Jacob Carr Snowballs to Victory by Barbara Dutton

The John Beech Memorial Handicap Tournament gave players a stern test at Pendle over the Easter weekend. With cold winds, rain, sleet and snow to contend with the players did well to complete their matches, even playing after dark. On Saturday players rolled huge snowballs around to clear the lawns for play and then had an early lunch to warm up.

Manager David Maugham from Bowdon club also won the most games played trophy with 12 games but the overall winner was Jacob Carr from Tyneside, who won all his 11 games played and also collected the cup for the fastest game in just 42 minutes with a victory over David Maugham. Lee Hartley collected the Low Bisque cup and Howard Bowron the High Bisque cup. Sadly vandalism by young footballers from the new playground and theft of three solar garden lights marred what was otherwise a friendly and enjoyable event in spite of the weather.

Pendle knocked out of Secretary’s Shield (21/06/07) by Barbara Dutton

The Secretary’s Shield is a national knock out competition, played between teams who came top in their own leagues last year.

Pendle & Craven’s opposition were a team from Kingston Langley, Wiltshire, who travelled up on Tuesday and stayed locally.

Pendle lost all three games in the morning a doubles and two singles.

In the afternoon John Filsak and Abdul Ahmad won their singles so the final result was a loss to Pendle by 5 to 2.

Pendle Progress in Mary Rose (18/06/07) by Barbara Dutton

After the disappointment of being knocked out of the Longman Cup, the team selected to play in the Mary Rose garnered a good win against Wrest Bank, Bedforshire.

Peter Wilson and Robert Essler beat Bryan Marral and George Colton of Wrest Bank in the morning doubles. Liz Wilson beat Eric Audsley and the game betwen Roger Schofield and Tom Anderton was pegged down, i.e. left on hold when the lunch bell rang.

In the afternoon Robert Essler beat Bryan Marral, Liz Wilson beat Tom Anderton and Roger Schofield beat Eric Audsley. George Colton of Wrest Bank gained their only win of the day beating Peter Wilson.

The Pegged down game was not resumed as Pendle won by 5 games to 1.