Issue 747
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Sports News
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Young Lismore golfer Lloyd Kelly recorded the best score in the Alec Armstrong memorial trophy last Sunday with a par round of 71. |
It was a very tough course this year, as the scores on the final day indicated. The greens were very hard and didn't always reward great shots to the pin.
No-one can take anything from Appleby, particularly his play on the final day – I have never seen a golfer look so comfortable and in the Zen. Onya Stewie!
Most of the pros are good blokes and will have a chat, particularly Big Ernie Els, the South African gentle giant.
By the way, if you have a spare $45,000, you can become one of only 550 shareholders and a members at the Grand and join the likes of Ian Baker-Finch, Daryl Somers and Sam Newman. Construction of Grand Manors will begin in 2002 and comprise of only 40 residences.
The club has no corporate days, trade days or public visitors (not welcome) but members only have to turn up and they can tee off whenever they want to.
What some dreams are made of...
The North Coast Amateur Open is on at Coffs Harbour from Friday, November 30 until Sunday, December 2.
The NRDGA fixture meeting is at Ballina on Sunday, December 2. Executive at 8.30am, delegates at 9am, refreshments afterwards.
The Northern Rivers senior, junior and colts teams contested the Alec Armstrong trophy last weekend. The juniors defeated the seniors by 4 shots and the colts came third. This is the second time ever that the juniors have enjoyed victory and is a reflection on the talent in their team: Calder Dryden (Coraki), Trenton Root (Casino), Peter Hall (Tweed), Dan McPhie (Ballina) who recorded a fine 1 over par 72, Markos Zirov (Byron Bay), Luke Henwood (Tweed) and Barton Oshear (Ocean Shores). Justin Saxby (Ballina) and Warren Colefax (Murwillumbah) recorded the best of the seniors scores with 3 over 74.
Young Lismore talent Lloyd Kelly recorded the best colt score with a fine par round of 71. The day was a resounding success. Well done juniors!
The men will contest the December medal this Saturday while the ladies contest a stroke event as the medal of medals play off.
The RSL monthly mug is on Sunday.
John Sanderson took the honours from Don Backhouse and Dick Oke in the single stableford last Wednesday. Michael Harvey and David Shaw won the two ball that was played in conjunction with the single stableford from Don Backhouse and Garrick Semple.
Joey Morris, the champion halfback of yesteryear, took the honours from Teven member Geoff Bourke in the single stroke last Friday and Jim Wilson came third.
Stephen Morris and Jack Trevan won the 4BBB stableford from Phillip Waldron and Stan Appleton played on Presidents versus Captains Day last Saturday.
An 18 hole stroke event will be played in three grades this Saturday.
There will be an 18 hole stroke for Christmas hams on Thursday, December 6 and a two person ambrose for Christmas hampers on Saturday, December 8.
Pat Holborow and Mr Consistency, Frankie Robbo won the mixed stableford last Saturday on a countback from Neil and Sue Clark. Greg Potts won the A grade single and John Bryant won B grade. Alan Ganter, Kevin Wilson and Michael Stone won the men's nearest the pin awards and Ivy Drewe won both of the ladies.
The December medal will be played this Saturday and will be the third Christmas hamper, final vardon of the year and medal of medals play off for the Wilson Motel mug.
There will be a wine tasting in the bottom bar of the Lismore Workers Golf Club tomorrow night (Friday) from 6.30-8.30pm with all money raised going to Camp Quality. It is free to attend!
The Rotary charity Golf Day is on Sunday, December 2. It is a four person ambrose with a shotgun start at noon, sausage sizzle at 11am and costs $25.
The North Coast Children's Home Charity will be held on Sunday, December 9 and will begin with a sausage sandwich at 11am followed by a sour person ambrose which starts with a shotgun start at noon. Cost is $20.
The Red Cross Golf Classic is on Friday, December 14. Breakfast is at 7.30am, tee-off at 8.30am, presentation at 1.30pm and nomination fee is $25.
