31st July Gourock Park icon,Robert Grant has not had much luck this Season,knocked out of the Club Championship and Presidents singles at an early stage,losing out in the RBA Triples Final,early exit in The Davidson,but tonight at Grosvenor in our last league game of the Season,poor Robert and his Rink suffered the indignity of losing an EIGHT!!!!!!!!!. Word soon passed around the green of the luckless Robert's fate,but worse was to come when they returned to the Clubhouse for the after match cuppa.Robert was getting pelters from his fellow players of Gourock Park.At the end of President W Burnie's speech,the players of Grosvenor stood up to applaud the "Park's" Members and while doing so,all four of the Rink that took the "EIGHT" of Robert,all held up large "Number 8's" on white cards. The place was in hysterics as poor Robert probably wished the ground would open up and swallow him under. Robert then had to stand up and do "the reply" and he did this in his usual "Hello there" and gave another one of his legendry speeches and of course one of his "Jokes" Never mind Robert am sure you will put this behind you and get back to being the "Gr eight" player we all know you are. Despite Robert's misfortune,Gourock Park secured the points they required to ensure that we would stay in Division 1 for next Season.with a fine EIGHT points to four over Grovenor 8 Team,sorry!!!!!!! A Team 30th July The Davidson Pairs Trophy was won by George and Jim Twaddle yesterday,a full report and pictures will appear on "The Davidson Page" within the next few days 27th July The Ladie's Championship at Gourock Park was won by Jessie McKinnon,who defeated Nancy Hawthorn in a close fought match. See the "Ladies Page" for a full report and pictures. 26th July The Ardgowan Hospice Wapinshaw was won by a rink from Ardgowan BC. Gourock Park are doing thier bit to encourage local Kids to take up the sport of Bowling. They are holding some informal coaching every thursday evening for kids of 9 and over. If you know of anyone who would be interested in this?then please contact any of the Committee at Gourock Park or e-mail me at 22nd July The Largs Open was won by George Wilson of Skelmorlie BC. The Draws for The Non-Prize Winners,Nominated Pairs and The Fyfe Triples have been added to the site. 20th July Alan Bradley of Grosvenor lost out to Harry Pratt of Lochwinnoch BC in the semi-final of the Largs Open today. Harry Pratt will play Skelmorie BC's George Wilson in saturdays Final. I am still unable to update the G&D Leagues this week,still trying to get the results from the G&D. Sorry for the delay. For All Match Secretarys!! Could you please submitt the details of your "Club Championship" when it gets down to the last four.Please mail them to me or call me on 07949 683164 and i will put them on the site. 19th July Alan Bradley of Grosvenor BC is the the only local player still involved in the Largs Open. All the others including-myself,Peter Boyle,Eddie Cannie,David Quigley,Sam Blaikie,Jimmy Bradley and a few others have all been knocked out.Alan is through to the Semi-Final to be played at Fairlie BC @ 12 noon. Graham Paterick of Lady Alice BC has suggested on this sites message board about the lack of an open singles competition in this area! I also think its time we had one! What do you think? Go to the message board and join the discussion.The Board can be accessed from the "Homepage" just click on "My Community" and sign in using either an alias or your name,just ignore the password prompt unless you want to sign on as a member of the board. 18th July Unfortunately I was unable to update the site recently due to my PC being knocked out of action by a water leakage from the Flat above mine! Thanks to my 5 year extended warranty( " am I glad I took that out?") everything is now in working order and I will catch up with the updates as soon as possible The Quiz however will not be updated until Sun 22nd. From 30th September,Homestead,the service I use to build this Website,will be changing from a "free service" to a subscription based service.It therefore is now very important that the site continues to attract sponsorship to enable me to keep this site operating and expanding the way it has been! So!!! Can I ask all my regular visitors to pass the word around about this site to friends,family and workmates to ensure that this site will continue to receive a healthy number of hits each week and make it a worthwhile place for any business to sponsor Gourockpark.co.uk. Also if you or your Company would be interested in sponsoring this site? Please contact me for details 11th July I have received current Greenock & District League from John Freeburn including the up to date "shots" totals. I had to make some adjustments to the points totals in Section 2. July 7th 2001 Firstly I wish to apologise for the lack of updates within the last week. Several players from the Inverclyde area will be taking part in "The Largs Open" starting on the 16th of July,including Grosvenor's Alan Bradley.Alan will be trying to win this popular event for the third time after previous success in 1996 & 98. I have added some more links to the site,"Raintown" is an excellent site about Port Glasgow, its well worth a look. Connellys Bar in Greenock is a very well constructed site with many features to enjoy and finally I have added Lindfield Bowling Club in East Sussex to the Bowling links page. Results of last month's "Poll" is now available |
News & Gossip July 2001 |
