The weather forecast for today (as shown on yesterday’s forecast) was for little chance of us playing in todays 11.00am Gala.
Certainly it was cold when I got up but otherwise it looked like another summer’s day outside, that is as long as you didn’t look up at the Tararuas which showed a covering of snow.
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As can be seen in the background, the Tararuas have a light covering of snow
If one looked more to the NE as a bowler was delivering his bowl, it looked just like another day in the sun, and that is what it was, except, for the cold wind.
And while all this activity was going on, Bill was at work on the south wooden fence giving it a coat of something|
Bill and the fence.
Actually an interesting corner of the club. When I joined quite some time back, the fence was covered with a grape vine which was looked after by Bob May. I knew this as I noticed that every day as he was leaving the club, he would test the grapes by eating some of them. Must have worked as the vine lived for years.
On the small lawn in front of it was where the score boards and mats were set up before play and the match committee, after drawing the teams for the afternoon’s play, would hang them on the appropriate boards. It was then the job of player No2 in each game, to take their board and set it up on the right rink. Someone from the kitchen committee would have written on 2 boards either ‘Make’ or ‘Dry’ which told the players in the those two game that it was their job to get the afternoon tea ready and the for the other, to wash and clean up the kitchen before carrying on with their game. Quite a different method from today. In later times, the area became the place where a bike stand was available. Now it is noted as the site of a large notice board which tells the public what is taking place at the club.
And so to today’s results.
Three games were played; started at 11.00am, lunch and then two remaining games.
The results were as shown below:
1st Murray Griffin (s), Jan Dawson, Michael Norris – 3 wins, 19 ends, 37 points
2nd Neville Turnbull, Jim Adams, Brian Coe – 3 wins, 13 ends, 29 points
3rd Trevor and Brenda Fellows, Tom Hamer – 3 wins, 10 ends, 41 points (points for a bye have been added to the Foxton Beach team)