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Ken Marsh TrophyBackground
Ken Marsh was a former Southampton & District President who died in August of last year aged 86 years Ken took up bowling in the early 1960’s and for the majority of those years he bowled for Hampshire Police Bowls Club. He also bowled indoors as a member of Banister Park Bowling Club. Being over 6ft 6ins tall and thin as a bean pole he stood out from the crowd but the more so because of his natural gift and flair as a lawn bowler. Over the years he won many awards for his bowling both at County and District level; the most impressive being to win the National over 55’s pairs championship in 2004 with Barry Bendall of Banister Park. Ken lived for bowling and was an active member of S & D until his passing last year. He was made President in 2009 and both before and after that year served on many committees and selection panels. There are a great many bowlers who will be ever grateful to Ken for the way in which he shaped their bowling careers through his help and constructive advice. It is against this background that our General Secretary Roger Honey, who is a former colleague of Ken both in the police service and as a fellow member of Hampshire Police BC, asked that the Club Knock Out competition be named after Ken to mark the first anniversary of his death and in order that Ken’s name can live on in bowling. Roger is also supplying the trophy. There was no dissent from Roger’s proposal and hence the naming of this new trophy. |
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Following a most welcome increase in entries up to our maximum of 24, the above competition will commence on Tuesday the 22nd.Aug. & Thursday 24th.Aug. and continue to Finals Night on Thursday 28th.Sept.
With a bottle draw every night, hot food available and Prize money of over £800, its not hard to see why after only two seasons that this tournament has already become a firm favourite on the bowls calendar.
Competitors will be notified shortly of the draw and dates of play etc. Remember start time is 6.30pm.
With a bottle draw every night, hot food available and Prize money of over £800, its not hard to see why after only two seasons that this tournament has already become a firm favourite on the bowls calendar.
Competitors will be notified shortly of the draw and dates of play etc. Remember start time is 6.30pm.
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2016 District Finals Report
Unfortunately all the semi-finals on the 10th of September were played in atrocious weather conditions. The Atherley green however still allowed for some good standard competitive matches to be completed By the end of a day. that had started at 9-30am, all the finalists had been decided Unusually no player made the final in more than one event
The finals line up (With winners underlined) was as follows :-
Singles B Barrett (ER) v R Kemp (Ath)
C of C M Wise (Ath) v H Felgate (MV)
Veteran Singles T Whitear(SOG) v J Ralph (FP)
Under 25 Singles W Page (SOG) v D Spreadbury (FP)
Pairs R Shelley J Keat (SSC) v D Walker K Pearce (ER)
Benevolent Pairs M Barrett S Rowney (ER) v R Spiegal M Burnett (Ath)
Triples A Anderson N Wood J Heard (FP) v A Forrest A Forrest A Smith (FP)
Fours H Owen G Searles J Kronberg T McCloghlin (Wol) V R Bines T Cousens L D Bines L Fitzgrald (ER)
The weather was much improved on Sunday and allowed a 10am start in five of the finals and a 2pm start in the remaining 3
All matches were played in a sporting manner and concluded with some tight finishes particularly in the fours which saw Woolston win by only 2 shots
The ‘Blue Ribbon ‘ singles was a well contested battle but was eventually settled when Jim Barrett collected a 3 to close the game out from a 19- 18 deficit
The Association would like to thank the Atherley Bowling Club for the use of their superbly prepared green which stood up well to the weather.
Thanks also to our umpire for the week-end Brian Mainwaring from Watersde Bowling Club
