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Janet Davies from Chester Croquet Club – Overall Winner of Pendle Handicap

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Nine Players, the Egyptian Method and Emerging Crane Flies

Nine players assembled on Friday 16th August for the weekend of full lawn association handicap croquet, scored by the Egyptian method. This results in points being scored throughout the tournament and the overall winner is the player with the most points, trophies are given in differing handicap divisions.

The weather was varied, most players got pretty wet on the Saturday and the sunblock came out for Sunday. Those having travelled furthest, Glasgow and Norfolk, left early having played all their games. Pendle & Craven club members: Roger Schofield and Garry Wilson did well with Garry being in prime slot for most of the tournament in the over 10 handicap competition, but he was pipped to that trophy by Alan Morton from Fylde with 115 points. Roger won the low handicap trophy with 116 points, but Janet Davies from Chester  was overall Winner with 120 points.

The final day was enlivened for the watchers by a mass emergence of crane flies from the lawn edges, the weather having suited them.

Pendle Croquet Success in North East

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Longman Cup – Tyneside 2 Pendle & Craven 5 – Sunday 5th May 2013

The team of Robin Delves, Catherine Parnell, Andrew Webb and Garry Wilson travelled to Tyneside Croquet Club for The Longman Cup and on arrival were surprised and flattered to find that World ranking Croquet Golf exponent Jacob Carr, was included in the Tynesid team. Playing Association croquet, which is the format for the Longman Cup competition, Jacob has a 4.5 handicap, so that Pendle’s Andrew Webb (handicap 3.5) ha

d to give 1 bisque (1 free shot) in his match with Jacob. Andrew triumphed with a single hoop win.

In spite of Jacob’s presence, the Pendle & Craven team rose to the occasion and both Andrew Webb and Garry Wilson (handicap 18), won both their games, whilst Catherine Parnell and Robin Delves (both handicap 10) managed to beat Jacob Carr and Peter Wallace (handicap 10), who is Jacob’s grandfather, in the doubles again by one hoop. Thus a very good away victory for pendle & Craven by 5 games to 2.

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Rigge Rules in the Snow

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Pendle John Beech Easter  Croquet Tournament 2013 by Barbara Dutton

Some could say the joke was on us. A hardy bunch of volunteers spent Maundy Thursday clearing snow drifts from the croquet lawns in order for play to start on the Friday. An equally hardy bunch of players turned up on the Friday to compete for the various honors on offer. Paul Rigge from Bury, another club founded by John Beech, managed the tournament which featured both handicap and advanced play. With sunshine but stiff breezes some shots may have been hampered by clothing and the warm pavilion and hot food kept frostbite away. Three players from Pendle and Craven: Roger Schofield, Paul Dowdall and Garry Wilson battled the other 12 players who travelled from croquet clubs as far away as Glasgow and Middlesbrough to compete.

John Beech 2013 LR2The manager, Paul Rigge, took the overall trophy, the John Beech cup.
Lee Hartley from Fylde took the Advanced trophy
Paul Dowdall from Pendle & Craven took the High handicap trophy
Joe Lennon from Glasgow took the Low Handicap trophy
The Fastest Croquet game went to Lee Hartley in 52 minutes (not beating the 42 minutes set by Alice Fleck previous year)
The most games of Croquet played was a three way tie between Paul Rigge, Betty Bates and Matt Holmes.

The picture shows Lee hartley, Betty Bates and Paul Rigge L to R with remaining snow

And from the Bury Website:

Pendle & Craven, 29th March -1st April, John Beech Easter Tournament

Bury member Paul Rigge regains the JB Easter title for the first time in a decade and also achieves a reduction in handicap to -1 (also shares most games played award with Matt Holmes & Betty Bates of Fylde)
It’s not very often that Croquet shares a venue with winter activities but with children enjoying the Bank Holiday sledging on the slope at the back, we played Croquet in the bright sunshine at Earby.
The weather stayed as forecast, dry and bright but with a bitterly cold easterly wind blowing, only the in-player went outside to brave it. Easter Sunday was the coldest on record with overnight temperatures hitting -7C.
Playing a mixture of advanced & handicap games, Paul only dropped a single game on his way to the title over the four days of competition, overcoming anything up to 20.5 Bisques multiple times.
Over the four days, various players floated into contention only to fall back into the pack. Last year’s winner and club mate, Andy Brandwood had a good campaign and finished in third place behind Joe Lennon (Glasgow).

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