Dover Deal and District Bar Billiards League Match Reports 15/03/2001

‘A’ Interleague

The league had high hopes but the day started poorly with Ted Batchelor being taken ill and unable to play, Chris Saville damaging his hip and hobbling between tables. Dave Howarth and Gill Saville shared the last slot. Mike Callanan skippered the side and was the most successful player with 5 out of 6 wins. Chris Saville and Alan Smith both won four, Tim Hayes three, Peter Clarke and John Mitchell two and Roger Oldfield and Gill Saville one apiece. The team took the last two legs from Faversham to snatch runners up spot, albeit a long way behind the winners, Tunbridge Wells.

Ladies Interleague

With two teams from our league entered on the day we were well represented and in the ‘A’ team, in with a good chance of taking the championship. However, the defending champions, Medway ‘A’ had other ideas and in a well fought contest, our team just lost out, with our ‘B’ team of fairly recent converts to bar billiards taking the ‘wooden spoon’.

League

The format for this years Spring Cup competition has been slightly amended, so that now all shots are to be taken from the spot and some players seem to have adapted quicker than others. Winter league champions Alma ‘A’ find themselves at the foot of Group B after the second week, a position that they must find hard to believe!

The new boys from Canterbury, The Chantry Club, have had a nice welcome to the league by winning their first two matches, against Magnet ‘A’ and Alma ‘A’, so top the table, closely followed by The Lion from Ash.

Other News

Daniel Jackson of The Greyhound ‘B’ team played a magnificent match in a recent knockout against Alma ‘B’s David Howarth. Having lost the first of three legs, he pipped Howarth at the post in the second, and carried the form into the last leg by scoring a personal best  8500, one of the highest scores by a non division 1 player for a considerable time. Well done Daniel.