We are sad to report the death of past member Martin Rogers.

Martin and his wife Verna were members from the 1990's until at least 2010 when this (poor, but the only one I have) photo was taken at the opening ceremony for the new Bar. Verna had, I think, died at that point, but was well known to members for her club teas.

Martin was a former electrical engineer working for an international company. He didn't play competitive croquet outside the club but within it he won a number of AC competitions: the Bush Cup in 1994, the Daldy Cup in 1995, the Ron Whetstone Mixed Doubles Cup in 1996. In 2000 he had his best success, beating Christine Constable in the final to win the Sussex Gold Challenge Cup. His final win was the Monteith Bowl in 2002, at that time the D Class AC Summer Tournament trophy. He contributed to tournaments in other small but important ways, undertaking tasks like clearing up the corner markers without fuss.

Martin remained active in the Working Party, turning up regularly for the Tuesday meetings in the winter.

A number of members from the early 2000's will remember him well and further memories here will be welcome; contact the webmaster.

Good news for club kitchen!

We took delivery of our great new pass through dishwasher today. It is not plumbed in yet as it took rather a lot of effort to actually get it into the kitchen! Many thanks to Richard Carline and Richard Pointon for their hard work.

The washing up team will be very pleased!!

Half Day GC Singles Monday, 11 November 2024

The sun shines on the righteous. After 2 weeks of cloud the sun finally broke through to shine on the 24 SCCC members who entered one of our increasingly popular half day tournaments. It was great to see many of our new members playing in a tournament for the first time alongside the more familiar ones.

There were 5 divisions of 4 so everyone had 3 games some of which where so hard-fought they had to be curtailed for reasons of time. Morgan and Kathy each won 2 games in Division A with Morgan slightly ahead on net hoops (+5 to +3).

In Division B, one player had to leave early but not before being beaten by Jo Crosby who went on to comfortably beat the other 2 so winning the division. The other two players had the dubious benefit of a 'friendly' match against the TM.

Pam Gooders dominated Division C, winning all three games with +5 net hoops.

Peter Goldsmith and Sue Kilby battled it out in Division D, each winning 2 games, but Peter's net hoop margin of +5 (against Sue's +3) saw him win the division.

One of our newest members, Chris Baccarini, on Division E with 2 wins and +3 net hoops and Linda Davies was second, also with 2 wins.

Congratulations to all our winners and many thanks also to Clive Jones, newly qualified, who kindly agreed to be the Tournament Referee.

And thanks to Vincent for managing the event.

Full results