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Tuesday 22 October 2013
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End of an era
Carrington Park Club moves to Eagle Ridge Mamils cross the water for a good cause CYCLING is a huge recreation sport but true stalwarts are the ones who have cycled around Port Phillip, a gruelling 250 kilometres, on what was known as Around the Bay in a Day when it started 21 years ago. On the weekend, the event – now called Around the Bay: Fundraise for The Smith Family, and regarded as one of Melbourne’s major sporting events – again attracted thousands of mamils (middle-aged men in lycra) as well as
women and those not in their middle years. A key element of the ride is the respite gained when riders cross between Sorrento and Queenscliff (or vice versa) aboard Searoad ferries’ MV Queenscliff, MV Sorrento and MV Peninsula Princess, the original ferry that started in 1987. About 2700 riders took part in 1993, with another 1000 knocked back due to lack of ferry capacity. Last year more than 17,000 riders
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old lawn bowls pavilion and surrounding land, which included two bowling greens abandoned last year when the bowls section of the club was closed to save costs. Carrington Park Club selling up and moving out of Rosebud has dismayed and angered many long-time members including life members. Emotions ran high at several meetings when the sale was being considered. One group of members will not move and has formed the nucleus of a new golf club based at Rosebud Park public golf course opposite Carrington Park Club. Carrington Park was once “the place to be” – a hive of sporting and social activity in the 1970s and 1980s. Football club sportsmen’s nights were a highlight. It had hundreds of members playing golf at Rosebud Park (or Rosebud public as it’s known) and bowls on the greens that back onto Arthurs Seat State Park. There was a pigeon racing section, thriving darts and billiards competitions, and other activities. Carrington Park Club golfers used Rosebud public. Casual golfers were able to use Carrington Park’s facilities, celebrating a good game or commiserating a shocking round. The course became so popular that a breakaway group formed and founded Rosebud Country Club off Boneo Rd. Continued Page 6
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By Mike Hast IT’S the end of an era in Rosebud this week when Carrington Park Club leaves its headquarters of almost 50 years and moves to Eagle Ridge golf course in Rye. A developer bought Carrington Park’s clubhouse and its 10 blocks of land in Elizabeth Drive opposite Rosebud Park public golf course in March for about $3 million, saving the club from financial ruin. The News understands the developer will build seven or eight houses on the land, which is high up on the Arthurs Seat escarpment overlooking the southern peninsula, Port Phillip, Bass Strait and even the towers of Melbourne on a clear day – a million dollar view. Carrington Park Club has been under financial pressure for some time, facing rising costs including maintaining its old clubhouse, once the private residence of the Moran family of Moran and Cato grocery chain fame. It was later bought by Pat McLaren, who owned a large tract of land in the area and sold the house and land to the club. Members were confronted with a tough decision about 15 months ago – sell up or face oblivion. Recently elected president Wayne Harvey said “a majority of members voted to realise our assets”, agreeing to sell the 80-year-old clubhouse, the
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