Club
Croquet
Wrest Park
Longman Cup 2016
v Enfield (home) 26 Aug and 27 Sept lost 2-
Geoff Strutt (9) and Peter Aspinall (11) lost to Tony Elliott (7) and Michael Broadway (16) -
Geoff Strutt lost to Tony Elliott -
Peter Aspinall lost to Michael Broadway -
John Tew (9) beat David Frost (5) +3
David Woolley (7) lost to John Street (9) -
John Tew beat John Street +9
David Woolley lost to David Frost -
Wrest Park’s cup run finally came to an end on 27 September when the last four singles games listed above were played. It was a tall order as the team were at that stage 0-
The perennial problems of player availability and mutually agreeable dates meant that permission had to be sought to play the match over two days in contravention of condition 9 (“The match must be completed in one day”) -
Had a couple of the narrow defeats on time gone the other way . . . Still, there’s always next year.
v Hunstanton (away) 30 July won 4-
Geoff Strutt (9) and Cliff Hayes (20) lost to Bryan Saddington (4) and Peter Brown (12) -
Peter Aspinall (11) lost to David Haslam (14) -
David Woolley (7) beat Neil Chalmers (10) +18
David Woolley lost to Bryan Saddington -
Geoff Strutt beat Neil Chalmers +3
Peter Aspinall beat Peter Brown +4
Cliff Hayes beat David Haslam +2
No eye-
v Nottingham (away) 17 July won 6-
Geoff Strutt (9) and Richard Keighley (20) beat Peter Hanley (4) and Derek Blow (6)
Peter Aspinall (11) beat Viv Staley (14) +7
David Woolley (8) beat Neil Bacon (9) +4
David Woolley (8) beat Peter Hanley +19
Geoff Strutt (9) beat Derek Blow
Peter Aspinall (11) lost to Neil Bacon -
Richard Keighley (20) beat Viv Staley
After a four-
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