Sussex County Croquet Club

1    David Bell    Stephen Custance-Baker    7-4
2    Ian Shore    Leslie Heard    7-6
3    Roger Goldring    Paul Gunn    7-5
4    Michael O'Brian    Elizabeth Farrow    7-3
5    Peter Balchin    Nicholas Cheyne    7-5
6    Richard Brooks    Colin Britt    7-4
7    Bill Arliss    Keith Webb    7-4
8    Robin Wootton    Ray Mounfield    7-5
9    Nicholas Cheyne    Ray Mounfield    7-5
10    Peter Balchin    Richard Brooks    7-5
11    Colin Britt    Bill Arliss    7-5
12    Robin Wootton    Keith Webb    7-4
13    David Bell    Michael O'Brian    7-2
14    Ian Shore    Roger Goldring    7-3
15    Elizabeth Farrow    Paul Gunn    7-3
16    Leslie Heard    Stephen Custance-Baker    7-5
17    David Bell    Ian Shore    5-5
18    Elizabeth Farrow    Stephen Custance-Baker    7-5
19    Michael O'Brian    Roger Goldring    7-6
20    Leslie Heard    Paul Gunn    7-3
21    Nicholas Cheyne    Colin Britt    7-5
22    Peter Balchin    Robin Wootton    7-6
23    Bill Arliss    Ray Mounfield    7-6
24    Richard Brooks    Keith Webb    7-6
25    Nicholas Cheyne    Keith Webb    7-4
26    Colin Britt    Robin Wootton    7-3
27    Bill Arliss    Peter Balchin    7-6
28    Richard Brooks    Ray Mounfield    7-4
29    Paul Gunn    David Bell    7-6
30    Elizabeth Farrow    Ian Shore    7-5
31    Stephen Custance-Baker    Roger Goldring    7-1
32    Michael O'Brian    Leslie Heard    7-5
33    David Bell    Leslie Heard    7-4
34    Elizabeth Farrow    Roger Goldring    7-4
35    Ian Shore    Stephen Custance-Baker    7-5
36    Paul Gunn    Michael O'Brian    7-5
37    Nicholas Cheyne    Richard Brooks    7-4
38    Bill Arliss    Robin Wootton    7-5
39    Colin Britt    Peter Balchin    7-4
40    Ray Mounfield    Keith Webb    7-6
41    Robin Wootton    Nicholas Cheyne    7-6
42    Richard Brooks    Bill Arliss    7-6
43    Ray Mounfield    Peter Balchin    7-4
44    Colin Britt    Keith Webb    7-6
45    Elizabeth Farrow    David Bell    7-5
46    Leslie Heard    Roger Goldring    7-4
47    Stephen Custance-Baker    Michael O'Brian    7-3
48    Paul Gunn    Ian Shore    7-3
49    Roger Goldring    David Bell    7-4
50    Paul Gunn    Stephen Custance-Baker    7-4
51    Leslie Heard    Elizabeth Farrow    7-4
52    Michael O'Brian    Ian Shore    7-6
53    Nicholas Cheyne    Bill Arliss    7-3
54    Peter Balchin    Keith Webb    7-2
55    Richard Brooks    Robin Wootton    7-2
56    Ray Mounfield    Colin Britt    7-3
57    Colin Britt    Elizabeth Farrow    7-4
58    Elizabeth Farrow    Colin Britt    7-3
59    Colin Britt    Elizabeth Farrow    7-2
60    Michael O'Brian    Leslie Heard    7-4
61    Michael O'Brian    Leslie Heard    7-4
62    Bill Arliss    Richard Brooks    7-4
63    Richard Brooks    Bill Arliss    7-3
64    Bill Arliss    Richard Brooks    6-5
65    Nicholas Cheyne    Paul Gunn    7-3
66    Paul Gunn    Nicholas Cheyne    7-5
67    Paul Gunn    Nicholas Cheyne    6-4
68    Elizabeth Farrow    Leslie Heard    7-5
69    Nicholas Cheyne    Richard Brooks    7-3
70    Colin Britt    Michael O'Brian    7-2
71    Colin Britt    Michael O'Brian    7-4
72    Paul Gunn    Bill Arliss    7-3
73    Paul Gunn    Bill Arliss    7-3
74    Richard Brooks    Leslie Heard    7-3
75    Nicholas Cheyne    Elizabeth Farrow    7-3
76    Paul Gunn    Colin Britt    7-4
77    Paul Gunn    Colin Britt    7-5

There must be a very good crop of mussels this year as the seagulls are bringing lots of them on to our lawns. If you do pick up any, please will you put them in the bins in the huts or the clubhouse. Moving the shells to the side of the lawns might cause the shells to be broken up by the rotary mower and unfortunately the broken pieces might find their way back on to the lawns and this can damage the cylinder mowers.

