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Note: This journal is in reverse chronological order - most recent first.
Saturday 25th October 1998 - Nailsea Club Level Play Competition
The Club's Level Play Competition for players with handicaps from 5 to 15 was completed. There were four competitors all of whom played each other. ROGER BROOKS had already played and won all three of his games, so the remaining competitors were playing for second place.
In the morning PETER DYKE was on excellent form and completed twelve hoops with both balls before IAN WILSON scored a single point, but then he missed the peg and pegged out just one ball. IAN scored two points before PETER hit in and pegged out his second ball.
In the afternoon PETER had a much tougher game against DAVID MURPHY, who has made excellent progress this season. Honours were fairly even for most of the game, with DAVID just having the edge. Then he made a break to take a seven point lead. PETER replied with a five hoop break. DAVID took one ball to the peg. PETER took his backward ball to the peg and pegged out DAVID's forward ball. He then sent DAVID's other ball to one end of the court and laid up at the other end. With only one ball to aim at DAVID made a superb across court hit-in, ran the last hoop and pegged out to win by three points.
| 1. ROGER BROOKS 3 wins +75 points (+26, +25, +24) | 2. DAVID MURPHY 2 wins -11 points (-25, +3, +11) |
| 3. PETER DYKE 1 win -5 points (-26, -3, +24) | 4. IAN WILSON 0 wins -59 points (-24, -24, -11) |
Sat & Sun 17th & 18th October 1998 - Nailsea Club Finals Weekend (2)
The Club's last three Finals of their summer season were played over this weekend. The competitors enjoyed much better weather than those who were available to play at Finals Weekend in September.
ROGER BROOKS drove down from Lancaster, where he has recently taken up a new appointment, to play the final of the Handicap Singles. The trip was worth his while because in the best of three final he beat DAVID MURPHY by two games to nil. In the first game DAVID used his handicap advantage to build up an eight point lead before breaking down by hoop one. ROGER replied with an eleven-hoop break. DAVID managed to score two more points before ROGER took his second ball round, finishing with a rover peel and pegging out to win by sixteen points.
In the second game ROGER laid a short tice which DAVID hit and made a two-hoop two-ball break before joining his partner ball on the east boundary. ROGER shot and missed and DAVID scored four points with his second ball before breaking down. ROGER made an eight-hoop break with one ball followed by a seven-hoop break with the other. He then took his forward ball to rover and left DAVID wired on 2-back, but miss-hit the shot when attempting to return to his partner ball. DAVID made a seven-hoop break taking his forward ball to rover and made three more points with his backward ball before ROGER hit a long hit-in and took his second ball to the peg and laid up by rover. DAVID had a long shot which he missed. ROGER scored rover, but failed to get a rush to the peg. He missed a long peg out and pegged out one ball leaving the other by the peg. DAVID missed another long shot and ROGER pegged out to win the Championship.
The Handicap Singles was over by 1.30 pm on the Saturday and ROGER managed to fit in four friendly games over the weekend. He won two Advanced games against KRISS CHAMBERS and a friendly handicap game against a weaker player, but he and KRISS lost a very friendly handicap game against 13 year old MARCUS EVANS, MARCUS winning by a single point with a tremendous jump shot to avoid hitting his opponents' second ball onto the peg.
ROGER, who joined the Nailsea Club last year, has had a tremendous season and his handicap has come down from 16 to 4.5. Earlier in the season he won the Area Final of the All-England Handicap. During the Nailsea Club's Finals Weekend he took part in the Finals of this Championship with thirteen other qualifiers at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire. There was only one qualifier with a lower handicap. ROGER won his first game, but lost the next two. Unfortunately, the second day was a washout and, apart from the two players on three wins, the competitors were sent home. The Club will miss ROGER but wish him every success for the future.
One-ball - BERNARD WILSON won the hotly contested one-ball competition. In the best of three games he beat JOHN JEFFREY by a single point in each of the first two games.
The High Bisquers Competition between MARY BARNES and 15 year old ANDREW LOWDON was also very close, but during the last hour of the game MARY slowly pulled away and built up a seven point lead. With time rapidly approaching ANDREW showed his potential setting up and making a five-hoop break, but he failed to get in front of his next hoop. MARY scored two more points to win by four on time.
(Note: Handicaps in brackets.)
| Open Handicap Singles | ROGER BROOKS (4.5) beat DAVID MURPHY (8) +16, +10. |
| One-Ball | BERNARD WILSON (16) beat JOHN JEFFREY (2.5) +1, +1. |
| High Bisquers | MARY BARNES (20) beat ANDREW LOWDON (22) +4T. |
Week of 4th - 11th October 1998
3rd World Golf Croquet Championships at Royal Leamington Spa
Congratulations to KRISS CHAMBERS who finished 22nd.
KRISS came third out of fourteen British Entries, behind ANDREW HUTCHINSON (Ripon, 16th) and RICHARD BRAND (High Wycombe, 20th).
KRISS is very grateful to everyone who sponsored him, including, many club members, Austin-Reed who provided him with a blazer and Nailsea Community Trust who donated £150.
He would like to improve on his performance by entering the Championship again next year.
Next year the Championship will take place either in the USA or South Africa.
If any business or individual would like to sponsor him in 1999, please contact the Club's Tournament Secretary & Coach PETER DYKE on (01275) 854804.
JOHN JEFFREY, the Club's President, managed to come 40th in the Championships despite being Manager of the tournament. Well done JJ !
