Meadows West
This year's Middle Bisquers tournament covered a very wide range of handicaps, from David Appleton (4) to Joe Lennon and James Hopgood (both 14).
With seven entrants, the format on Saturday was one block of four and one block of
three. On Sunday the top two from each block played a knock-out, and the
remaining three played in a block.
In Block A David Appleton won his games fairly evenly, finishing the day with a triple
against Martin Stephenson, while Allan Hawke had fairly comfortable wins against Joe
Lennon and Martin.
In Block B, on the other hand, all the games were close. Jamieson Walker beat
James Hopgood +6 on time. The other two games were
both won +4, and could have gone either way right up to the last turn.
Part way through Jamieson's second game, against Robert Lay, he said "Having won one game
it does not really matter whether I win this gme or not, since I am through to the
knock-out tomorrow". And then he thought "But who do I play if I lose?" When
he saw that would be David he said "I've got to win this game!", which he only just did.
On Sunday morning David comfortably beat Robert in the first round of the knock-out, and
Jamieson beat Allan. But he lost to David in the final.
The other three played a block which James won, with both games going to time. Winning
two games out of four in his first advanced play event, from a handicap of 14, was a very
good result indeed.
As well as playing, Martin provided an excellent tea, augmented by one of Jamieson's
renowned scones.
Ian Wright
Results
Saturday
Block A
David Appleton beat Allan Hawke +23, Joe Lennon +13 and Martin Stephenson +22TP
Allan Hawke beat Joe Lennon +7 and Martin Stephenson +12
Martin Stephenson beat Joe Lennon +10
Block B
Jamieson Walker beat James Hopgood +6t and Robert Lay +4
Robert Lay beat James Hopgood +4t
Sunday
Knock-out for top two in each block
David Appleton beat Robert Lay +23
Jamieson Walker beat Allan Hawke +11
Final - David Appleton beat Jamieson Walker +19
Playoff for third place - Allan Hawke beat Robert Lay +10
Others
James Hopgood beat Martin Stephenson 5t and Joe Lennon +3t
Martin Stephenson beat Joe Lennon +9
Below: presentation of the Adam Trophy. (Left to right: Robert Lay, Allan Hawke, David Appleton, Martin Stephenson, Joe Lennon, James Hopgood.)