Thanks

Clive

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Sussex County Annual Tournament

Blustery conditions at Southwick for the start of the Annual Tournament together with grey skies but the sun came out Wednesday and Thursday afternoons to make for reasonable playing conditions

For the first time it was held on weekdays alone rather than at weekends. Older long-standing players will remember of course when this tournament ran for six days (managed for many years by Paul MacDonald) but that format gave way - as it did at many clubs - to separate events on different days before reducing to a weekend class event.

Weekday timetabling seems to have been successful because (2nd 1st!) this year we had 22 entries and were able to run 3 class events for advanced play and so to award the three trophies: Abbey Challenge Cup (A class), Scott Cup (B class) and Daldy Cup (C class).

The third 1st this year was the decision to trial running a golf croquet event at the same time as the association competitions. This was advertised around the South East Croquet Federation clubs as a trial and attracted 10 entrants. The intention, subject to final agreement by the Committee is to continue this event next year and a trophy with an interesting and longstanding connection with the Club - the Jellicorse Cup - has been allocated. Like the Abbey Challenge and the Daldy Cups, this is one of the earliest trophies belonging to the club and all have some well-known names on them.

Golf Croquet - the Jellicorse Cup

To provide sufficient play for the weekend this competition was run as an initial single American block. The same participants were then seeded into an 8 player knockout, with those being knocked out having consolation games as required. The top 4 players from the block stage were Roger Sutton, Jonathan Isaacs, Keith Webb and Richard Brooks in that order. The knockout stage and overall winner was Richard Brooks who beat Keith Webb in the final 7-6. Congratulations to him.

Association Croquet

Abbey Challenge Cup

Six competitors contested this event which was played as an American Block. Some high-class play, particularly from Luc and Cliff. Both suffered setbacks though: Luc was beaten in one round by David Boyd (h/c 2 to Luc's -1) and Cliff went down to Chris Roberts after persistent trouble with hoop 2 and a white ball (eventually checked and found to be oversize!).

The final round was effectively the final, between Luc and Cliff, with Luc emerging the winner. Congratulations to him.

Scott Cup

Eight players contested this trophy arranged in two preliminary blocks with cross-over sem-finals and finals. Daphne Gaitley and Brian Havill were placed first in their respective blocks and also emerged in the knockout stage as the finalists. Trailing through much of the game, Daphne fought back with an excellent break but eventually succumbed to Brian's higher hit-in rate. Congratuations to Brian Havill who won all his 5 games in the weekend.

Daldy Cup

Eight players contested this trophy arranged in two preliminary blocks with cross-over sem-finals and finals. David Gaitley and Clive Hayton were placed first in their respective blocks and they too contested the final. Both players had played some excellent croquet throught the competition and their meet in the final was worth watching; although Clive was ahead for much of the game, it was a match that could have gone either way until a tactical error by David in pegging out one of Clive's balls quickly handed the latter the victory. I believe this is Clive's first open tournament win so special congratulations to him.

Results

GC Jellicorse Cup

Consolation games:
Maggie Webb beat Linda Gavigan 7-2
Tony Jolly beat Des Taylor 7-5
David King beat Jonathan Isaacs 7-5

AC Abbey Challenge

AC Scott Cup

AC Daldy Cup

Additional consolation play-off games in Scott and Daldy cups:
Neil Coote beat Chris Coote +17
Caroline Denny beat John M Taylor +14
Caroline Denny beat Liz Farrow +23
Neil Coote beat John M Taylor +5

Phil Dunk beat Frances Colman +15
Arthur Lindley beat John Gosney +11
Chris Rolph beat Ray Hall +1
Phil Dunk beat John Gosney +4
Arthur Lindley beat Frances Colman +1

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