MOMBASA SPORTS CLUB
News
Volume 3 Issue 7
JUNE 2002
P. O. Box 90241, Mombasa. Tel 224226, 224705. Fax
313757. E-mail: msc1896@ikenya.com
Website: www.mombasasportsclub.com
GENERAL:
Dear Members,
Further to
my address at the Last Annual General Meeting and the subsequent communications
in the Newsletter, the Management Committee has completed its review of our
income and expenditure positions and concluded that our recurrent expenses are
increasingly and continuously in excess of income for the following reasons: -
(i)
Our
membership number is reducing or at best stagnant due to falling new
application vis-à-vis increasing resignations for economic and emigration
reasons.
(ii)
Our bar
sales/income is reducing or at best stagnant due to falling patronage and
limited to a small fraction of consistent members.
(iii)
Investment
income has dropped by almost 70% in the last three (3) years due to sharp
decreases in the interest rates on fixed deposits.
(iv)
Our
electricity cost have shot up by about 67% in the last three (3) years due to variation
in the tariff rates.
(v)
Our wage
bill has grown by about 23% over the last three (3) years due to commitment of
the club to the Collective Bargaining Agreement over the years.
(vi)
Our
subscriptions have remained static since 1999 when they were last reviewed.
This position is despite Management’s
efforts to aggressively improve income and cut back as much as practicable on
expenses, over the year.
In the circumstances the Management
Committee has decided to resort to the following measures: -
These
measures have been inevitable and call for your concerted co-operation.
Lounge
Furniture
The suppliers
of the lounge furniture have admitted full liability for the low quality of
material used for the cushions and have agreed to replace it at their
cost. We are in the process of identifying new material and it is anticipated
that new cushions will be in place by mid July.
Chairman.
SECTION REPORTS:
BOWLING
C. C. SHAH’ S TEAM WON THE CLUB TWO WOOD TRIPS
The Club Two Wood Trips was played on the 1st
& 2nd June with six teams. The first round was a high
scoring game with C. C. Shah, Natu
Nathwani & Rasila Shah winning against K. P. Shah, Deepa Mukhopadhya &
Sakina Mamujee whilst Raman Patel, H.S. Mahajan & Hamida Jafferali had an
easy win against Kirti Chhaniyara, Kusum Patel & M. K. Mamujee.
At the end of the day when Kirti
Chhaniyara’s team won against C. C. Shah’s team, it made the tournament wide
open creating a free for all chance of winning the tournament.
On Sunday, K. P. Shah’s team won both
the games and C. C. Shah’s team drew one and had a high score win also. Thus, C.C. Shah’s team won the
tournament with K. P. Shah’s team as runners up.
The next tournament Club Pairs Tournament will be
played on 21st /22nd & 28th /29th
June 02.
MONTHLY MUG
The monthly Mug Bowls competition was
played on Saturday, the 15th, with 20 players – one Rink and four
Trips.
All the teams played 8 woods and 18
ends. It was a close match for all, but
the aggressive Raman Patel with Natu Nathwani & Sakina Mamujee had the highest
score, thus winning the competition.
The month of June is plagued with World
Cup fever and therefore we had to cancel the Club Pairs, because of lack of
entries. It clashed with the finals of
the World Cup.
The next tournament is the Club Fours on
13th/14th
& 20th/ 21st July.
Good
Bowling.
TENNIS
ATP WORLD RANKING TOUR- 29TH
JUNE TO 7TH JULY, ’02 AT
MOMBASA SPORTS CLUB
As you all are aware, the recently organized Davis
Cup tournament held at the Club was a major success. The Tennis section is pleased to confirm that the Association of
Tennis Professionals [ATP] has recognized the high quality of organization of
the Davis Cup event, which is a clear indication of the fact that international
tennis tournaments can be successfully held at the Mombasa Sports Club. The experience of organising the Davis Cup
event has given us the confidence to host the ATP World Ranking Tour, which
frankly, is an even more prestigious event in the tennis circuit. You will no doubt appreciate that in
nominating Mombasa Sports Club as a host venue, the ATP also has the confidence
in our ability to organise a world class event.
As it is undoubtedly the case that the ATP World
Ranking Tour is of much higher profile than the Davis Cup tournament, this
gives you an opportunity to watch upcoming seeded players at this event. We take this opportunity to invite all members to come and
watch the matches absolutely free i.e. there aren’t any gate charges.
By way of information, the men’s singles draw
qualifying round has a total of 64 players whilst the main draw will have 32
players. The main draw for the men’s
doubles is 32 pairs with no qualification round. In addition, the tennis facilities at the Mombasa Sports Club
have been and will continue to be further enhanced and improved so that the
Club will be seen to be a very attractive venue for the members, players and
spectators.
On behalf of the Tennis section, we would like to
thank the following Sponsors for supporting this event: -
Maersk Sealand, Spedag, Gold Crow Beverages [K]
Ltd., Pearly Waters, British Airways, operated by Regional Air, Coca Cola,
Simba Colt Motors, Rakal Ltd., Miritini Building Products, Kipevu Inland
Container Depot, Kenya Ports Authority, Mukhi & Sons Ltd., just to name a
few.
RUGBY:
The Rugby Sevens circuit ended on 16th of
June in Nairobi with the KRFU sevens tournament.
We finished 5th overall out of total 16 teams in the circuit.
