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DIARY DATES
1 July (Wednesday 2.30pm): Horsell home.
11 July (Saturday 2.30pm): RDML Malden Manor home.
12 July (Sunday 2.30pm): Sunbury home.
15 July (Wednesday 2.30pm): Bookham Men home.
16 July (Thursday 2.30pm): RDML Cheam away.
19 July (Saturday 2pm): Charity Day (fun day) on the 19th July and funds raised will go to the Wimbledon Retired Greyhound charity. See below.
22 July (Wednesday 2.30pm): RDML Surbiton home.
25 July (Saturday 2.30pm): Woking Park home.
28 July (Tuesday 2.30pm): West Byfleet Ladies away.
30 July (Thursday 6pm): RDML Hook and Southborough home.
1 August (Saturday 2.30pm): West Byfleet home.
11 December (Friday 7pm) Music Night with These Days Rock Band.
CHARITY DAY (LINDA PILLMAN AND STEWART PALMER)
The Charity Day is on Saturday 19 July and funds raised will go to the Wimbledon Retired Greyhound charity. It will be a fun afternoon with a different array of games on the bowls green with no equipment needed and no bowls experience probably a blessing as games will include hit the teddy, putting and skittles. Families of members are most welcome and there will be a BBQ from midafternoon onwards with exciting foods to try at £5 each.
Entry is £10 and that includes tokens to play 6 games. Additional tokens can be purchased at £1 each. There will be prizes to be won!
Do please sign up on the notice on the Club Noticeboard if you are attending and give an indication of what might be your food preference from the list provided.
An appetite wetter! One competition will be to guess the number of chickpeas in a jar. To help the jar is pictured so you can try to start counting. The winner on the day gets the jar and £10!
BONUS BALL (JENNY AND MALCOLM BAIRD)
The draw now awards TWO draws for the price of one, called Round 1 and Round 2 for each draw. We shall be awarding our Bonus Ball prize to the person with the Bonus Ball number in ROUND1 each Saturday in the Lotto draw.
We have a full chart for the next 10 weeks, so many thanks to all the members who support the club in this way, and GOOD LUCK to you all!
CLUB COMPETITIONS (MARY BAKER)
These are proceeding, despite the hot weather. Most people have managed to complete the first rounds by the date, though not all. Please remember that failure to meet the date may cause problems for future rounds.
If you have a problem making the date, let me know as soon as possible, so I can warn the players in the next round, and perhaps suggest a solution. Don’t just ignore it!
NON-WINNERS COMPETITION (MARY BAKER)
The draw for this has now taken place and is on the notice board. We hope to get it on the website soon, but there are technical issues, so if you’ve entered make sure you look at the notice board ASAP. The first round has to be played by 12 July, and I have contacted the people involved. The second round involves everyone else and has a 26 July play by date.
You can play as soon as you like! Remember you need a marker. A list is on the board of those willing to mark, but other people may be able to mark for you. Please make sure that your marker has done it before. The rules for marking are quite specific, and if not adhered to can affect the outcome of the game.
HARDY’S OF HAMPTON COURT 100 COMPETITION (JOHN LE MAIRE)
With only eight matches remaining, the 100 Competition is entering its final stages. The previous round had some outstanding scoring. Two losing players scored over ninety points, and another exceeded one hundred points despite being defeated. There have been some very close matches throughout the competition.
The draw for the next round is on the noticeboard. Competitors are reminded that all matches must be completed by Friday 10 July.
EMBER EVENING LEAGUE (KEN HOMEWOOD)
The weather which was kind to us in May was very unkind to us in June with 2 weeks having to be rearranged, The first due to flooding and the second due to the heatwave.
We did however get 2 sets of matches completed. Delta who won both of their first 2 games lost 2 in July and have slipped down to 4th place. The new leaders are Foxtrot with 6 points followed by Bravo and Echo both with 5 points. Charlie broke their duck and are now equal on 2 points with Alpha.
The results are available on the website so you can see how the teams are doing by a quick visit to the website.
RACAL DECCA MIXED LEAGUE (TONY BAKER)
Our poor start to the RDML has continued and we await our first overall win. We even won two of the three games against Carshalton but lost the other and the game on shot count.
We have struggled with nominations to play even when approaching over 20 members for one game when we need just 9 players.
These are competitive but very enjoyable triples games so do have a word with Tony Baker if you are interested in playing. All the fixtures are on the Fixture List.
EXTERNAL COMPETITIONS (TONY BAKER)
Matches notified to date are:
Nationals
Tony Baker played against Mark Jones from Knaphill in the semi-final of the Surrey West area (Surrey is divided into East and West for national matches in view of the large number of bowls clubs). He had a terrible start against this very experienced England player and was soon down 13-2. He recovered and pulled back to 14-10 down but alas Mark’s lead continued and Tony lost by 21-15.
Surrey
Sadly, in the same week both the men and the ladies lost their Top 4 matches (1 rink games). The ladies put up a great display against a very strong team from Malden Manor. It was all down to the last end and Ember needed two shots and were in a winning position until their skip got her very last bowl in.
The men played in the heatwave against a strong and very experienced Egham team and went down 21-14.
In the ladies Surrey Champion of Champions Helen Hill had a first-round bye and then she won against Maureen Morris from West Byfleet. She has a home match in the next round.
Ember fared well in the Mixed Fours with a bye in the first round. Our team (Helen Hill, Stewart Palmer, Mary and Tony Baker) plays against Mid Surrey on 10 July.
Northwest Surrey
Stewart Palmer and Tony Baker won in the Men’s Pairs away at Addlestone and now play against at home against Ashford.
Our Ladies Triples team of Debbie Johns, Mary Baker and Aneta Thompson had a good away win against West End and now have a home match against Bishop Duppas.
Our Mixed Fours team (Mary and Tony Baker, Stewart Palmer and Helen Hill) play away against Ashford on 3 July.
BOWLS TO SELL? (TONY BAKER)
If you have any sets of bowls, you do not want and would be interested in selling contact Tony Baker who will arrange ‘advertising’ among the members and can advise on price. Most in demand are smaller bowls with good grips; by that it is 00, 0 and 1.
Currently ‘in stock’ are one set of size 0 and one of size 1. Regrettably nobody wants very big bowls (5 and above) but we have lots of available sets!
Take a look at these websites to keep up to date with bowls at county and national levels.
www.bowlsengland.com
www.surreycountybowls.co.uk
www.ladiesbowlssurrey.co.uk
