Buchan Observer and East Aberdeenshire Advertiser – Tuesday 15 May 1951
PETERHEAD BOWLING CLUB, TIIE GREEN at. ST MARY STREET will be OPENED FOR PLAY on WEDNESDAY, 23rd May, at 6.30 p.m. RINKS MATCH: President v, Vice-President, D. T. BEVERIDGE, Hon, Secy.
Buchan Observer and East Aberdeenshire Advertiser – Tuesday 17 July 1951
PETERHEAD BOWLING CLUB AT CRUDEN BAY. TERHEAD WINS ITS FIRST MATCH A party of 20 players belonging to the Peterhead Bowling Club, and got together by Mr W. W. Hill, met 4 strong team of the visitors at Cruden Bay on Saturday afternoon. Play took place on the hotel green, the tewms being divided into four rinks, with sixteen players on each side, four of the Peterhead players being kept in reserve. The game, which was witnessed by a large number of visitors at the hotel, resulted in g 4 win for the Peterhead players, tite scores of the various rinks being as follows : — | Visitors® Skips Peterhead Skips \Mlathieson = 19 Bissett Young Gibb Brydon 9 Anderson 7 Hunter Total 44 Total 16 1 – This is the first match the Peterftead club has played away from its own green; and the members are to be congratulated on having given so good an account of themselves as against the experienced pleyers with whom tiley were matched. After an enjoyable tea in the hotel, the party returned to Peterhead by brake. Showery weather was experienced on the return journey; but on the whole 4 most enjoyable afternoon was spent.
Buchan Observer and East Aberdeenshire Advertiser – Tuesday 14 August 1951
PETERHEAD BOWLING CLUB, ‘ SPECIAL MEETING of the CLUB 4 will be held in the CLUBHOUSE on WEDNESDAY, 22nd August, 1951, at 9 o’clock p.m., to consider the question of having a JUBILEE DINNER with Presentation of Prizes, and. if so advised, to make arrangements for same. D. T, BEVERIDGE, Hon. Secretary.
Buchan Observer and East Aberdeenshire Advertiser – Tuesday 28 August 1951
JUBILEE SMILES AT SI MARY STREET This i< the Jubilee Year of the Peterhead Bowling Club, and when Mr Tom Foubister ealled with his camera at the St. Mary Street Green he found the members of the Club Council in genial mood. He accordingly “snapped” them forthwith, and they are from the reader’s left :—Front row-—Messrs Eoin Campbell (Treasurer), Robertson Buchan (Vice-President), T. Y. Spence (President), D. T. Beveridge (Secretary), George Downie. Back row—DMesss W. J. Aird, J. H. Stewart, Alex. Donald, J. W. Diack, E, V. Chalmers and J. Dunbar. The members of the Club have resolved to mark the anniversary with a Jubilee Dinner, and arrangements for the function are in the hands of an expert sub-committee.
Buchan Observer and East Aberdeenshire Advertiser – Tuesday 25 September 1951
PETERHEAD BOWLING CLUB The half-yearly meeting of the Peterhead Bowling Club was held on Wednesday evening in the Palace Hotel. There was a large attendance, and Mr John Birnre, the president, occupied the chair. The statement of accounts, which waa submitted, ghows the cost of the construction of the green to have been £345 18/1, cost of pavilion, boxes, seats, tools, bowls, etc., £94 108, which, together with £7 5/4 of miscellaneous expenses, bring the capital expenditure up to £447 14/1. TI)IIS is met by subscriptions of £6 each from 53 preference members, with bank interest of £1 13/2, amounting to £319 18/2, a deficiency of £127 15/11, which, however, is reduced by £lO from that amount by a contribution from the balance in hand after the season’s operations. The ordinary revenue from 37 preference members and 31 ordinarv members is £46 8/6, but the receipts are brought up to £6l 12/6 by box rents and other miscellaneous items. The expenditure amounts to £3l 3/2, showing a balance of £36 9/- of which £lO, as already stated, is devlotgd to reducing the debt of the club. The prizes gained during the season were thereafter presented, namely :— Single handed tournament—l, pair of bowls presented by the President, Mr James Forrest; 2, water colour painting—” Pass of Ballater,” by Sam Pope. jun., Mr T. H. Scott; bow!s presented by Mr Weir, preses of Merchant Company of Edinburgh, plaved for by rink tournament, Mr Geo. Keillor’s rink. ONE THING AND ANOTHER By “FRreg LANCE
Aberdeen Evening Express – Saturday 29 September 1951
Peterhead Bowlers Celebrate Members of the Peterhead Bowling Club celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their club at dinner and presentation of prizes in the Palace Hotel. Peterhead, last night. Ten feet were added to the playing surface of the green two years ago cost of £4OO. The toast ‘The Scottish Bowling Association” was given by Mr T. J. Smith. W. A Gauld, a past president of the association, replied. Mr James M’Lean gave the toast ‘The Buchan Bowling Association.” and the association president. Mr H. Milne. Ellon, replied.
