Club
Croquet
Wrest Park
Last-
Report by manager George Collin
Eight players responded to the call at short notice to make the most of the lawns in the park before the clocks changed. Saturday involved Bryan Harral, Ken Pickett, Nigel Polhill and David Marsh, all play all, level advanced, 2½ hour time limit, no double banking.
No games went to time and we finished 1½ hours ahead of schedule. After two rounds all four players had one win and one loss. So all had a chance to win in the final round but all depended on the outcome of the other game as well. Nigel was the overall winner with 2 wins and having beaten David (also on 2 wins), Ken and Bryan still on 1 win each.
Sunday was a mixture of level and handicap games, three faces from Saturday and four new ones. Again 3 rounds of 2½ hours, to avoid the dark. To encourage positive play, and to allow the bisque givers time to catch up, bisque takers were only allowed to carry one bisque into the final hour.
Brian Havill won the Handicap event with 3 out of 3 (the other new faces being myself, Nick Evans and Peter Aspinall), with David Marsh deemed a close second on 1 out of 1. David won the Level Advanced on 75% success (including games carried forward from Saturday). Only one game went to time and we still finished 1½ hours ahead of schedule. Managing is fairly simple, if you’re allowed to bend the rules.
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