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COCKNEYS WIN 10th ALTERNATIVE COUNTIES COMPETITION
Wednesday 9th July, 2014


As Del Boy would say: "They've only gone and done it. Those guys and girl from London only went and won. Chateauneuf du Pape!"



Winners London: Ken Cooper, Sue Cooper, John Wastell & Rupert Webb

  
Runners-up: Cheshire SE                                                          Third place: Cheshire NW (plus Ian Bell)

A video of the presentation can be accessed by clicking here (by kind permission of Mike Steer)


1st.
London
140 pts.
2nd.
Cheshire SE
128 pts.
3rd.
Cheshire NW
109 pts.
4th.
Lancashire/Northamptonshire
90 pts.
=5th.
Kent
72 pts.
=5th.
Scotland
72 pts.
7th.
Select (Wales/SW/Warwicks)
71 pts.
8th.
Staffordshire
62 pts.

Further pictures by kind permission of Val Hughes

Brian Storey runs his 1st hoop of the day in game 3



















RULES

Play starts at 9-30 and each game is time limited to 2 HOURS and is 14 point handicap doubles to no base, so
ONLY ONE SIDE HAS BISQUES.
Calculate bisques by adding up each pair’s handicaps, dividing by 2, then subtracting the lower side from the higher giving the full game number of bisques then, consulting the appendix on the main board, reduce these to 14 point handicaps.
NB NOT ‘ WEDNESDAY’ HANDICAPS OR  “HOW MANY BISQUES DO I GET, LORNA”.
Round ¾ to 1 and ¼ to ½ .

PAIRS MUST PLAY IN HANDICAP ORDER i.e. the pair with the LOWEST combined handicap must play as no.1.
Pairs must remain the same throughout the day.
As time is of the essence, please minimise conferring and coaching ON THE LAWN.
EXPEDITION IN PLAY PLEASE

Scoring is the same as a normal Wednesday, winning side score 20 + winning margin, losers score their actual score.
PLEASE WEAR WHITES.

Previous winners are: Middlesex/Essex 2005, Cheshire 2006, Yorkshire 2007, Lancashire 2008,
Scotland 2009, Cheshire (NW) 2010, Cheshire (SE) 2011, Cheshire 2012, Cheshire (NW) 2013

See pictures from previous years:

2013   2012   2011   2010   2009   2008   2007   2006   2005

KENT



Lorna Frost

John Saxby

Jean Teare

Mike Steer
LONDON



Ken Cooper

John Wastell

Rupert Webb

Sue Cooper
LANCASHIRE/NORTHANTS



Liz Webb

Kay Martin

Carol Steinberg

John Haworth
CHESHIRE SE



Alan Mayne

Louise Cheyne

Bob Hunter

Anne O'Reilley
CHESHIRE NW



Brian Storey

David Holland

Pauline Hennell

Ian Bell
SCOTLAND



Frank Moir

Janice Moir

Nan Bowers

John Leckie
STAFFS.



Sylvia Steer

Chris Evans

Sheila Sandham

Joan Spilsbury
WALES/SW/WARWICKS.
'SELECT'

Elmyr Hughes

Val Hughes

Alison Court

Diana Jerman