PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

 So that’s it for another year. Don’t want to keep banging on but we really, really, really do need some new Club members next year. I can recall Ron Birch some years ago when I asked him when and where him and Ada were going on holiday he said it would have to wait until the end of the bowls season. This year now the final game has been played there is a mass exodus of Bowls Club Members going away on holiday! The problem is that if you play bowls for Parwich you cannot go on holiday or be ill and if you die you have to bring a certificate along to the Green to prove it.

Our final position for the Tuesday League was fourth. We were only 17 points from being second and gaining promotion to the higher division.

As you know the Thursday League was a bit beyond us this year, having been promoted, but what a final match we had. We won one of the three doubles, with our Captain John H putting together married couples in the games. Audrey and Harry B winning handsomely 21 – 9, Clara and Dennis E coming a close second in their game, and Liz and John H coming an even closer second. The scores meant that we were behind 51 – 43. You do have to watch some of our players to realise HOW GOOD THEY ARE. Pat B won 15 – 2, Edith won 15 -5, and Dawn won 15 – 6. The final singles score was Parwich 88 (out of 90), Matlock Park 55. This gave us a fabulous final result 131 – 106. Next year we will be in the lower division, but don’t bet on us not gaining promotion again.

Another year gone so I will set you fellas and ladies a challenge, come and see if you can get to double figures next year against some of the best players in the Matlock and District Leagues, You need to see how good some of our players are. If we are spared we will speak electronically to you next year.

By the way there are no parachute payments on relegation only hang gliding lessons!

John B.

PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB

Last match of the season in one League and second last in the other. Considering the mistake of getting promoted last year it has been an enjoyable season, most of the time.

Matlock Tuesday bowls league.
Away – Ashwood Park – 1 September – 5.45pm.

As the nights draw in the start of the closing matches gets earlier and earlier and we had only just finished lunch before we had to play! The players at Ashwood Park are really a good lot, but they do need to train their midges, we got mauled to bits. Thankfully the bowls was not so much of a mauling. Both teams won two games each with Tony A and John B winning 21 – 12 and Edith and Rick also winning by the same margin. Our other two pairs did not fare so well and because Ashwood won the games by a greater margin than us the final score was Ashwood 66, Parwich 64. We had been tussling with Whitworth Park for third place in the league and this score unfortunately dropped us down to fourth place, the best position we have achieved for a long time.

Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Away – Bakewell – 3 September – 1.45pm

As you followers of this fabulous sports reporting will know Bakewell’s green is a long and thin oblong with not much crown, but lots of small humps and hollows and their player know every blade of grass. Our doubles pairs did really well however, but still we trailed Bakewell by 58 to 46 with only Tony and Sue A giving us a good win.

The singles were shared three games each with Dawn winning 15 – 3 and Edith 15 – 8. Where would we be without them? The singles score finished 70 points each with the overall result a win for Bakewell 128 – 116. It’s not very clear if parachute payments are made for relegated teams like they have in the Premier Football League, I’ll make enquiries and let you know after our final match of the season next week.

Last match – Home – Matlock Park – 10 September – 1.45pm.

John B