| Bowls Wiltshire Centenary Tour Report by Barry Wheeler | ||||||||
| Devon Friday 12th Sept. to Monday 15th Sept. 2014 | ||||||||
| Hotel: The Manor Hotel, Exmouth, Devon | ||||||||
| President: Dave Richards, Trowbridge Westbourne B.C. |
| Friday 12th September 2014 | ||||||
| This was the first game of the tour played at Madeira Bowls | ||||||
| Club. It was a very close game, Keith Hutchens was holding | ||||||
| seven shots on the very last end of the match only for the | ||||||
| Madeira skip to draw the shot with his very last bowl. | ||||||
| We lost the match 105 v109 | ||||||
| BW Men | MadeiraB.C. | ||||||
| K. Hutchens | 23 | v | 10 | I. Thompson | |||
| R.Fernandes | 15 | v | 26 | R.Burch | |||
| H.Pryse | 22 | v | 17 | D.Macnally | |||
| A.Watson | 10 | v | 29 | C.Darke | |||
| D.Harvey | 14 | v | 19 | R.Finch | |||
| D.Royle | 21 | v | 8 | C.Skinner | |||
| 105 | v | 109 | |||||
| Saturday 13th September 2014 | ||||||
| We travelled 8 miles to Topsham Bowls Club, most tourists | ||||||
| by train the remainder by cars. Our opponents were | ||||||
| Bowls Devon Men, they fielded a very strong side including | ||||||
| Bowls England Director and member of Topsham B.C. | ||||||
| David Tucker, we suffered our highest defeat 98 v143 | ||||||
| Saturday 13th Sept. V Bowls Devon Men @ Topsham B.C. | ||||||||
| BW Men | Bowls Devon Men | |||||||
| T.Lloyd | 16 | v | 29 | D.Symons | ||||
| I.Francis | 18 | v | 20 | H.Riley | ||||
| D.Harvey | 22 | v | 22 | D.Raddon | ||||
| D.Richards | 8 | v | 34 | M.Theedom | ||||
| H.Pryse | 20 | v | 14 | E.melluish | ||||
| D.Royle | 14 | v | 24 | E.Edworthy | ||||
| 98 | v | 143 | ||||||
| Sunday 14th September 2014 | ||||||
| We travelled 12 miles to Ottery St Mary Bowls Club by cars. | ||||||
| This was a very special day for our guest Nancie Colling | ||||||
| who used to live in Wiltshire and regularly travelled to the | ||||||
| English B.A. dinner in London on the W.B.A. Coach. | ||||||
| Nancie, now aged 95 years was Secretary of the English | ||||||
| Women’s B.A. for many years and also won the national | ||||||
| women’s singles title no fewer than three times. | ||||||
| Nancie now lives in Seaton, Devon | ||||||
| As for the match it was our first win 131 v 83 | ||||||
| Sunday 14th Sept. V Ottery St Mary B.C. | ||||||||
| BW Men | Ottery St.Mary B.C. | |||||||
| T.Lloyd | 28 | v | 13 | E.Saunders | ||||
| K.Hutchens | 28 | v | 10 | M.Parker | ||||
| D.Royle | 16 | v | 13 | G.Kille | ||||
| V.Hilton | 21 | v | 18 | T.House | ||||
| D.Richards | 14 | v | 20 | N.Lawrence | ||||
| D.Harvey | 24 | v | 9 | M.Smith | ||||
| 131 | v | 83 | ||||||
| Monday 15th September 2014 | |||||
| On our return journey we played Shaftesbury B.C. It was | |||||
| also their centenary year. Prior to he game an exchange of | |||||
| Centenary badges took place. It was also pointed out that | |||||
| in 1921 Shaftesbury B.C. were members of Wiltshire B.A. | |||||
| for one year prior to joining Dorset B.A. when it was | |||||
| founded in 1922. The result of the match was 135 v109 | |||||
| Monday 15th Sept. V Shaftesbury B.C. | ||||||||
| BW Men | Shaftesbury B.C. | |||||||
| K.Hutchens | 20 | v | 17 | S.Butler | ||||
| D.Royle | 22 | v | 23 | A.Patterson | ||||
| D.Harvey | 27 | v | 17 | B.Dowell | ||||
| H.Pryse | 13 | v | 30 | R.Alford | ||||
| R.Fernandes | 18 | v | 13 | C.Battell | ||||
| S.Rose | 35 | v | 9 | S.Thompson | ||||
| 135 | v | 109 | ||||||
| Photographs | ||||||
| Photographs were taken during the tour both on and off | ||||||
| the green. As you will see some of the photographs show tourists | ||||||
| dressed in pink clothes and wigs. They are members of the | ||||||
| tour’s “Pink Club” – if you require further information please | ||||||
| contact the founder of the Pink Club, Jack Peterson. | ||||||