Kriss started the Championship in superb form with commanding wins in his block over Australian, TONY HALL, Golf Croquet Champion of New South Wales and RANA AL-ALAMI (Palestine). This was followed by one the best games of the Championship when he beat YASSER ESMAT, current Egyptian Men's Champion, by a single point. On the third day KRISS suffered his only defeat in the Block, losing to South African, GRAHAME TOMES, Western Province Golf Croquet Champion, before beating ROD WILLIAMS (Scotland) to finish second in his Block, behind the Egyptian (both had four wins, but YASSER had two more points).
KRISS therefore qualified for the knockout competition for the top 32 places. In the first round of the knockout he met SALIB ERYAN, another Egyptian. KRISS won the first game in the best of three, but lost the next two.
Out of the top sixteen, he was now fighting for a place from 17 to 32. He gained a walkover in the next round because his opponent, SHERINE HANDY, withdrew following medical advice. The long break did him no good - he finished his last game against SALIB at 8.30 Wednesday morning and did not play again until 5 on Thursday afternoon - and he lost to his next opponent, MARK McINERNEY (Ireland) in two straight games.
At this stage of the Championship, matches between competitors not contesting the top 16 places were reduced to single games because they were running so far behind schedule. KRISS won his next game against GRAHAME TOMES, the only person to have beaten him in the block, but lost his final game to ANDREA PRAVETTONI (Italy) to finish 22nd.
During the Championships KRISS, who is studying for his National Diploma in computer studies at Weston College, assisted the manager of the tournament. Unfortunately the manger was having a lot of problems to sort out and they were not getting back to their lodgings until late at night. They also had to be ready to start at 8 o'clock in the morning and, unlike other competitors, KRISS was unable to have a lie-in if he was not competing until late. He started the Championship in superb form but clearly became more tired as the week went on.
The Egyptians have dominated this Championship since it was started three years ago took six of the top ten places. The winner was KHALED YOUNIS (Egypt), who beat MIK MEHAS (USA) in the Final. YASSER ESMAT, the Egyptian KRISS beat in his block came fourth overall.
Block:-
KRISS CHAMBERS beat TONY HALL (Australia) +5, RANA AL-ALAMI (Palestine) +5,
YASSER ESMAT (Egypt) +1, lost to GRAHAME TOMES (South Africa) -1 and beat ROD
WILLIAMS (Scotland) +2 to finsh second to YASSER on points in the block.
Championship (top 32 places):-
KRISS lost to SALIB ERYAN (Egypt) +1,-2,-3, gained a walkover against SHERINE
HAMDY (Egypt) +7,+7, lost to MARK McINERNY (Ireland) -4,-4, beat GRAHAME TOMES
(South Africa) +2, and lost to ANDREA PRAVETTONI (Italy) -2.
Sunday 4th October 1998
South West Federation Intermediate League Final (played at Nailsea)
Nailsea 5 Kingston Langley 2
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Doubles: GRETA STRINGER & DAVID MURPHY won +3T |
Singles: PAT LONG won +11 & lost -9 IAN WILSON won +14 & +3 |
DAVID MURPHY won +1 |
Saturday & Sunday 26th & 27th September 1998 - Nailsea Club Finals Weekend (1)
The rain poured for Nailsea Croquet Club's Finals Weekend - nevertheless all except one of the planned games were played.
| Open Doubles Semi-final | KRISS CHAMBERS & BERYL GRIFFITHS beat HEATHER PERRIN & GRETA STINGER +6T |
| Open Doubles FInal | DAVID MURPHY & MARY BARNES beat KRISS CHAMBERS & BERYL GRIFFITHS +1T |
| Over 50s Final | PETER DYKE beat IAN WILSON +11 |
| Ladies Singles Final | PAT LONG beat ADRIENNE GRIFFITHS +21 |
| Junior Singles | MARCUS EVANS beat ANDREW LOWDON +6 |
| High Bisquers Semi-finals | ANDREW LOWDON beat JOHN LUMLEY +9 and MARY BARNES beat MARCUS EVANS +2T |
| Beginners | JOHN WALLACE beat NICK CARTER +14 |
| Short Croquet Semi-finals | JOHN WALLACE beat BERNARD WILSON +8 and PETER DYKE beat DIERDRE DUGGAN +8 |
| Short Croquet Final | JOHN WALLACE beat PETER DYKE +8 |
| Advanced block winner | KRISS CHAMBERS +26, +19, +18TP |
| Level Play (hc 5-15) block winner | ROGER BROOKS +26, +25, +24 |
| Level Play (hc 16-24) block winner | GRETA STRINGER +22, +18, +20, +18 |
| Golf Croquet Doubles Final | KRISS CHAMBERS & BERYL GRIFFITHS beat IAN WILSON & MARGARET FLEMING +5 |
| Golf Croquet Singles Semi-finals | PETER DYKE beat BOB SERGEANT +2 and MARCUS EVANS beat IAN WILSON +4 |
| Golf Croquet Singles Final | MARCUS EVANS beat PETER DYKE +1 |
Finals still to be played: Open Singles, High Bisquers and One-ball
Saturday 26th September 1998
South West Federation 'B' League Final (played at Cheltenham)
Nailsea 5 Bristol 2
The Club's 'B' league team completed their most successful season for twelve years when they beat Bristol at Cheltenham in the final of the 'B' league.
