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2011 Fantastic Year for Chester Croquet

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New Clubhouse, The Apps Healey Award and Two CA Diplomas for Members

2011 was a wonderful year for Chester, as we attained our long awaited pavilion at the start of the season after 15 years of the horrible hut. The pavilion is in constant use and we are still on speaking terms with the 3 bowling clubs with whom we share it.

The Grand Opening was performed in July by Barry Keen, the Chairman of the CA, in the presence of the Lord Mayor of Chester, sundry Councillors, the Chairman of the NWFed, guests from clubs throughout the North West and club members.

The sun shone and guests were still playing croquet at 5.45pm when we started taking down themarquee. Barry Keen also presented the CA’s Apps Healey Award to the club as the club with 3 or 4 lawns which hadmade most progress over the past 2 years.

Recently 2 of our members, Mollie McBride and Janet Davies were awarded CA Diplomas for services to croquet (particularly at club level) over the years.

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Plenty of Winners at the Pendle Midweek Tournament

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Results from Pendle Marathon Midweek Tournament (by Barbara Dutton 09/07/11)

The marathon 4 day Midweek Tournament in which 23 players from all the over the country finished on Friday just before another deluge. Players were alternately baked and drenched over the 4 days but only the thunderstorm on Tuesday drove them temporarily from the lawns, possibly because modern mallets have metal shafts, or possibly that the comment that the nearby metal chimney would probably be an easier target for the lightning was not believed.

There were 8 trophies to be competed for and the results were as follows:

Block A advanced for the Pendle Rose Bowl – Lionel Tibble from Northampton.
Block B advanced for the David Jenkinson Trophy – Peter Moore from Nottingham.
Low bisque Handicap for the Pennine Trophy – Barry Keen from Bowdon.
High bisque Handicap for the David Hoyle Trophy – Joe Lennon from Glasgow.
Doubles for the Woodlands plates – Peter Hallet from Bowdon and Fylde and David Turner from Pendle and Belsay Hall.
Fastest singles game in 23 minutes for the Egyptian Cup – Barry Keen from Bowdon.
The Addicts trophy for most games played – David Marsh from Wrest Park.
The Highest Overall Egyptian for the Irish Cup – Peter Moore from Nottingham.

The managers Peter and Liz Wilson thanked the club for the hospitality, wonderful state of the lawns and the catering. The club can only thank the managers for keeping this complicated and marathon event on track and in such good humour.

Alan Mayne Wins Bury Mid Summer Event

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Heaton Park 2/3rd July, Mid Summer Advanced Tournament (by Paul Rigge 02/07/11)

Bury Club Chairman Barbara Young presenting the Advanced Summer Silver trophy to Alan Mayne.

Hosted by Bury CC and managed by Bury member Geoff Young.  Only Ten players finally turned up after the build up over the last two weeks of ‘hokey-cokey’. Players were in, players were out, some applied, other withdrew. Again Manchester was blessed with soaring temperatures and blue skys over both days, because of the numbers attending only three lawns were needed but the three we used were all running fast!

The Cup was played as a flexible swiss with Alan Mayne still being the ‘in form’ player not only winning the silverware but also hitting his next trigger point – now a minus one.   The B Class Trophy was won by another Bowdon Member, Mike Steer.

 

 

 

Bury Club Chairman Barbara Young presenting the B Level trophy to Mike Steer.

 

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