BOWLS  TARADALE  NEWSLETTER
No 10   28/10/2012
THIS WEEK'S SPONSOR

BAYSWATER HYUNDAI

 115 Carlyle Street, Napier
 

WAIPUKURAU CLASSIC
Below is a photo of the Taradale team which won 3rd prize in the Waipukurau Classic at Labour weekend. This was the only 'Club' team to feature in major the prizewinners - all other teams being composite.

Results
Top Section,
1st, Robyn Wallace, Dot Palmer, Janet Munns, Lorna Reeves (Oamarunui/Gisborne).
2nd, Olga Taylor, Raelene Cronin, Linda and Angela Boyd (Napier/Taradale)
3rd, Colleen Ferrick, Sheryl Glock, Margaret Hain & Barbara Exeter (Taradale)

Bottom Section,
Bev Withers, Louise Bateman, Judy Richards and Wendy Jeffery (Bay View/Wapawa)
Colleen, Margaret, Barbara, Sheryl

WHAT'S ON NEXT WEEKEND - Nov 3/4
WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES
When I last looked 18 women had entered this event.
Entries close at 5.00 pm on Tuesday

MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES - cont.
This event began with 40 players and is now down to 14.



 

  ETIQUETTE 
  Remember that your opponent has possession of the rink as your bowl comes to rest. Do not linger on the head and thereby obstruct the person about to bowl.


WAY TO GO, RICHARD!!!
Richard Hocking has been named in the Under 18 National Squad ..... so too has Dean Drummond from Kia Toa.
After the four Under 18 Regional Camps a national squad of 22 has been named who will now attend a camp in Auckland in December.
This squad will then be narrowed down to a national team which will compete at the Under 18 Trans Tasman next year.
BLACK PEPPER
Three Taradale teams took part in the "Black Pepper" sponsored Triples at Port Ahuriri on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Below you will see a photograph of the Taradale players participating. - What a fine looking basketball/netball team they are!
Final placings;
(1) C Ferrick, S. Glock and B. Exeter (Taradale),
(2) I. van Leeuwen, M. Wakefield & P Spencer (Heretaunga),
(3) M. Nepia, L Bateman & J Hayes (Bay View),
(4) M. Hain, C. Humphrey & M Fenton (Taradale).
Cheryl, Sheryl, Colleen, Barbara, June, Marie, Joy, Olive, Margaret Winning team - Barbara, Sheryl, Colleen
CRAY TOURNAMENT
Forty teams, including ten of our own, took part in this event over the past weekend at Port Ahuriri. Congratulations to Dave Henderson, Richard Hocking and Barry Gardner for getting further than anyone else from Bowls Taradale. They made the top eight teams in the competition and finished up winning the Hobson Plate. The Tournament winners, from Bowls Napier, were Ken Smith, Asi To’omata and Nick Fidanis (my apologies for any spelling errors).
 

SOME FOOD CAN BE SO DANGEROUS
A Doctor was addressing a large audience in Auckland last week.
'The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago.
Red meat is awful.
Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining.
Chinese food is loaded with MSG.
High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realises the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water.
However, there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have eaten, or will eat it.
Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?'
After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said, 'Wedding Cake.'
 
Wanda, Fay, Ivy, Shirley Lyndsay, Bert Margaret, Marie, Cheryl, June
 

BOWL SPEED AND CONTROL
 Bowl speed – The speed that the bowl will travel towards the head is generated by the pendulum arm swing and forward body movement. Bowls speed in INSTINCTIVE and no more complex than lobbing balls into a box or bucket. 

CONTROL OF BOWL SPEED

  1. Note how far is the target
  2. Be fully aware of the feel of the delivery – speed and rhythm
  3. Note the finishing point and adjust speed as appropriate

 

Bowl speed control will be adversely affected by:

  • Poor or inconsistent release
  • Tension in the arms and shoulders

Practice over a full range of lengths is essential to develop control of bowl speed.
 

MINIMUM DISTANCE A BOWL MUST TRAVEL
 You deliver a bowl but it doesn’t go very far – only about 10m down the green.
How far does a bowl have to travel to be considered live? 

Law 27        Dead bowl
A bowl is a dead bowl if:

  • it is not a toucher and comes to rest in the ditch;

  • it is not a toucher and rebounds onto the rink after contact with the face of the bank or with the jack or a toucher in the ditch;

  • after completing its original course or after being moved as a result of play, it comes to rest at a distance of less than 14 metres, as measured in a straight line, from the centre of the mat line to the nearest point of the bowl
 

Who called this green "HBS Green"?

It should have been called HBS WHITE

 

Rex Dunn took this photo
last Tuesday afternoon
just after a hail storm

 

The notice says "Green Sprayed"
How did Les (alias Jim Hickey)
know the hail was coming?
 
Bowls Taradale - Two Bowl Triples Tournament. 
Sponsor;  Hawke’s Bay Independent Brewery.
Date; Wednesday 19 December 2012.
Start time;  10.00am.
Entry: individual entry, not team entry.
Cost: $6 per person and an entry form for names is currently in the club house.
 
 
Lucky, --- , John Barbara, Sheryl, Angela Colleen, June, Peter, Sherrill
 
NATIONAL SERVICE
Are looking for more entries for their Mixed Hetero Triples
8th November,  and
Tuesday 27th November.|
Phone Trish Roberston 870 3557
 

Three women go down to Mexico one night to celebrate college graduation. They got drunk, and woke up in jail, only to find that they are to be executed in the morning, though none of them can remember what they did the night before.

The first one, a redhead, is strapped in the electric chair and is asked if she has any last words. She says, "I just graduated from Trinity Bible College and believe in the almighty power of God to intervene on the behalf of the innocent."  They throw the switch and nothing happens. They all immediately fall to the floor on their knees, beg for forgiveness, and release her.

The second one, a brunette, is strapped in and gives her last words. "I just graduated from the University of Kentucky School of Law, and I believe in the power of Justice to intervene on the behalf of the innocent.."  They throw the switch and again, nothing happens. Again, they all immediately fall to their knees, beg for forgiveness, and release her.

The last one, (you guess the colour), is strapped in and says, "Well, I'm from the University of Tennessee and just graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering, and I'll tell ya right now, ya ain't gonna electrocute nobody if you don't plug that thing in."