In the morning Nailsea narrowly lost the doubles, but in the singles MARY BARNES won by a single point and PAT LONG had a convincing win. In the afternoon singles PAT lost, but JOY WILYMAN had good win, GEOFF HUGHES came from behind to win and again MARY won by a single point.
This is the second time Nailsea has won the 'B' league. The previous time was in 1986. Bristol Croquet Club have won the 'B' league five times (1987, '88, '91, '93 and '94).
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Doubles: JOY WILYMAN & GEOFF HUGHES lost -1T |
Singles: PAT LONG won +11 & lost -5 MARY BARNES won +1 & +1 |
GEOFF HUGHES won +6 |
Sunday 20th September 1998 - Federation Golf Croquet Finals (played at Nailsea)
The Club hosted the SW Golf Croquet finals, an event which attracted thirty
competitors from throughout the region.
Kriss Chambers won the Singles for low handicap players and he teamed up with
Peter Dyke to finish second in the pairs
block after an epic struggle with eventual winners Arthur Addis and Syd Wakeham
of Plymouth.
Singles, Low handicap - Kriss
Chambers, +7, +2, +2, +1.
Singles, High handicap - Winner
- Leoni Wilkinson of Tracey Park
3rd in block - Bob Sergeant of Nailsea. -1, -2, -1, +2, +1.
Doubles, second in block - Kriss Chambers & Peter Dyke, -1, +3, +5.
Saturday 19th September 1998 - Nailsea Club Beginners Competition
Block A was convincingly won by JOHN WALLACE. In Block B NICK CARTER and JOHN ZINN had a vey close contest and finished level on time. Neither realised that they had to continue playing until another hoop was scored until it was pointed out by the Manager. Unfortunately JOHN had left red and black together by red's hoop and NICK easily scored the hoop. JOHN WALLACE and NICK will contest the final at Finals Weekend on Sunday 27th September.
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Block A 1. JOHN WALLACE, 3 wins, +14, +14, +11 2. ARTHUR GREEN, 1 win, -14, +7T, retired unwell 3. MATTHEW ZINN, 1 win, +1T, -7T, -11 4. JOHN PATERSON, 0 wins, -1T, -14. |
Block B 1. NICK CARTER, 3 wins, +8, +1T, +11 2. JOHN ZINN, 2 wins, +4, -1T, +10 3. KATHY WALLACE, 1 win, -4, +3T, -11 4. BRIGIT CLAYTON, 0 wins, -8, -3T, -10. |
Semi-finals JOHN WALLACE beat JOHN ZINN +8 and NICK CARTER beat MATTHEW ZINN +11.
Sunday 13th September 1998
SWF Federation League Semi-Final (played at Bristol)
Nailsea 2 Dyffryn 3
Nailsea had the choice of match format and PETER DYKE, the Nailsea captain, went for the unusual format of three doubles and two singles. . The tactic might have paid off but for a costly mistake he made in his morning doubles. Giving away seven bisques, four went cheaply early in the game. PETER then set up a break and missed a short roquet leaving the break for the opponents. The weaker opponent scored six points before breaking down. KRISS CHAMBERS missed a long roquet and the stronger opponent finished the game. Meanwhile JAMES DIXON and IAN WILSON won their doubles.
In afternoon doubles the weaker opponent used their bisques to score ten points. KRISS took his ball to the peg peeling his opponent through the last two hoops and pegging him out. Then followed cat and mouse tactics with IAN scoring a hoop at a time until the stronger opponent hit in and made a 3-ball break before breaking down at penultimate. IAN scored three hoops with a 2-ball break. The opponent ran penult before IAN ran the last three hoops and pegged out to win the game by just two points. Nailsea lost both singles games.
This is the end of an excellent run this season by the Club in the Federation League, but the club has reached the finals in both the Intermediate and B-leagues.
| KRISS CHAMBERS & PETER DYKE lost -22 | JAMES DIXON & IAN WILSON won +11 |
| KRISS CHAMBERS & IAN WILSON won +2 | |
| PETER DYKE lost -16 | JAMES DIXON lost -16 |
Saturday 12th September 1998- National Short Croquet Team Event Final
Nailsea Win National Title - Nailsea 9, Pendle 6, Leicester 3.
The final was a three way tie between Nailsea, Pendle and Leicester - unfortunately High Wycombe, the other qualifying team, had to withdraw because of the illness of a member of their team.
Nailsea started well winning three games in the first round with wins by PETER DYKE, DAVID MURPHY and BERNARD WILSON. Pendle won two games and Leicester won one. This was repeated in the second round. In the third round the scoreline was the same with IAN WILSON gaining a win instead of BERNARD.
This is the fifth time the Club has won the title having previously won it in 1987, '88, '93 and '96. They have won the title more often than any other club in the country.
| PETER DYKE, 3 wins, +1T, +4, +10. | DAVID MURPHY, 3 wins, +6, +4, +10. |
| IAN WILSON, 1 win, -6, -2, +13. | BERNARD WILSON, 2 wins, +12, +8, -8. |
Sunday 6th September 1998
SWF Intermediate League Semi-Final (played at Budleigh Salterton)
Nailsea 5 Sidmouth 2
| DAVID MURPHY & GRETA STRINGER won +2T | |
| IAN WILSON won +17& lost –10 | DAVID MURPHY won +5 |
| ADRIENNE GRIFFITHS won +11T & lost –10T | GRETA STRINGER won +1T |
Sunday 6th September 1998
SWF 'B' League Semi-Final (played at Exeter)
Nailsea 5 Kingston Maurward 2
| GEOFF HUGHES & MARY BARNES won +4 | |
| JOY WILYMAN lost –2 & won +2 | JOHN WALLACE won +9 & lost –1 |
| GEOFF HUGHES won +9 | MARY BARNES won +12 |
Saturday & Sunday 5th & 6th September
1998
All England Handicap Area Final
12 competitors from Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham, Dyffryn and Nailsea Croquet Clubs took part, with three players qualifying for the Finals at Wrest Park Croquet Club in two weeks time. The event was played as a five round Swiss.
