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The Burridge Charity Croquet Tour in the North West

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You can still support this excellent cause – just go to – www.justgiving.com/croquettour

Croquet at 21 clubs – raises thousands for Leukemia and Lymphona Research

Ian Burridge and his son, Euan, are raising funds in aid of Leukaemia and Lymphoma research by touring croquet at 21 clubs in five days – clubs selected were those who have hosted CA Selection ‘Eights’ events.

No single player has ever played at all 21 previous host venues before, but Ian & Euan intend to tick them all off within Five Days!  The full list of croquet clubs being; Hunstanton, Colchester, Hurlingham, Roehampton, Surbiton, Ramsgate Compton, Southwick, Jersey, Hamptworth, Ryde, Parkstone, Budleigh, Sidmouth, Nailsea, Cheltenham, Bowdon, Heaton Park, Southport, Pendle & Craven and lastly Nottingham.

So far over £4800 has been raised.

Play at Bury (Heaton Park) 2 June:

For the record, Paul Rigge (0) played Ian (0) and Harry Anderton (10) played Euan (10), with both Bury Club members winning their games against the visitors but the real winner on the day was of course the LLR charity with the tour so far raising a sum in excess of £4800.

Play at Bowdon (1st June):


             Ian Burridge (photo by Samir Patel)

Following the first day’s play of the June Advanced Weekend on Saturday (1/6/13), Nottingham members Ian Burridge and his son Euan visited Bowdon as part of their plan to play a game of Golf Croquet at 21 clubs in 5 days in aid of the Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research charity.   To support this worthy cause there was a fish supper at the club with profits going to the charity.

Play at Pendle:

Ian Burridge and his son Euan travelled to Earby as part of their 22 club challenge to raise money for Leukemia and Lymphoma research. They have almost reached their £5000 target and pendle & Craven were their 20th club visited in the 5 days, with one more before their home club of Nottingham.

Ian is the current Treasurer of the World croquet Federation and a member of Great Britain’s test team. He plays off scratch so had to give home player Geoff Whitaker 7 bisques. Geoff put up a good effort but Ian beat him 7 -4. Maureen Whitaker played on level terms with Euan (11) but managed to beat him 7-1. Euan had won 8 games previously which is a splendid effort for such a young player.

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You can still support this excellent cause – just go to – www.justgiving.com/croquettour

 

Lancs Survive Croquet Inter Counties

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Southwick (Brighton) Croquet Club, May 25-28th, 2013 Inter-Counties.

Lancashire remain in division one (even though we were rubbish, our rubbish was still good enough).

Bury members Matt Holmes & Paul Rigge again turned out for our county over the bank holiday weekend.
On paper this year’s campaign down on the south coast should have been a strong one, but game after game went against us – time & again chances were dropped or missed by the full squad, so as is usual for your county side, our fate depended upon others to fail even worse than we did – and they duly obliged us, so by the last day we were deemed to be in seventh place and safe.
During the weekend, Yorkshire duffed us up, being back in the top flight for the first time in five years, but took the sting out of the loss by buying the wine over our joint *Roses* Dinner which followed that match.
We did however beat our other neighbours, Cheshire, the following day so we couldn’t have drunk that much, or maybe the Yorkshire team were too tight to supply us with enough booze to affect our play.

Southport Croquet Jubilee Tankard Remains at Home

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Barbara Haslam Wins Southport May Croquet Handicap Tournament.  May 25th and 26th
Klim Seabright reports from Victoria Park

 

Some of the competitors in the Southport May Handicap Tournament
Some of the competitors in the Southport May Handicap Tournament

It is always a delight to come to Southport to play croquet in a tournament because they make visitors particularly welcome. “Long” John Haslam always runs a good tournament and Margaret Flemington surely deserves a CA Diploma (has she already got one?) for leading a team which ensures that all are very well fed.

Barbara Haslam (3.5) and Di Williamson (11) contested what was in effect the final on Lawn 4, which contained a very tricky four back hoop. Barbara needed to exercise great patience in order to await Di’s exhaustion of her bisques. It was then nip and tuck and, at the bell, Barbara was 3 hoops ahead with Di unable to take advantage of her final chance to hit in.

The competition was run as a Swiss and play got off to a good start with excellent weather promised for the whole weekend. John had set a time limit of 2.75hrs (DB) and 2.5 single banked. By the second day the lawns were quite quick due in no small part to the much discussed sit on mower acquired from the top golfing scene in these parts. Local members told me that this also came with good training from the manufacturer who had carried out a complete renovation of the machine prior to delivery. There is apparently no shortage of volunteers to man this “boy’s toy”!

The only other piece of excitement happened when visitor Klim Seabright completely missed a double only to see the ball rocket off the lawn and cleanly take off the handle of a tea mug while leaving the actual cup standing – thus the “Broquet” (as Betty Bates named it) was invented.

Barbara Haslam
Barbara Haslam

 

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