Jill Brooks
4/7/22
Midweek Cup 2022 Final Results
Another great afternoon of bowling in the last leg of the Mid Week Cup.
Some very dark looking clouds came over the green as the game started, but we all said the Magic Word Bill Giles and the sun came out.
Well done to Marion’s team who won all of their matches over the last three weeks giving them a convincing win.
Adrian
The winning team of Keith Brooks, Marion Keal and Dave Holland.
Whitsun Cup Report 2022
What a great afternoon of bowls, the sun came out in the second half to help with the people that had frostbite by then. The game was played by 4 teams of 4 players, Team 1 played team 2, and team 3 played team 4. The winners between 1 & 2 played the winners of 3 & 4 over 10 ends, with a 10 end final and a play off for the runners up from each side.
The games where played in a great spirit, with a lot of banter, and we rang the bell when John Walkers team finally managed a point in the second round.
Maybe the highlight was the excellent pots of tea made by the competition secretary at half time. :-)
Well done to Team 2 who won the final but maybe the overall winners where all that played an enjoyable afternoon of bowls,
Adrian
The winning team
All competitors enjoyed a brilliant afternoon competition:
I wonder what Terri is thinking?
We have found an extra pair to play in this competition so we will draw the whole competition again tonight - Tuesday - at around 6pm at the club.
Be there or be square :-)
There have been updates to both the Rink Diary and the website over the winter period.
Rink Diary
This has 2 new features :-
1. The date bar at the top of the screen is now static so that when scrolling up and down
it remains in place.
2. There is now a Create Invitation facility that reserves a slot on a rink but allows up to 3 others to add their names
for a roll-up.
3. There have been some changes to game names e.g. there is now just 1 game name for roll-ups
rather boringly called Roll-up. Please see below regarding booking them.
There is a revised manual online so please check it for more details.
Now that the pandemic situation has changed somewhat the rules on rink booking have changed.
All County, club matches, day tournaments and Friday League have already been entered in the diary.
All internal competition games must be entered in the diary by competitors.
It is now optional to book roll-ups, however, it is strongly recommended that you continue to book them to ensure
you get a rink.
Website
There have been a number of content changes in the Members Area so if you are not registered yet please do so
to access these, and at the same time sign up for the weekly newsletter which will be restarting soon.
The following are updated (on October 8th) documents for the AGM
Thame Bowls Club AGM on Monday, 1st November 2021 commencing at 7.00pm for 7.30pm start at the Bowls Club.
A list of Officers and Committee Members to serve for the following year will be distributed by e mail and posted on the Club Notice Boards. Please give this some consideration over the coming weeks and come forward if you wish to join the Committee in any of these roles.
Please let your Secretary, Chris Shannon or me have any propositions you would like to be debated and voted on at the AGM; these should be submitted to us in writing over the next few weeks and no later than Monday 18thOctober. Proposals should be proposed and seconded by Club members. (New ideas are most welcome - so if you have any ideas or proposals for change, please feel free to discuss these with Chris or anyone from the Committee and we will be happy to help formalise these into proposals for consideration at the AGM).
In addition, the Committee will be very happy to take any questions from the floor, though it will not be possible to vote on any new proposals not submitted formally as above.
I hope you will all feel it is important that you make every effort to be at the AGM to hear the reports of your Club officials and to hear what your Committee has planned for our Club over the next 12 months.
As usual, all those attending the AGM will have the opportunity to take part in our annual draw for a free membership during the 2022 season.
Chairman
Bill Giles
2021 Competition Finals
The annual Club Competition Finals were held over the weekend of the 10th,11th and 12th September. It was great to see so much support on each of the days by those of us who didn’t quite make it as far as the finals and were checking out the competition for next year.
Across the 3 days there were 12 finals. The weather was kind to us on every day and the standard of bowling was extremely high with a number of nail-biting finishes, but special mention must go to Robin Hicks and John Walker in The Taylor Cup. This is a first to 21 shots competition and the score reached 20 shots each. Ian managed to capture the scoreboard :-
So on to the final end and the final head and in the end it finished looking like this :-
with John Walker scoring 2 shots and claiming the victory.
