McManus Claims Third Consecutive B Pairs Crown

B Pairs 2026 champions Arthur McManus and Steve Lawrie.

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Another great week for our little club in paradise, which started on Wednesday due to our green being thoroughly cleaned and evened, and 30 bowlers turned out, and the biggest winning team was skippered by Ted Cullen with Tony Lennie second and Rick Brunell leading as comfortable winners; second overall was the team of skipper "Take the Money" Tony Whitehorn, ably assisted by Alan Pershouse and lead Keith Bates.

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Thursday afternoon saw the Christian College teams of Pazel Davis and Ollie Webb with Miranda Jackson coming from Bowen to practice with Elliana Langshore, and they're certainly developing into a team, and with practice will only improve their skills.

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Friday morning saw the return of the Endeavour Foundation group, and it's so pleasing to see Michael and Cathy improving, and Deon is finally bowling well too, making huge strides in concentration and understanding of what is required to become a good lawn bowler. I'm so proud of their progress, and thanks to Alma Rose Mawson for her assistance.

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Friday night saw the Tradies versus Non-Tradies competition begin, and six teams played, and the second leg will be the Non-Tradies team, and the third leg will be the finals. Results will be published in this exciting competition created by John Brown, our previouschairman.

Saturday and Sunday saw the B Division pairs, with the final game played Sunday morning and the prolific B Pairs champion fresh from his 60th birthday celebrations. Arthur McManus, this time teaming up with new chairman Steve Lawrie, won an exciting tussle against Mervyn Stewart and Denis Donnadelli in a great game going down in the last two ends, 22-17. This is Arthur's 3rd straight B Pairs win.

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Sunday afternoon social bowls saw 19 bowlers vying for the prize, and we welcomed Ronald and Julie Orchard from Moffra Bowls Club in Victoria as well as Sue Blakey from Stawell Bowls Club in Victoria. Sue turned out to be a real Stawell Gift in being the winner of the day with Maureen Barnard, who is also in hot form, and the dice rolled by club manager Fiona Greener was a 5, which meant the lowest winning margin was 27-20. Congratulations, girls.  

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Other winning teams were skipper Ron Orchard with lead Alma Rose Mawson and second Mark Mawson, 25-15. Tony Whitehorn easily won his game, with Julie Orchard and Sue Dakin at second, slowly recovering from a terrible bout of flu, winning 25-8.

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Contributed with thanks to Mark Mawson.

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