Mark Ormerod won the CA Selectorss Weekend for “up and coming” players. This advanced association tournament is designed to encourage players with the potential to go on to compete in more national tournaments- in Mark’s case it is of course a second coming, as he used to compete at this level in the 80’s. Congratulations to Mark and we look forward to more success for him.

Meanwhile Kent’s golf inter-counties team had two Dulwich players, Simon Carter and Pierre Beaudry. The team won their seventh inter-counties title confirming their position as the most consistently successful inter-counties team. Congratulations also to them.

The winning team, Pierre (left) and Simon (right)

The Winners

Michael Goodman amd John Reddish showed that age and recuperation from joint replacements is no bar to competitive croquet, convincingly winning the Fairbairns golf handicap doubles on 17th September with 4 wins out of 4. Gloria and Ken Watson chased them home with 3/4 while the rest of us admired and tried to play croquet.

For a more eloquent comentary on the day, our resident bard has written:

Thank you Simon for captaining this event
And to Pat whose lunch was heaven sent
We all enjoyed our eventful day
Although I truly have to say
That it would have been more fun to win
But losing is not such a terrible sin!
In the morning the sun shone on us all
But by afternoon it began to rain and squall
Michael and John proved a formidable pair
They truly deserved the trophy that they share
Ken and Gloria were worthy runners up
And the rest of us tried our best to catch them up
So sadly Simon and Pat, Jan and myself, and Robert and Anne
Were in order left behind
But at the end of the day we had such fun
we really, truly, did not mind!

JMP. 18/09/11

James Benson was a worthy winner of the Badger trophy winning all five of his games, beating Pierre Beaudry, Eric Driver John Reddish and Simon Whiteley (twice- once by +26), together with a handicap reduction to 7.