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2018

March Newsletter

Registration Forms for the Summer Indoor Season at the NIBC are

now available, get your teams entered as soon as possible for the

Open Triples Leagues Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays at 10.30am.

Any member who would like to play in the Wednesday 6.30pm

or Saturday 8.30am Leagues should add their names to the

appropriate lists. These teams will be drawn from those entered.

There will also be a list going up shortly for the Monday Evening

Mushroom 7.00pm - 9.00pm

Get Ready for Summer

Club & National

Knockout Competitions

2018 - 2019 Season

Entry Forms are now available at Reception

Closing Date for Club Open, Novice & Over 55s

30th April for National Competitions 16th April

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Presidents Report

As Presidents we are very committed to our club and we do everything in our power to

keep the club running from a ‘bowls’ perspective to a high and active level, to ensure that

all our members enjoy their bowls and that there is fair as well as competitive element to

all games played. As a Bowls Committee our discussion and decisions are for the benefit of

the 450 members as well as the 120 individuals that like to use our facilities for roll-ups.

Whilst we consider the now and next season we have to consider the long term future of

the Club and our aim is to encourage members to join but also to keep the current

members that we have. In our last article we asked for numbers of teams to be increased

by splitting and forming new teams and we are very much keeping our fingers crossed for

when the details are published about teams wishing to play in the 2018/2019 season. You

will recall that in the 2016/2017 season we had 174 league teams and this season we have

dropped by 15 teams to 159. It has to be said that a significant part of this drop was due to

Rushcliffe players going back to their home venue and the loss through illness or poor

health to some of our members but nevertheless there was a drop. We cannot afford

another drop for 2018/2019. We are crossing our fingers so those of you that value the

club please cross your fingers with ours.

We have heard one or two people say that they only have 4/5 players for next season for

one reason or another. Please could we encourage these individuals to put in their team

applications with the names that they currently have because there will be the best part of

6 months to recruit additional team members. The reception team and the Bowls

Committee will do all they can to ensure that all teams have a reasonable number of squad

players.

You will all be aware that we are again hosting the Nationals this year from 7 – 16 April. We

have seen the preliminary programme and it is going to be a very full on programme. We

understand that this year we will be hosting the semi-finals of the Liberty Trophy Men’s

Inter County as well as the final. We would like as many club members to help with the

running of the Finals and in this respect a notice is now on the board in which you are able

to add your name to help in various roles. Please add your name. The Finals will be a

spectacle of good bowling and so if you are not helping please come up and enjoy the

bowling where there is free admission to members. If you are able to help refreshments

are provided.

The Lord Mayor of Nottingham Michael Edwards has accepted our invitation to open the

Finals on Saturday 7 April at 9.00am. We have also written to our three local Councillors

and invited them to the opening ceremony and to date Marcia Watson has accepted our

invitation and we are waiting to hear from Malcolm Wood and Wendy Smith.

We have also written to our local MP Alex Norris and although he is unable through diary

commitments to make the opening ceremony he was very keen to come to look at the

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event at some stage and so we have agreed with his Private Office that he will be visiting

the Club and the Finals on Friday 13 April mid-morning. Very good news from a bowls and

NIBC/political situation.

A very big thank you to all club staff and members who were involved in the following

competitions:

British Isles Women’s Indoor Bowls Council Under 25 International Series matches played

on 10/11 February.

The National Indoor Visually Impaired Indoor Pairs Championships played on 17/18

February.

The organisers, competitors and supporters who attended both events were very

complementary about the hospitality that they were provided with by our club and as such

both events were a great success. A sincere very well done and thank you to all from us

both.

That is all for now. It is likely that once the league forms have been sorted out and we have

a direction as to what is happening next season that we will publish a supplementary

Newsletter. Watch this space!!!!

Philip Morley and Shirley Ellis Men’s and Ladies Presidents

Dates for your diary

AGM - Thursday 19th April - 7.30pm

Presentation Night - Friday 27th April - 7.30pm

Good Housekeeping

Please remember that old copies of the Year Book contain members

private numbers and should not be discarded carelessly, either

dispose of by shredding or return to the Club, this also applies to any

other document showing personal details.

