4-5 October 2008, Glasgow
A week in advance, this concluding tournament of the SCA season looked like matching last year's maximum entry of 19 players. A few withdrawals (including that of the holder Campbell Morrison) left the number at a still healthy 16 - a perfect fit to the four lawns available. Accordingly Allan Hawke's "croquet bus" which left Edinburgh on Saturday morning contained not only five players and their mallets, but also two sets of balls to augment the six sets kept in Glasgow.
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20 September 2008, Meadows
The holder of the 20+ quaich, Robert Inder, was not defending it this year, being now ineligible as his handicap was down to 14. But he turned up at Meadows West in the afternoon to deliver the trophy and to get some practice on a spare lawn for the delayed Scottish Short Croquet Championship final which he was to play at Lauriston Castle the following day.
Those who did compete were Joe Henderson, Jola Jurasinska and Joan Marshall at handicap 20; Ruth Munro and Andrew Macmillan at 22; and Sarah Duguid and George Geis, both new to Association Croquet this season, at 24. Five of the seven were Meadows Club members, while Andrew and Sarah were accustomed to the slower and bumpier lawns of Lauriston, but had had some experience of the Meadows the previous month when they took part in the Golf Croquet Challenge between the two clubs.
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