Robin Hicks had 3 finals to play over the weekend across the three days. He warmed up on Friday evening losing in the Michael Jones Cup, played John Walker in the Taylor Cup on Saturday which we’ve just read about, losing in the last end, but finally won a nail biter in the Jubilee Handicap 22-19 on Sunday against Adrian Wilcox, the match neck and neck right to the end.
Other particularly close games were the Ladies Two Wood Cup that finished 16-14 with Marion finally beating Frances on the last end and the Josey Cup Married Pairs when the Ashfields won 17-16, going into the final end 1 shot down, this one providing an exciting finale to the Friday night matches.
There are pictures in the gallery here of all the winners plus some other photos taken over the 3 days.(Note - click on an image to expand it)
Note you will need to be registered on the website to view these. If you are not and want to subscribe please see the Account Registration button at the top of the web page or click here to go to it.
The full list of winners is :-
Ford Cup Heather Hallchurch & Marion Keal
Victory Pairs Graham Watson & Mike Sawyer
Josey Cup Ann & John Ashfield
Michael Jones Cup Ian Rutherford
Honour Cup Barbara Waters
Two Wood Cop Marion Keal
Taylor Cup John Walker
Walker Cup Chris Shannon
Pomeroy Cup Heather Hallchurch
Jubilee Handicap Robin Hicks
Warwick Cup Deirdre Page & Ray Plested
Coronation Cup Ian Rutherford
Many thanks to everyone who helped make these competitions a success especially those who ran the bar and the green team for providing a brilliant playing surface.
Also thanks to Geoff Roynon, Irena Watson and Ian Rutherford for the photos.
Here’s looking forward to next year.
Adrian Wilcox
Competitions Secretary.
19th September 2021
Friday 8th October is the last day the green will be available.
Volunteers will be needed to help close down for the winter so if you can help please let Chris Shannon know.
We'll put up more information on the details of what is required as it becomes available.
The Chairman v Secretary match will now be held on the 25th September at 2pm.
Format will be decided on the day depending on the number of entrants.
If you want to play please put your name up on the board outside the changing rooms.
The following is a summary list of winners of this years Competition Finals.
The Competion Draws have been updated and there will be photos and a bit more detail to follow.
| Friday 10th September | Finalists | Winners | |||
| 5.00pm Ford Cup | Heather Hallchurch & Marion Keal v Deirdre Page & Gini Williams | Heather Hallchurch & Marion Keal | |||
| 5.00pm Victory Pairs | Mike Sawyer & Graham Watson v Norman Hyde & Ray Plested | Graham Watson & Mike Sawyer | |||
| 5.00pm Josey Cup | Terri & Roger Blackburn v Ann & John Ashfield | Ann & John Ashfield | |||
| 5.00pm Michael Jones Cup | Robin Hicks v Ian Rutherford | Ian Rutherford | |||
| Saturday 11th September | |||||
| 10.30am Honour Cup | Barbara Waters v Gini Williams | Barbara Waters | |||
| 10.30am Two Wood Cup | Marion Keal v Frances Goodyear | Marion Keal | |||
| 2.00pm Taylor Cup | Robin Hicks v John Walker | John Walker | |||
| 2.00pm Walker Cup | Dave Holland v Chris Shannon | Chris Shannon | |||
| Sunday 12th September | |||||
| 10.30am Pomeroy Cup | Marion Keal v Heather Hallchurch | Heather Hallchurch | |||
| 10.30am Jubilee Handicap | Robin Hicks v Adrian Wilcox | Robin Hicks | |||
| 10.30am Warwick Cup | Deirdre Page & Ray Plested v Frances Goodyear & Geoff Roynon | Deirdre Page & Ray Plested | |||
The Presentation Evening is on Saturday 2nd October.
The cost is £5 per head which needs to be paid beforehand and which includes chicken and chips or veggie burger and chips.