This is an Urgent Message from the Bowls Manager

Some teams still have not submitted their entries

for the 2018 - 2019 season. Could you please get

your registration forms in ASAP even if you haven’t

yet completed your full squad of players, these

additional players can be added at a later date. It is important that all team

entry forms are submitted without delay as it will soon be time to get the

Year Books prepared for the printers and the fixtures have to be sorted out

prior to that. Your urgent attention would be very much appreciated.

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Please come along and give your support and enjoy some good and competitive bowling by

teams and individuals from around the country endeavouring to win the various trophies

being played for.

Mens Over 60 Pairs

Nottingham

(Alan Fallows & John Mildren)

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Essex County

1st Round - Wednesday 11th April - 9.30am - Quarter Final 6.00pm

Semi Final - Thursday 12th April - 9.30am - Final 2.00pm

Over 60 Inter Club Double Rink

Semi Finals - Thursday 12th April - 6.00pm

Havering v Plymouth

Nottingham v Adur

Final to be played on Friday 13th April at 9.30am

Come along and support your club teams and show that we want to keep

these prestigious competitions at the NIBC earning much needed finances.

ENGLISH INDOOR BOWLING ASSOCIATION

National Championships

FINAL STAGES 2017/2018

Nottingham Indoor Bowls Centre

Saturday 6th - Monday 16th April 2018

Top Club Quarter Final

Sunday 15th April - 11.00am

At New Earswick IBC, York. YO32 9PX.

Nottingham v South Shields

As always with these important games it is good for the Team to have

support which the players do appreciate. We look forward to seeing you

there if you can make it. (See Notice Board for details)

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The Opening Ceremony

On Saturday 10 February and Sunday 11 February our club hosted the BIWIBC U25 Ladies

International Series for the Acle Trophy.

Ladies’ President Shirley Ellis and Men’s President Philip Morley were at the opening

ceremony at which Shirley in a speech handed over our premises and facilities to the EIBA

organisers for the weekend.

Also at the opening ceremony were Skyla Sharpe - Saunders (10) and Sarah Kimber (12),

granddaughters of Pete Sharpe who led the Welsh and England teams respectively onto the

green with their countries banners. Abbie Hall (13) and Lauren Hall (10), granddaughters of

Philip and Chris Morley led onto the green the Scottish and British Lions teams respectively.

Well done to the girls for helping out and especially for the fact that they were asked to

wear their school uniforms on a Saturday!!

At the closing ceremony on the Sunday Shirley presented the Acle Trophy to the winning

team England and the EIBA returned the use of the premises back to NIBC.

The event was a great success with the Centre packed with supporters who provided a lot

of encouragement to the players. Great atmosphere.

Final Table

Played Won Lost Points Shots

England 3 3 0 6 140

British Lions 3 1 2 2 -28

Scotland 3 1 2 2 -34

Wales 3 1 2 2 -78

BRITISH ISLES WOMEN’S INDOOR

BOWLS COUNCIL (BIWBC)

Under 25 International Series

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Nottingham Indoor Bowls Centre hosted the Visually Impaired Bowls England (VIBE) National Indoor Pairs tournament for visually impaired bowlers from across England on 17-18 February 2018. Men’s President Philip Morley opened the competition and handed over our premises and facilities to the VIBE organisers for the weekend.

24 visually impaired bowlers, from across the country, descended on Nottingham IBC for an intensive weekend’s bowling. Pairs were split into two groups of six – with each pair playing all the other pairs in their group on Saturday and first thing on Sunday morning. The top four in each group went through to a seeded knock-out phase whilst the bottom two in each group contested the semi-finals and final of the ‘Plate’ competition.

VISUALLY IMPAIRED BOWLS ENGLAND

National Indoor Pairs Championships

Nottingham Indoor Bowling Centre

17th & 18th February 2018

Results:

Main competition winners

Right: President Clive Robinson - along with

Nottingham IBC’s representative - presents the winners

with their trophies. Daniel Ellman-Brown (Hastings)

and Alan Lyne (Lowestoft)

Main competition runners up

Left: Runners-up Phil Dutton & Dave Wood (Taunton)

Plate winners

Right: Plate Winners Steve Dewitt & Chris Turnbull

(Preston)

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Plate runners-up

Left: Runners-up in the ‘Plate’ competition

Ron Homer and Mo Perry (Yeovil)

Highest scoring B1 bowler

Right: Best B1 player, Keith Brenton (Gateshead)

and his director, Ron McArthur

Thanks

Visually Impaired Bowls England (VIBE) were very grateful

to the Board and members of the club for allowing them

use of our greens during the winter season; and to Hazel

Quayle for sponsoring the tournament.

