Club
Croquet
Wrest Park
Eastern Championship 27-
Summer finally arrived the week before, so we were able to get the lawns in good order with new hoop holes and three cuts at the reduced height of 6.5mm, resulting in a speed of 11 Plummers as measured on Friday evening. Named after Dr Ian Plummer, this unit is the number of seconds it takes a ball to travel the length of the lawn. Anything below 10 might be regarded as slow, anything above 12 distinctly fast. Given that our lawns are usually quite slow, 11 Plummers is probably as fast as we could expect.
It turned out that although the players had been sent directions these had omitted to mention the various numbers for the gates, and with no-
With only 13 entries manager David Maugham determined on best of five from the outset, with the use of super-
The semi-
George arrived early on Sunday to cut lawn 4 for the final. Keith was 2-
An indication of the standard of play is that 28 triples were completed in the 61 games played, 25 of them in the 44 games of the main event.
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1st round
David Maugham bt Debbie Cornelius -
Gabrielle Higgins bt Ian Vincent +5 +8tp +26
Ian Lines bt Mark Ormerod -
Lionel Tibble bt Richard Smith -
Keith Aiton bt Robert Wilkinson +7 -
Quarter final
Nick Mounfield bt Ailsa Lines +26 +21 +11
David Maugham bt Gabrielle Higgins +17tp +22tp +12tpo
Ian Lines bt Lionel Tibble +26tp +13 +20tp
Keith Aiton beat Andrew Gregory +23tp +26tp +16tp
Semi final
David Maugham bt Nick Mounfield +16 +11tp -
Keith Aiton bt Ian Lines -
Final
Keith Aiton leads David Maugham +13otp +25tp
Saturday lunch. Clockwise from the corner: Debbie Cornelius, David Maugham, Keith Aiton, Lionel Tibble, Ailsa Lines, Gabrielle Higgins and Nick Mounfield.
Girl power: Ailsa Lines and Debbie Cornelius take on Richard Smith and Robert Wilkinson in a game of gold croquet on Saturday evening.
David Maugham and Nick Mounfield during their semi-
David Maugham and Keith Aiton each with one hand on the cup, and Robert Wilkinson and Richard Smith who shared the Plate.
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