Club
Croquet
Wrest Park
Advanced tournament 7-
Most of the fifteen entrants who assembled on Saturday, on what turned out to be yet another warm and sunny weekend, were regular visitors, but we also welcomed back John Meads and Jonathan Wolfe after an absence of many years. John spent his first game against John Bevington trying to bully the hoops into submission, but they stood firm in their ground and for the most part rejected his advances.
Tom Anderson had offered to act as Fisherman’s Gate monitor to ensure everyone got in safely, and had the bye for the first round. He ended up being ready for a second game before others had finished their first, being disposed of in short order by Graham Gale +22TP. Graham managed nine games during the weekend, winning five and a handicap reduction.
The winner was Jonathan Hills
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Closest to Jonathan was Nick Mounfield, who lost his first game against Nigel but then proceeded to win the next five. His handicap went down from 2½ to 1½ and is bound to fall further.
Our thanks to Peter, Jaqueline, Judith, Hilary and Geoff for keeping us fed and watered. Players in July had suggested we stock some better beer, so we bought in some London Pride and Greene King IPA. All of this went; the Boddingtons remains on the shelf. Another example of the North -
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Jonathan Hills in play on Sunday morning.