Welcome
This is our club website, which I hope will be both interesting and informative to members and non-members alike. I hope the site will provide an insight into the club, its members and the nine teams that we run, participating in five different leagues
This coming Sunday (20th May, 10 am) the A Team play Oxenhope in the final of the SMKO at Haworth BC. The Sutcliffe Handicap is played on the same day and follows on from the SMKO at 1 pm, but is played at Oakworth BC.
Worth Valley Merit
This years Valley Merit (Sponsors: Skipton Building Society & Paul's D.I.Y Silsden (see pic)) was played at Silsden PF last Sunday (6th May). It was a lovely sunny day and this seemed to inspire both Trevor (Father) and Richard (Duck) Hargreaves to play even better than usual as they both played their way through seperate halves of the draw to reach the final. As you can imagine, with both Hargreaves "sniffing the money" at the same time, this could have been a very dangerous siuation! Luckly, no blood was spilt, and after a quality game Richard emerged the 21-16 winner, suffering only minor sun damage. Congratulations to you both! (Taking a look at the picture on the left, I don't think we'll ever get a barber to sponsor the comp will we!)
CLUB PRESENTATION NIGHT
ON SATURDAY evening, 24th MARCH we enjoyed a good turnout at the Crossroads Inn for our postponed presentation night. It was a great get-together with the usual silverware presented, a pie and peas supper and DJ Phil, who kept the music coming all evening.
Richard hargreaves organised and hosted the evening and thanks must go to him and to our sponsors: Sam Jalil (Bingley Road Car Sales), Jack Smith (Barcroft Garage MOT's) and Nigel Wooler (Barcroft Auto's(2002) Ltd. Sam presented the trophies and kindly donated prizes for the raffle from all our sponsors ( I hope he broke it to them gently), a much appreciated jesture so many thanks to them. Please give them your support if you're looking for another car or need a repair or MOT.
The Gordon Daley Trophy was presented to Pauline Lightowler for all her work with junior bowlers in the region (see Daley Trophy page for pictures) and Garry Foster was proud to receive our club Merit Trophy, so proud, in fact, that he went on to make a speech which he asked me to include here, and can be found lower down the page.
The evening was topped off with some wonderful (and uninhibited) Karaoke singing from our own, and very entertaining Huddy, joined at times by his buddy John, Neil (Elvis is alive and living by the butchers in Crossroads) Carpenter, also joined by his brother Marcus for the best Everly Brothers impression you'll hear anywhere (near our bowling green), and many others who gave us great entertainment as the evening came to a close.
It was great to see so many club mates for a bit of fun before the season starts, so here's hoping we all have a good one!
Garry's Speech
"I would just like to say a few words. First of all I must mention the people I played in the Merit comp, that is: Stuart Green, Andy Walsh and Richard hargreaves. Because the green was heavy, they gave me a fighting chance, by not bowling corners. I wish there were more people like that.
I have two words for people who corner me when I can't reach, but because there are ladies in the room I will not mention the words, but one word begins with 'f' and the other with 'c' and it's not fish and chips! (ed: maybe he means 'fine and champion', phew!!!).
In the final, when I was 14-3 up, Richard had to go to plan B, but I managed to hold on. I was shattered after three games and I said to Richard, 'I will sleep tonight'. Rumour has it that he has not slept since, he keeps waking up wondering how he lost to a 'C' Teamer, and he forgot to say that it was the best game of bowls he had ever played."
A very good victory for you Garry, well done!