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Summer 2012 3 SHORT MAT CHAT
Summer 2012

ISSN 1456 - 0606 The Editor’s ramblings.
ISSN 1456 - 0606
4 ESMBA UNDER 18’s & MIXED FOURS
A successful defence & new 4’s champs
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Incorporating Short Mat World 12 THE REG WATTS FOURS
From Steve Killington
2 Autumn Field, Four Seasons OOOOOPS! & 3rd INT. OPEN

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azine amounts to just one person - me! The 16 BOWLS DEVELOPMENT ASSOC.
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ther email or telephone me. A photo gallery of the winners
The magazine comes out when it comes 24 CYMRU SMBA
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at all. The views expressed in SMI are not nec- Who won the Men’s & Ladies titles
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can be accepted for them. WONFORD TRIPLES
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duced, copied or stored on any retrieval system
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Bob Weafer Editor Club News from Clyde Smith
34 THELMA SHERE TOURNAMENT
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