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34 Stowmarket Bowls Club - Australian Rules Pairs
Stowmarket Bowls Club - Australian Rules Pairs
Sixteen teams from Suffolk, Essex and Norfolk played on four rink mats in two groups of
eight. Each team played four games of forty-five minutes duration, started and finished by the
whistle, one game on each mat. The home team had the Jack on the first end and couldn’t give
it away. The Aussie Rules were as follows:
The original Leads play two bowls each alternatively;
The original Leads and Skips swap ends;
The original Skips play four bowls each alternatively;
The two players swapped ends again (Returning to their starting positions for that end.)
and; The two original Leads played their remaining two bowls alternately.
No player may visit or remain at the head.
There was a maximum of one shot for each of the first two ends.
The last end of a game had to end with both teams having delivered an equal number of bowls
and the last bowl of the end must have been delivered. Jack off the mat resulted in two shots
for the non-offending team and the end counted. Otherwise, ESMBA rules applied.
There were two points
for a win and one for a
draw. The winners were de-
termined by match points,
then by shot difference and
ends won. The two top
scoring teams then played
in a final.
Team 1, Dave Beer
and Ron Wanstell started
with a 7 all shot draw
against Team 5, Kieran Suf-
folk and Nigel Bevan but
only won 3 ends against
Team 5’s 5 ends. Team 2,
Jay Francis and John Ottley
were not so fortunate, los-
ing with 3 shots and three ends to 8 shots and 4 ends to Team 6,
The Thetford Tigers – Pete Harvey and Jason Martin. Team 3, The Captain’s Log (There
has to be a story to a name like that!) – Dave Kirk and Roy Pinner, had a good win 15:4, taking
four of the seven ends, against Team 7, Steve and Jackie Spooner from Hatfield Peverel.
Team 4, Ann Whiteman and Theresa Haslam-Wise lost their game against Team 8, Mick
Colledge and Chloe Suffolk 2 shots to 6 and 2 ends to 4. Team 9 Keith and Barbara Johns, the
Johnsie Jokers from Canvey Island, discovered that 13 was their unlucky number as Team 13,
Peter Skippen and Colin Maul – White Hall One - from Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, beat them 13:0!
Team 10, Chris Roberts and Ron Saitch, beat Team 14, The Trout Ticklers, Neil & Erika
Thomas 8 shots to 3 and 4 ends to 3. Team 11, Archie Andrews and Derek Seaman, beat Team
15, Victor Boreham and Grace Grimwade, White Hall Two, 8 shots to five but only won 3 of the
7 ends. Team 12 Brenda Crowe and Josie Robinson, The Three Degrees Minus One, lost 4
shots to 8 and 2 ends to 5, to Team 16, Malcolm Bailey and John Whiteman, No Mr E (Presum-
ably referring to the player that Malcolm replaced!). So ended the first session.
The most significant wins from thereon were: in Session 2: Team 16 beat Team 9, 10:4,
but the Johnsie Jokers didn’t let them have it all their own way as they did win three of the seven
ends played; in Session 3: It was Team 16 again this time beating Team 11 14:1; Team 6 beating
Team 1 17:2, team 1 winning two ends and; Team 3 beating Team, 13:2 and; in Session 4: Team
9 beating Team 15, 13:2; Team 5 beating Team 3, 10:2; Team 13 beating Team 11, 9:2; Team 1
beating Team 7 9:2 and; Team 12 beating Team 14, 10:4.