Clive (Wardie) Guthrie recorded the best of some very good scores last Thursday to win the single stroke with 61 on a countback from Rick Lane with Ray Ross 2 shots further behind. Veterans pres Brian Hayes took out the first nine; Barry Lampard won the second nine from Peter Hughes and Steve Fredericks record a fine 4 under par 66 to win the gross.
Norm Piccoli and Dick Smith won the two person ambrose last Saturday by a couple from Mark Stegeman and Blake Jamieson and then Scott Morrissey and Jack Durheim. Paul Gahan and Col Pratt carried each other superbly to win the Bradman's. Balls won with 61.5 or better.
A single stroke will be played in three grades this Saturday as the start of the summer eclectic.
There will be a four ball versus par on Saturday, December 8.
Irwin White won the veterans 12 hole stableford from Alf Wilson last Thursday.
June Howard took the honours from Maureen Noonan in the ladies 18 hole stroke event last Friday.
Mark Sneesby and Nathan Gemmell won the men's four ball aggregate stableford last Saturday from Wayne Ferrier and Brian Bartusch. The ladies played a single stableford which finished with Diane Perkins taking home the goodies from Irene Crampton.
Kay Buckley took out the 18 hole stableford last Sunday.
The hampers continue this Saturday with the December medal.
The first of the hampers went last Saturday with a 4BBB stableford. Father and son combination of Kevin and Scott Yates won on a countback from Casino club legend Aub Scofield and young talent Trenton Root followed by Vern Newlands and Lindsay James.
Jim Small took out last Thursday's stroke event by 2 from Peter McLean. Matt McGrath won the 10 hole comp.
What's My Linewith Ian Clark
During the last couple of weeks a few blokes have asked me if I have heard anything about the marine park they are proposing along our coastline.
I did not actually know anything more than rumours so I contacted our recreational fishing representative, Bruce Mahony, who advised me that, yes, it is true, there is a proposal in existence.
The park will extend from the north wall at Brunswick Heads south to Lennox Head and from the high tide mark three nautical miles offshore.
Depending on what zone it is rated, it could be closed to all fishing and no doubt vehicle access will be the next thing earmarked to be closed off as well.
So the scenario is that trawling and offshore fishing will continue without interruption three nautical miles off shore. Beach commercial fishing will cease along with recreational angler and dog handler access.
So, if this area is closed, do the people that use it disappear as well?
No, they will head south and north.
Therefore will Skennars Head to Woody Point become a marine park because it is being over fished? Or how about from Brunswick north to Hasting Point?
Say we have this magnificent marine park established.
Do you think the fish numbers will increase dramatically while storm water is discharged into the corner of Lennox Beach? Or how about the sewerage problems in Brunswick River and the sewerage discharge pipe at Skennars Head – just along from Lennox Headland?
In this day and age closing things off looks like the best practice.
But is it a case of not seeing the trees for the forest?
I think counteracting pollution to be the best practice.
You can close the area off, but, if pollution is not reduced the fish are not going to return just because no-one is fishing there.
The 1974 floods did not produce a fish kill in the Richmond River.
But there WAS a major kill from a smaller flood over twenty five years later.
Population and land clearing has increased massively in those twenty five years. Just have a look at the tea tree farms at Bungawalbyn as an example.
There are a lot of factors that contribute to declining fish numbers.
I feel that, yes, commercial fishing, in the past, has contributed immensely to the problem. But the commercial sector is more involved in sustainable fishing now than the recreational angler. They have to be, as it is their livelihood.
For recreational angling I do not see the need for the size bag limits we have. They could be much smaller. In fact, I would be happy with a reduction to halve the current limit set. Possibly add another centimetre or two onto some species, just to get them through juvenile and a year or two into adulthood.
Pollution is the biggest factor that is destroying our fish stocks. The destruction of mangroves, wetlands and coastal swamps is also destroying the links in the ecological chain.
Nature is a complex yet balanced living organism.
Once you lose a species, that is it. It is gone. Forever. What if that species was a staple diet of a bigger species? The bigger species is now endangered and on the brink of extinction.
