Melvyn Beck
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MEMORIAL MATCH TIED
THE annual early season match between Whittlesey Manor and the Northants Bowling Federation for the John Dickenson Memorial Shield finished all square at 105-105. The Federation team was made up of Newton Trophy squad players under the new leadership of Dave Corney, and they won on two of the five rinks, courtesy of the rinks …
MEMORIAL MATCH RETURNS
AFTER a two-year absence owing to the pandemic, the John Dickenson Memorial match returns on Saturday, May 7 when Whittlesey Manor, his first club when he moved to the area, host a Northants Bowling Federation select team. John was a much respected bowls administrator and Federation stalwart, having held the positions of EBF president and …
COUNTY GET-TOGETHER
NORTHANTS women are getting their county squads together at Yaxley on Wednesday, May 4 in preparation for the inter-county campaign – their first for three years. The county open their programme away to Norfolk on May 16, but while the Donald Steward team have five fixtures, the Silver Jubilee Vase only have three, with North …
OLLIE (12) WINS NATIONAL TITLE
OLLIE Jeapes has won the English Bowling Federation’s indoor under 25 open singles title for Northants…. at the tender age of 12! The prodigious schoolboy talent from Chesterton, who plays his indoor bowls at the powerful Spalding club under the watchful eye of long-time England international Graham Smith, swept all before him at Newark, winning …
EVERSLEY TROPHY
NORTHANTS men finished fifth of nine in the English Bowling Federation’s Eversley Trophy, the double rink competition for current county officials, past presidents and life members. They won three matches out of four, beating Humberside, Suffolk and Norfolk, but only won on three of the eight rinks played and so finished on 12 points, level …
NATIONAL INDOOR FINALS TIMETABLE
THE timetable for the English Bowling Federation and English Women’s Bowling Federation national indoor finals being held at Newark from April 19-24 has been released. How the timetable affects the Northants representatives. MEN Singles: Stephen Harris v North Cambs (Thursday, April 21 at 9.30am). Next round on the Friday at 2.30pm. Senior singles: Tony Barwell …
FOUR DOUBLES AT COUNTY FINALS
FOUR ladies completed title doubles at the Northants Bowling Federation county indoor finals hosted by the Stamford club. The rink of Elizabeth Wallace, Shirley Suffling and Chris Ford closed the proceedings with a 21-15 win against Rose March, Pat Jones and Denise Mackie having all won titles earlier in the day, with Suffling and Ford …
COUNTY INDOOR FINALS
STAMFORD’S Chris Ford will be chasing a four-timer at the NBF/NWBF county indoor finals at Stamford on Sunday (March 20th). She has qualified in four of the six events in which she was eligible and so will be playing in all four sessions in a bid to win the senior singles, pairs, triples and mixed …
NORTHANTS WIN POTTERS CUP
FOR the second time running Northants have won the team award at the English Bowling Federation’s Bowls Week at the Potters Resort. The rink of John and Shirley Suffling and Elizabeth and Mike Wallace reached the quarter-finals, while the rinks of Dick and Chris Ford, Rosemary and Alec March along with Rosemary Roberts, Melvyn Beck, …
NORTHANTS A END WITH DEFEAT
NORTHANTS A ended their Derbyshire Trophy programme with a 93-72 home defeat at the hands of southern section champions Lincolnshire at Stamford. With Lincs having already sewn up the title to qualify for the national final at Newark at the end of April, Northants were simply playing for pride in what was team captain James …