Social Bowls: Thursday, January 12.

Twelve players took to the green, in near forty degree heat, to play four games of Pairs. The field included Peter and Gwenda Jackson who had travelled from Black Head on the Mid North Coast to attend the “Elvis Festival” and Ron Blake who was visiting his brother Jim.

In the only close game Gary McPhee and Jim Blake got away to a great start and after six ends had a 13-0 lead over Ron Blake and Gordon Dickson. Ron and Gordon gradually fought back into the match and by the sixteenth end the scores were level at 15 all.

The next two ends were won by Gary and Jim, who lead 17-15.

The nineteenth end went to Ron and Gordon who scored five shots but Gary and Jim scored three on the next end to level the scores again at 20 all. In a close fought last end Ron and Gordon scored one shot to take the match 21 -20.

In their match against Col Hayward and Gwenda Jackson, Rob Irving and Graham Barby were leading by the narrow margin of 19-18 before they won the last four ends to claim victory 24-18.  

In the other match Tom Furey and Peter Jackson proved too strong for Col Mudie and Bob Freeman.

The Prize for the day was won by Rob Irving and Graham Barby.

Saturday, January 14.

Twenty players turned out to play five games of Pairs in a slightly more comfortable mid-thirties temperature.

In a close game, John Davies and Col Woods shared the early ends with Ron Hornery and John Hodge and after nine ends the scores were level at 9 all.

The next three ends went to John and Col and after 12 ends they held the biggest lead of the day, 16-9.

They maintained the lead and with two ends to play Ron and John needed five shots to draw the match but could only manage four shots and John and Col claimed the match 19-18.

In another fairly close game Bruce Orr and Rob Irving just got the better of Wally Grant and Bob Freeman, winning 21 -18.

In other matches:

Joe Crowley and Gordon Dickson had a win against the brothers, Jim and Ron Blake.

Guy Ellery and John Carr were too good for Rhona Went and Ray Jones.

Arthur Corbett and Steve “Nimo” Mills had a convincing win over John Ward and Gary McPhee.

The Prize for the day went to Guy Ellery and John Carr and the Runners-up were Bruce Orr and Rob Irving.

Australia Day Mini Carnival:

Entries are still being taken from teams of four (all male, all female or mixed) for the Mini Carnival to be played on Australia Day with play to commence at 10am. Entry fee is $20 per player (which includes Lunch) and prize money is $1000.

Dress is “mufti” and the format will be:

Hope to see you all on the day.

Club Championship Fours:

Entries are now closed for the Club Fours Championships and matches will be played over the next few weeks.

General:

Barefoot bowls will re-commence on Thursday, February 2 and we look forward to seeing all of the regular teams plus a few new ones.

Friday Night

The Badge Draw was not drawn last Friday, due to “Elvis Festival” activities and this Friday will be worth $900, and will be drawn after the meat and voucher raffle.

As usual good pub style meals will be available at very reasonable prices.

Parkes Women’s Bowling Club will begin playing bowls for 2017 on Tuesday 17th January.

Welcome back to all bowlers and enjoy a great year of bowling.

We will be having a Trading Table and a shared lunch to welcome all bowlers for 2017.

To play social bowls please ring Table Selector Audrey Jones between 8.30am and 9am. On the social roster is Brenda Davies.

Only twenty-one veteran golfers made it to Forbes last Thursday. 

This may have had something to do with the weather we are experiencing at present. 

Peter Barnes (Fbs) continued his good form, winning by one stroke, 28 points, from Frank Hanns ((Fbs) on 27. David Williams (Fbs) won the Bradman award.  

Garry Collits (Fbs) and Peter Barnes (Fbs) won nearest the pins in A Grade, while Larry Byrne (Fbs) was the only successful player in B Grade. 

Forbes easily won the points in the Mick Miller Shield 152 to 58. Next week we have our first Lachlan Valley 18 Holes competition at Parkes Golf Club, commencing at 10am.  

January 8 notes: The weekend saw 9 shooters attend the Deep Lead Shooting Complex and shoot at fox targets at both 25 & 50m ranges for a max of 530.53 points.

Target Rifles - Brian Drabsch - 280.28 - 250.20 - 530.48, Basyl Rudenko - 279.26 - 248.19 - 527.46, Kurt Matthews - 279.14 - 248.18 - 527.33, Ace Matthews - 279.19 - 245.17 - 524.36, David Shanks 274.20 for 25m only.

Field Rifles - John Davis - 280.24 - 249.19 - 529.33, John Smeaton - 280.22 - 248.17 - 528.41, Ron Cunningham - 280.20 - 247.15 - 527.35, Jim Nash - 267.13 - 246.16 - 523.39.

The figure after the decimal point is the number of central bullseyes shot.

There was not a shot outside the fox head targets and all would have been fatal hits.

Some of our targets are for target and a number are feral animal targets and it is possible to get an attendance for target shooting and recreational shooting on the one day.

Our next shoot is at 1pm Sunday 15/1/17 and will be ordinary targets at both ranges.