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The weather played a part in this weeks jollies around the green, however what a show your village team players put up in the annual charity match.

Tuesday League.
August 8 – Away – Wirksworth.
Ready to roll, but the heavens had opened for most of the day. It is possible to play in the rain, but the only major weather problem on a crown green is a lightening storm. The snag is in the rain is to be able to judge the speed of the wood towards the jack. Rooster tails coming from the wood do not help. Anyway by the powers that be at Wirksworth it was decided that discretion being the better part of valour, the match should be cancelled. We will have to play a couple of Tuesday League matches next week.
Next Match – 15 August – Home – Whitworth Park – 6.30pm.
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Thursday League
The Greenaway Trophy
So the annual bash to raise money for the Greenaway Centre took place this week. This is a competition open to all players in the Thursday League, in excess of 250. The pairs matches last all day and are played on a knockout basis. There are two sides to the competition with pairs who get knocked out in the first round playing in a repêchage competition. Now for those of you who have lived in the Village for a while will know of a chap, who is no longer with us, but who was the first player from Parwich to win the Trophy, Ron Birch. Ron was a great sportsman with many great sporting achievements to his name, one of which was playing for West Bromwich Albion in the First Division of the Football League. Since then John B has won the competition twice and various others have come close, so how would we do this year? Well, pretty well indeed. We had four players in the quarter finals in both the main draw and the repêchage, leading to three players in the semifinals and one player won the thing! This year our Edith, ably assisted by a Wirksworth player came out on top of the main Competition. She played a blinder. Unstoppable is a word that springs to mind. Great result for Edith. Commiserations to our other players who got so far.
Next match – Away – Bakewell – 17 August – 1.45pm

MONDAY NIGHT IS BOWLS NIGHT
6.30pm – 7.30pm.
Not sure about this Monday’s fun time. It could be that the cancelled match against Wirksworth will be played.
PS. If you can’t make Mondays just let Tony (724) or John (455) know and we will arrange an alternative.

John. B