Helensburgh Bowling Club

Club Opening of Greens Saturday 17th April 2010                                                                The Opening of Helensburgh Bowling Club Greens took place on Saturday 17th April 2010 at 2.30pm
President Walter Jamieson welcomed members and guests, including, Honorary President of the club Billy Petrie and his wife Jean, Ernest Johnson representing the SBA, Stewart Shields(President), representing the DBA in their Centenary Year, and Michael Wright, Vice President, from the GBA, and representatives from kindred clubs in the area. The President referred in feeling terms to the recent passing of Past President Tommy Thomson and Jimmy Cameron both of whom had made significant contributions to the club in their time.
Hon President Billy Petrie OBE, JP, DL then addressed the members and guests, he congratulated the members and the club on the massive improvements made during the close season and wished the Helensburgh and kindred club members, an enjoyable season.
The President remarked that considerable work has been done over the closed season to the Club. Most visible of these are the completion of the Seated Terrace and the Artificial Banking to the West Green. Members carried out this work. The Club also received a significant bequest from HLM Malcolm Osborne’s family during 2009. It was felt appropriate to mark the finish of the terrace works and the bequest by the installation of a plaque. I would like to ask
Honorary Life Member and oldest Male member of Helensburgh Bowling Club Malcolm Osborne to unveil the Plaque to mark this occasion. Malcolm Osborne the unveiled a Plaque naming the terrace “ Osborne Terrace” in a fitting manner to the delight of all attending
Several new members who have joined the club this year were welcomed on to the green and presented with a club badge by the President Walter.
The Immediate Past President Amelia McBride was thanked for her year in office and presented with her Green Blazer, Tie and Past Presidents badge, by the President who also presented Amelia with a gift for opening the green in 2009 along with a bouquet of flowers.
Immediate Past President Amelia then presented, the Club Champion in 2009, Keith Tait, with his championship medal and the members of the club, who had been successful in GBA Cup and Shield League competitions last year, with medals marking the victories.
The Gents Captain Hugh Murray then requested Mrs Maureen Jamieson to Open the greens for 2010. Maureen threw the first Jack and Bowls of the year, declared the club open for 2010 and wished the members and enjoyable and successful year. Gents Captain Hugh Murray then presented Maureen with the ceremonial Silver Jack and a bouquet of flowers. Hugh then presented Hon Presidents wife Jean Petrie with a bouquet of flowers
Members and guests played a nine end game and retired to the clubhouse to enjoy a meal prepared by the ladies of the club. The result of the game was Presidents team 75 shots, the Captains team 64 shots. The winning Triple, in the Presidents team were, Same Magee, Howard Turner and W. Kennon Skip 2 shots up, and for the Captains Team the highest up were, John Pearce, Alec Moffat , and Stewart Cattenach 11 shots up, and they were presented with their prizes by the President Walter Jamieson.                                                                          The representatives of the Associations conveyed their good wishes to the President and club. Past President Amelia McBride on behalf of the Past Presidents congratulated all the members who transformed the West Green during the winter and wished the President and Directors an enjoyable and successful year.                                                                                         Hugh Murray in a humorous manner outlined the funny side enjoyed by the members who worked so hard over the winter on the west green and in particular thanked the “ Architect” George Sneddon and presented him with a mounted section of old pipe recovered during the work as a memento.
President Walter Jamieson, in bringing an enjoyable day to an end, thanked the ladies for the excellent meal and all who had contributed to an excellent day.
The photograph show the Mrs Maureen Jamieson delivering the first bowl of the 2010 season

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Gordon Fleming Memorial Trophy Competition

The winter Club Carpet Bowls competitions reached their conclusion during the week commening 29th March 2010.

The Gordon Fleming memorial Trophy, played on a league basis throught the close season, completed their games on Monday 29th March.

The league this year was a failry close run contest up until the turn of the year with several players in contention to win the trophy, however after the festive season break, last yeras winner Nick Cudby opened up a gap on all his rivals, which he held on to up until the finish, to win the trophy with 36 points, for the second year, with a clear 7 point lead over the runner up Alan Air who finished on 29 points.

President Walter Jamieson presented his first trophy of the year to Nick along with his prize, he also presented Alan with his prize. In closing the President thanked the members for attending and in particular he thanked Past President Campbell Jardine for again running the competition.

The Picture shows President walter Jamieson presenting the Shield to Nick Cudby

Ladies Carpet Bowls 2009/2010

The Ladies Carpet Bowls, which has been running on Wednesday afternoons throughout the close season, played their final session on Wednesday afteroon the 31st March.

The competition in the league this year has been so close since the turn of the year and even up to the last game any one of 4 players could have won the trophy. In the even the two leaders going into the final game were drawn in the same team and although they were defeated they reamained at the top on equal points. Shot difference then had to used to decide the winner nad Mrs Jean Brown came out on top with 45 points and -12 shots with Mrs Cathy Boyle on the same points but with - 45 shots the runner up. Vera McIntyre finisfed in 3rd place on 43 points.

