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SCCC French Evening

Saturday 14^th September 2013

7pm for 7.30pm

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Soupe à l’oignon

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Pate de Mackerel Fumé

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Pork Normandie

Macédoine de legumes

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Tarte aux tomates

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Desserts français assortis

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Trophy Awards by Tournament Manager Bill Arliss: Tonbridge Wells - Doubles Winners; Sussex County 1 - Singles Winners: Janet Hoptroff (Captain), Jonathan Isaacs, Fiona Philips and Chris Rolph 

(Photos courtesy of Robin Wootton)

The SECF one ball teams event scheduled for this coming Sunday has been cancelled.

Two events made up the Annual Tournament this year, there being insufficient entries to run all three classes.

The Abbey Challenge Cup (A Class play) was won by Mark Fawcett (4/5 wins), beating Roger Wood (3/5 wins) into 2nd place. Play comprised one american block:

The B/C class event, played for the Daldy Cup comprised two 4-player mini-blocks with knockout play-off.  The event was won by Rall Hall.

There are some photos of the presentations for this CA event held at Southwick in the Photo area.  I have no details I'm afraid.

East Saxons make off with South Saxons silver

A five round Swiss was played, with three games on Saturday. The holders, Colin & Georgeen Hemmings, led the field overnight with three wins. Richard and Pat Jackson were in an unaccustomed position at the bottom of the table. Nevertheless, Sunday morning saw a comprehensive win over the leaders by Janet Overell and Margaret Hampson. Meanwhile, the hastily assembled pairing of Liz Farrow and Keith Slatter (14 bisques) emerged to face the holders (3.5) in the final round. The underdogs went well ahead but, with bisques all spent, were just overhauled as the timer ran down.

Elizabeth Castell contributed a wonderful “Porter Cake” for tea, after which she presented the Castell Soda Siphons to Colin & Georgeen.

Sixteen players had entered, with handicaps from -1 to 16. Five pairs had Southwick affiliation of some sort, the others from Colchester (2) and Purley Bury/Surbiton. The hoops had been moved and reset in the preceding week, and were firm without rabbit runs, but somewhat unforgiving. As a result, scoring was slow, with 14 of 20 games going to the 3 hour time limit.

The modified tournament regulations resulted in five handicaps (for the pair) from 1.5 to 6, and three from 9 to 14. The closeness of most games and distribution of handicaps in the final results suggest that the modified regulation is along the right lines but will, no doubt, be fine-tuned as experience is gained.

(Runners-up Keith Slatter and Liz Farrow)

(All photos courtesy of Ray Hall)

Full results:

Entrants and Final Position

Results by Round

Closing date is 15th July, not June.  Sorry.  Still plenty of time to enter!

Two events in the one-day format:  Association croquet handicap and advanced 14pt games.

The handicap event was won by Phil Dunk; a combination team of Steve Lewendon & Jim Mortell came second.

The advanced event was won by Simon Hayward Tapp who has rejoined SCCC after a gap of some decades. Welcome back, Simon.  The runner-up was Frances Low.

Full results below:

Advanced event (5 round swiss)

1 David Gillett  beat  Alan Theobald +8
2 Frances Low  beat  Jeff Rushby +8
3 Chris / Gene  beat  Graham Pegley +2t
4 Simon Hayward Tapp  beat  John Gosney +4
5 David Cook  beat  John Low +10
6 Frances Low  beat  David Gillett +5t
7 Simon Hayward Tapp  beat  Chris Constable +13
8 David Cook  beat  Alan Theobald +1t
9 John Gosney  beat  John Low +13
10 Jeff Rushby  beat  Graham Pegley +11
11 Simon Hayward Tapp  beat  Frances Low +11
12 David Cook  beat  David Gillett +8
13 Gene Mears  beat  Jeff Rushby +5
14 Alan Theobald  beat  John Gosney +1t
15 John Low  beat  Graham Pegley +1t
16 Simon Hayward Tapp  beat  David Cook +7
17 Frances Low  beat  Gene Mears +7
18 David Gillett  beat  John Gosney +2
19 John Low  beat  Jeff Rushby +6
20 Graham Pegley  beat  Alan Theobald +12
21 Simon Hayward Tapp  beat  David Gillett +9
22 Frances Low  beat  David Cook +9
23 Jeff Rushby  beat  Alan Theobald +1
24 Graham Pegley  beat  John Gosney +2

Simon Hayward Tapp 5 wins
Frances Low 4 wins
David Gillett & David Cook 3 wins
John Low, Gene Mears, Jeff Rushby & Graham Pegley 2 wins
Alan Theobald & John Gosney 1 win.

Handicap event (5 round american)

1  Simon Mew  beat   Liz Farrow +2
2  Keith Slatter  beat   Clive Hayton +8
3  Jim / Steve  beat   Phil Dunk +3
4  Clive Hayton  beat   Liz Farrow +8
5  Phil Dunk  beat   Simon Mew +3
6  Jim / Steve  beat   Keith Slatter +1
7  Liz Farrow  drew with   Jim / Steve
8  Phil Dunk  beat   Keith Slatter +1
9  Simon Mew  beat   Clive Hayton +6
10  Liz Farrow  beat   Keith Slatter +6
11  Jim / Steve  drew with  Simon Mew
12  Phil Dunk  beat   Clive Hayton +1
13  Clive Hayton  beat   Jim / Steve +2
14  Keith Slatter  beat   Simon Mew +9
15  Liz Farrow  drew with   Phil Dunk

Phil Dunk 3 wins
Cline Hayton, Simon Mew, Jim/Steve and Keith Slatter 2 wins

Liz Farrow 1 win.

(Sorry, no photos!)

If you would like to play on Ladies day, please sign up on the list on the notice board or let Gene Mears or Liz Farrow know.

You can also email ladiesday@sussexcountycroquetclub.org.uk

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