The winner was ROGER BROOKS (Nailsea) with 5 wins. GERRY ECCLES (Cheltenham) was runner-up with 4 wins, but four players finished up with 3 wins each and only two of them had played each other. The Manager, PETER DYKE, resolved the problem by having a straight knockout between these four players.and the third qualifier was DANIEL MILLS (Bath).
'Tuesday 1st September 1998
"Friendly" Beginners' Match - Nailsea v Bristol (at Bristol)
Nailsea 9 Bristol 3
This event, arranged by Greta Stringer (Nailsea) and Margaret Peña (Bristol), had a great atmosphere and was enjoyed by players and spectators alike. We intend repeating this again soon, perhaps with a return match at Nailsea.
| GRETA STRINGER & JOHN WALLACE won +5T | NICK CARTER & KATHY WALLACE won +1T |
| GRETA STRINGER won +1T | NICK CARTER won +5T |
| BRIGIT CLAYTON lost – 4T & won +6 | VIOLET DELMAS won +5T & lost –11 |
| ARTHUR GREEN lost –2T & won +8 | JOHN WALLACE won +6T |
| KATHY WALLACE won +5 |
Saturday 29th August 1998
World Golf Croquet Qualifying Competition (at Kidderminster)
16 year old KRISS CHAMBERS won the qualifying competition for the World Golf Croquet Championships at Kidderminster. He won his block with scores of 7-0, 7-5 and 7-5, with JOHN JEFFREY, President of the Nailsea Club, taking the other block and members of Ashby Croquet Club taking second place in each block. In the semi-finals KRISS beat the runner up of the second block 7-5 & 7-3 with JOHN taking the other semi-final and KRISS won the final 7-0, 6-7, 7-3. KRISS now qualifies for the World Golf Croquet Croquet Finals at Leamington Spa during the first week of October.
Saturday 29th August 1998 - SWF Advanced League v Bath (at Worcester)
Nailsea 6 Worcester 2
The club knotched up another league victory on Saturday. With three players on each side the format chosen was all play all. In the first round ALEX LEGGATE and JAMES DIXON both won, but TERRY BALLARD lost. This was repeated in the second round. In the final round JAMES and TERRY both won and ALEX's game was abandonned as Nailsea had already securred victory by this time.
| ALEX LEGGATE won +16TP & +4 |
JAMES DIXON won +14, +15 & +24 |
TERRY BALLARD lost –5T & –10 and won +18 |
Sunday 23rd August 1998 - SWF Federation League v Bath (at Nailsea)
Nailsea 6 Bath 1
The day started with light drizzle which gradually got worse and turned to heavy rain by the end of the morning. IAN WILSON used his handicap advantage well and beat his morning opponent by a maximum 26 points. ALEX LEGGATE and DAVID MURPHY won a close doubles match by 5 points, but PETER DYKE struggled in the pouring rain and lost by 7 points on time on a waterlogged lawn. In the afternoon it stopped raining and the lawns quickly drained. PETER made up for his disappointing morning performance with a 12-hoop break and won by 26 points. IAN and DAVID also had good wins. ALEX, with a nine point handicap disadvantage, came from behind to win by just three points. This 6-1 win gives Nailsea a place in the semi-final at Bristol on 13 September, having won 3 of their 4 Federa tion League matches. The Club is enjoying its most successful season for several years with their Intermediate and 'B' League teams also qualifying for the semi-finals.
| ALEX LEGGATE & DAVID MURPHY won +5 | |
| ALEX LEGGATE won +3 | DAVID MURPHY won +17 |
| PETER DYKE won +26 and lost –7T | IAN WILSON won +26 & +18 |
Saturday 22nd August 1998 - Nailsea Club Short Croquet competition
(report not available yet as some games still to play - watch this space!)
Saturday & Sunday 22nd & 23rd August
1998
National Junior Squad v National Senior Squad
KRISS CHAMBERS led the National Junior (U21) Squad to victory over the National Senior (O50) Squad. This was no mean achievement as the Senior Squad were all high ranking players with handicaps ranging from -1.5 to 1, with the Juniors' handicaps ranging from -1 to 4.5. There were two Nailsea players in the six man Junior Squad and on the Saturday KRISS and partner won their doubles +26, +26, with JAMES DIXON and partner winning a much closer contest +10, +1. The other doubles was lost. On the Sunday KRISS won his singles +22, +21 and JAMES halved his +10, -9. JAMES did not complete his deciding game as the Juniors had already won the contest. Another game was also halved giving the juniors a 6-3 victory over the Seniors.
Saturday & Sunday 15th & 16thAugust
1998
Nailsea Weekend Handicap Tournament(CA event at Nailsea)
Players came from Canterbury, Wolverhampton, Plymouth, Cardiff and Bath as
well as more local players from Bristol and Nailsea. The competition was run
as a Hands Ladder (Egyptian), a flexible format which allows competitors to
play as many or as few games as they wish.
