as without you we couldn’t play these events.

Tuesday saw the Marquis Pairs run with a full card of 24 teams and a great afternoon was had by all.

The day’s winners were Darcy Rostron and Carmel Hill.

The surprise of the day was Bob Sutton and Charlie Potter who ran second.

Well done all.

Winners received Marquis Macadamias and bottles of wine.

Thanks to the big house for the wine.

Mick Ellison and Billy Blair, who had to leave before the presentations, were given their bottles of vinegar at Friday bowls to great fanfare from their mates.

They won this prize for finishing further away than everybody else from the day’s overall winners.

Thanks to Kim Lefty Porter who has set up a site on Facebook, ‘Bowls Nambucca’, where you can now catch up on events, what’s happening at the club and much more.

Also, thanks to the volunteers who do so much work at the club with little recognition.

I won’t mention names as you know who you are.

It would be nice if more members were prepared to volunteer as these people do.

Remember what that wise old man told Grumpy once – it’s not what your club can do for you, it’s what you can do for your club.

I will leave you with those words of wisdom.

 

By Grumpy’s CORNER