Pollution is a big issue and a huge problem to fix in terms of dollars and time.
But I believe closing something off is just slowing down the inevitable and placing the real issue into the too hard box.
To have your say, just like I did, on this proposal log onto www.mpa.nsw.gov.au or contact the Marine Park Project Officer on 6627 0200.
Submissions close on January 31, 2002.
Until next week,
fun fishing.
Jim Starkey, then 16 years old, releases the shutter of his box brownie camera 212 metres above Lismore in this photograph of Rhone Ranger. (1933).
Inset: Rhone Ranger comes in for a 'controlled crash' landing piloted by Eric Avery.
Eric Avery, a former pilot, learnt to pilot a glider under conditions that make today's extreme sports seem tame.
Avery (now deceased) was one of the first people to teach the sport of Gliding in Lismore and present at the inaugural meeting of gliding enthusiasts which was held at the Guthries' Laundry, next to the old Vogue Theatre in Molesworth Street.
Local residents actually made the club's first glider, using local Oregon timber and plans of the ‘Rhone Ranger', a German designed plane.
The Rhone Ranger was literally a wing and a prayer. It had a high mounted wing on the front and a tailplane at the rear, both mounted on a frame type fuselage, looking something like a ladder from an Escher print.
The pilot steered using a joy stick and rudder bar which were connected to the wings and tail to allow the pilot to control the glider.
Early training flights were conducted by tethering the glider to a fence and placing the fuselage on a rock facing into the wind so that the pilot in training could accustom himself (as there were no women) to the controls, practice keeping the wings level while the other members of the club looked on.
The real fun came when the wind picked up and the glider rose from the rock into the air, straining at its leash.
The next training stage was a bit more dynamic and hair-raising for the budding pilot. A rope about 300 metres long was tied to the nose of the glider and the other end attached to the rear bumper of an ancient Buick Eight tourer.
The Buick was then driven as fast as possible across a cow paddock. The result of this frantic dash was that the glider shot up into the air about 8m whereupon the pilot released the rope.
As far as landing went the Ranger had no wheels, just a long skid under the nose. Deceleration was rapid and the lap strap tested to its limits – there was no such thing as a soft landing more a controlled crashing.
Flying training progressed and flights of 200-300m were reached.
Flying training in gliders today is far removed from those early Northern Rivers pioneers.
Today's gliding involves a state of the art glider being towed into the air behind a plane.
The Summerland Gliding Club operates from Casino aerodrome and has facilitated a gathering of all local gliding clubs this weekend, December 1-2.
Up to 10 modern sailplanes (gliders), some self launching, will be on display and it will be the largest group of registered aircraft to be seen at Casino in recent times.
Anyone who is interested should get down to the Casino aerodrome this weekend and show their support or satisfy their curiosity.
Trevor Mitchell is currently researching and writing the history of the Summerland Gliding Club and is looking for any available information.
Anybody with photographs, information or anecdotes should contact Trevor on 6621 5626.
Lee Welch, a basketballer from Alstonville, Simon Hancox, NSW Wheelchair Sports Association Development Officer and Belinda Zulpo, a track and road athlete from Ballina.
A new wheelchair sport visited Lismore for the first time last Thursday.
Simon Hancox, a development officer with the NSW wheelchair sports association was in Spinks Park demonstrating handcycling, a wheelchair sport where the chair is propelled by a pedal system powered by the arms.
'It's a great sport for people with lower body disabilities and has become very popular in Sydney,' Hancox said.
Jak Carroll, North Coast Sports Council for the Disabled Regional Coordinator, believes it was a great opportunity to try this new sport.
'Handcycling is now big in the United States and Europe, and it is hoped to get them in next paralympics. It is starting to get a foothold here, it's becoming big recreationally. We are hoping to buy a couple at Southern Cross University for recreation and training, we just need to find the money,' Carroll said.
'They're very good for cross training. People in wheelchairs tend to get overuse injuries so handcycling is a very good way to vary training and reduce the risk of injury. It's also a great sport on its own,' Carroll said.