A total of fifty games were played over the weekend.
The Nailsea Handicap Committee decided to reduce ROGER BROOKS handicap from
10 to 7 before the tournament; nevertheless he still managed to win all four
games he played on Saturday in this, his first, Croquet Association (CA) tournament
and finished the day eight points ahead of his nearest rival. Manager, PETER
DYKE, allowed him a late start on Sunday to give others a chance to catch up!
However, he won a further game on Sunday, finishing the tournament undefeated
with five wins and gained a further handicap reduction to 6. He also gained
a CA Silver Award for completing his first 12-hoop break in a CA event.
JAMES DIXON finished in second place and gained a handicap reduction from 1.5
to 1.
Three players, including Nailsea member, GRETA STRINGER, gained CA Bronze awards
for performing 10-hoop breaks with bisques.
| 1. ROGER BROOKS (Nailsea), 5 wins out of 5, rating 69 | 2. JAMES DIXON (Nailsea), 5 wins out of 6, rating 66 |
| 3. RACHEL SCOTT (Bristol), 4 wins out of 5, rating 61 | |
| 4= DANIEL MILLS (Bath), 4 wins out of 6, rating 58 | 4=. DAVID MURPHY (Nailsea), 3 wins out of 4, rating 58 |
SWF Federation League v Kington Langley (at Nailsea)
Nailsea 3 Taunton 4
The club's Federation League team suffered their first defeat of the season
when they lost at home against Kington Langley.
The visitors got off to a good start in the morning, using their handicap advantage
to lead in all three games.
Jane Hull played particularly well in the doubles, using just one bisque to
score nine hoops. Alex Leggate replied with a 12-hoop break peeling his opponent
through the last two hoops, but was unable to peg her out. Jane used two more
bisques to peg out Alex. The Kington pair used their four remaining bisques
to get ahead and left Greta Stringer with long shots and few chances and won
the doubles by 12 points.
James Dixon made an excellent comeback in his singles to win by just two points
and, although David Murphy fought hard and reduced the deficit in his game.
he was unable to catch up his opponent.
Two-one down at lunch, Nailsea needed to win three of the afternoon singles
games. James took one ball round to the peg. His opponent used his bisques to
go round to the peg and peg him out. James hit in. did a three-ball break round
to the peg and won by 10 points. Alex staged an excellent comeback to win by
just two points. Greta,. playing in her first Federation League match, played
well but was unable to overhaul her opponent and David struggled against his
opponent, who was on superb form.
Nailsea now need to win their final game to qualify for the semi-finals. They
are enjoying a successful season. having already qualified for the semi-finals
in both the intermediate and B Leagues.
| ALEX LEGGATE & GRETA STRINGER lost –12 | |
| JAMES DIXON won +2 & +10 | ALEX LEGGATE won +2 |
| DAVID MUPRHY lost –8 & –9 | GRETA STRINGER lost –8 |
SWF Federation League v Taunton (at Taunton)
Nailsea 6 Taunton 4
The Federation League team found the sloping uneven Taunton lawns difficult to cope with at first and fell behind in all three morning games. However they gradually got used to the conditions and overtook their opponents winning all three morning games. ROGER BROOKS continued his winning form in the afternoon completing a ten-hoop break and rover-peel to beat his opponent by 25 points. KRISS CHAMBERS' opponent used his bisques (extra turns) to establish an early lead while KRISS struggled to score the first six hoops. KRISS then made an 11-hoop break with his other ball and finished the game with a six-hoop break and rover-peel to win by 11 points. DAVID MURPHY also had good breaks, winning by 20 points, but PETER DYKE, still struggling with the conditions, had the only loss of the match. KRISS and ROGER gained handicap reductions to -0.5 and 10 respectively.
| KRISS CHAMBERS & DAVID MURPHY won +7 | |
| PETER DYKE won +13 & lost –14 | ROGER BROOKS won +6 & +20 |
| KRISS CHAMBERS won +11 | DAVID MURPHY won +20 |
SWF Federation 'B' league v Taunton (at Nailsea)
Nailsea 7 Torquay 0
Nailsea have now won all four of their B-league matches and qualify for the semi-finals in September.
| MARCUS EVANS & MARY BARNES won +9 | |
| BERNARD WILSON won +8 & +6 | JOY WILYMAN won +10 & +7 |
| MARCUS EVANS won +6 | MARY BARNES won +10 |
Sat 1st Aug 1998 – Nailsea Club High Bisquers competition
This was the preliminary round of its High Bisquers Competition for members with handicaps of 20 or more.
The block winners were :-
| ANDREW LOWDON, 3 wins, +28 points, | MARCUS EVANS, 3 wins, +19 points |
| MARY BARNES, 2 wins, +11 points |
The best runner-up was JOHN LUMLEY, 2 wins, +10 points. All four players qualify for the semi-finals in September.
Sun 26th July 1998 – SWF Intermediate League v Taunton Deane (at Nailsea)
Nailsea 4 Taunton 1
The Club had another convincing league win on Sunday, beating Taunton Deane
at home in the Intermediate League by four games to one.
The team have won all four of their Intermediate League matches and qualify
for the semi-finals in September.
| DAVID MURPHY & GRETA STRINGER won +13 | IAN WILSON won +10 & +7 |
| DAVID MURPHY won +6 | GRETA STRINGER lost –10 |
Thu to Sat, 23rd to 25th July 1998
National Junior Croquet Championship (CA event at Nailsea)
Winner: Kriss Chambers
Nailsea player 16-year old Kriss Chambers is the first person ever to have
won the championship three times.
