Important Dates and Notes

Today is the last week of the Young Ones league – 6^th July 2002.

At Tolworth

Weekend of 20^th & 21^st is a tournament called the Four + One held in Tolworth – make sure your entries are in today. We would like to see lots of Tolworth teams entering. Entry forms can be obtained and handed back to Lyn Buller in Angela Steward’s absence.

Young Ones and Junior Classic League presentation evening is to be held on Friday 26^th July at the Bowl. Tickets are available from Tracey Goodman.

Saturday 14^th September 2002

Young Ones League restarts at 9.15 am.

Bee Gee League restarts at 11 am

NB Next year’s subscriptions to Tolworth YBC and the BTBA will be due on our return.

Summer Holidays – during this time Ron will be running a triplex competition for junior bowlers with various age divisions each Saturday starting at 9.30 am. With cash prizes! Presentation of these is at the beginning of next season.

To everyone who contributed prizes or supported the Tombola stall on the day of the Inter-league. A special thanks to Lyn Buller and Jean Ferguson for their sterling efforts to raise money for you – Juniors! It was great to see you back Jean.

July 2002

When we left you last month the JST red team were about to go to Tamworth for the round robin final. Very proud of our boys we should be! The support the team had was great and everyone was in fine voice. Our first game was against Blackpool, our team bowled an amazing 999 game; the second game was against Lincoln, our team game was 917. Two games won on pin fall but only 8 points scored. Next up was Swindon, unfortunately only 2 points were gained here and against an on form Liverpool only 1 point. Last up was LA Leeds (think back to the Nationals and the man

organising it in black) the adrenalin was flowing we won the only point by just two pins. Overall we had the highest pin-fall in these rounds, but not enough points to go further.

It was a Brilliant effort on everyone’s part. As a surprise to us all we were awarded a special trophy for Highest Team Game and Highest Team Series in our Division.

Leigh Collins won award from the girls division for the highest scratch game.

Aylesbury was another merit tournament and was attended by a number of our bowlers over the two weekends. Listening to one of the Aylesbury bowlers, “they were lanes waiting for big scores”, these were put in over the last Sunday – averages over 200+ per game. Mike Cobb paired up with Martin Ashton and they finished 4^th in Division B and are both awaiting a new bowling ball. Their combined scores over twelve games was 2,292 - well up on home averages.

In Division A Leigh Collins and Alex Smith finished 7^th and John Wells and Scott Brind finished 9^th.

Round three for Division C and D took place

on Saturday 29^th June and we are extremely pleased to report that David Cobb made it through the two divisional cuts and after the stepladder finished 2^nd winning a brand new bowling bag. He was disappointed not to win!

A brilliant effort on David’s part.

Round three for Division A & B took place on Sunday 30^th June, Martin Ashton was the only Tolworth bowler bowling in division A, he made it through both cuts and finished 10^th overall after 10 games. More Tolworth bowlers were in division B and some good performances led to Daniel Edwards, Chris Luscombe, Chris Hignett, Chris Manders and Mike Cobb making the first cut and Chris Luscombe went on to go through the second cut finishing 6^{th overall} after 10 games.

The Lane conditions were challenging to say the least. Current England bowlers were struggling to make their average.

Well done, Chris Luscombe, as we believe you should qualify for the Masters.

Bye, Bye

We say farewell and good luck to Alex Smith, Chris Pollitt, Chris Purssey, Chris Best and Leigh Goode who unfortunately are over age for our league now, or shortly! We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for representing Tolworth YBC and wish you every success in the future. We will always welcome you back, albeit only to see us.

We also wish Chris and James Hignett well on their move to Wales.

To all of you leaving please don’t forget to return your green YBC shirts.

Another success for Tolworth

A Tolworth Junior makes the England U16’s Colts Squad. A very good come back after breaking your wrist Martin, at the beginning of the season. Congratulations.

To some more important and competitive than other competitions, you will see why when you read this…

All three Junior leagues entered a team and two out of three made it through to the play offs. Junior Classic started well and finished well, top of their Group. Young Ones bowled well too especially as some of their boy bowlers were at Enfield playing in the Bowlers Club. Young Ones met the Junior Classic in the quarter-finals and it was a hard fought game with the Junior Classic coming through good in the last couple of frames, to knock out the Young Ones. Unfortunately the Junior Classic team were then knocked out in the semi-finals.

Well played to all three teams who entered. A special mention to the PeeWee’s who managed to beat their League Secretary and her team along the way.

Next Saturday 13^th July is

Bee Gee’s last week of bowling and it is followed by your presentation and buffet

Have a good summer break, look forward to hearing how you have scored over the summer break, and keep us informed about your progress.

Tolworth YBC Annual General Meeting will be held at

11 am on Saturday 21^st September 2002

The next newsletter will be published for 14^th September