Sign up and payment should be made at the bar please - cash only.
The final date to sign up and pay for this is Friday 24th September.
Outline timetable.
Arrivals from 6.00pm
Raffle board on sale and socialising
Welcome and introduction 6.45pm Bill Giles
Food Arrives 7.00pm - please note this must have been ordered beforehand - see above - as we are using outside caterers.
Presentations begin 7.45 Adrian Wilcox/Gordon Taylor
Raffle 8.30pm then it's time to admire the trophies on your table and have a few drinks.
The Friday League, which again attracted over 72 players with at least another dozen members helping to run it, has come to an exciting conclusion. Team I consisting of Ken Bennell, Keith Brooks, Ray Lewin, Peter Dawe, Sharon Heafey and John Ashfield narrowly beat Team B ( Geoff Roynon, Peter Gibbons, Heather Halchurch, Adrian Wilcox, Kevin Dennington and Deidre Page) to the title by just 2 points.
The whole eleven weeks were very well attended with many spectators cheering on their favourites and an overall marvellous club spirit continued throughout the tournament.
This great social event for the club was helped in no small way by many non-players with Jane Kimber assisted by Jenny Lowe, Sue Ludgate, Gini Williams and Jill Brooks fed the teams with bacon and sausage rolls whilst John Walker and colleagues kept us well supplied from the bar, Jesse Matthews did a stirling job of laying out all the equipment prior to every game while Maire and Ron Duncan kept control of the scores and results and Philip Reed put all the weekly results on the website. The club received well over £1500 over the season from the Friday League- not including the bar sales- which was largely due to Norman Hyde and Richard Ramsey in persuading all of us to spend on the raffle , which gave away over £600 in prize money. I would like to thank Peter Gibbons too who kindly donated all of the sausages and to the Cornfield Bakery for the bread rolls free of charge.
Next year the Friday League will be in colour! A club member, who wishes to remain anonymous but is an expert in IT,has kindly agreed to supply every team member with a coloured shirt and to enable this to happen in good time the teams will be picked by the end of September so as to know who is in what team and what size of shirt they will need and I am pleased to say that everyone who took part this year has agreed to play next year. And I can also reveal that next year for the first time ever there will be a blind bowler taking part.
Thank you all for taking part so enthusiastically and look forward to a colourful 2022
Bill Giles
The final round of this years Friday league was held last night.
The league winners were Team I who won by 2 points.
The results and final table can be found here.
A few fascinating facts :-
There were a total of 66 matches.
There were 11,820 shots - it would have been 11,880 but one team was reduced to 2 players for one match so their opponents
only played 2 bowls each rather than 3.
There were 1201 scoring shots which is 10.61% of the total shots.
There were a total of 14 bonus points scored by 6 teams.
Every team won at least 1 match and there were only 2 draws.
Here's hoping next year is just as entertaining.
Potter Cup 29th August 2021
Start Time 1pm
RULES OF PLAY
1 The games will be played in pairs – a team of 2 players with 3 bowls each.
2 There will be no trial ends and no visiting the head
3 There will be two groups of 4 teams and each team will play the other teams in their group ie 3 games in total.
4 Each game will be of 5 ends . Scoring in each game will be 1 point for each end won and 2 points for each game won. If the game ends in a draw, each team will be given 1 point.
5 If the scores are level after the 3 games are completed, the winners will be the team with the most shots – or if scores are still level, then most ends won. Should the scores still be level, an extra end will be played.
ORDER OF PLAY
Rink Round 1 Round 2 Round 3
2 1 v 2 1 v 3 2 v 3
3 3 v 4 2 v 4 1 v 4
4 5 v 6 5 v 7 6 v 7
5 7 v 8 6 v 8 5 v 8
The winning team from each group will play each other in the final game of 6 ends.
Dress code is white.