He also gained a Croquet Association (CA) Gold Award for performing his first
triple-peel in a CA event.
KRISS had convincing wins over the other competitors with scores of +26, +17,
+24, +26TP, +23 and +23.
Previous winners of the Championship include the current world number one, ROBERT FULFORD (1986 & 87), and world number three, CHRIS CLARKE (1988). KRISS CHAMBERS is 164th in the World Rankings (all ages).
Sat & Sun 18th & 19th July
Nailsea Club Open Doubles Competition (Alternate Stroke) – Preliminary
round.
The block winners were:-
| DAVID MURPHY & MARY BARNES |
HEATHER PERRIN & GRETA STRINGER |
KRISS CHAMBERS & BERYL GRIFFITHS. |
All three pairs qualify for the finals in September.
Sun 12th July 1998 – SWF Advanced Play League v Cheltenham (at Nailsea)
Nailsea 3 Cheltenham 2
| ALEX LEGGATE & JAMES DIXON lost –22 | KRISS CHAMBERS won +12 & +15 |
| ALEX LEGGATE won +17 | JAMES DIXON lost –7. |
Thu 9th July 1998 – SWF 'B' League v Plymouth (at Nailsea)
Nailsea 6 Plymouth 1
| GEOFF HUGHES & JOY WILYMAN won +3 on time |
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MARY BARNES 1 win +11, 1 loss –4 on time |
BERNARD WILSON 2 wins, +7 and +8 |
| GEOFF HUGHES 1 win +3 | JOY WILYMAN 1 win +8 |
Thu 2nd July 1998 – National Schools Finals
Level and Handicap play (at Edgebaston)
Winners: Nailsea School 4 - 2
Nailsea School beat Wolverhampton Grammar School in both the Level Play and Handicap Play final events.
Beginner MARCUS EVANS proved the decisive factor in Nailsea's triumph by beating his 16 year old opponent in both matches.
KRISS CHAMBERS won his level play match +3 and enjoyed a much more emphatic victory in his handicap game which he finished with a double-peel.
JAMES DIXON, playing at number two, performed well and was unfortunate to be edged out in both games.
Level Play
| KRISS CHAMBERS win +3 | MARCUS EVANS won +18 | JAMES DIXON lost –18 |
Handicap Play
| KRISS CHAMBERS won +18 | MARCUS EVANS won +15 | JAMES DIXON lost –5 |
Sun 28th June 1998 – SWF Intermediate League v Bristol (at Bristol)
Nailsea 3 Bristol 2
In the morning IAN WILSON and PAT LONG won the doubles, but DAVID MURPHY had a close loss in the singles, making the scores even at lunch.
In the afternoon IAN had a convincing win and DAVID had a narrow victory, but PAT lost.
Nailsea's Intermediate League team have won all three of their games so far this season and are at the top of the league table.
| IAN WILSON & PAT LONG won +6 | |
| DAVID MURPHY lost –3 | DAVID MURPHY won +6 |
| IAN WILSON won +18 | PAT LONG lost –13 |
Sat 27th June 1998 – SW Federation Golf Croquet - Preliminary Round (at Nailsea)
KRISS CHAMBERS and PETER DYKE emerged as winners of the doubles after improving in every game, winning by +4, +5, +6 and +7.
BOB SERGEANT won the singles after remaining unbeaten in six games, but had a battle against ROY DYER eventually winning 7-6 after being 2-6 down.
Doubles results:-
| KRISS CHAMBERS & PETER DYKE four wins, +22 |
DAVID MURPHY & GRETA STRINGER two wins, –3 |
| BOB SERGEANT & MAUREEN MURPHY two wins, –4 |
GEOFF HUGHES & ROY DYER one win, –6 |
| MARCUS EVANS & SHEILA WARE one win, -9 |
Singles results:-
| BOB SERGEANT 6 wins (+17) | MAUREEN MURPHY, SHEILA WARE, 4 wins |
| GEOFF HUGHES, GRETA STRINGER, 3 wins | ROY DYER 1 win |
| BRIAN PHELPS no wins |
Sun 21st June 1998 - SW Intermediate League v Exeter (at Nailsea)
Nailsea 4 Exeter 1
In the morning doubles DAVID MURPHY and ADRIENNE GRIFFITHS came from behind to win by one point on time and IAN WILSON had a convincing win in the singles.
In the afternoon IAN and DAVID notched up two more wins, but ADRIENNE lost.
| DAVID MURPHY & ADRIENNE GRIFFITHS won +1T |
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| IAN WILSON won +16 | DAVID MURPHY won +10 |
| IAN WILSON won +18 | ADRIENNE lost –13T |
Sun 14th June 1998 – SW Federation League - Nailsea v Bristol (at Bristol)
Nailsea 4 Bristol 3
Nailsea played away against last year's league champions, Bristol and got off to a tremendous start winning all three morning games and, 3 - nil up at lunch, needed to win only one of the afternoon singles games.