Belinda Zulpo an athlete from Ballina whose ambition is to compete in the Paralympics was a fan of the new sport.
'Belinda jumped in and powered off – we didn't see her for more than 20 minutes,' Carroll said.
Carroll believes the demonstration had extra benefits for local wheelchair athletes.
'It was great getting athletes out of the woodwork. From our point of view it was very beneficial to meet a few new faces and nice to make a link with Sydney. Our plan is to work with the North Coast Academy of Sport and Sydney Academy of Sport to develop those athletes with a disability who are serious about making it to top in their chosen sport,' Carroll said.
For further information contact: Jak Carroll on 6620 3759.
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Trevor Black scored 44 for Lismore Workers on the weekend. |
Lismore Workers earned themselves their first win of the season last weekend in the LJ Hooker Cricket League.
Workers defeated Lennox Head after dismissing Lennox for 117 then declaring at 6-159.
Trevor Black knocked up the highest total for Workers with 44 and was almost matched by Tom Cooper (36) and David Breckenridge (28).
Workers will now take on the strong Souths line-up when the two meet over the next two Saturdays at Nielson park, East Lismore.
Souths had a good win over Norths-Goonellabah RSL last weekend. Souths looked to be in trouble at the start, only able to manage 116 for their first innings. However the Norths-Goonellabah RSL top order failed and they could only total 87 in reply, giving Souths the first innings victory.
Souths managed to score 7-133 before declaring, Nathan Bonamy taking three wickets for Norths-Goonellabah RSL.
Norths were cruising along thanks to a 36 not out from Andrew Osborne and were 4-69 at stumps, leaving Souths with the first innings points.
Norths-Goonellabah RSL will have another tough one this round when they take on Alstonville at Oakes Oval.
Alstonville took a first innings win over Brunswick-Byron last weekend after dismissing Brunswick-Byron for 111, then declaring at 5-114. Brunswick-Byron were 3-174 in their second innings thanks to a 126 run partnership from Lachlan McKenzie (46 not out) and David Ryan (80 not out).
Brunswick-Byron will now take on Tintenbar-East Ballina at Thompson Oval, Brunswick Heads.
Tintenbar-East Ballina achieved a close win over the Casino Cavaliers last weekend after knocking up 184. The Cavaliers managed a decent fight with opener Adam Shields getting them off to a good start with 33 and then the middle order all managing to get a few runs. The good news for the Cavaliers was the first grade debut performance of 14 year old Sam Irvine. Irvine came in batting at number nine and knocked up a quick 46, making him the Cavaliers' highest run-scorer for the game.
The Cavaliers will take on Lennox Head this weekend at Queen Elizabeth Park, Casino.
Easts took a first innings victory over the Ballina Bears last weekend after scoring 136 in reply to Ballina's 121. Shane Jacobs took five wickets for the Bears and will have a chance to repeat his form this weekend when Ballina take on Marist Brothers at Fripp Oval, Ballina.
The Cape Byron Single Fin Classic will be held at Tallows Beach this Saturday. Competitors are asked to meet at Cosy Corner at 7.30am.
First heat competitors will be notified beforehand so they can be in the water at 7.30am. There will be spare boards available and giveaways on the beach and much more.
Ways to improve speed and agility in sport will be the main talking point at this weekend's (December 1-2) North Coast Coaching Conference at Lennox Head. Registration costs $65 for the weekend, or $35 for one day. For more information and registration forms, contact the NCAS on 6620 3073 or visit their website at www.ncas.org.au
If you are looking for a way to stock up for the party season and continue the Christmas spirit by helping others then tomorrow night offers the answer.
Lismore Workers Golf Club is hosting a wine tasting tomorrow, Friday November 30, from 6.30-8.30pm in aid of helping Camp Quality.
Camp Quality is a charity organisation which helps kids with cancer by organising activity filled camps.
The wine tasting will feature bottles from the Hunter Valley, Barossa Valley and Mudgee regions and the experts will be on hand to educate and answer questions.
Entry is free and cheese and snacks will be provided.
For more details see the display advertisement on page 30.
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