Club
Croquet
Wrest Park
Mary Rose 2024
v Pinchbeck (home) 2 May won 4-
John Bevington (½) and Tim Brewer (2½) lost to Adrian Kirby (0) and Gordon Mills (3) -
Tim Nurse (9) lost to Charles Ostler (3½) -
Peter Rothwell (8) beat Mike Bowser (4) +24
John Bevington beat Adrian Kirby +20
Tim Brewer lost to Gordon Mills -
Peter Rothwell beat Charles Ostler +4t
Tim Nurse beat Mike Bowser +1t
Peter and Tim Nurse were making their Mary Rose debuts and this was their first experience of Level Advanced play. To their great credit they both won their afternoon singles to get us over the line by the narrowest of margins, but, as is often the case in this competition, the scoreline is only half the story.
We agreed on three-
All four lawns were used for the afternoon singles which eliminated the delays and possible confusion that can be caused when double-
Tim B was struggling out on lawn 4 but recovered before eventually losing on time, so it was now 3-
Peter running 2-
Tim running rover
Peter finally got home in spite of (I think this is what happened) forgetting a lift and laying up near corner 3! Tim sometimes failed to heed the Walker Brothers advice to make it easy on yourself, but held on to win +1t to give us the match win. Phew!
Many thanks to team organiser Bryan Harral for looking after us all day, and to the grounds team for getting the lawns cut the day before.
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