KRISS CHAMBERS lost the first afternoon game by 25 points. Soon afterwards IAN WILSON lost by 22 points and JAMES DIXON lost by 23 points making the score 3 games all. Everything now depended on the final game. DAVID MURPHY scored 12 hoops with one ball and 11 with the other while his opponent had scored 9 and 7. DAVID failed the final hoop and his opponent managed to score one more hoop with each ball before DAVID was able to run his final hoop and peg out. This was an exceptionally good win by DAVID under pressure and Nailsea had beaten the club who defeated them in last year's league final.
| KRISS CHAMBERS & IAN WILSON won +25 | ||
| JAMES DIXON won +10 DPO | DAVID MURPHY won +10 | KRISS CHAMBERS lost -25 |
| IAN WILSON lost -22 | JAMES DIXON lost -23 | DAVID MURPHY won +8 |
Sat 13th June 1998 – Nailsea Club's Golf Croquet Competition
Doubles: Due to a torrential downpour and waterlogged lawns in the morning it was possible to hold only two rounds of the doubles. There were 20 competitors and the joint leaders were IAN WILSON & MARGARET FLEMING and KRISS CHAMBERS & BERYL GRIFFITHS each with two wins. They will contest the final in September.
Singles: By the afternoon the rain had eased and the water had drained sufficiently for the singles to proceed. There were 21 competitors and the competition was run in four blocks. The block winners were :
| Block A: BOB SERGEANT, 5 wins | Block B: PETER DYKE, 4 wins |
| Block C: IAN WILSON, 4 wins | Block D was not completed. |
Joint leaders are DAVID MURPHY and MARCUS EVANS with 3 wins each and still to play each other.
Semi-finals and finals will take place in September
Sat & Sun June 6th & 7th 1998
Singles Advanced Play Tournament (CA event at Nailsea)
The weekend's advanced tournament had to be abandoned when electricity power lines came crashing onto the lawns after only 15 minutes play on the second day. At the time the joint leaders were DON GAUNT, vice-chairman of the Croquet Association, and ED DUCKWORTH from Bristol with four wins each. ALEX LEGGATE and DAVID LILLY from Nailsea were lying joint third with two wins along with three other competitors.
Sunday 31st May 1998 - SWF Advanced Play League v Bristol (at Nailsea)
Nailsea 2 Bristol 3
In the Advanced-play League they lost narrowly by 2 games to 3 at home to league champions, Bristol. This was an very good result against a strong team - Bristol’s highest handicapped player had a lower handicap than Nailsea’s lowest and on paper Bristol should have won every game in this level-play match.
| KRISS CHAMBERS & JAMES DIXON beat DAVID GOACHER &ROGER JENKINS +7 |
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| TERRY BALLARD lost to BEN GREEN –4 | KRISS CHAMBERS lost to DAVID GOACHER –26 |
| JAMES DIXON beat BEN GREEN +24TP | TERRY BALLARD lost to ROGER JENKINS –16 |
SWF Intermediate League v Plymouth (at Plymouth)
Nailsea 6 Plymouth 1
| DAVID MURPHY & PAT LONG beat ANTHEA KELSEY & ANN PERRY +9 |
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| IAN WILSON lost to BERNARD WEBSTER –4 | ROGER BROOKS beat GEOFFREY UNDERWOOD +23 |
| DAVID MURPHY beat BERNARD WEBSTER +4 | IAN WILSON beat ANN PERRY +6 |
| ROGER BROOKS beat ANTHEA KELSEY +26 | PAT LONG beat BERNARD WEBSTER +23 |
SWF 'B' League v Exeter (at Exeter)
Nailsea 6 Exeter 1
| GRETA STRINGER & GEOFF HUGHES beat KEN HILLIER & JULIE SHEPPARD +18 |
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| JOY WILYMAN beat RICHARD HICHENS +9T | MARY BARNES beat DON SHEPPARD +3 |
| GRETA STRINGER lost to DON SHEPPARD –7 | JOY WILYMAN beat KEN HILLIER +11 |
| GEOFF HUGHES beat RICHARD HICHENS +8 | MARY BARNES beat JULIE SHEPPARD +8 |
Sat 30th May 98 – Nailsea Club One-ball Competition
On Saturday the club held its one-ball competition. In block A JOHN JEFFREY and MAUREEN MURPHY both finished on four wins, but JOHN won on points. Block B was won by BERNARD WILSON. JOHN and BERNARD will play each other on finals weekend in October. In the afternoon play continued with friendly games and GRETA STRINGER finished the day with the most wins, seven.
Sunday 17th May 1998 – Open Day
The Nailsea Club had about 50 visitors at this Open Day. Beginners Classes
begin next week on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and Friday afternoons.
The Club may run another daytime class depending on demand.
For further details ring 01275 854804 or email NDCC@cableinet.co.uk.
All ages catered for from 8 to 108!
Sat 16th May 1998 – South West Federation (SWF) 'B' League (at Wellington)
Nailsea 4 Wellington 1
The first game for the Nailsea B League team this season was played at Wellington Croquet Club. The day was perfect - warm and sunny - and the setting was idyllic. The club is situated in the grounds of a wonderful old house, now a residential home for elderly people. The grounds are spacious and there are many splendid mature trees and shrubs and a very well kept knot garden, which, along with birdsong and a very persistent cuckoo, provided the perfect, very English backdrop for the croquet lawns. Only one small slightly bumpy lawn was usable due to heavy storms prior to the match.
In the doubles Wellington stated well with a six-hoop break. GRETA STRINGER and MARY BARNES had a slow start, but soon got used to the 'foreign' lawns. It was a fairly even game, but MARY and GRETA just managed to win by two points on time.
At the same time JOY WILYMAN won her singles game by five points on time.