The competition has been very well supported this year, with two sessions of games need to give all the ladies a game. Well done to the organisers Sheena Lary and Gladys Gunn for all the work they have done.

Peter Bowman Mixed Pairs Competition

The semi finals and finals of the Mixed Pairs carpet bowls competition for the Peter Bowman Quaich, was
played on Wednesday 31st March, the finals attracted a great many spectators to encourage the players.
The competition kindly sponsored by Mr James Carr from the “Cruin” Bar and Restaurant, Loch
Lomondside, was played on a league basis throughout the close season in. At the completion of the section
games the qualifying pairs for the semi Finals were Edna & Alan Armstrong and Sheena Lary & Ian Logan,
Elsa Robb & Willie Kennon and Ronnie Bell & Gordon Stephen.
In the first semi final their was some excellent bowling however Ronnie Bell & Gordon Stephen had a fairly
comfortable win over Edna & Alan Armstrong by 13 shots to 3.
The second semi final followed the trend of the first with Elsa Robb & Willie Kennon winning by 18 shots to
7
The Final, played over 10 ends, produced some excellent bowling with both teams taking turns to score
over the first seven ends to make the score 4 shots all at this point. The decisive move came from Ronnie
and Gordon who scored a 2 in the 8th end to lead by 6 shots to 4. Try as they may Elsa and Willie could not
recover and Ronnie and Gordon ran out the winners by 7 shots to 5.
After the game the club President Walter introduced Mr Des O’ hare Restaurant manager and Brian Dennet
from the Cruin Restaurant and Mrs Elsa Robb, who donated the trophy in memory of her late husband Peter Bowman. Des O,Hare presented the prizes, to the Losing Semi finalists, the Runners up and the Trophy and Prizes to the winners and hope everyone had enjoyed the competition, he remarked that he
had enjoyed being at the club to see the final stages of the competition. Elsa Robb thanked all the players for taking part, it had been an enjoyable and friendly competition again this year. President Walter
Jamieson thanked Willie Kennon for organising the competition and presented him with a small gift for his
efforts. After the presentation the company enjoyed a buffet to which the players and spectators contributed.

The photograph shows form left to right the President Walter Jamieson, Des O’Hare and the winners
Ronnie Bell and Gordon Stephen.

Friday Night Gents Carpet Bowls – Thomson Cup

The final night of the Friday night competition was played on 2nd April.
This Friday competition was very well contested and the final result was not decided until the end of the games on the final night.
The winner of the trophy Allan Howie consolidated his lead by winning his final game, to win the trophy with a 29 points total. The runnerup position was not so clear cut with Allan Rosss on 21 points and Alan Air on 22 points before the final game, however Alan Air was unable to attend and the older Allan Ross took full advantage by winning his game to increase his points total to 23 and into the Runner Up position.
The Trophy and Prizes were presented by Mrs Beth Street, who donated the Trophy, some years ago, in memory her late Husband, Neil.
In concluding the evening the President Walter Jamieson thanked Past President Campbell Jardine for again organising the competitions so effectively and presented him with a token gift for so doing.

The Photograph shows from left to right, Allan Howie, being presented with the Thomson Trophy by Beth Street and President Walter Jamieson

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The AGM of the club was held on Thursday 11th February 2010 at 7.40pm with a healthy turn out of 69 members.

The meeting elected Walter Jamieson as the President for 2010, with Annette Garrick as Lady Captain, Hugh Murray as Gents Captain and George Tait as Secretary and Mary Leech continued as our treasurer. Directors, Liz Smith George Sneddon, Michael Leech, Bill Holland, Ian H. Macleod, Ian Hume and  Allan Howie continued as Directors and were joined by Alan Armstrong, John Stead, Ian Logan, Jim MacDonald, Roger Jones, Martin Webb who were elected as new Directors for this year. We wish the President and his committee, on behalf of the members, every success in 2010

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Work is now underway to replace the West Green banks with artificial banks. This project is part of the 5 year plan approved last year and will involve replacing all of the banks, with improved drainage and a path from the west side of the green around to the north side to where the new viewing area with seats was installed last year.

Volunteers are doing the work, with a sizeable saving in cost,and started about two weeks ago and already the north bank has competed the earth removal stage and work has started on the west bank to bring it to the same stage. The volunteers under the Green Convenor, George Sneedon have been working very hard indeed and thier hs been a good response with Hugh Murray, Ian Hume, George Tait, Walter Jamieson, Tom Adkin, Tony Bird and Martin Webb all contributing, well done lads. Any help is appreciated contact any of the above if you have time to spare.

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