TEAMS
SKIPS LEAD
Team 1 John Walker Colin Feltham
Team 2 Terry Emberson Keith Brooks
Team 3 Chris Shannon Mike Zak
Team 4 Ron Duncan Norman Hyde
Team 5 Dave Holland John Hurley
Team 6 Jesse Matthews Roger Blackburn
Team 7 Geoff Roynon Mike Sawyer
Team 8 Steve Silver Chris Trainer
Results and table from Mondays matches of the Friday League - quirky but true - can be found here.
This Friday, 27th, is the final round of this years league.
Why not come along, even if you are not playing, to celebrate or commiserate with this years players.
Presidents Day - 17th August 2021
It was a typical August summer day - cloudy cool and breezy but dry and 32 members of Thame Bowls club arrived to play on President’s Day.
But before the main event started there was a short competition, called Narrow Gate to get everyone loosened up and this was won by Sharon Heafey.
Then the Bowls tournament commenced. There were 8 teams of 4 players divided into two groups of 4 teams with each team team playing the other teams in their group over 5 ends each. The winning team from each group to meet in the final game.
After the group games were completed, the two winning teams were :-
Group 1 - Gini Williams, Norman Hyde, Jan Sargeant and Bill Giles
Group 2 - Maureen Giles, Mike Zac, Janet Shannon and Jesse Matthews.
The final was played over 6 ends which Jesse Matthews team won 9 shots to 6.
After the tournament there was a big money raffle and a bottle of single malt whiskey, kindly donated by Sharon Heafey, was auctioned for £36.
This helped to bring the total donated to date to £226. I will keep this running until the sponsors evening on the 3rd September. All the money raised will be given to the Oxford branch of Maggies which is a charity that offers support to cancer patients.
I would like to thank everyone who came along and played in the competition and for all who helped in any way to make President’s Day an enjoyable and happy occasion.
Thank you.
Gordon Taylor
Match results and table can be found here
Presidents Day – August 17th2021
PROPOSED PROGRAMME FOR THE DAY
12.30pm Narrow Gate Competition
1.00 Group matches commence
3.00 Interval - tea and cakes provided
3.45 Group matches recommence to completion
4.30 Drinks break and raffle
Half the proceeds of the raffle will be given as prizes and the other half to my chosen charity which is Maggies Cancer Support in Oxford.
5.00 Grand Final
6.00 Presentation and close
Fee for the day : £5
RULES OF PLAY
1 The games will be played in rinks – a team of 4 players with 2 bowls each.
2 There will be no trial ends and no visiting the head
3 There will be two groups of 4 teams and each team will play the other teams in their group ie 3 games in total.
4 Each game will be of 5 ends . Scoring in each game will be 1 point for each end won and 2 points for each game won. If the game ends in a draw, each team will be given 1 point.
5 If the scores are level after the 3 games are completed, the winners will be the team with the most shots – or if scores are still level, then most ends won. Should the scores still be level, an extra end will be played.
ORDER OF PLAY
Rink Round 1 Round 2 Round 3
2 1 v 2 1 v 3 2 v 3
3 3 v 4 2 v 4 1 v 4
4 5 v 6 5 v 7 6 v 7
5 7 v 8 6 v 8 5 v 8
The winning team from each group will play each other in the final game of 6 ends.
Please note that the rink number on which you play your second game will be the table number for refreshments.
Dress code is grey.
Teams
These are as follows:
1 Peter Gibbons, Mike Sawyer, Sharon Heafey and Barbara Waters
2 Val Sawyer, Roger Blackburn, Jane Kimber and Ray Plested
3 Chris Trainer, Alison Wilkinson, Ron Duncan and Jill Brooks
4 Maureen Giles, Mike Zak, Janet & Chris Shannon and Jesse Matthews
5 Gini Williams, Norman Hyde, Jan Sargeant and Bill Giles
6 David Hickman, Marion Keal, Maire Duncan and Dave Holland
7 Terri Blackburn, Roger Mackriell, Kevin Sharman and Deidre Page
8 Maggie Gibbons, Keith Brooks, Geoff Roynon and Frances Goodyear
Please note that the names are listed in order of play with the first name to be lead and the last skip.