After lunch MARY hit some spectacular long shots and made some very good hoops. Her opponent doggedly and persistently ran one hoop at a time and, after a very even battle in the hot sunshine, won by a single point on time.
In another nail-biting game JOY and her second opponent were 11-all at the end of two hours play. They fought hard for another thirty minutes, splitting up each others balls and returning to 'mother' time and time again until JOY, who had gradually been inching her way closer to a hoop, managed to run the hoop, both players finishing exhausted in the warm sunshine.
Nailsea were 3-1 up and at this point, a wonderful, much appreciated tea was served, which we all thoroughly enjoyed !
In the final game GRETA's singles opponent started well running her first hoop. GRETA then set up a 4-ball break and made seven hoops before breaking down. Her opponent came back and skilfully took her second ball to the peg. GRETA then managed to get another break, scoring six points with her second ball. Her adversary failed to score, GRETA took one ball to the peg and, after a bit of splitting up, ran the last hoop and pegged out to win by nine points.
This was an excellent start to the season by the Nailsea team. Wellington were winners of their section of the B League last year.
| GRETA STRINGER & MARY BARNES beat GRAHAM ROSSER & SUE EUSTACE +2T |
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| JOY WILYMAN beat WENDY ROSSER +5T | MARY BARNES lost to SYLVIA LANE –1T |
| JOY WILYMAN beat JOAN KIMBER +1T | GRETA STRINGER beat WENDY ROSSER +9 |
Sat & Sun , 9th & 10th May 1998
Nailsea Weekend Handicaps Singes Tournament (CA event at Nailsea)
There were 16 competitors including competitors from Bristol, Bath, Lansdown, Shrewsbury and two from Canterbury as well as eight from the home club. The event was run as a six round Swiss and six competitors finished with four wins - a managerial nightmare! The manager, HAMISH HALL, considered the games between these six players and of these games KRISS CHAMBERS had the most wins and fewest losses and was declared the winner.
Winner KRISS CHAMBERS with 4 wins (fewest losses).
2nd= LOUISE BRADFORTH, JAMES DIXON, MARIAN HILTON, JOHN JEFFREY and IAN WILSON with 4 wins.
7th= PAT LONG, DANIEL MILLS, DAVID MURPHY and GRETA STRINGER with 3 wins.
11th= BRIAN CHRISTMAS, PETER DYKE and MICHAEL POOLE with 2 wins.
15th DAVID KIBBLE with 1 win.
16th ANN MUIR-LITTLE with no wins.
Friday 8th May 1998 – New Pavilion Opening
The official opening of Nailsea & District Croquet Club's new pavilion by Dr Liam Fox MP was followed by an exhibition match between KRISS CHAMBERS & JAMES DIXON and two former British Test Team players, Professor BERNARD NEAL & Dr MARTIN MURRAY. With around sixty spectators all four players felt the pressure, but the two youngsters coped with the stress better than their older and more experienced opponents. JAMES opened the scoring with a seven-hoop break. MARTIN replied scoring eight hoops. JAMES scored a further two points, and KRISS attempted a triple-peel. He made a twelve-hoop break and one peel. BERNARD finally got going and scored six points before JAMES completed his last two hoops and pegged out to win by twelve points.
Wed 6th May 1998 – BBC Points West Visit to NDCC
Wed 29th April 1998– HTV Visit to NDCC
Both of the events above provided good publicity for the club in the run up to the opening of the new pavilion on May 8th (see below) and the start of the new season, with another Open Day on the 17th May.
| home / away | against | result | click below for report | ||
| ‘B’ league | |||||
| Saturday 16th May | away | Wellington | Win 4 – 1 | Report | |
| Sunday 31st May | away | Exeter | Win 6 – 1 | Report | |
| Thursday 9th July | home | Plymouth | Win 6 - 1 | Report | |
| Sunday 2nd August | home | Torquay | Win 7 – 0 | Report | |
| Sunday 6th September | away | Kingston Maurward | Win 5 - 2 | Report | Semi-Final |
| Saturday 26th September | away | Bristol | Win 5 - 2 | Report | Final |
| Intermediate league | |||||
| Sunday 31st May | away | Plymouth | Win 6 – 1 | Report | |
| Sunday 21st June | home | Exeter | Win 4 – 1 | Report | |
| Sunday 28th June | away | Bristol | Win 3 – 2 | Report | |
| Sunday 26th July | home | Taunton Deane | Win 4 - 1 | Report | |
| Sunday 6th September | away | Sidmouth | Win 5 - 2 | Report | Semi-Final |
| Sunday 4th October | home | Kington Langley | Win 5 - 2 | Report | Final |
| Federation league | |||||
| Sunday 14th June | away | Bristol | Win 4 – 3 | Report | |
| Sunday 2nd August | away | Taunton | Win 6 – 1 | Report | |
| Sunday 9th August | home | Kington Langley | Loss 3 - 4 | Report | |
| Sunday 23rd August | home | Bath | Win 6 - 1 | Report | |
| Sunday 13th September | home | Dyffryn | Loss 2 - 3 | Report | Semi-Final |
| Advanced Play league |
(Parkstone Trophy) | ||||
| Sunday 31st May | home | Bristol | Loss 2 - 3 | Report | |
| Sunday 21st June | away | Dyffryn | not played | ||
| Sunday 12th July | home | Cheltenham | Win 3 - 2 | Report | |
| Sunday 26th July | away | Worcester | Win 6 - 2 | Report | |
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