Thanks were also given to all the people who gave their help during the tournament, this

included:

Julie White (Bowls Club manager); Dave, Lou, Jane, Bernie and Joan (catering); Phil

Morley (NIBC men’s president)

Alan Harvey and Stephen Biggs (umpires)

Paul and Judi Fowler, Grahame Merquis, John Saunders (markers from Nottingham

Indoor Bowls Club); Brian Thomas, Pat Goss, Rachel Dakin, John Larkin, Mike Smith

(markers from Erewash Indoor Bowls Club)

Sylvia Caines, Chris Goss, Rachel Dakin, Judi Fowler, Eric Hurst, Linda Kerry, Elsie

Lynn, Jan Malin, Glenda McRae, Bob Rose, Berni Saunders, Malcom Teader, Cheryl

Wood (score board operators); Shirley Ellis (centre score board)

Moira and Kelvin Horriben, Terry Ellis (directors for bowlers)

Overall this was a successful and enjoyable tournament and VIBE have booked to hold this

event at Nottingham Indoor Bowls Centre again in February 2019.

If you would like to know how visually impaired people are

taught to bowl, you might find it helpful to view a training

video Ron McArthur prepared in 2012, which can be found

at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSNi_xz5yWw

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Editors Note:

The printed version of the February Newsletter had some copies where the bottom line of some of

the pages was missing which meant that the page 6 joke was without the punch line, apologies for

that error, the joke is reprinted in full below. There were no problems with online copies.

Honeymoon Secret

On their honeymoon a husband confesses a secret to his new wife. "Darling, I'm a bowls fanatic,"

he says. "You'll never see me at the weekends and all our holidays will be at bowls tournaments."

"I've got a confession too," replies his new wife. "I'm a hooker." "That's ok," replies the husband.

"Just concentrate on your aiming point and take a bit more green."

Four bowlers were out on the Green practicing. As one of them was about to bowl, they saw a funeral precession go by.

Instead of bowling, the bowler removed his cap and placed it on his chest until the funeral had passed.

At this point, one of the others said, "You know, that was the most touching thing I've ever seen."

The bowler answers, "Well, I was married to her for 15 years. It was the least I could do!"

Oct. 22nd. - Nottingham 96 v South Forest 117

Oct. 29th. - Nottingham 91 v Rushcliffe 84

Nov. 5th. - Nottingham 99 v Alfreton 100

Nov. 12th. - Nottingham 98 v Erewash 85

Nov. 19th. - Nottingham 95 v Breakaways 100

Nov. 26th. - Nottingham 59 v South Forest 65

Dec. 10th. - Nottm. v Tamworth - Cancelled

Dec. 17th. - Nottingham 108 v Alfreton 87

Jan. 7th. - Nottm. v Rushcliffe - Cancelled

Jan. 13th. - Nottm. v Leicester - Cancelled

Jan. 21st. - Nottingham 85 v Tamworth 86

Feb. 4th. - Nottingham 104 v Lincoln 160

Feb. 11th. - Nottingham 115 v Barwell 113

Mar. 4th. - Nottm. v Leicester - Cancelled

Mar. 18th. - Nottingham ** v Erewash **

Weekend Friendlies

It doesn’t snow indoors!

Get your Summer Entries in NOW

Team Registration Forms

Available at Reception

Entries should be in by the end of March

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1. In 2000 who equalled Willie Renshaw's record of seven Wimbledon Men's Singles titles?