My thanks again for signing up to play – very much appreciated.
Gordon
Match results and table can be found here
The Paul Heafey Cup
The final evening of three brought out the best of the Paul Heafey Cup (the annual competition for new or nearly new bowlers) with a close competition going right down to the wire on the additional play off end.
Team A, Jo Green and Ben Whitting had won both of their previous two matches and had accumulated 13 points. The team in second place after two games, Team C, Maggie Gibbons and Brian Munday, had 8 points and the team in third place, Team B, Ken Lewis and Frank Woolley, had 7 points.
Team A played Team D, Chris Trainer and Pat Munday, who had not won any points after two games and lost to them by 7 shots to nil giving Team D 7 points. Team C played Team B and lost to them by 11 shots to 1 shot, giving Team B 6 points.
This left both Team A and Team B on 13 points each and after counting back the winning number of ends and then shots (21 each) a sudden death additional end was arranged. Ken and Frank won with the last shot by Ken striking Jo’s wood and finishing inches from the jack.
It was hoped that all involved had both enjoyed and learned from the three sessions which were held in an informal and friendly fashion. Sharon Heafey (Paul’s widow) presented the trophy to Ken and Frank and the players repaired to the bar.
4.8.21
Match results and table can be found here
Paul Heafey was a much respected member of Thame Bowls Club for a number of years and was the League Captain for Thame men's team who won the Oxfordshire and District Division 4 title in 2017 by a record 19 points (winning all 12 matches). He was a great supporter of new bowlers and after his sudden and very sad death, the Club arranged for the Paul Heafey Cup, an annual competition for new and nearly new bowlers, to be set up in his honour. The competition has been held in 2018 and 2019 and this year is a pairs competition between 8 new members.
The players have been split into 4 teams :-
Team A Jo Green and Ben Whitting
Team B Ken Lewis and Frank Woolley
Team C Maggie Gibbons and Brian Munday
Team D Chris Trainer and Pat Munday.
Round 1 saw Teams A and C both score 7 points (Teams B and D sadly 0 points)
Round 2 the points were as follows: -
Team A Jo and Ben 6 points
Team B Ken and Frank 7 points
Team C Maggie and Brian 1 point
Team D Chris and Pat nul points
This leaves the League table after two matches as follows: -
Team A 13 points
Team C 8 points
Team B 7 points
Team D 0 points
Obviously Team D will need a miracle to win overall but they could still affect the final result next week and with 7 points at stake, A, C or B can still win. Team A will play Team D and Team B will play Team C.
The main thing is that all players enjoy and hopefully learn from the competition.
Mike Ralls
Match results and table can be found here
Round 1 points and a brief write up from Mike Ralls.
The first evening went well, I think (although the results may not have been to everyone's liking) and I haven't had any complaints so far!. My thanks go to Susan who came in at the last minute for Jo, who will be playing next week.
The points so far are as follows : -
Team A Susan/Jo & Ben 7 points
Team C Maggie & Brian 7 points
Team B Ken & Frank 0 points
Team D Chris & Pat 0 points
It is early days and with 7 points to play for each evening any one can still win. The trophy will be presented at the end of the third evening with photos taken for the Website.
So we will see you all next Tuesday, ready for another 5.45 pm start.
Regards, Mike.
The Friday league points scoring is as follows :-
Win = 3
Draw=2
Loss=1
Bonus point for any team scoring 15 shots or more in any 1 round irrespective of whether they win,lose or draw.
League table position is decided by total number of points including any bonus points.
If 2 or more teams have the same number of points then the team with the greatest difference of For and Against shots is higher up the table.
If teams have the same number of points and the same difference then it is the team with the highest number of shots for.
If they are all equal then it is the team with the most Bonus Points.
Match results and table can be found here
Match results and table can be found here
Match results and table can be found here.
The Rink Diary has been updated with some new features. The main one is the ability to edit entries. Previously they had to be deleted and then re-entered.
There is a corresponding updated manual under the clickable links that are on every page.
