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16 May 2008 Defence of Mary Rose title began well yesterday at Bristol. Report by John Filsak Our defence of our Mary Rose title began well yesterday at Bristol, when we beat them 5-2. We put up Peter Wilson, John Filsak, David Turner and Abdul Ahmad, with a combined handicap of 18.5, against their team who totalled 11. We were 2-1 down at half-time, thanks mainly to Peter and John, who managed to lose a game they had won. John failed to get position for the rover peel when he had a chance to finish. Then Peter missed the return roquet after running rover. So from peg and peg v rover and six, I don't think we took croquet again in the match, and lost by 2. We made up for it in the afternoon, though, winning all of the games. Abdul collected a load of handicap points to get back to 7. Our next match has to be played before July 27 and will be against Nottingham or Cheltenham. Watch this space. Full game scores: Rosemary Gugan (2) and Marian Hilton (2) beat Peter (2.5) and John (3) +2 Frances Ransom (3) beat David (5)+10 Hamish Hall (4) lost to Abdul (8) -22 Rosemary lost to Peter -10 Marian lost to John -17 Frances lost to Abdul -14 Hamish lost to David -11 | |||||||
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The Ballad of the Pendle and Craven Bandits. By David Turner The Pendle Four rode from the North And as the sun went down The Earby Gang were riding hard Into Bristol Town. The locals shut the city gates, News spread like wildfire, Panic flared in Bristol Town And all of Gloucestershire. "The Pendle Bandits are in Town," Was the fearful cry, They're holed up at Briggs Causeway Lodge! Take to your heels and fly!" "Who will defend us?" the Sheriff cried, "Are there no men brave and true Prepared to fight for Bristol's honour And defeat this Craven Crew? All Bristol's men looked at the ground, Then Kibble called aloud, "Their mallets are accurate and hard.!" "Aye!" echoed the crowd. Above the restless murmuring Three voices high and clear - "Us women of Westbury on Trym Know not cowardice or fear." "If led by Hamish in his kilt We'll take on the Bandit band And fight or fall in the attempt To defend our Croquet Land." The battle lasted all that day, Mallets shot straight and hard, When High Noon came the Bristol Girls Were two up on the card. A brief truce was declared at last To parly and eat chuck Give in now the lasses urged - "No! you can go and suck "Yourselves!" the bandits boldly cried, "We'll fight another round And when the sun at last goes down You'll all be in the ground!" The sound of mallets firing fast Echoed over Bristol City Grey clouds covered the darkened day But Bristol got no pity. All four fighters were defeated The bandits won five three And only Kibble would not yield, he refused to bend his knee. His rage was uncontrollable And with a GC mallet He shot hard at the bandits car Purposely to ram it. His aim was poor he missed by miles His girlfriend's car behind Got the force right up her boot, Now Kibble's partly blind! | |||||||
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David Turner writes: To understand the last part of the Ballad you need to have read Dave Kibbles mail to the Nottingham board below:- Last night I was playing GC at Bristol CC when an attempted clearance (from corner 4 at a ball in front of hoop 1) missed, left the lawn, landed on a car and caused a dent. Naturally I feel responsible, but since I don't think I behaved negligently or recklessly I wonder what the legal position is and whose insurance is most likely to pay up. It seems to me that clubs have some responsibility at least and should be alerted to the possibility. The lawn is sunken and has slopes that obviously act as take-off ramps for speeding balls. The club allows parking alongside the lawn and has not provided any boundary boards since gentle shots are fully stopped by the slope, though it is very common for most players to have to retrieve a ball from amongst the cars. The event was foreseeable in as much as both the car's owner and I had on previous occasions seen near accidents, albeit at lower ball speeds. There must be many similar cases from other sports - most obviously golf - for example if a player plays a normal stroke but overlies the green by 20 yards landing on a car in the club's car park, which is carelessly sited adjacent to the green. I'm not really interested in sparking a big debate and reading dozens of opinions, but does anyone know of a legal precedent? (BTW, I fully accept that I shouldn't have been playing GC in the first place!) Cheers Dave | TOP |
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