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The Oppenheimer Cup
 PORT NATAL OPEN MIXED PAIRS The Oppenheimer Cup Championship |
| Proudly Sponsored by: Umbogintwini Bowling Club, Heartland Leasing (Pty) Ltd. 2008 Another Oppenheimer Tournament has reached a successful conclusion with the sport of bowls being the eventual winner. The Finals were held at Umbogintwini Bowling Club on Sunday 27 July 2008 and the winners were as follows: 1st Place Reagan Jacobus and Stella Tweedie of Hillcrest Bowling Club  Runners Up Gideon Vermeulen and Kim James of Westville Bowling Club  3rd Place Clarke Meyer and Daphne Reinhardt of Bluff Bowling Club  4th Place Dave Brandsma and Maria Dreyer of Northlands Bowling Club  Playoffs began on Sunday 22 June 2008 at venues all around Durban. Acknowledgement - Article by Ducky Olivier - Sunday Tribune June 22 2008  Some of the action from the preliminary rounds held at Twini Bowling Club
2007 Quarter Finals took place at Twini Club on Saturday 26 May 2007 at 13h00 Semi-finals took place at Twini Club on Sunday 27 May 2007 at 08h30, and the Finals followed on at 13h00. The Winners
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| HISTORY  |
| The Oppenheimer Bowling Cup was donated to the Umbogintwini Bowling Club by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer in 1938. The Bowling Club formed part of the Umbogintwini Club which was founded in 1910 as a recreational club for the employees of the ”Dynamite Factory” in the Umbogintwini Industrial Complex. This trophy (depicted above) is made of solid silver. Bowling at Umbogintwini commenced in 1935. The Trophy was selected by the then Durban District to be presented to the winners of the Open Mixed Pairs which began in 1939 and has been hotly contested every year since then. During the earlier years, grandstands were erected around the greens to seat the hundreds of spectators who arrived to view the ¼‘s, the semi’s and the finals, which have traditionally been held at the Twini Club. The Mixed pairs competition was originally sponsored by the Oppenheimer Family, later by A.E.C.I. and in the latter years by the Umbogintwini Bowling Club itself, with kind assistance of sponsorship from Heartland Leasing, a subsidiary of A.E.C.I. More recently SpecSavers have opted in as co-sponsors of the event. The Umbogintwini Bowling Club, being “Not Your Average Bowling Club” is committed to the ongoing sponsorship of this prestigious competition and wishes the hundreds of players that have played in the preliminary rounds as well as the eventual winners and runners-up – Many years of happy bowling, and our assurance that the sport of bowls is “alive, well and thriving” at Twini. All the winners since 1939
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