Nail-biting match!

The away team skipped by Dave Pitt held on to a lead and the home team were close most of the way but it all came down to the final end being played at Ashford.
Cambridge Park won by 1 shot  Whoopee! Well done chaps!

Happy Birthday to Gerry Swan who is 97 today!

Sadly, he is no longer able to bowl but he likes to keep in touch with all the bowls’ news from the club so keep on winning club matches/club competitions/county & National competitions as he likes the updates!

 

If you’ve entered the Club 75 shots competition, it’s tomorrow.
Please check at club or with Peter C for timings.
All day!  Good luck!

Message from the Board

To all members:

We have recently had an EPOS (till) system upgrade, necessitating the replacement of all existing Membership Cards, because we have changed from magnetic stripe swipe cards to a touch card system and the old cards are incompatible with the new hardware.

This will be a simple and seamless swap of your current membership card with your new membership card, which will have the same number and the same balance (if any). Membership card functionality remains unchanged. Old cards have the black stripe on the back, new cards do not.

We are also taking this opportunity to implement a deposit scheme for locker keys, member cards and door fobs.

Because we have had to replace a lot of these due to members losing them, or not returning them when they leave the club, we require a single, refundable deposit of £10 for these items to help cover the cost of replacements. The £10 deposit will be refunded on return of the three items.

When you swap your member card, we will request that you pay the deposit using your new member card – you can top this up using cash or payment card in the normal way.

Thanks to those members who have already paid their deposit!

Congratulations Tina, Nadine, Cathy & Ann H who are through to the Middlesex Fours Final v West Ealing.

Today, the Club team lost to West Ealing in the R&B League 1-2 on rinks but we did try very hard!  A lucky in-off from Dawn provided a 17-16 win. good leading by Elaine with some added crackers from Caroline and Gym at 2 and 3 !

Thanks to Alasdair and Karen who were at the Club for quite a long time again looking after the Coaching Examinees as well as us.
Thanks to Elaine, Joan & Tricia who cleared up and washed up.

Good team work everyone.

Good luck to Tina, Nadine, Ann H & Cathy in the quarter (and hopefully) semi-finals of the Ladies Fours this morning over in Bounds Green.
Good luck to our R&BL team playing West Ealing at home starting at 3:00 pm

Unfortunately, Hurlingham Club couldn’t get a team out for this Tuesday, so the fixture has been moved to Tuesday 29th July.

New sign up sheet on the board later today for this fixture as well as all the fixtures up to the end of July.

Well Middlesex won by a good clear margin. 4 winning , 1 losing and 1 drawn rink. Next match in 21st June away v Kent

Many thanks to Karen who bought all the food and had a good hand in the preparation with Marie working like a Trojan all afternoon with Ann H and Jacqui mucking in when they weren’t on keeping track of rink scores every 5 ends!

Thanks to Alasdair who manned the bar all day joined post match to hydrate the hordes!

Thanks as well to Tony and Brian who set up the green for us  and to Ron and Paul who were the official umpires.

There was about 10 mins of sunshine and 2 hours of solid downpour  – we were soaked. Bowlers are tough cookies!

It’s really brilliant to get a win in the first of our three round robin matches!

 

Within the playing Middlesex team , we have Tina, Karen, Cathy, Nadine and Dawn, Ann B with Jacqui on the subs bench. It was Karen’s debut appearance and she was in a winning rink  Nadine, Tina along with Tonia (Brentham) and Liz from Grovelands took top rink with a very convincing win

 

We learned today that Life Member John Linnell passed away last week.
John and his mother bowled at Cambridge Park for several years.
He was probably one of the first people to use a ‘bowling arm’ at the Club.
He participated in various Club competitions and signed up for most of the Friendly matches. He also enjoyed the tours to Potters in the early 2000’s.
He very nearly beat a top ranked bowler in the first round of the Planet Bowls (now Open Singles Circuit) at CP. It was a very close match and John certainly made his opponent sweat!

John had to stop playing a few years ago due to mobility and transport issues, but he invited me over last year as he had a gift for the Club … namely a complete Umpire’s Kit in a leather case. It was a very generous gift and as the Club’s umpire’s set was falling apart with bits missing, this was a very welcome gift and gratefully received and is in full use.

john’s funeral is on Tuesday 17th June at Hanworth Crematorium at 2:40 pm.

RIP John.