2. Who, aged 16 was the youngest winner of the Ladies Singles title in the 20th century?

3. In which year of the 1980's did the colour of the balls at Wimbledon change from white to yellow?

4. The first non British player to win the Men's Singles title did so in 1907. What nationality was he?

5. Who are the only two ladies other than the William's sisters to win the Ladies Singles title between 2000 - 2010?

6. In 1954 the Czech born player Jaroslav Drobny won the Men's Singles title representing which country?

7. During the 20th century which lady lost a record seven singles finals? Although she did win three.

8. What did the Spanish lady Lili de Alvarez wear on court in 1931 to cause quite a stir in the staid tennis world?

9. Who, aged 17 was the youngest ever winner of the Men’s Singles title?

10. In the very first ladies final in 1884 two British sisters played each other for the

title. They were Maud and Lilian, but what was their surname?

Wimbledon Quiz

Quiz Page

A B C

Sudoku

For those new to Sudoku the rules are quite simple

All you have to do is fill in the empty squares so that

each row, each column and each 3 x 3 block

contains all of the numbers 1 to 9. This means that

the total of each column, each row o& each block

must add up to 45.

This is a slightly more difficult puzzle, which has 38

of the 81 squares already filled in and should be

possible to complete in around fifteen minutes.

All answers & Solutions are on Page 12

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League Round-Up - 14th March 2018

Tables showing the top three positions in all of the 18 league divisions.

P SD Pts Monday 10.30am Mens Fours: Bad to the Bone 21 160 38 Unity 21 138 34 Beestees 22 63 29

Monday 2.30pm Open Triples: Rebels 21 165 37 The Jets 22 104 30 Ramblers 22 35 27

Monday 6.30pm Mens Fours: Bullwellians 21 216 41 Castle 20 196 32 Kamakazee 20 140 31

Tuesday 10.30am Open Triples Division 1: 3 Degrees 22 114 38 Wainfleet 21 143 32 Amblers 20 114 23

Tuesday 10.30am Open Triples Division 2: Rebels 25 100 36 Melody 25 35 29 The Rollers 24 34 27

Tuesday 4.30pm Open Pairs: Critters 24 346 44 Phantoms 23 189 36 J Bobs 22 137 30

Tuesday 6.30pm Mens Fours: Pothunters 20 190 36 Batmen 22 242 34 Chuckers 21 115 30

Wednesday 10.30am Mens Fours: Dryads 25 221 41 Tower 26 198 40 Knights of Temazepan 26 121 37

Wednesday 6.30pm Open Triples: Grumpy and the Groovy 23 257 43 City 23 292 36 Amazebowls 23 83 34

Thursday 10.30am Open Fours Division 1: Athenians 21 141 32 United 24 1 29 Comets 22 60 26

P SD Pts Thursday 10.30am Open Fours Division 2: Westenders 22 50 34 Newcomers 22 61 26 More Green 22 54 25

Thursday 6.30pm Open Triples: Oblivion 22 243 28 Supremes 22 67 28 The Riff-Raffs 22 37 28

Friday 10.30am Mens Triples: Phantoms 21 202 39 Rolls Royce 20 309 37 Clem Fandango 21 133 34

Friday 2.30pm Open Triples Division 1: Wallabies 23 7 28 The Dales 23 95 27 Rebels 24 85 27

Friday 2.30pm Open Triples Division 2: Sleber 24 194 38 Lucky Dip 23 102 29 Triple X 24 -8 26

Friday 4.30pm Open Triples: Silk ’n’ Steel 24 84 33 Odd Bods 22 119 30 The Pugwash Crew 24 73 29

Friday 6.30pm Open Pairs: Mick’s Gang 19 115 29 Bestwoodians 20 49 22 Phantoms 18 35 21

Saturday 8.30am Open Triples: Symphony 21 107 30 Venus 21 12 28 Eccentrics 20 44 25

Up to date league tables can be seen at: https://leagues.horizonsolutions.tv/nottingham-ibc-winter-2017-18

Winter Mushroom - Top Five - 7th March

1. Pete Sidebottom - 339 points

2. Brian Johnson - 331 points

3. Malcolm Padley - 312 points

4. Malcolm Teader - 305 points

5. Margaret Hill - 301 points

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Club Competition Matches 2017—2018