Buchan Observer and East Aberdeenshire Advertiser – Tuesday 02 October 1951
Peterhead Bowling Club JUBILEE DINNER. (Contributed). Many congratulations were extended to the Peterhead Bowling Club on attaining its half century. The occasion was celebrated by a jubilee dinner, held in the Palace Hotel on Friday evening, with the President of the Club, Mr T. Y. Spence, in the chair. Mr J. W. Diack was croupier. After the toast of the King, proposed from the chair, had been duly honoured, Mr T. J. Smith gave the first of a long list of toasts–“ The Scottish Bowling Association.”” He spoke of the fatherly care which the S.B.A. exercised over its children and expressed the hope that the Peterhead club might one day take a much larger share in the activities of the parent body. Mr W. A. Gauld, Aberdeen, past president of the 5.8. A., replied, and before leaving, presented the Peterhead president with a Scottish Bowling Association badge. Provost J. A. Dickie, in proposing the “Peterhead Bowling Club,” recalled the start of the club in 1901, and surprised some of the younger folks present when he mentioned the cost of the laying of the green and the erection of the Pavilion, not to mention the speed with which the work was completed. In replying to the toast, Mr T. Y. Spence thanked the members of the club for the honour they had paid him in electing him president for the jubilee year and spoke of the great good fellowship enjoyed on the St. Mary Street Green. He also referred to the deep disappointment it was to the members that Mr D. T. Beveridge, their popular secretary, was unable to be present on account of illness. They all hoped that he would soon be back in Peterhead, well and fit. The duty of proposing the “Buchan Bowling Association” fell to Mr James McLean, one of the older members of the club, who recalled the days when he was first a representative from Peterhead to “The Buchan”-—chosen, he was sure, because the meetings were held in Strichen, and he had a serviceable old Austin to transport himself and the other representatives there and back. lln more serious mood, he referred to the way in which the 8.8. A. had encouraged a love of the game in the district, and hoped that the efforts of the present members might bear fruit in yvears to come. My H. B. Milne, Ellon, president of the 8.8. A.. replied, speaking of Peterhead as one of the oldest and finest clubs in the Association. “Kindred Cluhs” were toasted by Mr 8. E. Martin in a racy speech in which he dwelt on the good-natured rivalry which exists among the thirteen member clubs of the Buchan Bowling Association, and the many pleasant friendships which have been formed and cemented at the inter-club games. In his reply, Mr C. Cross, president of the Peterhead Public Bowling Club, said he had not realised how old and venerable were their St. Mary Street rivals, and promised that, in future, the younger club in the town would treat them with greater reverence and let them down more lightly in coming matches for the Sinclair Shield. Last but not least came the toast to the ladies, barred from membership of the club, but present that night to join in the happy birthday party. Mr A. J. Smith proposed the toast in felicitous terms. In reply Mrs Eoin Campbell spoke of the five months of “widowhood” imposed on the bowlers’ wives during the summer and the pleasure the ladies felt in being restored to their rightful place by their husbands’ sides on such a happy occasion. The club prizes were gracefully presented by Mrs T. Y. Spence, with the exception of the Greenbank Cup gifted and presented to the first winner of it, by Mr Charles Bruce, the oldest member of the club present. He joined St. Mary Street forty-nine years ago and is still going strong as a member. A musical programme of outstanding merit was provided by Mrs J. Dunbar, Mrs D. G. Keir, Mr A. Cadenhead and Mr A. ! Sinclair, with Mys W. Buchan at the piano. Their final quartette, “A Regular Royal Queen” almost brought the house down. Mr Hunter mystified the company with a display of conjuring, his clever patter preventing his andience from keeping too close an eye on what his hands were doing. At the close of a memorable evening Mr J. W. Diack thanked Mrps Spence for so graciously presenting the prizes, Mr Hunter for his pleasing entertainment. and the ladies and gentlemen for giving so much pleasure with their music.
Buchan Observer and East Aberdeenshire Advertiser – Tuesday 02 October 1951
Peterhead Bowling Club’s latest hat night (for prizes presented by My A. Stevenson) was won by a rink consisting of W. Will, C. G. Crockett, J. Copland and W. Davie (skip). Rink scores were :—A. Donald 15, P. Geddes 8: J. Robertson 16, J. Mitchell 16; D. Grant 14, W. Aird 11; W. Davie 22, A. Downie 8; A. Stott 14, G. Downie 7
Much regret is felt in bowling circles over the sudden iilness of M 1 David T. Beveridge. hono:ary secretory of the Peterhead Bowling Club. He wus the moving spirit in arranginz the Jubilee Dinner of the Club, and it was a thousand pities that he wag prevented from atteuding. Best wishes for his speedy recovery are jeined in by all at the St. Mary Street green
Buchan Observer and East Aberdeenshire Advertiser – Tuesday 16 October 1951
Flotsam & Jetsam. WITH sincere regret I learnt of the dezth of Mr David . Beveridge, at one time inspector of poor and subsequently public assistance officer and registrar of the Burgh of Peterhead. He had a very trying time during the years of heavy unempioyment because aggrieved people, suffering from a measure of privation, were prone to identify him pe:sonzlly with their troubles, whereag he was only the vehicle of laws, regulations and plain duty. The demonstrations of protest, to which his office was irequently subjected, he bore with truly Stoical philosophy and never allowed himself to be ruifled (at any rate outwardly) by the harsh and unfair treatment to which he was somedmes subjected. The degree to which as an individual he was identified with his post may be gauged by the somewhat grimly-humorous fact that in its early years public assistance was known curtly as “Beveridge” ! MR BEVERIDGE survived the trials of his office in the unemployment years and enjoyed an active and happy retirement until illness overtook him. Against that last enemy he put up a courageous but unavailing fight. If I were asked to name one characteristic which stood out more than another in Mr Beveridge’s character 1 should say it was “meticulousness,” In every honorary office he filled care and precision were hig bailmarks. For years, as secretary of the Peterhead Golf Club, he produced a weekly column of wellinformed and agreeably readable notes on the doings of the club and its members; and later he performed the same behind-the-scenes service for the Peterhead Bowling Club, when h became its secretary. His whole aim wiag to keep the clubs with which h was associated in the limelight, anc he never sought any prominence fo himself. He was a personality on th foh’ and bowling greens, and he be onged to a generation that is fas passing away
Peterhead Bowling Club 125 Years 