31st July Gourock Park icon,Robert Grant has not had much luck this Season,knocked out of the Club Championship and Presidents singles at an early stage,losing out in the RBA Triples Final,early exit in The Davidson,but tonight at Grosvenor in our last league game of the Season,poor Robert and his Rink suffered the indignity of losing an EIGHT!!!!!!!!!. Word soon passed around the green of the luckless Robert's fate,but worse was to come when they returned to the Clubhouse for the after match cuppa.Robert was getting pelters from his fellow players of Gourock Park.At the end of President W Burnie's speech,the players of Grosvenor stood up to applaud the "Park's" Members and while doing so,all four of the Rink that took the "EIGHT" of Robert,all held up large "Number 8's" on white cards. The place was in hysterics as poor Robert probably wished the ground would open up and swallow him under. Robert then had to stand up and do "the reply" and he did this in his usual "Hello there" and gave another one of his legendry speeches and of course one of his "Jokes" Never mind Robert am sure you will put this behind you and get back to being the "Gr eight" player we all know you are. Despite Robert's misfortune,Gourock Park secured the points they required to ensure that we would stay in Division 1 for next Season.with a fine EIGHT points to four over Grovenor 8 Team,sorry!!!!!!! A Team 30th July The Davidson Pairs Trophy was won by George and Jim Twaddle yesterday,a full report and pictures will appear on "The Davidson Page" within the next few days 27th July The Ladie's Championship at Gourock Park was won by Jessie McKinnon,who defeated Nancy Hawthorn in a close fought match. See the "Ladies Page" for a full report and pictures. 26th July The Ardgowan Hospice Wapinshaw was won by a rink from Ardgowan BC. Gourock Park are doing thier bit to encourage local Kids to take up the sport of Bowling. They are holding some informal coaching every thursday evening for kids of 9 and over. If you know of anyone who would be interested in this?then please contact any of the Committee at Gourock Park or e-mail me at 22nd July The Largs Open was won by George Wilson of Skelmorlie BC. The Draws for The Non-Prize Winners,Nominated Pairs and The Fyfe Triples have been added to the site. 20th July Alan Bradley of Grosvenor lost out to Harry Pratt of Lochwinnoch BC in the semi-final of the Largs Open today. Harry Pratt will play Skelmorie BC's George Wilson in saturdays Final. I am still unable to update the G&D Leagues this week,still trying to get the results from the G&D. Sorry for the delay. For All Match Secretarys!! Could you please submitt the details of your "Club Championship" when it gets down to the last four.Please mail them to me or call me on 07949 683164 and i will put them on the site. 19th July Alan Bradley of Grosvenor BC is the the only local player still involved in the Largs Open. All the others including-myself,Peter Boyle,Eddie Cannie,David Quigley,Sam Blaikie,Jimmy Bradley and a few others have all been knocked out.Alan is through to the Semi-Final to be played at Fairlie BC @ 12 noon. Graham Paterick of Lady Alice BC has suggested on this sites message board about the lack of an open singles competition in this area! I also think its time we had one! What do you think? Go to the message board and join the discussion.The Board can be accessed from the "Homepage" just click on "My Community" and sign in using either an alias or your name,just ignore the password prompt unless you want to sign on as a member of the board. 18th July Unfortunately I was unable to update the site recently due to my PC being knocked out of action by a water leakage from the Flat above mine! Thanks to my 5 year extended warranty( " am I glad I took that out?") everything is now in working order and I will catch up with the updates as soon as possible The Quiz however will not be updated until Sun 22nd. From 30th September,Homestead,the service I use to build this Website,will be changing from a "free service" to a subscription based service.It therefore is now very important that the site continues to attract sponsorship to enable me to keep this site operating and expanding the way it has been! So!!! Can I ask all my regular visitors to pass the word around about this site to friends,family and workmates to ensure that this site will continue to receive a healthy number of hits each week and make it a worthwhile place for any business to sponsor Gourockpark.co.uk. Also if you or your Company would be interested in sponsoring this site? Please contact me for details 11th July I have received current Greenock & District League from John Freeburn including the up to date "shots" totals. I had to make some adjustments to the points totals in Section 2. July 7th 2001 Firstly I wish to apologise for the lack of updates within the last week. Several players from the Inverclyde area will be taking part in "The Largs Open" starting on the 16th of July,including Grosvenor's Alan Bradley.Alan will be trying to win this popular event for the third time after previous success in 1996 & 98. I have added some more links to the site,"Raintown" is an excellent site about Port Glasgow, its well worth a look. Connellys Bar in Greenock is a very well constructed site with many features to enjoy and finally I have added Lindfield Bowling Club in East Sussex to the Bowling links page. Results of last month's "Poll" is now available |
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