Denny Cup

Oct 21st - Nottingham 104 v Bassetlaw 48

Nov 4th - Nottingham 85 v Newark 75

Nov 18th - Nottingham 77 v Erewash 42

Dec 9th - Nottingham 100 v Tamworth 39

Jan 6th - Nottingham 80 v Lincoln 69

Jan 20th - Nottingham 56 v Cumbria 75

Egham Trophy

Oct 29th - Nottingham 80 v Leicester 46

Nov 12th - Nottingham 85 v Barwell 73

Nov 26th - Nottingham 78 v Charnwood 67

Dec 10th - Nottingham 73 v Lincoln 88

Top Club Championship

Oct 22nd - Nottingham 12 v Melton 4

Nov 5th - Nottingham 10 v Leicester 6

Jan 7th - Nottingham 16 v Barwell 0

Jan 28th - Nottingham 10 v Spalding 6

Quarter Final at New Earswick

Apr 15th - 11.00am

Nottingham v South Shields

Over 60s Double Rink

Nov 7th - Nottingham A 42 v Erewash 24

Nov 7th - Nottingham B 27 v Gedling 32

Nov 28th - Nottingham 46 v South Forest 22

Dec 12th - Nottingham 31 v Alfreton 27

Jan 9th - Nottingham 49 v Church Gresley 24

Feb 6th - Nottingham 51 v Sleaford B 16

Quarter Final

Mar 6th - Nottingham 28 v Cumbria 21

Semi Final at Nottingham

Apr 12th - 6.00pm

Nottingham v Adur

All Denny, Top Club, Yetton, Egham and Over 60s results can be seen at:-

http://www.eiba.co.uk/bss/competitions_list.php

Yetton Plate

Nov 18th - Nottingham 64 v Erewash 81

Yetton Trophy

Nov 4th - Nottingham 69 v South Forest 92

Oct 14th - Nottingham 126 v Gedling 81

Oct 28th - Nottingham 106 v Newark 89

Jan 13th - Nottingham 103 v Alfreton 101

Jan 20th - Nottingham 90 v Ashfield 103

Jan 27th - Nottingham 93 v Erewash 100

Feb 24th - Nottingham 162 v South Forest 85

Mar 10th - Nottingham 108 v Bassetlaw 88

Adams League Table Played Points

1. Alfreton 7 113

2. Erewash 6 109

3. Nottingham 6 82

4. Ashfield 6 81

5. Newark 7 79

6. Gedling 6 47

7. South Forest 7 39

8. Bassetlaw 3 26

The up-to-date Adams League Table can be seen at:- http://www.eibc.co.uk/

Adams Trophy

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Cut off and return to Reception

Car Park Security Survey

With the high costs of around £7000 for the winter bowls season we have to ask the

question:

Is it imperative that we keep paying for manned security of the car park?

Bearing in mind that there are outside security cameras and that Pinnacle Security have

offices within the property.

The Council of Management have asked that we seek the views and opinions of our

members as to whether we should continue stretching our budget by paying for this

service next year. (Please tick the appropriate box hand to reception).

Do we keep Manned Security Yes or Do we save money by saying No

Your Comments: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

……………………………………………………………………………………………… Name …..…………………………….

Quiz Answers

Email Addresses

Any member who does not currently receive copies of the Newsletter by email and wishes to receive notification of when each publication is ready for downloading from the NIBC Website, please send me your email address to my new address shown below.

New Email Address

As my regular email box tends be cluttered up with a large number of mails each day, most relating to my other hobby Genealogy, I have opened a new box specifically for bowling, whilst there is no problem if you send to my old address, the new address does make it easier for me to separate.

Editors Email: brianjohnson.bowling@btinternet.com

Next Newsletter end of April , with the likelihood of a Supplementary Newsletter in the interim.

http://www.nottinghamindoorbowlsclub.co.uk/newsletters.php

Wimbledon Quiz

1. Pete Sampras

2. Martina Hingis (1997)

3. 1986

4. Norman Brookes representing Australia

5. Maria Sharapova (2004) & Amelie Mauresmo

(2006)

6. Egypt

7. Chris Evert (Lost in 1973, 1978, 1979, 1980,

1982, 1984 & 1985) (won in 1974, 1976 & 1981)

8. A divided tennis skirt (the forerunner of shorts)

9. Boris Becker (1985)

10. Watson (Maud was the eventual winner and she

won again the following year)

Sudoku