We have now two players in the Kenya Team to the commonwealth games in the UK
namely
Newton Ongalo and Jeff Amuhaya. Newton was in the Kenya team that toured Zambia
on the weekend of 15th and 16th June. Jeff Amuhaya was promoted from the Shujaa
team to Kenya team after a great performance in the Safari Sevens in Nairobi on
the 21st
to 23rd June.
We wish them well in the commonwealth games.
Back to the home games we have the following games: -
June 29th Msc Vs Meanmachine Enterprise 1st Round (MOMBASA)
July 6th Msc Vs Blakblad RFC Kenya Cup (MOMBASA)
July 13th Friendly Msc Vs
Les Galouis (The French Rugby team in Nairobi) (MOMBASA)
July 27th Msc Vs Quins Kenya Cup
(MOMBASA)
CRICKET:
SEYCHELLES TOUR REPORT
MSC Cricket team went to Seychelles to
participate in a Triangular Tournament involving the Seychelles and Maldives
national sides.
The Ministry of Sports in the Seychelles sponsors
these tournament as part of the Independence Day celebrations and they range
across a wide variety of sports including Football and Rugby.
These events are covered extensively by
the national Press and media and our team was very much in the spotlight having
travelled a long distance to get there compared to other teams.
The conditions were not particularly
suitable for the game of Cricket. We played in a football stadium with an
athletics track running round it. The ground was used for football and rugby
prior to the game. There was no turf wicket and the match was played simply on
a coir mat which was laid on the grass.
In our games against both sides, we
batted first in the rain and the conditions were somewhat treacherous with the
ball coming with uneven bounce. Conditions on both days improved in the
afternoon when the sun came out and our opponents were batting. We lost
narrowly to the Seychelles. Against Maldives Islands, although the team was
skittled out for a low score MSC fought back in the afternoon making things
particularly difficult for our opponents getting half their side out before
they scored their winning run.
Our relations with the Maldives Islands
team were not good. They had made themselves particularly unpopular with both
their opponents by what was perceived to be unjustified arrogance by their
coach and captain towards their opponents and hosts. Seychelles have confirmed
that they will not invite the Maldives Islands again.
Our discipline on the tour was good and no incident
of any significance occurred. Our team got on extremely well with the
Seychelles national side and likewise our officials became good friends of the
various committee members of the Seychelles Cricket Association. Particularly,
please was the performance of the younger members of our side – in particular,
Zahir Abbas Khaku, Neel Karia and Amit Bij all of whom played exceptionally
well to lift our side in moment of crisis.
On behalf or the Cricket Section we have extended
an invitation to the Seychelles team to play in Mombasa in November of this
year. We will be expected to reciprocate in the same way (i.e. accommodation
and transport) and they have tentatively accepted.
I was made to understand that MSC will
be invited by the Seychelles National Council to participate in more than one
sporting event next year. I will be glad to pass on any information about this
in due course.
Finally, I would like to extend, on behalf of the
Cricket Section, my thanks to the Main Committee for their support, and in
particular, to all our members who have overwhelmed us with their generosity in
giving donations to enable the team to travel.
BRIDGE:
The Wednesday
sessions are well attended. The monthly
tournament for the month of May was played on 29th May and the
winners were as follows: -
·
Rohit
Malde & Rohit Chandaria
·
H. P. Shah
& J. Babla
·
A. D. Shah
& C. D. Shah
·
P. Savla
& D. Trivedi
The monthly tournament for the month of June was
played on 26th June and the winners were as follows:
·
P. Salva
& D. Trivedi
·
D. Shah
& C. D. Shah
·
Mr. &
Mrs. D. D. Shah
·
Rohit
Malde & Rohit Chandaria
The section intends to hold a three
sessions open pairs tournament sometime in September. Details will be known later.
The Bridge section congratulates all the above
winners.
LOTTERY DRAW FOR APRIL,
2002
TKT. NO.
AMOUNT NAME A/C. NO.
1ST
PRIZE 4386 20,000/= SANDRU VELANI
V.013
2ND
PRIZE 2478 15,000/= PIUS S. K. MURIU
M.206
3RD
PRIZE 1027 10,000/= RAJ MASHRU M.367
LOTTERY DRAW FOR MAY,
2002
TKT. NO.
AMOUNT NAME
A/C. NO.
1ST
PRIZE 2214 20,000/= O. S. LALL L.040
2ND
PRIZE 3040 15,000/= JAMES OMWANDO O.065
3RD
PRIZE 1331 10,000/= SULTAN ESSANI
E.009
Congratulations
to all the above winners.
In order for the Committee to fully assess
candidates suitability as much information as is possible should be provided by
the proposer/seconder who should be thoroughly satisfied that the candidate is
known to them. This exercise is necessary if we want to improve on the type of
members we admit into our Club.
The following comprises information sought by the
committee in the application letter submitted by the proposers & seconders:
-
1.
How long
and how do you know the candidate?
2.
Candidates
occupation: employed or otherwise
3.
Any
membership to any other club i.e. Sports, social or service Club?
4.
Kind of
sport he/she plays?
5.
Why he/she
wants to join the Club and your reasons for his enrolment.
6.
Marital
status and related family details e.g. no of children, their ages, games they
play e.t.c.
Please note that the prosposer/seconder of a
candidate are jointly & severally liable for all debts (including entrance
fee) due to the Club and incurred by the candidate for 24 months after the date
of his/her election.